[PBS] Colonial House

[Ranger REG]

Anybody watching this? It started last night (Monday) airing the first two hour-long episodes.

Makes me want to run a Colonial-period RPG session.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Anybody watching this? It started last night (Monday) airing the first two hour-long episodes.

Makes me want to run a Colonial-period RPG session.

Yep, I watched it. Very good. I really enjoyed the show, and have already developed likes and dislikes for some of the people. The dynamics between the people, and their attempts to use colonial methods with a 21st century mindset is very interesting. I wonder how long before some of them really start to crack, or will they settle into the ways of doing things?

When can we start voting them off the colony?

 

[Wombat]

This is one of those shows that actually makes me want to buy a tv and get cable

 

[Mystery Man]

Anybody watching this? It started last night (Monday) airing the first two hour-long episodes.

Makes me want to run a Colonial-period RPG session.

I love that show. I wish I knew they were doing that I would have tried to get in. Not that I would have succeeded mind you (or I'm selling myself short) but I just think it's that cool.

Sort of a history buff.

 

[Umbran]

Not that I would have succeeded mind you (or I'm selling myself short)...

In the first episode, they mention that they had some 10,000 applicants. Makes the chances for any individual pretty darned slim.

Let us remember also - every person who got into this show (or Manor House, or Frintier House) really wanted to be there. But a reasonable number of them did not have "fun" in the classic sense. Remove yourself from your life for four months, to eat what your tastebuds claim is bad food, in what your mind is trained ot consider unsanitary conditions, to get sick, to work hard in a field with relatively primitive tools. In general to have very little leisure time...

Sounds like one of those things that is very nice to have done once in your life, though actually doing it isn't entertaining in and of itself.

 

[Ranger REG]

Definitely not entertaining from a participant's POV, but a few have gotten some learning experience out of it.

I wonder what's going to be after this series?

Noble House? (Much like The Manor House but set in the Middle Age.)
Viking House?
Roman House?

OBTW, Colonial House will continue next Monday and Tuesday.

 

[ASH]

In the first episode, they mention that they had some 10,000 applicants. Makes the chances for any individual pretty darned slim.

Let us remember also - every person who got into this show (or Manor House, or Frintier House) really wanted to be there. But a reasonable number of them did not have "fun" in the classic sense. Remove yourself from your life for four months, to eat what your tastebuds claim is bad food, in what your mind is trained ot consider unsanitary conditions, to get sick, to work hard in a field with relatively primitive tools. In general to have very little leisure time...

Sounds like one of those things that is very nice to have done once in your life, though actually doing it isn't entertaining in and of itself.

I think that doing this would not only be one of those things in which you would think it was nice to have done, but also, perhaps, life changing. The perspective you gain, and the resepect one must have for one's self after completeing something like this has to be great. I know that if i stepped back in time, and attempted to do this, i would not make it. But if i did, life in todays world would look like a peice of cake.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

It is something I'd like to think I could do. Watching the last one with the homesteaders (don't remember the exact name of it), I felt I could have survived and maybe even prospered through it. This one, I have no such beliefs.

It would certainly be a life changing experience, and a good one.

I rather enjoy the program, though.

 

[MaxKaladin]

I wonder what's going to be after this series?

Noble House? (Much like The Manor House but set in the Middle Age.)
Viking House?
Roman House?

I'd love to see any of these. I keep hoping they'll do pretty much anything set more than five centuries back, but I really want to see any of these three specifically. Add "Anglo-Saxon House" to the mix while you're at it.

 

[jasper]

I hope it better run that Frontier house. Which I call Frontier Survivor especially since they would not allow the families to hunt game animals. The rich guy even took his video cam and got within feet of deer and ask would they count as actually shooting a deer. The company said no. Also the nice storekeep. Gee would you let your barbed wire rust in the store for months before mentioning the cattle rights of way information.
Me and my wife caught part of it monday. She automattic nixed due to the black people and she is black. Plus they have allow Orpah on the set for 2 days.
Sorry it looks like to going to be another pbs surviorer show.