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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Friday, April 07, 2017 - 5:17 pm 
Amazing how the 'aliens' or whatever they are knew exactly which humans would have no problem stepping over other dead humans.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 07, 2017 - 8:11 pm
Well I'd say Snyder pushed a tracking button .. and then the screen went and stayed dark.. at least mine did.. only the USA logo.
He lied about wanting out?
If his daughter really is safe, maybe they promised to reunite them.. not that the daughter wants to see him.
But if he made a deal he did bring out what they wanted, and away from the destruction of LA Bloc.
Yes, I hope Broussard manages to dodge the lethal gas, or whatever is being administered by those giant drones .. or whatever they are.
I cannot FF to get to the end of this to stop it.. I want to save it, though I guess I can just record a repeat?
Off I go to the colony site to see what they are telling us, if anything.
At least they got renewed!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 07, 2017 - 8:26 pm
So the non red hats are
BLACKJACKS
So the site says.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 07, 2017 - 8:28 pm
Per the five great moments section of the website
quote:With the Bowmans on the road outside the Wall, Host ships swarm the bloc, and it doesn’t look good. Then, in the closing seconds of the episode, Snyder makes a shocking choice.
Now.. that almost sounds like he shockingly sent the host ships away... but that would be too much what I want.. still.. I can hope.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 07, 2017 - 8:41 pm
The synopsis...
http://www.usanetwork.com/colony/episode-guide/season-2-episode-13-ronin
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 07, 2017 - 9:03 pm
Nope..not the good great moment but the bad one.. per the synopsis.
quote:What’s next for the Bowman family, Maddie, and the bloc?
Back in the evacuation center, a group attacks the Red Hats and the crowds are free to walk outside. They all look up as the ships hover overhead ominously.
Outside the bloc, Helena Goldwyn watches the ships arrive, seeming to feel the weight of her failure to save the Los Angeles Bloc. She waits.
On the empty road beyond the Wall, the Bowmans and Snyder breathe huge sighs of relief to have escaped from the bloc just in time. They see the ships overhead in their rearview mirror and are grateful for their freedom.
And then Snyder reaches into his pocket and surreptitiously pushes the button to activate the Host homing beacon.
All these on the site listed at the top of the thread.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Friday, April 07, 2017 - 9:09 pm
One of my guesses a year ago was that they were robots...I thought of that way back when they tried to remove the "armor" from the "dead" one they recovered from the wrecked train.
In this finale ep, when I saw them take the orb from the head of one of them, my first thought was "Aha! NOT alien, but robots with artificial intelligence....maybe from the future!"
I thought that because they made such a big deal about getting that undamaged orb out of the damaged "body" and installed into the head of the intact one. I figured if it was just an artificial brain/computer chip it should be easily replaceable but if it was an electronic brain that was housing the artificial intelligence of a particular individual sentient robot, it would be much more important. That could meant that they're basically individual, synthetic "people" whose intelligence happens to be artificial, and who happen to be made out of mechanical and electronic parts instead of flesh and bone.
Of course, the line, (paraphrased)"Our host is now back online" was the clincher (for me) that it's not an "alien" at all, but an electronic machine with a sentient, but artificial, intelligence that is housed within an artificial electronic core (orb). The whole body can be replaced, but the "individual invader" is located in the orb. "Online" could mean "alive" in a robotic race!
I'm now wondering if they are from our own future. Maybe they're running things a thousand years from now but they learned that they still need need humans to do something they cannot do themselves....so they came back here to get more!  Maybe a piece of human brain is in the orb or maybe they can't work with radiation for some reason. Last season we saw people working at the Factory that appeared to be orbiting the moon and someone started coughing up blood on their lunch break, remember? Looked like radiation poisoning to me (based on my vast experience of watching sci-fi TV and movie entertainment! )
I'm stuck on the "from the future" angle because that could also explain how they were able to overtake the world so easily...they knew a lot about us because maybe they ARE "us"...at least a next-gen evolution of us! Anyhow, if they were created right here on earth then they knew exactly what tactics would work and they knew our much lesser level of technology. (Just like if we went back to caveman days, we'd know exactly what technology to use to cause "shock and awe" in order to make them give up and submit very quickly).
