It's a new show on the Discovery Channel. It gets 10 volunteers to spend 10 weeks in an abandoned warehouse. It's supposed to recreate what it would be like if there was a giant disaster like an outbreak or something. They have to fight off invaders, find food and water, etc. They have no running water either.
It's Fallout televised, except they're making all the crazy shit by hand (like water filtration and a generator out of a wood fire, wood gas & a lawn mower).
I do like it, but without Mike the handyman, I don't think I would. Nobody else has really gotten a chance to be on-screen like Mike has (then again, threatening to kill people twice within the first hour does tend to make you the central focus of a pilot episode).
It feels like he's the only one taking it "seriously", bringing up the scenarios that really would need to be considered and asking the tough questions (for example, when the 4 'extra colonists' appeared, he was the only one that wasn't set to fling the doors open & roll out the welcome mat).
This Mike guy is such a dick. Yes motherfucker, there is a reason the have PhD. They are smart. You a handyman... get over it. Also, who the fuck put him in charge?
I'm just waiting for some actual outside-the-colony strife to hit, and then his jerkish nature will pay off. The rest of them are just bumbling fools so far who would've already gotten themselves killed if it weren't a TV show.
Like the narration lady said (you know the one, the popup one that explains what they're feeling and whatever), he's the only one that knows how to do the shit that needs doing so he gets to have the final say on things, and like the old guy with the beard said, he words things like a dick but he's not wrong in what he's saying.
It was stupid to risk the colony's entire electrical grid to cut one pipe for....what, exactly?
That shit was hilarious. What was equally hilarious was when the asian chick who was instructed not to attack the colonists actually attacked the blond girl.
That shit was hilarious. What was equally hilarious was when the asian chick who was instructed not to attack the colonists actually attacked the blond girl.
Hey, Andre ate Sweet Chin Music first; all bets were off at that point, I say.
I'm wondering who they lose in next week's episode and why...like, does somebody go loopy and need to be written out of the show, or did they just pick somebody, pull them aside and say "Hey, new scenario: you're out of the show thanks for all your help these past few weeks! *boot*"?
That shit was hilarious. What was equally hilarious was when the asian chick who was instructed not to attack the colonists actually attacked the blond girl.
Hey, Andre ate Sweet Chin Music first; all bets were off at that point, I say.
I'm wondering who they lose in next week's episode and why...like, does somebody go loopy and need to be written out of the show, or did they just pick somebody, pull them aside and say "Hey, new scenario: you're out of the show thanks for all your help these past few weeks! *boot*"?
Interesting question. It'd be crazy if it was the 1st scenario. They keep pushing these people so it wouldn't be TOO surprising to see someone lose it completely and need to be pulled off the show.
Maybe I'm mixing some shit up, but from the preview for next week's episode it looks like the incident in this week's episode is rendered moot almost immediately.
We don't know. They didn't say anything in this week's episode, so I assume they just didn't go off and Discovery sent somebody up there to get them down.
Or hell, maybe Discovery sabotaged them because they would've been visible outside the quarantined area and people would've wondered what the hell was going on.
In any event, next week's episode looks like a really good episode.
It's interesting...well, I think so anyway. He seems to be updating every day (I've only scrolled down a couple entries) and he does talk about the show, which is cool because he gives away stuff that didn't make air (like how John V. did improv comedy during the show; didn't see that coming). Just watch for unintended spoilers...since the entirety of the series hasn't aired yet, but he lived through the entirety of the tapings, it's possible he'll talk about things under the notion that they'll be ignored by the producers that might make air in a later episode such as
Morgan makes a brick oven, which hasn't made air yet but potentially could, since she seems to be the only female capable of being useful and making stuff worth talking about
And now, for me & Jaxxxson to discuss and anybody else who stumbles in to catch up with, the rankings of the colonists according to Discovery.com's poll:
1) John C., "The Professor"
2) Vladimir Koslov
3) Mike, the "big dumb monkey" who's my personal favorite
4) Joey, the contractor/ex-con
5) John V., the non-professor who's there to make things annoying by not allowing everyone to be on a first-name basis (he has to be John V, even though John C is The Professor)
6) George, the MIA doctor
7) Leilani the martial arts instructor
8) Allison the dumb blonde nurse
9) Morgan, the aerospace engineer with the world's most misproportioned face
10) Amy the Marine Biologist
All four women are on the bottom of the list. SMELL THE SEXISM~!
It seems like the list goes in order of people who do things to people who don't do things; outside of making the net that Vlad used to catch that fish and nearly blowing the entire colony's battery setup to cut a pipe she didn't want to bother cutting without power tools, Amy hasn't done anything. This shocks me because Allison is by far the most worthless colonist and I can't think of a reason they should seriously keep her around if some trader came by and made an offer (and this is keeping in mind that she's the only nurse and the only doctor is MIA)
I mostly agree with the list but I'd switch around Vladimir and Mike. Mike builds a ton of shit and even though he maintains to be an asshole throughout the show he is still very useful. Vladimir is there to.......talk a bout old war stories?
Come to think of it, Vladimir's built the most non-working stuff. He built the dud claymore, and he was in charge of the fireworks that were also duds.
But judging by The Professor's myspace blog, Vlad's fucking loaded.
So I finally got around to seeing last week's episode 15 minutes before this week's starts.
Nice trike, too bad it got trashed...although they might be able to scavenge another couple solar panels for it. Doesn't look like they got to keep anything during their hunt, either, so that's a double kick in the nuts.
Speaking of groin pain, poor Joey. Had to be hell to go through that kidney stone, plus knowing he was nothing but a burden on the group while he was laid up.
