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The Colony - USA Network

Be funny if it turned out they're not really on the moon and that was just a digital image setup outside the "window".
 
they don't care about people.

They need always 20 people to operate that "device" on the moon that is probably a mine or a reactor.

How many "mines" or "reactors" do they have up there that they need 20 people to staff?
 
Ten to one they stole a page from Iron Sky and they're being used to extract Helium-2 or whatever it was.
 
Hellium 3 is spread out on the moons surface and not radioactive.

You know those ride on vacuum cleaners they use to collect golf balls at the shooting range? Imagine the same principle, but much bigger.

That's how you collect Helium 3.

However, if the Aliens are using a reactor or a collider to alter the properties of the massive wealth of helium 3 into something a little more useful and toxic?

Personally I was wondering about the guards?

Are they dying at the same rate, a much slower rate, or not being poisoned at all by their lunar vacation?
 
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So, we're stealing a bit from Childhood's End? All the children will be OK because they're being taken to the spaceship?

"Day of the Arrival..." So the Arrival was just 1 day. And during that day they were assassinating special-ops and other secret service types. I suppose Day of the Arrival and the entire event could all be referred to as "The Arrival."
 
^That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the kid's book. I REALLY hope that's not where they're going with this.
 
Show of hands.. how many people really think hiking to Big Bear (or was it Big Sur?) and living off the grid away from the Raps would really work?
 
Pretty intense episode! This is really turning into a great series!

I did think that was an android in the train. Based on the speed at which the computers transferred information combined with a different perception of time, I think we're dealing with AIs who use androids (drones and the type in the train, and who knows what else) as extensions of the AI. Guessing the AI invaded the Internet and all databases to create a registry of people, used algorithms to decide which people were worth keeping, and sent out the drones with face recognition technology to implement the AIs decisions. (This may all serve as a commentary on where our own tech is heading.)

Given that the kids have navigated the abandoned city with no problem, I'm guessing that getting to Big Bear (Sur) would be OK. It seems like the invaders don't really want the land, they just want a population of manageable humans in specific areas. Probably keeping the people for slave labor for their big project.

I wonder what the sounds inside the wall are? Sounds biological.

Looking forward to the season finale next week and I'm so glad it's been renewed for a 2nd season. Anyone know how well the show is doing ratings-wise?
 
Oooh. Big twist idea here. The Hap are an AI. From Earth. The trick is that the AI has determined there is something that is going to make the planet/solar system uninhabitable. So now it's implemented it's own plan to escape the planet and save humanity. The trick is it knows it can't save everyone so it has paired everything down to manageable seed populations (colonies) while it builds the escape ships for them.
 
sojourner said:
Oooh. Big twist idea here. The Hap are an AI. From Earth. The trick is that the AI has determined there is something that is going to make the planet/solar system uninhabitable. So now it's implemented it's own plan to escape the planet and save humanity. The trick is it knows it can't save everyone so it has paired everything down to manageable seed populations (colonies) while it builds the escape ships for them.
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I've wondered if it could be human technology. Either the series is set a bit in the future, uses top secret tech, or both.

However, the huge wall that popped up so quickly, the moon base, advanced laser drones, and the ability to take over so quickly would argue against human based technology.

Maybe it's all based on an alien probe that spreads like a virus. It lands on a hospitable planet and coerces the inhabitants to create copies of more probes and sends them out into space?

Or, maybe it's a combination your idea and my idea. An alien/AI race comes to Earth to save a seed population from some impending catastrophe.
 
I get the impression we're going to find out next week. They're going to have a look at what's under that mask. Of course it might be the old one-small-answer-leads-to-a-lot-more-questions trick, but we're going to get something.

Anyone else think the timejump was a bit jarring at the beginning of the episode? I was wondering if I had missed an episode. And then I was wondering if this was the first episode of season 2.

But stuff definitely happened in this episode. Will and Katie finally had a long overdue talk.

What did Will see when he was up in that building? Were those cars?

Very good episode, and to echo another poster above, this show has been very entertaining and I'm glad I stuck with it.
 
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What did Will see when he was up in that building? Were those cars?
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Yeah it looked like a bunch of cars stacked on top of each other & on roofs. I wonder why that was something they were wondering about?

Yeah, I agree things were happening so fast in this episode, it caught me really off guard. I also thought I had missed an episode.
 
It has to be something more than just AI with current human tech. That building was scorched bad as if missiles or something had been shot or crashed into it. They keep talking about the fighting and chaos of Arrival. Heck, it's called "Arrival" so that in itself tells us something arrived. Whatever it was happened suddenly and without warning. People were stranded all over the city/state/world and those cars were abandoned on the spot. Add to all this the willing cooperation of humans that are now serving their new overlords. I can only see that being accomplished by means of armed threat.

I think we're talking more than just Colossus: The Forbin Project. We're not as advanced as Skynet.
 
Imagine if they delete the economy, all digital records of all transactions, and then deleted all the software in all the army.

The only humans then, with a usable forces against the invaders would be those who still think it's the 9th century AD.

Save us Isis, you're our only hope.
 
Even fictional shows work within their established parameters. Skynet worked because they launched nukes. I think it's clear in this case there was some kind of invasion using some kind of troops. LA wasn't nuked but shows signs of a struggle.
 
I don't think there were any kind of "troops". Otherwise the characters in the show would have some idea of what a Hap looks like.
 
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