Review: Better than I expected
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
We've all seen disaster movies where a plane crashes in hostile territory and the survivors have to scrabble for their lives. Yukon Tenderfoot struck me as more of the same when I read the premise, but it turned out to be a lot more than that.Take a chartered jet heading from Alaska to the Lower 48; on board are two pilots, one cabin attendant...and four U.S. Congressmen. That's it. Predictably, the plane goes down, crash-landing in the wilderness 400 miles from Nowhere...and only the congressmen survive. A recipe for disaster. It will take a miracle for them to survive.The miracle is a remote cabin near the crash site, which they stumble upon as they try to figure out what to do. The cabin is owned by a modern-day mountain man to whom this desolate terrain is home. What follows is sobering when you consider that most of us who live in civilization would be almost as helpless (and clueless) as the congressmen in this story. Things we take for granted are not available, and skills our ancestors took for granted we no longer possess.But the real gold in this story is the congressmen themselves, two from each major party. Petty, whiny, selfish, entitled...Fred Hernandez nailed them perfectly. As I read the story I could almost put names to them, real names, and it occurred to me that the party affiliation really doesn't matter all that much--the people we elect to make our laws are, by and large, not even qualified to wash our cars.Great story, some editing issues. Four stars.