Anyhow, that's my current theory.
What a great episode! Already looking forward to next year.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 12:38 am
Not a bad theory.
It was a good episode.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 8:44 am
but if they were from our future, then they would be destroying their own creation and paradoxes encountered.
How about robot interfaces for a people unable or unwilling to leave their home planet or planets. they send out ambassadors to interface with other cultures. The 'ambassadors"/hosts sit on the dark side of the moon and watch TV and identify leaders and the culture and it's many wars. Considering how little we value life, it is easy to see how they could value it for so little as well.
The big logic leap is between how they could identify the leaders and contact them to set up the various hideouts in the mountains where they recruited people to "rule" while being guarded by the military.
From A to B is not always easy to decipher.
There must have been enormous expense setting up this what ever. there is the expense of space travel for a large group, the setting up of the walls, the clearing of the cars from city streets, the creations of the pods. This is not a small scale small resource project. Wouldn't ot be funny if it was just to refuel them to continue on their trip.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 12:23 pm
"but if they were from our future, then they would be destroying their own creation and paradoxes encountered. "
Or they could be trying to short circuit the demise of their own creation...like in "Terminator".
Anyhow, time travel is a favorite sci-fi premise of mine....so I see it as a possibility in lots of sci-fi shows. Also, I didn't want this show to just be another alien invasion story. I wanted more, and time travel is where my imagination often goes. They could also be from a parallel Earth and they're here to start over because they used up all their resources back home.
The one thing I am truly fixated on is the reverence given to that recovered orb out of the "dead" robot's head. It makes me think that the robots themselves are the ones in charge and they're not just machines doing what their creators program them to do. If the robots were just the avatars of other physical beings, the orb wouldn't have been as important as they made it seem to be.....unless the being itself is inside the orb. The invaders could be as small as tiny insects...or even just a mass of energy that was transferred from a flesh and bone alien being...or from a human!
In any case, I keep thinking that people are just a resource of some kind to them.
As I was writing this it occurred to me that The Greatest Day religion that sprang up might've been more than an indoctrination to control people.
What if The Greatest Day is about shedding one's mortal coil to become immortal....inside a robot? Maybe that's their religion...and becoming an immortal robot is their "afterlife"?
I'm sure I'm imagining a plot that's a lot more in depth and complicated than this series will actually be, but it's fun to theorize.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 3:45 pm
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 4:02 pm
I have to watch again, but with all this bird talk, was it egg shaped?
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 5:39 pm
When Maddie said she was "Level Seven" in the Greatest Day, I had flashbacks to Leah Remini's documentary about how people "level up" in Scientology.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 5:49 pm
So did I, Lexie.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 6:38 pm
"I have to watch again, but with all this bird talk, was it egg shaped?"
If you mean the orb they transferred from one robot to another...it wasn't egg shaped, it was spherical with a maze-like design on it and there was a light glowing from inside of it.
Image from the most recent episode:
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 7:14 pm
ok, not a bird, not an egg unless from the turtle or ostrich robot family.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 2:34 pm
Season Three premiere next Thursday, January 11!!!
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 3:25 pm
Thanks for the head's up. I have to make sure my DVR is still set to record it.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 3:29 pm
I hope they do a Season Two marathon this weekend.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 10:43 am
Okay... now I'm confused. It looks like USA may have pushed back the premiere for Colony (possibly due to the Olympics).
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 9:06 pm
Yeah, I can't find it on the schedule. That's okay. I can wait forever for Halloway.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 11:51 pm
It isn't on my schedule yet.
I would love for them to avoid the logjam around the olympics.
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Kitkat
Member
08-23-2008
| Friday, January 05, 2018 - 10:32 am
My TV Guide has Season 2 of Colony on Netflix on Jan. 12. Didn't find anything on other schedules.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Friday, January 05, 2018 - 10:47 am
Yeah Kitkat, it looks like USA moved it back to avoid conflict with the Olympics.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-26-2001
| Friday, January 05, 2018 - 5:47 pm
Love this show!!
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