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TelevisedInsanity posted:It really is one of the smartest reality shows on television. But it pretty much could be summed up to "If you are not an engineer, you are hosed." I agree with the general sentiment that the contrived drama with the raiders and reality show aspect was annoying, but the engineering saved it for me. I stuck with the show through the whole first season just to watch them build stuff. I really liked how the different parts of the truck all came together.
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Jul 27, 2010 05:22
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Curly Shuffle posted:I agree with the general sentiment that the contrived drama with the raiders and reality show aspect was annoying, but the engineering saved it for me. I stuck with the show through the whole first season just to watch them build stuff. I really liked how the different parts of the truck all came together. Yeah, their ingenuity with getting some of their things up and running was amazing. I still remember the one guy's wood gas stove that the self-appointed leader kept calling a ticking time bomb... who came out on top of that one, eh? Reading the survivor bios for this season, it looks like they picked out more of a commonman/blue-collar group compared to the more specialized members last season.
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Jul 27, 2010 06:07
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I really want to know how many times "hey baby, let's repopulate the earth" worked last season
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Jul 27, 2010 06:09
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It didn't take long after building the group bed before someone decided everyone was going to have to wear sleeping pants.
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Jul 27, 2010 06:25
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I'm liking it, they just need to cut out more of the "I don't understand his hippy poo poo" barbs which sound entirely forced. : I found this cactus fruit. It doesn't taste great but it will be great for water out in the desert. : This tastes horrible! I can't stand this hippy-dippy stuff, I need meat.
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Teek posted:I'm liking it, they just need to cut out more of the "I don't understand his hippy poo poo" barbs which sound entirely forced. I feel exactly the same way - he tries way too hard to be a redneck type. Shoeless guy seems like all of his survival knowledge comes from reading books and not from going outside. Being unable to climb ropes or cross rivers and whatnot. He's loving massive too - I don't know how he survives while having to maintain all of that muscle mass.
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I also happened to watch two episodes back to back this past weekend, they're not even consistent with their personalities episode to episode. One episode Cody was totally against drinking out of a pool of non-moving water. The other episode he was totally okay with it, their positions being basically reversed so they could highlight whatever backpack item they were featuring that episode, like the cigarette filter in the reed straw to filter the water.
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So....I'm watching The Colony, and the colonists have just had a violent confrontation/brawl with a band of interlopers.... How is this kosher? People are being pepper-sprayed, punched, bludgeoned with metal pipes, etc. -- do the show's participants sign an agreement that they won't sue if they're injured by other people?
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Rabbit Hill posted:So....I'm watching The Colony, and the colonists have just had a violent confrontation/brawl with a band of interlopers.... How is this kosher? People are being pepper-sprayed, punched, bludgeoned with metal pipes, etc. -- do the show's participants sign an agreement that they won't sue if they're injured by other people? Remember how they were all signing that contract at the beginning of the episode? It covers all of that. That was pretty intense though. I don't recall it being nearly that violent in previous season.
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Rabbit Hill posted:So....I'm watching The Colony, and the colonists have just had a violent confrontation/brawl with a band of interlopers.... How is this kosher? People are being pepper-sprayed, punched, bludgeoned with metal pipes, etc. -- do the show's participants sign an agreement that they won't sue if they're injured by other people? Just got done watching too- and there is no way that the fights were real. they get pepper sprayed sure, but everyone is shoving, very few punches, very limited use of weapons. If it's a matter of having what's necessary to stay alive, people aren't going to be pinning people down and shoving, they are going for straight up pipe to the head. their contracts cover injury, but the opening statement pretty much said that things were staged.
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I like the new series a lot better than the old one, that's all I really have to say
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Gummy Joe posted:Remember how they were all signing that contract at the beginning of the episode? It covers all of that. quote:their contracts cover injury, but the opening statement pretty much said that things were staged.
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Gummy Joe posted:Remember how they were all signing that contract at the beginning of the episode? It covers all of that. I would totally do this show.
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Jul 28, 2010 04:17
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They should have the option to vote off one member and have a huge dinner afterwards that's in the shape of a human body
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Would have been great if they shot The Colony at the Salton Sea, already packed with melting buildings and hordes of mutants
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I think the gulf coast was a good choice. Enough time has passed so it doesn't seem like they're exploiting a tragedy, while at the same time it illustrates that there remains a lot of land that is still hosed by Katrina.
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For anyone curious, posted this a few pages ago, it's the Google Street View of the area where they film: Area
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Jul 28, 2010 05:49
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Alberto Basalm posted:I like the new series a lot better than the old one, that's all I really have to say Yeah, I'm watching the encore since I missed it earlier and so far I'm liking it a lot more than the first season. I think it helps that they're aware that the survivors outright say on camera that this is just an experiment and don't bother with any pretense that they're really in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Jul 28, 2010 06:14
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I liked the initial scuffle with the outsiders where Jim overpowered the outsider leader and took him down behind the bushes. I suspect the crew intervened before Jim beat the poo poo out of him, since afterwards he was all "by the way, you're dead" like they were playing cops and robbers.
