The Colony – Season 2 Premier Review
Well, I TiVo’d the Season 2 Premier of Discovery Channel’s reality Show “The Colony” last night. I thought I would drop by and give you my thoughts on it since I teach survivalism. As some of you might know, I wasn’t too fond of Season 1 of “The Colony“. It was way too phony and staged. You couldn’t really get anything out of it except that if you’re in a survival situation, you should be stranded with a Chemical engineer, a Aerospace engineer, a Mechanical engineer as well as many other professionals that will help make your life easier. Oh yeah, you should be in a place where all your needs are strategically placed so you can find and implement them!
Well, okay, enough with the sarcasm. Season 2 started off a lot like Season 1 with the ‘Survivors’ of biological disaster meeting and setting up shop on a 10 acre compound with 7 or more buildings. Most of these buildings have the necessities they need to survive if you haven’t already guessed it.
This season of The Colony only has 7 contestants as opposed to last years 10. I think this year the contestants are more believable. By that I mean you have a Model (hey, I’m always wishing I was the last man on earth with a model!), a mechanic, a contractor, a carpenter and some kind of old hippie ‘metal artist’ or something like that.
As the show got underway, the people found quite a bit of food that was left for them. Of course, that happens every time in a survival situation! Anyhow, they moved to one of the abandoned buildings and moved their food and other items there.
‘The Colony’ group then went about scrounging the basic necessities like water, fire wood, etc. They constructed a water filter out of sand and charcoal and then set up sanitizing the water by boiling it. A few of the contestants then went on scavenging missions where they found a few other goods.
About halfway through Day 2, they were visited by 3 outsiders looking for food and water. Part of the group wanted to give them some, others didn’t. They ended up giving them some water and evaporated milk. But this wasn’t good enough for the outsiders. They then wanted to look inside the buildings, which started a scuffle as the group protected their buildings.
Later on, these 3 people would return with a much larger force and struggled with the group while stealing medical supplies and anything else they could get their hands on. This left the group realizing that the security of the compound was lax and left them trying to figure out how to secure the goods they have.
All in all, I thought the Season 2 Premier of “The Colony” was much more believable than Season 1. I hope the upcoming episodes will not disappoint.