Sian, nastiest one of all
Tell us how you really feel.
shareIf this was real life, they would have all been fighting each other to get into those SUVs.
shareNot me, i wouldn't have gone near those SUV's. They got screwed time and again by Vopa. It would take more then a guy in a SUV to get me to go to some "camp".
shareShoot - on this show I'd be in that van so fast they'd have to extinguish the fire I'd leave in my wake. In real life, I would (had I survived that long) been much more cautious about leaving my family and friends.
shareIts not even so much that she ditched them, she spent the whole episode talking about how much she hated them.
shareWell all those interviews were most likely done after the show. She was probably justifying her past acts.
shareThere is no justification for being so full of yourself that you think you are that much better than everyone... which is pretty much whats she was saying.
shareI didn't read her interview like that at all. She was simply saying whose company she enjoyed on the show. I don't recall her ever saying that she was so much better than Becka or DeVille, just that she wouldn't miss a lot of her companions that much. Some people are more independent than others. Some people take a very long time to develop trust or bonds with people. It doesn't make them nasty or rude, it just makes them different than people who bond and trust more easily or need companionship to feel normal.
sharePlus, would you rather her lie about her feelings? "I love that cooky Jim! I hope I can have him over for a picnic after the show airs!".
shareWhatever. If I have been living like that for the past two months, and I see some dudes roll up in spotless, SUVs, and dressed and groomed properly- I'm jumping on board their "colony".
shareExactly, especially if you know that you're on a TV show and doubly so if you have no real ties to anyone you're living with.
shareThis is a TV show and bitch knew it wasn't real.
In this TV landscape, I would have gotten in the VOPA SUV too instead of spending another four hours getting ready, three hours on the mob coming in and Discover Channel filming it all, then just to ride the boat down the canal so Discovery Channel gets their shot of us leaving.
No thanks. SUV please.
In a real situation like this, it becomes a much more complicated decision. I possibly would have. Yeah they screwed up the food drop, but VOPA never seemed to be doing anything unusual or messed up. Would I want to live in a swamp cooking rotten meat for these people? Nope.
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She really didn't do herself any favors. She was one of the most vocal ones about Amber and her "Lawg Dawgs" two episodes before that. Saying it wasn't right because they were a group and that Amber was seen as being selfish and all out for herself. Then wham, she does that? What a freaking hypocrite.
There's no way I'd have got in those SUVs at that point, actually!
Oh, and I've ranted enough about Sian that others here should know she's the ONLY Colonist from S1 & 2 I utterly despise.
Mike in S1 came across as a real jerk... but you got a real sense he was a frustrated guy missing coffee and cigarettes, who was used to getting his own way and didn't take well to group dynamics. But he totally came through for everyone, despite his dickishness, and I had a lot of love for the guy for that. Ditto Joey, despite moments of craziness... I believed he'd lay down his life for those people.
George started off as a lazy outsider, Reno as a blustering meathead... to see those two so close on the boat, honestly appreciating each other, was - honestly - heartwarming. In fact, George's "story" throughout S2 was probably my favourite.
Becka was often so vain and self-absorbed, Jim was outright crazy at times, but damn if Becka didn't surprise me so nicely when she refused to leave, and I believe Jim when he says he's learned a real lesson from all this.
I don't think Sian learned one single thing, in perfect honesty, or showed a single redeeming moment or feature.
I was never totally sold on George; for an inventor he didn't really seem to invent a lot. Michael made the still, Reno made the windmill, Sallie got the engine running and Amber fixed up the first boat.
My one criticism from the start (all things being equal) was how long it took them to start having night-time security, and not doing a rotating shift every couple of hours.
Fight the FOCA
Government slave easily recognized with this topic. Ha.
Do you think the people in New Orleans would trust FEMA right now?
There were plenty of clues that this was yet another failure by the government, 1. They said they would be going to a permanent safe zone, which is what they were supposed to be at from the beginning. 2. They wouldn't be coming back for anyone, no matter how "safe" this "safe zone" is, it wouldn't populated with just government agents, so they would need more people than 2, why would they even bother risking all those men to find 2 more people if that's all they could hold? 3. Odds are they needed 2 people for experimenting on to find a cure. Notice they said they'd take any two people, they didn't care. In reality if you're creating a one truly safe area with such limited space, you'd want those two people to be valuable additions, not a couple rejects.
4. The whole point of the show, and what Reno said, was that this was about people learning to take care of themselves and not rely on outside help, that was precisely why the government was shown to repeatedly fail them, it was about self reliance, and all you idiots talking about the very end, oh well, that house wasn't empty anymore, they're mobile, they can go on to another one, the people in season 1 didn't end up going anywhere specific either, it wasn't a bad ending, it was a good ending.