The Colony? TV

I thought it was somewhat alright. I don't think the whole marauder thing is there as much to dramatize it, but as a way to wake them up at night and mess with their ability to perform. If you watched it, the marauder incidents were very downplayed and was only shown for maybe 10-15 seconds each time.

The psychiatrist said that being isolated will make it feel much more real for the people involved. I do like that its not your typical "lets vote someone home and create intrigue" kind of show, but rather the emphasis is on working together with different skillsets in an unusual situation.

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I thought they were pretty dumb in a few of the things they did.

* They didn't keep up on their water supply, the rain storm was pretty much just a stroke of luck.
* They did nothing to section themselves off or hide in a smaller part of the factory to protect themselves and their assets from intruders.
* They didn't split themselves up in teams with specific tasks, like getting water, food or parts. No leadership really.
* They had no fire watch or any other kind of watch.
* I wouldn't have lights going (if it was a real situation, no-one needed to know I was there.)
 
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I turned it off almost ten minutes in. Just as soon as the "survivors" were looting the "abandoned department store" and had the Mad Max types ride in on Harleys and rather congenially steal their supplies.

No offense to the Discovery Channel, but me and my merry band of post apocalyptic survivors would have just become a motorcycle gang rather than cart pushers, going so far as enhancing our knowledge, through "interrogation" of where they were getting their gasoline.

No firearms, no reality, no sale.
 
While I rarely watch TV, if I'm in the office the internet is always going while I'm doing other woirk, so I get plenty of BS in my diet reading through forums!
 
Boats said:
No firearms, no reality, no sale.
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It is just simply not a "post-apocalyptic" world without firearms! ;)

The guys on bikes didn't even have mohawks or sections of their bodies painted in futuristic tribal markings. :thumbdn:

It was convenient how they just seemed to keep locating the things they needed to get by like puzzle pieces.

The area marked "Sanctuary" was just too much immediately. After I saw it all I could think of was Quasimodo running around saying "sanctuary"...:D

It was impressive (not) how they dealt with the "new" survivors just coming into their base camp.

Not impressed.

Does anyone have the "train wreck" feeling on this one and you feel that you just have to keep watching to see how "dumb" it will get?
 
Boats said:
I turned it off almost ten minutes in. Just as soon as the "survivors" were looting the "abandoned department store" and had the Mad Max types ride in on Harleys and rather congenially steal their supplies.

No offense to the Discovery Channel, but me and my merry band of post apocalyptic survivors would have just become a motorcycle gang rather than cart pushers, going so far as enhancing our knowledge, through "interrogation" of where they were getting their gasoline.

No firearms, no reality, no sale.
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Well put. The show definitely didn't exceed my expectations, and they were already pretty low.
 
I tried watching that show last night, and it was HORRIBLE. It was reality TV at its worst. I could already see different "character types" being established. I already know who is going to be the obnoxious jerk that everybody hates, who is going to be the gifted magician who has all the answers, who's the ditzy girl etc. Everything they did seemed so ridiculously stupid. It was like they were survivors of an apocalyptic world that had been taken over by Teletubbies. They had NO security whatsoever. They find an enormous warehouse complex, and they don't bother trying to establish a defensive perimeter of any kind. Their first priority is to look around for the junk the show's producers have strewn around for them to use as supplies. At a couple different points, one of the guys remarked "somebody's been here. Somebody's been here recently." Just a casual observation. No thought that whoever had been there might come back, and might object to a group of strangers gleefully picking through their shelter and survival supplies.
 
Don Rearic said:
A busy Wal-Mart is an interesting study in similarities to the Springer Show. :)
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Thats so funny (because its so true), I was waiting for assistance at the wal-mart sports counter (for ammo), and I heard about 'Shontain's girlfirends brother messin with Gary over at the park yesta-day'. Everyone in the vicinity heard about it.
BTW, I cant believe Springer is still on TV, that is garbage TV (IMO) and desensitizes morals & ethics. What used to be shocking behavior is now repeated, replicated and imitated over again, and considered ordinary and acceptable. In high school MAYBE one or two girls were pregnant and that was “OMG, she is only 16”. Well, now its “OMG, she is only 13 or 12”. Maybe, day time TV should do something shocking again and instead of talking about the 12 yo girl who slept with more men than in the state of Vermont, maybe do a show on a 18 yo. Female who is a “A” student and a virgin.
 
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Good thing I didn't waste my time with this show. Sounds way too staged, but I guess it has to be.
 
What gets me is that it could have been more realistic with the addition of Miles gear and blanks.

As it turns out, it's definitely an experiment for blissninnys.
 
we're watching this...well i'm 1/2 watching it but i swear if that guy Michael doesn't STOP BITCHING i'm going to have to wish horrible things to happen to him!
 
I tried watching this. :barf:

It needs to stop being aired, it's pretty terrible.
 
I can't take this crap show...:barf:

All it contains is "look what we just found laying around here that we can now use..."

They're like mice in a maze being led to the end...:barf:

There is nothing "survival" about this.

Disappointed! :confused:
 
Saw it for the first time tonight. Not really impressed. Will give it one more shot next week. If not any better then no more for me.
 
Saw the second episode of it, that handyman is such a whiner. He will probably be the reason I won't watch much longer.

I initially wanted to watch it for the "survival" part, but that is pretty lacking, I did find I enjoy the aspect of pointing out everything they are doing wrong. I guess reality tv speaks to the arrogant bastard in all of us ;)
 
I watched it last night and it was dumb, I am interested in the show alone in the wild though, sounds like the guy is really alone out there, could be interesting although I missed the pilot episode
 
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