New Discovery survival show, "The Colony"

Well, 1st seasonss best part was when they made their car and always when there was knife involved but seriously, only knife I ever saw was that old guys Buck 110 that got stolen and then traded back...

If you're in post apocalyptic word first things are: Geed knife, get gun and get water. It was pretty interesting show and has alot potential but... not enough survivalism and bit too much high-tech MacGyverisim which in the end did nothing good. I would go seriously survival menthality: kill or be killed if I were ever in such show. Survivalism is not for urban tree-hugging hippies who'se nature experience is going in park. Eat vegetables and non-animal protein and who can't watch animal planet as its too violent :D
 
After the attack the one guy whined about so what, you want to build guns now ? The guy that got beat down said why not, it's worked before.
 
Ahh went and watched it. The Gangs thing should be left OUT. Yeah 6 people are going to take on 30 bad guys.!!! Hand to hand. As I said before, If it was me I would make a crapper load of spears. And put as many hard plastic garbage can lids around for shields as I could. Even put a long spike in the middle of those too. If those actors ALL had spears, and kept an extra one with wheir shield, it would be like a phalanx, (Very hard to get past 7-8 ft. very sharp spears) and the shields would have protected them as well. the hand to hand crap was **Stupid** Give me one of these, time tested for 1000s of years. enjoy. edgy:thumbup:
 

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And that is why none of you would be on this show! (myself included).

Just remember guys it is a television show, and its better than '16 and pregnant'. IMHO.
 
Just finished watching the first episode...

If you keep a close eye out, you will see a quick glimpse
of a porta-potty... It's during the first scuffle with the three
intruders...

They should have to deal with their own waste to make it
more realistic...

I also found it humorous that everytime an intruder entered
the area, they all started yelling to one another trying to warn
the others...

It was also funny to me that all their supplies are out in the
open...
 
I just watched half of the first episode and had to turn it off. Great initial concept, but it hasn't been executed well at all IMHO.

I understand this is supposed to be a psychological experiment... but these people are acting like they are ACTUALLY in the middle of a crisis. That handyman who was going nuts over letting 4 new people in... They've been in the "sanctuary" for 24 hours and they've already eaten a ton of food from what I've seen (yeah... real smart not to ration...) And they seem so hellbent on security, I don't see how they would find more food without venturing far away from their habitat.

Yeah, this show could be good if it was the same group of people, dropped off in a jungle somewhere 100 miles from any civilization. But this controlled environment crap with "intruders" that they KNOW are actors, is just not gonna cut it for me.
 
Yeah. I think I *May* watch one more, and if it get just to dumb, thats it for me. This ones story line (aka acting line) is just idiotcrazy. edgy:jerkit:
 
Good points by all.... on a rather disappointing show....
I too had no idea there was a season 1.... season two was my introduction and I admit I had High hopes!!

Really cool concept... of course one cannot truly emulate a real bug out/world with out law... type life... but if done right this could produce some good entertainment AND valuable education... but what does "tv" ever actually do right?

I've seen people break down in tears and frustration in a simulated "disaster" response... so yes, simulated scenarios can work for real education and training purposes..but I guess not when "hollywood" is involved.

The last episode really p*ss#d me off when they gave up everything for their little girl friend based on a damn note that said "we are heavily armed"..... really?
If they were heavily armed in that situation they would just walk in and take what ever they wanted... not kidnap and try to bargain for life...! how stupid can you get?? Its sad to say, and I hate to admit it... but THOSE are the people WE will be looking for in real bug out word!
 
What's so funny about the "kidnapping" is that the demands made the "trade site" fully known 24 hours in advance. They could have totally ambushed the kidnappers when it turned out there were only three of them.

Focus their leader on the "negotiation." Make it somewhat edgy and contentious for the benefit of distracting the two guys remaining on the truck. While they're diverted, sneak up out of the bushes--since the kidnappers did not set an effective watch--and put spears to their backs and demand their surrender. Then the "leader" is cut off from all support and you get their hostage, their truck, and their stuff. Then tell the producers that the "Colonists" have killed these three off camera and mounted their severed heads on pikes at the perimeter of the site and rendered their precious bodily fluids into tractor fuel.

The problem with my plan is that only two or three "colonists" even begin to have the requisite balls to suggest it, let alone execute it. That, and we do not know what the "unspoken" rules regarding violence on the show are.

As for the "how can they take this seriously?" angle from critics, spectators treat football as life and death in this country. Average people seriously buy into all sorts of artificial tribes. We have a virtual one going here.

The "colonists" are role playing. It can be an all encompassing experience when you are doing it every day. It's been psychologically proven time and again most famously by the Milgram Experiment, where ordinary people were role induced into delivering presumably injurious electrical shocks to other "participants" for the flimsiest of reasons, in order to show how "otherwise normal folks" become concentration camp exterminators, and the "Stanford Prison Experiment," which had to be ended after just six days when the "guards" began abusing the "prisoners," who were all randomly assigned students.

