History YMMV / TheColony

** After Sian [[spoiler:leaves in the VOPA trucks, we can hear screaming, thumping, and a hissing gas noise overlaid on the sound track. Clearly she made the wrong choice. Though it's also possible she was squealing with delight and kicking at the seats, but there's no way to really know]].

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: In the first season, they crammed a whole bunch of engineers and mechanics in a warehouse filled with machines, tools, and machine tools. The GrandFinale was an epic CurbStomp of the raiders. The second season has a far less capable team (including a ''model'') in a far more hostile environment.[[/folder]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: One episode has the colonists defending their home from a 20 strong crowd of invaders and driving them off.

* {{Narm}}: "You're building a '''BOMB!!!'''"

* NightmareFuel: After Sian [[spoiler: leaves in the VOPA trucks, we can hear screaming, thumping, and a hissing gas noise overlaid on the sound track. Clearly she made the wrong choice.]]
** [[spoiler: Though it's also possible she was squealing with delight and kicking at the seats, but there's no way to really know]]
** On a more general note, there's also your home being burnt right after you move houses, being kidnapped, and starvation.

* HellIsThatNoise: That fire extinguisher starts to ring? Better protect the base.

* {{Squick}}: In addition to the WhamEpisode entry, the second episode had them carting rotting, maggot-infested pigs back to their compound to turn the fat into biodiesel. The colonists handling the pigs were about fit to vomit.[[/folder]]

!Season 1

!Season 2

* {{Squick}}: In addition to the WhamEpisode entry, the second episode had them carting rotting, maggot-infested pigs back to their compound to turn the fat into biodiesel. The colonists handling the pigs were about fit to vomit.

* JerkassStu: Mike. He had just about everybody ready to throttle him at some point or another, but his mechanical skills gave the colony almost every comfort and convenience worth having, and his no-nonsense approach established priorities and needed tasks when most of the others had been scattering to their own less-than-vital projects.

!Season 2
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: One episode has the colonists defending their home from a 20 strong crowd of invaders and driving them off.
* HellIsThatNoise: That fire extinguisher starts to ring? Better protect the base.
* NightmareFuel: Along with the Squick entry below, there's also your home being burnt right after you move houses, being kidnapped, and starvation.
* {{Squick}}: In addition to the WhamEpisode entry, the second episode had them carting rotting, maggot-infested pigs back to their compound to turn the fat into biodiesel. The colonists handling the pigs were about fit to vomit.

* WhamEpisode: The end of the first episode already has the colonists physically attacked by a militia, who proceed to steal their medicine and a goodly portion of their food...and unlike the first season, "physically attacked" in this case meant that there were headlocks, throwing the colonists around, an elbow to a colonist's back while putting them into a headlock, slamming a colonist into the pavement, pinning them to the ground, and ''pepper spray right in their eyes.'' This leads to:
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything and {{Squick}}: Unlike the Mad Max-esque spectacles of the first season, the portrayal of the militia raid looked and felt a little like a gang rape.
** Oh God, Becka. She's going to have nightmares for weeks after this experiment after that spectacle. The previews for next episode seem to suggest that it gets even worse for her.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Along with the Squick entry below, there's also your home being burnt right after you move houses, being kidnapped, and starvation.

** Poor, Poor Becka, if the previews are anything to go by.
*** Oh God, Becka. She's going to have nightmares for weeks after this experiment after that spectacle. The previews for next episode seem to suggest that it gets even worse for her.
*** I feel dirty from just watching.
*** The rest of the colonists get revenge, apparently, They go and steal back a lot of the stuff that the other group took, and more.

* WhatAnIdiot: Becka puts herself ahead of the group to go scouting alone, leading to her being kidnapped.
** She wasn't so much out scouting alone, as much as she was just standing around by herself in their camp while everyone else was busy inside.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: One episode has the colonists defending their home from a 20 strong crowd of invaders and driving them off.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Along with the Squick entry below, there's also your home being burnt right after you move houses, being kidnapped, the dangers of snakes, and starvation.
** Danger of snakes? For the most part, snakes are just a food source for them.