I have been meaning to watch this show. Theres always something else on when its on though. Im a tv buff. I'll have to DVR it!

I have been watching this season of "The Colony" and it has been a lesson in how to die if the SHTF. You can look at them and what they do, how they handle problems and perform tasks.

They did well solving the water problem, but it was weeks late.

The fixing the one boat to use with oars to check out the water ways was a good idea, but again weeks late.

Finally choosing a leader to guide them was good, but again weeks late.

The putting a watch tower on top of their building was a good idea, weeks late.

Not separating their supplies into small caches around the top floor of their place, very stupid, makes it easy for someone to take everything and bottom floor was easily raided.

As hunters, they are poor, they know nothing about hunting or fishing either it seems. Note the was the marine sniper who joined them. The guy has been on his own as long as they have, but all buy himself and he was eating well, meat, veggies, and all form the same area.

They have made no real weapons for hunting or defense. Their chosen base camp was a bad idea have no idea why they chose that building,. They could have moved all their stuff to a better one.

The wind generator was a good idea and I give them credit for that and doing the bio diesel thing and the making a still to make fuel is a good idea also.

In real situation, when the first attack occurred they all would have been dead and raped if was a SHTF situation.

Do you notice, they don't have security guard shifts?

Do you notice, they move in the open almost always, instead of using cover and concealment while moving?

They tend to go out alone when they have no skills for doing anything alone? Unless your skilled, stick with a small group for seeing trouble and avoiding it before you get to it also for defense.

The two fighters they have are ill skilled and poorly trained and let their tempers get to them in a situation rather then using their heads. Real situation, they would die pretty fast. You must think in a fight, plan what your going to do and execute it.


They have no real plan for defense, who takes what positions or what they will do.

What have others seen who have been watching it?

I do think this season is more an example of the average unprepared group of people who banded together may be like after SHTF. It's sad, but true I think. Most people who are not prepped, skilled and thoughtful are going to be like this group, they would basically die.

wulfin wrote:I have been watching this season of "The Colony" and it has been a lesson in how to die if the SHTF. You can look at them and what they do, how they handle problems and perform tasks.

They did well solving the water problem, but it was weeks late.

The fixing the one boat to use with oars to check out the water ways was a good idea, but again weeks late.

Finally choosing a leader to guide them was good, but again weeks late.

The putting a watch tower on top of their building was a good idea, weeks late.

Not separating their supplies into small caches around the top floor of their place, very stupid, makes it easy for someone to take everything and bottom floor was easily raided.

As hunters, they are poor, they know nothing about hunting or fishing either it seems. Note the was the marine sniper who joined them. The guy has been on his own as long as they have, but all buy himself and he was eating well, meat, veggies, and all form the same area.

They have made no real weapons for hunting or defense. Their chosen base camp was a bad idea have no idea why they chose that building,. They could have moved all their stuff to a better one.

The wind generator was a good idea and I give them credit for that and doing the bio diesel thing and the making a still to make fuel is a good idea also.

In real situation, when the first attack occurred they all would have been dead and raped if was a SHTF situation.

Do you notice, they don't have security guard shifts?

Do you notice, they move in the open almost always, instead of using cover and concealment while moving?

They tend to go out alone when they have no skills for doing anything alone? Unless your skilled, stick with a small group for seeing trouble and avoiding it before you get to it also for defense.

The two fighters they have are ill skilled and poorly trained and let their tempers get to them in a situation rather then using their heads. Real situation, they would die pretty fast. You must think in a fight, plan what your going to do and execute it.


They have no real plan for defense, who takes what positions or what they will do.

What have others seen who have been watching it?

I do think this season is more an example of the average unprepared group of people who banded together may be like after SHTF. It's sad, but true I think. Most people who are not prepped, skilled and thoughtful are going to be like this group, they would basically die.

I agree with you that these people represent the vast majority in a shtf situation and it's unfortunate. Common sense would go a long way in helping them survive. they have none. No security..... how do they sleep? They know nothing will happen to them for real because it's a tv show of 0 value and they would sue if any harm really came to them. If someone wanted to they could have those people so scared that their own shadow would scare them and they wouldn't have to ever be seen or have anything they do touch or in any way harm the people participating in the show, then see how they do in a real high stress situation. I'm not a mean person and am usually pretty easy going, I wouldn't do something like that to someone, but I know how,if you get in their head and they will do most of the work for you and make themselves crazy with fear(not everybody but the people in the show would be easy money), you just have to get the ball rolling. They really don't touch the psychological side of things in these shows because they wouldn't have anybody left after the 3rd or 4th day if they did.
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Can see some of the trailers, but full episodes have been blocked in Australia due to copyright laws, dammit, however the little that I did manage to watch wasn't overly impressive. But then again, it is a "reality" show after all. (In which scenarios are usually about as far removed from reality as you can get, IMO.)

Now, if they took a bunch of preppers with all the preps they had on hand, (to be reimbursed by film company later of course), and stuck them in a remote location with perhaps only radio communication with other "survivalist" groups, and left them to their own devices, it might be better.

It would be interesting if they picked a group with some real skilled people in hunting, survival and military trianing and put them in with regualr people to see how they do. Maybe season three if they have one.

That's actually a good idea wulfin, as it is very likely that that is what would eventually happen in many SHTF situations: A group that is well prepared and organised, with a central core of knowledgeable and skilled people, would be turned to for all forms of advice and assistance. However, such a group would need to be very cohesive, with a well defined and accepted chain of command and leadership.

You know a show I actually liked was the PBS Colonial House. It was highly instructive to watch modern people have to go back to colonial times. I think the most interesting part was how they were totally unprepared for the level of work and the diet. They were very inside the box when it came to working out solutions to problems and many of them had absolutly no skills to prepare them for the lack of technology. And this was after they had been in training with PBS on what to do! Also how they interacted under the stress, how leadership evolved, and how relationships formed was something we all should be aware of. It showed how different personalities handled leadership and how very few of the people in the group were prepared to be a real leader. Even those chosen for leadership.

We had a similar show down here, where a number of people, some directly from Britain, were placed in the bush and had to take the position of early colonists. A group of Kooris, (Australian aboriginals), was also added to the scenario, and had to interact with the 'colonists', although they did not have the skills held by their ancestors in living of the land. It was interesting to see how they handled the situation, and although I haven't seen the American version, much would have been the same as you described having seen.
One part I found interesting is that at the end several of the people involved actually left their block in the bush, where they had constructed thier own dwellings, with quite some regret, and felt that the simple lifestyle that they had had to revert to was in many ways better than the society to which they had to return.
(A feeling that may well have dissipated quickly after staying in the luxury hotel where the studio had installed them in order to recuperate and become 'civilised' again. But then maybe I'm just a cynic, lol.)