OT: The Colony (TV)

[Raellus]

I just watched an episode of the Discovery channel TV program, The Colony and, IMHO, it's pretty interesting, as far as reality shows go. The premise is simple: there's been a global pandemic and only a few humans have survived. The show's "cast" of 9 must survive on 10 abandoned city blocks somewhere on the U.S. Gulf Coast (Katrina did a number on their particular neighborhood). I think there's been four or five shows so far, and new ones air on Tuesday evenings here in the States. I just set my DVR to tape a marathon.

It's amazing what a few skilled people can do. In this week's episode, they started building a windmill out of a flagpole, fence slats, bicycle gears and chains, and car axles. It really made me feel useless. I consider myself a very intelligent and knowledgeable person but my lack of practical mechanical skills would pretty much make me dead meat in that kind of scenario.

There are other, hostile humans about as well. It's gotten pretty intense for a reality show. There've been fisticuffs on a couple occasions and at the end of the episode I watched, a female cast member was forcefully kidnapped by three strangers. It was actually really hard to watch.

Anyway, as a post-apoc genre fan, I'm finding the series interesting so far. It may end up inspiring some new ideas for T2K. I'm curious to see others here think of it.