History YMMV / Colony

* SpiritualAdaptation: Colony is the closest thing so far to Half-Life 2 adapted as a TV series.

* HilariousInHindsight: Gwent referring to journalists as "twittering arsewits" is this when you consider Website/{{Twitter}} would come seven years after the book was published.

* WhatAnIdiot: Katie and Will. They don't communicate effectively to coordinate and use his double-agenthood to maximum effectiveness for the Resistance. Will gets ''way'' too good at his job to be totally faking enthusiasm for the CTA's cause, and Katie makes rookie mistakes like uncovering her face during a Resistance op. This backfires on her badly when Will starts to get suspicious about the extent to which Katie is orchestrating things without his knowledge, and then later Katie's rookie face-reveal turns out to mean she is completely blown as revealed by Phyllis, a high-ranking CTA official. [[spoiler:Only Phyllis's eventual assassination saves her, but now the Resistance is gunning for her because she didn't lay the cards out with Will and get him on board before tipping them off about Snyder.]]
** Katie comes off as incredibly naive for thinking that she can make deals with the Resistance even as it becomes obvious that Will isn't nearly as valuable to them as she thinks.

** Katie comes off as incredibly naive for thinking that she can make deals with the Resistance even as it becomes obvious that Will isn't nearly as valuable to them as she thinks.

* IdiotPlot: The finale, [[spoiler:where Katie, Broussard, and a couple of scientists decide to study the Host they captured and killed, risking life and limb on the off-chance that they can study the corpse. The fact that they can't access the Host's armor with conventional tools and the drones are systematically destroying the city in retaliation adds to the idiocy.]]
** Defied, since [[spoiler:the gauntlet they got from the Host turns out possibly to be the way to win the war. Risks have to be taken to fight a technologically superior enemy.]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: Colony is the closest thing one can get to Half-Life 2 adapted as a TV series.

* IdiotPlot: The finale, [[spoiler: where Katie, Broussard, and a couple of scientists decide to study the Host they captured and killed, risking life and limb on the off-chance that they can study the corpse. The fact that they can't access the Host's armor with conventional tools and the drones are systematically destroying the city in retaliation adds to the idiocy.]]
** Defied, since [[spoiler: the gauntlet they got from the Host turns out possibly to be the way to win the war. Risks have to be taken to fight a technologically superior enemy.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Phyllis, Will's boss at Homeland Security. She was a sympathetic member of Homeland and she had just blackmailed Katie into working for her. So obviously this ended with [[spoiler: her and her husband being assassinated by Broussard after Katie pointed her out on security cameras.]]

* IdiotPlot: The finale, [[spoiler: where Katie, Broussard, and a couple of scientists decide to study the Host they captured and killed, risking life and limb on the off-chance that they can study the corpse. The fact that they can't access the Host's armor with conventional tools and the drones are systematically destroying the city in retaliation adds to the idiocracy.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Phyllis, Will's boss at Homeland Security. She was a sympathetic member of Homeland and she had just blackmailed Katie into working for her. So obviously this ended with [[spoiler: her and her dying husbandbeing assassinated by Broussard.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Phyllis, Will's boss at Homeland Security. She was a sympathetic member of Homeland and she had just blackmailed Katie into working for her. This ended in [[spoiler: her and her dying husband's assassination by Broussard.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGodCharacter: Phyllis, Will's boss at Homeland Security. She was a sympathetic member of Homeland and she had just blackmailed Katie into working for her. This ended in [[spoiler: her and her dying husband's assassination by Broussard.]]

* IdiotPlot: The finale, [[spoiler: where Katie, Broussard, and a couple of scientists decide to study the Host they captured and killed, risking life and limb on the off-chance that they can study the corpse. The fact that they can't access the suit, the city is being systematically destroyed by their hosts, and the scientists aren't medical or biological scientists just adds to pot.]]

* IdiotPlot: The finale, [[spoiler: where Katie, Broussard, and a couple of scientists decide to study the Host they captured and killed, risking life and limb on the off-chance that they can study the corpse. The fact that they can't access the suit, the city is being systematically destroyed by their hosts, and the scientists aren't medical or biological scientists just adds to pot.

* WhatAnIdiot: Katie and Will. They don't communicate effectively to coordinate and use his double-agenthood to maximum effectiveness for the Resistance. Will gets ''way'' too good at his job to be totally faking enthusiasm for the CTA's cause, and Katie makes rookie mistakes like uncovering her face during a Resistance op. This backfires on her badly when Will starts to get suspicious about the extent to which Katie is orchestrating things without his knowledge, and then later Katie's rookie face-reveal turns out to mean she is completely blown as revealed by Phyllis, a high-ranking CTA official. [[spoiler:Only Phyllis's eventual assassination saves her, but now the Resistance is gunning for her because she didn't lay the cards out with Will and get him on board before tipping them off about Snyder.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Katie and Will. They don't communicate effectively to coordinate and use his double-agenthood to maximum effectiveness for the Resistance. Will gets ''way'' too good at his job to be totally faking enthusiasm for the CTA's cause, and Katie makes rookie mistakes like uncovering her face during a Resistance op. This backfires on her badly when Will starts to get suspicious about the extent to which Katie is orchestrating things without his knowledge, and then later Katie's rookie face-reveal turns out to mean she is completely blown as revealed by Phyllis, a high-ranking CTA official. [[spoiler:Only Phyllis's eventual assassination saves her.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Katie and Will. They don't communicate effectively to coordinate and use his double-agenthood to maximum effectiveness for the Resistance. Will gets ''way'' too good at his job to be totally faking enthusiasm for the CTA's cause, and Katie makes rookie mistakes like uncovering her face during a Resistance op. This backfires on her badly when Will starts to get suspicious about the extent to which Katie is orchestrating things without his knowledge, and then later Katie's rookie face-reveal turns out to mean she is completely blown as revealed by Phyllis, a high-ranking CTA official. [[spoiler:Only Phyllis's assassination is likely to save her.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Katie and Will. They don't communicate effectively to coordinate and use his double-agenthood to maximum effectiveness for the Resistance. Will gets ''way'' too good at his job to be totally faking enthusiasm for the CTA's cause, and Katie makes rookie mistakes like uncovering her face during a Resistance op. This backfires on her badly when Will starts to get suspicious about the extent to which Katie is orchestrating things without his knowledge, and then later is completely blown as revealed by Phyllis, a high-ranking CTA official. [[spoiler:Only Phyllis's assassination is likely to save her.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Katie and Will. They don't communicate effectively to coordinate and use his double-agenthood to maximum effectiveness for the Resistance, and Katie makes rookie mistakes like uncovering her face during a Resistance op. This backfires on her badly when Will starts to get suspicious about the extent to which Katie is orchestrating things without his knowledge, and then later is completely blown as revealed by Phyllis, a high-ranking CTA official. [[spoiler:Only Phyllis's assassination is likely to save her.]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: Colony is the closest thing one can get to Half-Life 2 adapted as a TV series.

* Anvilicious: The CTA red banners that only lack an actual swastika, to remind the audience that the Redhats are literally Nazis.