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Jezzedout
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09-07-2006

Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jezzedout a private message Print Post    
Found this clip on Youtube. Sheds some light on what happens after Becka's abduction.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoveryNetworks#p/u/2/IhLBGvbGL2U

Bidasea
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08-04-2005

Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bidasea a private message Print Post    
I am loving this show. It's like Kid Nation for adults. These people have talent

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Yes, I thought Jim's reaction to the bridge was upside down. The guy just walks on the bridge and it collapses (and it's not like he was a heavy guy) and he falls into the water, then Jim comes up and instead of apologising for making a dangerous bridge he blames the other guy!

Jezzedout
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09-07-2006

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jezzedout a private message Print Post    
I found on youtube where someone posted all of season 1. I probably watched 7 out of 10 episodes over the weekend. Living in LA, I found I related to season 1 a little more than season 2, but I find both seasons to be pretty riveting.

The guy Mike in season 1 would have driven me absolutely crazy. That guy has some serious anger management problems. Talk about having a chip on your shoulder!! Loved "the professor" who came up with the gasifer, the radio transmitter and the water purifier systems.

Watching season 1 I was struck by how much practical information is presented in the show. From how to filter water using sand and charcoal to how to build a radio transmitter, there's some really useful info on this show.

That said, I wonder what are the chances of surviving the apocalypse and having the good fortune to be holed up with 3 engineers, a machinist, a handyman/solar technology tech, a construction contractor, a martial arts and self-defense instructor, a doctor, a nurse and a marine scientist? Somehow I find it hard to believe that the group was representative of a "cross-section of society."

But I like the show, both in terms of practical information and the storyline.

Discovery still hasn't posted any more episodes from Season 2 on the website so I think I'm going to have to spring for it on Amazon going forward.

Tre34
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08-17-2005

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tre34 a private message Print Post    
Love this show... season 1 was incredible. Cannot believe the blunder of actually giving away so much to the abductors (why didn't they water down the gasoline).

Anyone have an update site for season 1 people?

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I finally got caught up on the last four episodes of The Colony. I really wanted to like Jim because he's the reason we heard about the show and started watching. (My son delivered a pizza to his wife the afternoon of the first episode, and she told him he should watch the show that evening because her husband was on it.) Unfortunately, as hard as I try, I really can't find much to like about the local guy.

I couldn't believe Reno gave away so much of their food! I mean, I understand that they say this is their reality; but they have cameras around and do confessionals - they know it's not real!

Yankee, if they hadn't paid the ransom, would Becca have just been taken out of the show and sent home?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 2:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I wondered about that, too. Since some thought all she did was primp and pick berries that could have been a win win situation. But I gather it is so real to them, they don't really think that way.

They gave away too much, for sure.

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 11:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
I love the idea of watering down the gasoline. There was no way the abductors could have known.

Jezzedout
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09-07-2006

Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jezzedout a private message Print Post    
Love the new guy, Tick. Looking forward to seeing what next week has in store.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Anyone think they brought him in to stop them starving to death?!

Jezzedout
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09-07-2006

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 9:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jezzedout a private message Print Post    
Kitt - I thought the same thing. The colonists were a day away from running out of food and the producers chose this time to allow Tick to "reveal himself" so, yes, I do think the timing was more than coincidental.

Willsfan
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09-04-2000

Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 7:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Willsfan a private message Print Post    
Yes, Kitt and Jezzedout ITA. The producers had to do something quick.

I posted on August 18th that the producers were going to have to leave them some food to find. Tick was even better than the colonists finding canned food, etc.
Tick will be an interesting addition. I wonder if he will get along if everyone.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, October 01, 2010 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I hope everyone stayed tuned for the very end, after the credits, of this week's finale. I was waiting for something like that to happen!

Karuuna
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08-30-2000

Friday, October 01, 2010 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Ew, I didn't like the end at all.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, October 01, 2010 - 5:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I think it might have cut off here.. what was the end?? I just saw them look up at the fishing camp house in the bayou.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Friday, October 01, 2010 - 6:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
Sea, as they were looking up at the house, all the "others" came pouring out of the house and were all on the deck waiting for them.

Konamouse
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07-15-2001

Friday, October 01, 2010 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
Yeah, that was scary, when they showed the others at the house.....
I was really starting to get worried for a couple of them - they really forgot they were in a made-up situation. Bet the psychological ramifications are huge (on the other hand, how can they forget when there are cameras on them all the time??? - so how much is scripted???).


Christy358
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07-10-2007

Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 12:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
Even when you know you are playing a game, you invest so much of yourself into it.

In High School, we did a Model State Government thing. You spent time writing a bill, practicing arguing for it and then as a team spent the weekend in the capital with all the other teams trying to get your bill passed.

Just that one weekend of play acting really did feel like you were other people. I imagine much of the same happened for the people here.

Karuuna
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08-30-2000

Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Yeah, I"m not sure why they would end that way, when their time in the Colony experiment was over. Seemed unnecessarily jarring. Instead of letting them end this thing on a positive note, feeling good about themselves, it was like robbing them of that for one second of tv drama. I didn't like it.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 5:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
I kind of think they deserved it. They found a good place to go (obviously organised for them, as Tick rather suspiciously led them to it) then just ignored it for a week(? guess) and assumed it would still be perfect and empty when they abandoned all other options by raiding the other camp, and set sail for it. They should have been more careful. (They did other things like that at times, like all went to have tea with Tick in his trailer thing, leaving their home completely unprotected.)

(I wouldn't be so heartless in real life, but I know as they zoomed on by, production would be there with a tray of muffins)

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Monday, October 04, 2010 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
If I remember right it wasn't a week. They found the house on day 48 and left the compound on day 50.

Jezzedout
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09-07-2006

Tuesday, October 05, 2010 - 1:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jezzedout a private message Print Post    
I watched the last episode on Amazon VOD and didn't see the ending you all are describing. Strange.

I wonder how long it took Sally and Reno to adjust to being apart? They seemed to have developed a strong attachment and sense of reliance on each other. I was glad to see George finish the season so strong -- as he noted, someone who was valued not an outcast.

I enjoyed the series. Learned a lot. Not sure how much I could duplicate in a real emergency situation but it was interesting nonetheless.