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Kirk D

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I'm surprised no one has talked about Colony (Discovery Tues. 10pm (and 1am))... unless I haven't been seen it here.

Nice to watch, not quite as the two in Discovery Friday evening, but I like almost all "survival" videos.

I was surprised they had attacks in the first episode..., much different from last year's Colony.
 
Kirk D said:
I'm surprised no one has talked about Colony (Discovery Tues. 10pm (and 1am))... unless I haven't been seen it here.

Nice to watch, not quite as the two in Discovery Friday evening, but I like almost all "survival" videos.

I was surprised they had attacks in the first episode..., much different from last year's Colony.
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I kept waiting for someone to post about it so I wouldn't be the first one :P

I like it better than the last one so far because they are pushing boundaries with the colonists early, and did you notice that they didn't say "the intruders have been instructed not to harm the Colonists" like they did last season? I saw an elbow dropped on the back of a guy's head. They seem like they are trying to make it a little more realistic, and I think that pushing stress levels early is going to help move that along because the more stressed they get the more involved in the scenario they become. Is it just me, or do they seem to have a lot of construction-related jobs this time around?
 
After watching the first episode, I think if I were in their situation I could probably do better with a lot less effort by myself.
 
its more funny than anything. i mean why would the intruders beat everyone down and then only take the med supplies. its ok but definitely far fetched, though the entertainment value is high
 
Watched it this evening with my girlfriend....these types of shows are helping to get her into the "be prepared" mentallity!! she actually in agreement on my mindset of "better to have and not need than need and not have"

I was also surprised they were attacked so soon:eek:

My girlfriend asked a question that i also posed, why didn't they hide their food and water especially after the confrontation with the stragglers??:confused:

I am looking forward to the season...I like how the bible thumping carpenter who wanted to give food and water away...escalated to being the ones that actually physically fought with the stragglers with the threat "you're dead" :D:thumbup:

J
 
i haven't caught the new season yet. i'll have to see if it's on Hulu.

but from what i've heard, if this was really the desperate, total breakdown scenario, the colonists would now be dead.

just because they're not constantly reminding the viewer that the colonists and marauders are not supposed to hurt each other, don't assume that they didn't cover that before they started taping. they're all actors.

i heard they have all the "groceries" on display and not upstairs and easy to defend.

i suspect that the producers give lots of direction and clues on what to hunt for where and when.

give both sides some simunitions guns that fire small paint cartridges, or even just normal paintball gear and see how the game changes, "three paintballs in the chest? you're DEAD!"

that might spur them to take defense a little more seriously.
 
Entertainment seems to rule as opposed to putting real-life people in a bad situation.

How many people do you know that could make a wood gassifier like in the last season? Stun guns on poles? Even wiring up a bunch of car batteries or fixing plumbing? C'mon. They hand pick these folks and spoon feed them ways to solve their problems.

I still watched a bunch of episodes, so there's that...
 
Yes, they hand pick them, and if you research a little more, you will find the reason there are more "average Joes" than specialists this season is to reflect a more realistic group.

In this season, they also emphasized that there is no financial reward for doing the show, and that the participants might be exposed to physical danger.

Certainly there are resrictions on bodily harm, But i like the idea of paint ball guns. Some of the participants have basic survival training, but it does not say what type, military, private or scouting.

It is brain candy, but as a previous poster said, it is getting some people to think, and that is a good thing.
 
I agree..., the colonists would have been dead. There were at least 20 marauders vs. 9 colonists, and two colonist were immediately eliminated with CS in their face. Then they had at least two marauders against each colonist, with other marauders taking any gear they wanted.

I was very surprised they killed a snake (not deadly), and then threw it away.

They were using a net and got nothing. They could have taken some pieces of the rotten pig attached to the net, drop the majority of the net in the canal for a while, and would get alot of crawdads with very, very little work.
 
