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The Colony - USA Network

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From executive producers Carlton Cuse (“Lost”) and Ryan Condal (“Hercules”) comes USA’s newest, highly-anticipated drama COLONY. Set in the very near future, COLONY centers on one family’s struggle to survive and bring liberty back to the people of an occupied Los Angeles. SAG winner Josh Holloway (“Lost”) stars as former FBI agent Will Bowman and Satellite Award winner Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”) stars as his wife, Katie, in the series which takes place in a dangerous world of divided ideologies. While some choose to collaborate with the occupation and benefit from the new order, others rebel and suffer the consequences. After being separated from their son during the invasion, Will and Katie are willing to do whatever is necessary to be reunited with him. Thus, when the powerful Proxy Snyder (Peter Jacobson, “House”) offers Will a chance to get his son back if he will collaborate with the occupational government, Will and Katie find themselves faced with the toughest decision of their lives. They will have to go beyond whatever they thought possible, risking their lives and their relationship to protect their family.

COLONY is a co-production between Legendary Television and Universal Cable Productions. Nelson McCormick (“24”) also executive produces.
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Trailer
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Behind-the-scenes

Anyone see this? Thoughts?
 
The pilot came out yesterday.

Lost producers know how to make a good professional product.

And the hook at the end was telegraphed but fun. :)
 
Intrigued, but if I don't "see them", it had better be damned good. Because as such, the concept is not all that unique or even in need of aliens. The Americans, Man in the High Castle come to mind.
 
The behind the scenes episode had me thinking of 'All 'Allo.

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They took over the world.

Humans however are not allowed to communicate outside of their fenced off area, so the Los Angelinos have no idea if they are the last people on the planet or not.
 
I just watched this this morning. I really hope they have a plan with the aliens, and this doesn't turn into another Lost fiasco where they just keep pulling stuff out of their nether regions. As long as the aliens have a reason for doing what they're doing, and the series shows that there is rhyme and reason to it in the first few episodes, I'll continue watching it. If not by the fourth or fifth episode? I'm out. Just not going to let Lost happen again.
 
I really like Josh Holloway, the premise is interesting, and most of Carlton Cuse's post Lost stuff is good, so this has a lot of potential. I'm looking forward to it.
 
They built a wall around every city.

Well, looking at the wall, we did it for them, so it's not like they're trying really hard (themselves) to enforce the concentration camp experience.

I'd not be surprised if the twist at the end is that the aliens might be assholes, but all the choices about how to control people were made by other humans who were delegated the responsibility of keeping people out of the way while the aliens got down to business.
 
Yeah, they're trying to keep people contained in their cities.
By the way, the name of the show is just Colony, with no "The"'.
 
bigdaddy said:
atlantalliance said:
bigdaddy said:
Are the aliens only taking over LA because if so they can have it.
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You're to cruel :rommie: I think the own the planet this part of the story just happens to be LA, very much has the "V" look with the black-and-red-uniformed militarized police
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But you didn't say I was wrong. ;)

But if the aliens took over the whole planet then why build a MASSIVE wall around the city?
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Divided resistance cells can't cooperate to release hot air balloons with biological weapons
 
I wonder how big the "blocks" are. Los Angeles block. Santa Monica block. It's nice the invaders have observed the local city borders, LOL. Are the blocks based upon population size? Is the Los Angeles block bigger than the Des Moine block? Are the Minneapolis and St. Paul blocks touching or are they one block? What about the small towns and rural America? Are the small rural communities all walled off individually or are they collected into a larger region such as the Ohio Valley block?

I really loved the pilot. Definitely has me intrigued. I'm not so curious as to the aliens look yet, I'm more curious how the rest of the world is faring, how the invasion happened, what has been destroyed and what is left standing. Los Angeles did not look like a smoldering hole.

The alien overlords are interested in more than just keeping the humans out of the way. They have deemed diabetics as undesirables. Insulin is not being produced and must be purchased on the black market.
 
Clearly the aliens are based on Trump, as the walls that were built look very human-made.

I really hope they actually have a plan and aren't making shit up as they go like they did with Lost. If it even begins to hint that they are making it up as they go at any point, I'm dropping it on the spot.
 
It was extremely underwhelming for being derivative and, frankly, implausibly stupid. For example, that substitution cypher about going to a party that was used on the telephone of all places should have handed the red hats two resistance agents on a silver platter. The heroine was screaming, "Listen to me, I'm talking in code on a line you should be tapping about the IED that went off yesterday." Lame.

But I'll watch another episode and give it one more chance. I'll admit I'm curious about the presumed aliens, but I'm still miffed about the time I spent watching Falling Skies to have faith that strung out story arcs about invading ETs will pay off. :lol:
 
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CorporalCaptain said:
It was extremely underwhelming for being derivative and, frankly, implausibly stupid. For example, that substitution cypher about going to a party that was used on the telephone of all places should have handed the red hats two resistance agents on a silver platter. The heroine was screaming, "Listen to me, I'm talking in code on a line you should be tapping about the IED that went off yesterday." Lame.

But I'll watch another episode and give it one more chance. I'll admit I'm curious about the presumed aliens, but I'm still miffed about the time I spent watching Falling Skies to have faith that strung out story arcs about invading ETs will pay off. :lol:
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If people were actually listening to her voice and not a computer program of unknown sophistication screening for key phrases.
 
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