The Colony

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The Discovery Channel said:
What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? How would you find food? Water? Shelter?

The Colony is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under these circumstances. For 10 weeks, a group of 10 volunteers, whose backgrounds and expertise represent a cross-section of modern society, are isolated in an urban environment outside Los Angeles and tasked with creating a livable society.

With no electricity from the grid, no running water and no communication with the outside world, all the volunteers have to work with are their skills and whatever tools and supplies they can scavenge from their surroundings.

Experts from the fields of homeland security, engineering and psychology have helped design the world of The Colony to reflect elements from both real-life disasters and models of what the future could look like after a global viral outbreak.

Over the course of the 10-week experiment, the Colonists must work together to build the necessities of survival, such as a water-filtration system, a battery bank that powered their electricity, a solar cooker, a shower system and a greenhouse – and even some niceties (a coffee maker!).

Just finished watching the first episode of this show. It seems to be edited pretty poorly. They skipped by some of the most interesting segments (introductions, scavenging from a supermarket and fighting off looters, trekking through a river) in less than two minutes.

Otherwise, it is a very interesting concept. One of the coolest things is the fact that there are multiple groups. Some of them are paid actors who are told to harass, lie to, and steal from the colonists without physically injuring them, and others are members of the experiment who don't know that there are other survivors other than them.

In the first episode, an actor tried to break into the colony in the middle of the night, and that got everyone freaked out about security. Then, when some legitimate people came knocking on the door who were part of the experiment, they were treated with hostility and suspicion.

This looks like it is going to be a pretty interesting television show.
 
I hate reality TV. the only fun ones are the real shit that can actually leave someone paralyzed or dead
 
Me too, but this isn't some lame Survivor bullshit. There isn't any voting, there isn't some annoying TV host, there aren't any artificial contests. They are just thrown into an abandoned factory and told to make it on their own.

Of course nobody is going to get seriously hurt, but its still an interesting concept.
 
This seems really interesting. Definitely gonna check it out.

looks like its being aired again in an hour or so, i'll watch
 
Me too, but this isn't some lame Survivor bullshit. There isn't any voting, there isn't some annoying TV host, there aren't any artificial contests. They are just thrown into an abandoned factory and told to make it on their own.

Of course nobody is going to get seriously hurt, but its still an interesting concept.

oh I didn't know that! 99% of reality tv is scripted anyway. do you think this show is?? well besides the paid actors...which could mess up the whole flow possibly
 
Of course nobody is going to get seriously hurt.

Except that one of the "survivors" has a mental break down, and while believing that all of this is for real starts hunting the other survivors and actors, killing them one by one. Now that I'd like to see.
 
Except that one of the "survivors" has a mental break down, and while believing that all of this is for real starts hunting the other survivors and actors, killing them one by one. Now that I'd like to see.

and then you'd go back 10 mins after the show ended using TIVO and watch it over and over and over again
 
By the way, those things that it says they're supposed to build, its not like they're given a list of things like "you must build this this and this as a 'challenge' and then someone gets voted off," they're just thrown in there with a bunch of abandoned junk and they get to decide what to make and how to use it. And they have real incentive to fend off the "marauders" and be hostile towards strangers -- since they have extremely limited resources that can be stolen by other people.
 
I just watched 30 minutes of it and turned it off. What a craptastic piece of shit show. It could be so incredibly better, but no, of course they have to make it moronic so the average TV zombie can digest it. Those people would all be dead or on their way to dying within a week in a real situation like that, except maybe for the handyman guy because he's actually using his brain. Obviously it's just a TV show and can't be expected to be like the real thing but for a so-called "reality" show it's pretty goddamn unrealistic. Watching those tards bumble around was cringeworthy. At least I know that in a real apocalyptic event I would be better off than the vast majority of people just judging from this show.
 
Except that one of the "survivors" has a mental break down, and while believing that all of this is for real starts hunting the other survivors and actors, killing them one by one. Now that I'd like to see.

I hate reality TV. the only fun ones are the real shit that can actually leave someone paralyzed or dead

Hey there's a TV show I think you guys would love, it's called "The Running Man".


Show sounds somewhat interesting, but I doubt I'd purposefully try to watch it even if it's on over here.
 
I hate reality TV. the only fun ones are the real shit that can actually leave someone paralyzed or dead


You I like this concept for a TV show. A cross between Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars and Bear Grylls. I guess they should of brought on Richard Dean Anderson to show us the MacGuyver way of doing things
 
Thanks for warning me about how craptastic this is. I was gonna watch it.
 
Seriously, don't. It's ALMOST watchable just because the scenarios are kind of interesting, but the people on it are such tards (and the whole thing is so awkwardly manufactured in that reality tv sort of way) that it's really not worth it. Plus they focus on the "OMG WE CANT TURN PEOPLE THAT AWAY WHEN THEYRE BEING NICE" aspect too much over the survivalism.
 
Seriously, don't. It's ALMOST watchable just because the scenarios are kind of interesting, but the people on it are such tards (and the whole thing is so awkwardly manufactured in that reality tv sort of way) that it's really not worth it. Plus they focus on the "OMG WE CANT TURN PEOPLE THAT AWAY WHEN THEYRE BEING NICE" aspect too much over the survivalism.

People are stupid. That's kind of the point. Do you honestly think most people would be "survivalists" in such a disaster? The point is, they're going to fail miserably until they realize what they've got to do.

And besides, in the aftermath of a terrible disaster, survivalism would be exactly what destroys civilization and crushes any hope of putting it back together. To rebuild civilization you need peaceful unification. You need a bunch of people willing to settle down and restart. What you don't need is a bunch of wandering nomads and survivalists stealing and living off the land. That is the path back into the dark ages.
 
People can't survive when they know it's all fake.

Time to make it real.
 
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