The Colony follows the same sort of total immersion experience that leads people to "buy into" their artificial scenario, no matter how ridiculous the scenario seems on its surface.
 
They would of been much better off to of not had any "mobs" running around in the show. I understand that in real life this would be reality but you cannot even make it anywhere near real enough to make it worth having on the show. The premise for the show is really good and could possibly be great without the FAKE hand to hand and hostage crap. If the roaming thugs can beat REALLY beat them down, the Colonists should be allowed to be them down just as bad.
 
333rm said:
I understand that in real life this would be reality but you cannot even make it anywhere near real enough to make it worth having on the show.
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I believe it's a scenario that could likely occur if such an event ever happened and thus worth including ... gives people something to think about.
 
I've stopped watching the show. It would be one thing if the participants simply sought to survive in the compound by using their wits, but the introduction of the actors posing as outsiders makes it farcical. In the real world, one would be morally and legally (IMO) justified in inflicting serious bodily injury or death on such persons. But with actors, the participants in the show can do nothing but yell and run around in circles. So what then is the point of the actors? Ratings, I know, but the scripted nature of the outsiders' involvement and the inability of the participants to respond appropriately makes the show a no-go for me. I do enjoy watching them make the windmill and so forth, where they are actually engaged in survival, but that enjoyment is supplanted by the usage of actors. JMO. :)
 
My thoughts exactly, Powernoodle, when I saw the only part of an episode I've ever watched on the show. I don't have a problem with the concept of "the mobs" in an apocalypse survuval scenario, but I think it's safe to say that the response of most forumites here, or many others for that matter, would be different than the scripted/silly responses of the actors on the show.

To go outside the compound "scrounging" in such a situation without some form of defense, section of pipe, knife, spear, sling, etc. would be just silly. But by the same token, it would be pretty tough to get actors for the mob if they ran the risk of being bludgeoned the first time the attacked/ambushed one of the colonists. All in all, pretty silly, even if a few of the bits were entertaining.

Personally, I enjoyed Junkyard Wars much more. :p
 
MILES gear and limited ammo should have been part and parcel of this season from the start. They are in Louisiana this time, not Los Angeles.

I can understand the producers wanting the widest possible audience, (read the UK and Australia), by making firearms a non-starter of a topic, but these scenarios are set in a country with an estimated private firearms count that rivals its census stats. This is not even to mention that this go around no one even possesses a decent locking folder.

That guns have only appeared in the hands of traders in Season One is wholly unrealistic. Odds are that in a random group of ten people, four of them at the very least would be packing some form of heat in a pandemic.
 
I'm only going to watch survival shows where one the buff hippie insists on being barefoot asinine reason.
 
powernoodle said:
I've stopped watching the show. It would be one thing if the participants simply sought to survive in the compound by using their wits, but the introduction of the actors posing as outsiders makes it farcical. In the real world, one would be morally and legally (IMO) justified in inflicting serious bodily injury or death on such persons. But with actors, the participants in the show can do nothing but yell and run around in circles. So what then is the point of the actors? Ratings, I know, but the scripted nature of the outsiders' involvement and the inability of the participants to respond appropriately makes the show a no-go for me. I do enjoy watching them make the windmill and so forth, where they are actually engaged in survival, but that enjoyment is supplanted by the usage of actors. JMO. :)
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I totally agree PN! Due away with the outsiders, fake fighting, and all actors. Being able to watch a random group of NON-ACTORS trying to survive in that type of enviroment would make for a really good show. There is no possible way to realisticlly create fighting for your LIFE, FOOD, and WATER!
 
I thought the first season was lame. Oh, they did some cool stuff (the wood gas to run their generator has been filed away in memory against future need), but overall, it didn't impress. Then I saw a couple of episodes of the second season and found out what lame really was. A group of 30 unfriendlies showing up is definitely justification for using deadly force. In an actual situation like that, those colonists would have been dead right there. And trading half your supplies for one person who couldn't even follow a rule as simple as "don't go out alone"? They should have left her shoe out there with a note that said "Keep her, she's just weighing us down."

I don't know how my girlfriend can stand to watch those shows.
 
You guys really want to get a serious laugh?!?! Go over to the Discovery Channel / The Colony Blog and read the crazy posts over there! It will really make you wonder if we're the only rational people around.:D
 
333rm said:
They would of been much better off to of not had any "mobs" running around in the show. I understand that in real life this would be reality but you cannot even make it anywhere near real enough to make it worth having on the show. The premise for the show is really good and could possibly be great without the FAKE hand to hand and hostage crap. If the roaming thugs can beat REALLY beat them down, the Colonists should be allowed to be them down just as bad.
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There must be rules that are unknown to us. How can you have physical confrontations without casualties? No one has even suffered a black eye or broken nose. And that model chick would have been raped in a normal situation. ;) And for her to pop off when she compromised the group was unacceptable. JMHO
 
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