Ewan said "it's all about the motorbikes". Being on motorbikes, they are forced to experience the journey first hand and the films are all the better for this - in fact it would have been a waste of time without them. This all goes to make a fascinating insight into both a "land that TV documentaries forgot" and a relationship that is as real as the cultures they ride through. They sometimes argue and often get scared. Ewan and Charley are genuinely interesting and real people. As much a political and social wilderness as a geographic one. Why have I watched this series twice already then? This is a story about 2 friends who go off around the world and see *real* wilderness -not David Attenburgh like Serengeti - the real wilderness that is on the doorstep of Europe. I don't like motorbikes and abhor contrived "reality TV".
The camera-work is okay, sometimes excellent and often good. I have never seen Ewan McGregor as a real "movie star" and Charley Boorman is a journeyman actor.
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