I too was going to post, to see if any one here watches it. I watched it last season and liked it. Unfortunately I only caught bits and pieces of it because I was Watching Deadliest Warrior at that time, Navy Seals vs. Israeli commandos. What I did see of the Colony; I agree, the attacks were sooner and seemed more violent than last year. I look forward to seeing how they cope.
 
The Colony is the Disney world mindset of survivialism.

Tribalisation,rape,murder,violence,theft,starvation,pestilence,government-confiscation and cannibalism.
I guess there really is no way to make a reality show about real survival after a complete break-down in society.Without real crime and violence there is no reality.So the show is pure fiction and IMO gives sheep a false impression of what they'll really be facing.Seriously,no guns,axes or machetes? Just where is this utopia? The women in the Colony would be captured and used as sex slaves by stronger more violent tribes and the men would be killed in days in America after a real collapse.

300 million un-prepared starving,selfish,spoiled,armed,desperate,immoral people.It wouldn't be pretty.We are a violent society now even though we are no longer a Republic but living in a Police State.Without police and prisons the entitlement class will make life in America hell on earth and beyond anything to ever happen in history.Imagine Vikings with assault rifles and tribes of hundreds of cannibal raiders.That's what I fear and suspect we would be facing.

If you want reality, history is the best teacher.Research the Siege of Leningrad,famine of the Ukraine, Chinese Civil War, Great Leap Forward,The Congo, Rwanda, and the North Korea famine.
For fiction the book and movie "The Road" has got it about right IMO.
 
Unrealistic as a whole but some of the pshycological aspects might mimic the first few days.I think the violence level over goods would increase daily like New Orleans after Katrina.Of course this is an opinion from a non expert.
 
Thanks for the reminder. I forgot all about this but wanted to watch this. I had no idea there was a previous season. Looks like I will have to catch up.
 
I actually liked the format from last season. I guess I'm more interested in how this group of people can get some of the basic technology back online... technology that we take for granted like refrigeration of food, clean water, etc.


The "attacks" were completely unrealistic and ridiculous last season, but an attempt to make it more realistic actually turns the show away from the part that I'm interested in personally, so...


I guess I think of it more as a Junkyard Wars type reality show than an actual survival scenario show. Not what the producers were going for, I guess.
 
I liked it but I had one problem with it being a show. If someone assaulted me or my friends or sprayed pepper spray in our faces/eyes, all rules and limits of physical harm I would do to protect myself or my friends would go out the window. They need to watch how far they push this BS with limits on people.
 
I didnt like it.

I thought it might be worthy but IMO it looks like Survivor without most of the lameness.

There were some interesting ideas presented but some of it left me scratching my head.

I don't know if I will bother with the rest of the show.

Tostig
 
This crew seems less technically skilled and maybe more psychologically unstable.

I think my suspension of disbelief got worse when the invaders made contact with them. Given their scenario of a viral outbreak, I would think it's game over in their first episode!
 
Barbarossa said:
I liked it but I had one problem with it being a show. If someone assaulted me or my friends or sprayed pepper spray in our faces/eyes, all rules and limits of physical harm I would do to protect myself or my friends would go out the window. They need to watch how far they push this BS with limits on people.
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I was thinking the same thing. It's hard to keep holding back and continue fake fighting once you get hit for real, or see someone is using real oc spray. I think I would have to either not participate, or risk going full out ape s#@t on the attackers.

I wonder what kind of psycological screening these people have to go through to get on the show, as both defender and attacker? Seems to me like there could possibly be some real risk of someone going too far durring one of the "fights".
 
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Did anyone notice that the colonist that had pipes and sticks still just pushed the intruders. It might be just me but if I am confronted by 15+ people there to do me possible harm and I have a pipe, there is gonna be some blood on the ground after I'm done.

I do like the fact that everyone this season is not an engineer of some sort.

The snake would have been dinner!

One of the first things I would have done in this situation is secure the gate to the compound and make a more secure shelter/living space.
 
i remember seeing that name come up on the channel but did not pay much attention to it... i guess i'll check it now... :)
 
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