There was a 2nd season. It originally ran on Discover (I think). It was apost-apocalyptic Survivor-like reality show.
Let's face it, you need to have practical skills that could be applied to the materials you have on hand. Someone who's a electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic is much more useful than someone who lacks those skills. Especially if they have a little MacGyver in them. After that it's all about being able to haul junk back to or around your camp to do the task for the day (build a water purifier, build a battery recharging station, etc.).
Unless you were a DIYer, home improvement or series hobbyist in those above skills, anybody who went to college for some nice office based white collar job is SOL unless they're also strong.
As for Doctors and nurses, unless they've done time working in 3rd world, dirt poor countries practicing, they may be next to useless unless they have a knack to improvise (HankMed).
It was an interesting idea for a reality show but various twists and projects weren't compelling enough for me to watch more than a handful of episodes each time.
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That's not true 100% There are other things you can do and generally not making a nuisance of yourself is a thousand times better than what most of the women were doing... The last couple episodes ticked me off because Mike was pretty much doing and proposing everything that was essential to their survival needs yet they were all like "he's the most useless person here and does nothing" just because he took the situation serious rather than being a dip... like the nurse who refused to treat a cut that could have been fatal with a staff infection or the "rocket" scientist who built a balloon, said "this a bad idea to do this in this weather" and then after a few failed attempts showing it was a bad idea, completely wrecked her project...without gathering the needed info.|
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There was a 2nd season. It originally ran on Discover (I think). It was apost-apocalyptic Survivor-like reality show.
Let's face it, you need to have practical skills that could be applied to the materials you have on hand. Someone who's a electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic is much more useful than someone who lacks those skills. Especially if they have a little MacGyver in them. After that it's all about being able to haul junk back to or around your camp to do the task for the day (build a water purifier, build a battery recharging station, etc.). Unless you were a DIYer, home improvement or series hobbyist in those above skills, anybody who went to college for some nice office based white collar job is SOL unless they're also strong. As for Doctors and nurses, unless they've done time working in 3rd world, dirt poor countries practicing, they may be next to useless unless they have a knack to improvise (HankMed). It was an interesting idea for a reality show but various twists and projects weren't compelling enough for me to watch more than a handful of episodes each time. |
what ticked me off even more is in the final episode they go over what was "learned" and the Marine biologist was all like "I wanted to prove to them that I could do it and I did. I proved I could survive an apocalypse" which she didn't...she proved exactly the opposite...that she is an arrogant idiot that would get her self *****, enslaved, and/or killed quickly if not for those around her.
I know there is a second season, but it's not on Netflix and there's supposed to be a third season coming apparently.
Another thing that bothered me is that noone stepped up and was like "We need a leader and rules" or "we need to have ways of watching for raiders at night" And then it also bugged me that as time went on even though they were "improving" their situation they were ignoring the simple things that would have kept them going a lot longer and easier like actually going and getting water since they had a ready source.
in my opinion the biggest mistake they made is not working with the several groups that were more peaceable, such as the religious group, the two stragglers, the group that the wife came in with, or the traders. With numbers comes more ability to get work done and search for more food and such... likewise with the traders, they had guns and they would have had a vested interested in maintaining the safety of the place as well as getting things working right... They mainly had perishables and if they had an easy place to put them and an electricity source it would have helped them.
Further the whole blockade at the end wouldn't have happened because the raiders obviously didn't have weapons and then battle at the end wouldn't have lasted long because there were more people manning more places.
Again, another two situations could have been vastly improved with better understanding of a working society and being more open were the Andre situation and the other colony situation. The other colony had obviously scouted and were in decent shape. They had bad defenses, and you could have used that to your advantage and said "look you have a number of materials and we have a number of materials, our place is safer so why don't you guys come back with us, check us out and perhaps work on trading or moving into the place." And with Andre and Elizabeth, more people means more people to keep an eye on someone and more people means less likely to go hostile... and if they did with more people you could create a prison system thus eliminating the 3 future incidents.
By the end of the show you'd have had a nice trading outpost and with like a 50 person population. which in general would have made more sense considering that they wanted to survive and have creature comforts and start rebuilding the city which wasn't "torn down" so much as it was abandoned. With 50 people you could have survived much longer and easier as well as scouted for a good place to set up a new village or set up around a place that you could have access to better pre-set up systems such power or waterworks. And in the long run, considering you don't know the shape of the world outside your area and potentially have other colonies popping up and a colony 120 miles away you're in the perfect position and have a good set up for a trading post so I'd more than likely stay at the colony rather than go that 120 miles in a real situation...
Where would the drama be if they cast people that were useful and didn't have personalities that clashed?
I watched the first season and my biggest gripe was that those people weren't really subjected to the kinds of stresses survivors would actually be subjected to. They didn't really have to adjust their mindset into survivor mentality because they knew it was just a game.
I loved this show! It was such an interesting concept.... I really wish they'd focused more on the utility required to survive rather than the drama... especially in season 2. Still... It breaks my heart that it got canceled.
So on Netflix is the show The Colony. It apparently aired like a year ago...
It's a reality show to a degree... It's 10 people put into a situation where it's the end of the world and they have to survive for 10 weeks in a "post-apocalyptic" scenario.
Right now I'm on episode 9 of 10 and I'm really sorta disturbed. Not at what's happened in terms of violence but how useless and stuck up the women are and how little they seem to grasp the situation that they are supposed to be in.
Almost every problem that they have that comes from the inside comes from the women arrogant, stuck up, and lacks behavior while the men while they sometimes have bad attitudes, are loud, shout, etc, they generally just get it done... The only truly big problem that come from the men is their lack of trust for just about anyone else...and the one time they show trust is to a religious group and a guy that ultimately steals from them and thattime the women cause problem there too.
It seems in the one case where the men and women have a choice to be trust the men are and the women automatically go against the men just because.
I want to be clear that the uselessness of the women I don't think it's the women themselves for the most part (some times it is) it's that the show seemed to have picked less useful areas of expertise for them...
Men -
Electronics
Engineering
Machines (He was good at crafting the machines)
Construction
Handyman
Doctor
Women -
Marine biologist
Rocket Science (wtf?)
Martial Artist
Trauma Nurse
Someone's wife (later on in the series)
2 of the men had practical experience with survival skills. One was in the military and the other had prison time.
The marine biologist never was useful (good to know just in case)
The Rocket scientist had 1 of her own project and that failed... the other projects she was involved in was all solved or were just things others could have done by just about anyone in the group or just wasn't needed.
The Martial Artist caused several problems, and did nothing truly useful.
The Trauma Nurse had 3 chances to be useful but was about as useful as the common person... once she diagnosed a kidney stone, once she didn't help purposefully which could have resulted in someone's death, and the last time she put gauze on someone' head which anyone could have done...
Someone's wife was...not useful at all lol
ironically the most useless of the men(the doctor) was taken out before he could have been useful.
So the women who had the most useless jobs also were causing several social problems...
They did however wash clothes and cook... but they complained about that even though they started doing it as soon as it was mentioned without being asked and the men did cook and figured a better way to wash clothes...
So yeah... Do you think this is reaction is due to them knowing it's not a REAL situation... or do you think this is a realistic reaction?