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Aqizzar

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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #60 on: August 04, 2009, 10:03:49 pm »
Okay, so it turned out the show is a big fat smelly bust.  Damn.  But tonight's episode had one highlight.

The Task: fishing for survival
The Place: the fetid oil slick known as the L.A. River.
The Man: old Romanian dude Vladimir
The Target: fucking carp
Weapon of Choice: bow and arrow
Response: WTF or FTW
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #61 on: August 04, 2009, 10:06:08 pm »
What do you mean it was "a big fat smelly bust."?
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #62 on: August 04, 2009, 10:08:00 pm »
Quote from: Aqizzar on August 04, 2009, 10:03:49 pm
Okay, so it turned out the show is a big fat smelly bust.  Damn.  But tonight's episode had one highlight.

The Task: fishing for survival
The Place: the fetid oil slick known as the L.A. River.
The Man: old Romanian dude Vladimir
The Target: fucking carp
Weapon of Choice: bow and arrow
Response: WTF or FTW

The camera men are obviously helping out, there's no way anybody could survive an encounter with carp without tank support and even then your pushing it.
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #63 on: August 04, 2009, 10:09:05 pm »
Quote from: ToonyMan on August 04, 2009, 10:06:08 pm
What do you mean it was "a big fat smelly bust."?

I mean what could have been a really enlightening, intellectual show was instead a middle-aged version of Road Rules in a rusty warehouse.  So far, every setup of every episode has revolved around "who's the leather jackass going to scream at this time?"  I thought the Mexican would have kicked his ass by now.
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #64 on: August 04, 2009, 10:11:05 pm »
So it's like Hulk Hogan.
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #65 on: August 05, 2009, 03:56:01 am »
How would this show ever be realistic? It doesn't show anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
If only they recorded it.
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #66 on: August 05, 2009, 05:11:56 am »
Standford Prison Experiment is good stuff.

Anyways, in a post-apopcalyptic situation I think I'd end up dead anyways. Somebody would set fire to my house and car right off the bat, I'd get shot leaving the city, I'd die of typhoid or break my leg out in the wilderness and die of infection.

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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #67 on: August 05, 2009, 07:02:44 am »
I'd probably end up being eaten alive by a crazed tribe of skateboard youths (skateboard gangs haunt my area.)
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #68 on: August 06, 2009, 02:28:37 pm »
It's not a documentary, it's a docu-drama "reality" tv show.
read: as real and original as "Big brother 30" is... [or wrestling.] a damn crap show whos' theme could be better performed by a single person uploading videos to youtube.

also
"I LIKE THAT BIKE" made me lose any respect i could've had for it.

edit - i also didn't even watch the entire show, i just watched that one youtube video with the aforementioned statement
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #69 on: August 08, 2009, 11:36:38 am »
Quote from: Zironic on August 05, 2009, 03:56:01 am
How would this show ever be realistic? It doesn't show anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
If only they recorded it.
From the end of that wiki article:

In 2002, as mentioned above, the BBC conducted a similar experiment in The Experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #70 on: August 19, 2009, 02:22:31 am »
Everyone! There is apparently a facebook-colony game out! Anyone want to join my group?
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Re: The Colony - The Discovery Channel's take on the end of the world
« Reply #71 on: August 19, 2009, 01:57:30 pm »
Quote from: Tilla on August 08, 2009, 11:36:38 am
Quote from: Zironic on August 05, 2009, 03:56:01 am
How would this show ever be realistic? It doesn't show anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
If only they recorded it.
From the end of that wiki article:

In 2002, as mentioned above, the BBC conducted a similar experiment in The Experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment
(1) Screening of participants by clinical psychologists, together with medical and police checks.

It's not a realistic test. Usually those in positions of power and those in prison both have some sort of psychological issue.
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