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Jul 28, 2010 07:24
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Jul 28, 2010 07:55
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There really needs to be some sort of rule where the producers can deem someone "dead" if they do something dumb that would actually get them killed if it were real. Maybe they wouldn't be so quick to tackle strangers and they'd have to respect anybody who comes around with a gun or something.
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Legerdemain posted:There really needs to be some sort of rule where the producers can deem someone "dead" if they do something dumb that would actually get them killed if it were real. Maybe they wouldn't be so quick to tackle strangers and they'd have to respect anybody who comes around with a gun or something. I just watched the episode and I have to say I think they should've not had raiders running around. Theres really no way for them to simulate the combat and it just comes off as terrible. Maybe stuff shifting or dissappearing overnight to simulate people coming through, but I'd say thats it. Everyones got lead pipes and stuff but theres just a whole lot of shoving going on. Maybe paintball guns as real guns or something could've worked.
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At this point, I say break out the paintball guns and make Left 4 Dead: The Series.
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404GoonNotFound posted:At this point, I say break out the paintball guns and make Left 4 Dead: The Series. poo poo, The Colony season 3 with undead. That show would win every Emmy.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:I just watched the episode and I have to say I think they should've not had raiders running around. Theres really no way for them to simulate the combat and it just comes off as terrible. Maybe stuff shifting or dissappearing overnight to simulate people coming through, but I'd say thats it. Everyones got lead pipes and stuff but theres just a whole lot of shoving going on. It was decent up until the gang of shove warriors showed up. I don't get why they seem so dead set on the idea that the show NEEDS this dumb artificial violence angle tacked onto the post-apocalypse survival experiment premise. It's completely impossible to suspend disbelief with the way they set up the show and then execute the action scenes. I'd be perfectly happy if they would get off the fence and either do "10 creative people rig up elaborate contraptions to survive" or "ULTRA ZOMBIEPOCALYPSE PAINTBALL CHALLENGE." I'd watch either one, I just wish they'd make up their minds.
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IRQ posted:I'd watch either one, I just wish they'd make up their minds. Me too. I don't understand why they're not doing either of those. Both of them would be absolutely incredible and I hope if they did the undead thing they'd end the season by overrunning their base with zombies. I loved the first three raiders milling about like they were waiting for an elevator or something at the camp. They just looked like they were going to work or going home when they were walking around too. Irish Taxi Driver fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jul 29, 2010 |
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I think the Colony is definitely one of the better premises for a reality show. When I was younger, my friends and I used to sit around talking about ways we would survive if an event like this happened. I Am Legend did a good job of exploring this too. I am mixed on the fights. I think having "real" threats coming into their area looking for food/water/medicine makes it more exciting for the viewer and the contestants on the show. It is more of an element of surprise than just having stuff disappear during the middle of the night. They have to always be prepared, and with this group so far I think that concept is still sinking in.
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If they did a war against the machines angle, they could at least have genuine battles to the death (with the machines using liberal amounts of pepper spray or tasing). Right now there's a good, realistic (enough for TV) survival show coupled with backyard roughhousing that completely destroys any kind of kind of suspension of disbelief. From the official site:  
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AuMaestro posted:If they did a war against the machines angle, they could at least have genuine battles to the death (with the machines using liberal amounts of pepper spray or tasing). Right now there's a good, realistic (enough for TV) survival show coupled with backyard roughhousing that completely destroys any kind of kind of suspension of disbelief. I think that's the shows ticket to being interesting and cool, if they focus on a different disaster each season. Terminators, Zombies, I Am Legend, loving go for it. Why does the apocalypse always have to be a mutant virus that just kills people?
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:I think that's the shows ticket to being interesting and cool, if they focus on a different disaster each season. Terminators, Zombies, I Am Legend, loving go for it. Why does the apocalypse always have to be a mutant virus that just kills people? Season 7: Rabid Jackals. Season 8: Airhorns. 24 hours a day. Season 9: The cold, hard vacuum of space (brought to you by Virgin Galactic!) Season 10: gently caress it, just leave them in a random slum in Brazil.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Season 7: Rabid Jackals. The Airhorns might have been something out of Solitary, but I would watch any and all of these seasons. Also, a season where they recreate the Donner Party.
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The best thing about the raid is how overwhelming it was. Yes, it's all television and nobody's going to get seriously injured, but I think the point is showing how the colonists were completely at the mercy of the raiders. They were out-numbered more than two to one, and it had to be scary to be pinned to the ground and know that if there had been any real stakes at all, you'd have been hosed. That being said, I hope it was psychological move on the part of the producers, and the rest of the show is less about fending off attackers and more about foraging for food and building from scraps. And I hope they ate that snake they pulped.
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