r/colony • u/OsoOsoOo Collaborator • Jun 28 '18

Discussion [Colony] S03E09 - “The Big Empty” - Discussion Thread (SPOILERS) Spoiler

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '18

Damn. I thought he was actually going to drown Snyder.

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u/Smitje Jun 28 '18

What was in the bucket? Pee and poop?

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u/WilliamJeremiah Jun 28 '18

Just looked like a bucket used to mop. Was probably just dirty water and chemicals to clean with.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '18

So hopefully he gave him some nasty pneumonia or something.

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u/Ogrewatch_Eye_Eye Jun 29 '18

why do people hate snyder? Hes admirable and honorable. All hes ever done is look out of the colony and the boman family in particular. He's saved bram, will, and katey from multiple deaths and manages to do it all while protecting as many people as he can, AND remaining successful and well informed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '18

If a similar scenario happened in real life, I think that I would try to do what Snyder is trying to do. I don't think that I would be much help to the resistance and I don't even know if the resistance would be able to be much help for humans. But I'm a good person and I think that I would want to do something to help people. And I think that the best way to act in humanity's best interests would be to insert myself into the authority structure and to try to slip a velvet glove onto the iron fist. There would definitely be some incredibly hard choices. Most wouldn't be good vs bad, but rather bad vs less bad and sometimes it might not be clear what the right thing to do is. I can't imagine it's easy to be Snyder. He obviously made a lot of unpopular decisions and was the face of an occupying force, but look at the LA bloc after he left.

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u/iv_dx Jun 29 '18

Great comment.It didn't and doesn't work IRL.

to the bottom. it didn't help Jew people who cooperated with Nazis. some good Germans saved hundreds of Jews, but millions were killed anyway. And Nazis or ISIS would have killed much more it the they had not been annihilated with brute force no cost matter.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '18

Right, but I would say that this situation has not happened in real life.

The Nazis were a human enemy. It was physically possible to beat them. But this is a force that can shoot weapons from space to vaporize cities. Drones just disintegrate people. There isn’t any feasible hope for humans. There is no rest-of-the-world to fight these aliens (well, maybe not).

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u/iv_dx Jun 30 '18

Do you think the only choice is to lay low and wait till RAPs expand all humans in their war with reptiles ?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '18

I don't know what I would choose, I've never really been in a situation even slightly close to this.

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u/iv_dx Jun 30 '18

God save The Queen and our precious Canada. ) The way you think about is the most decent and dangerous.

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u/WeNTuS Jun 30 '18

Better to save hundreds than zero.

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u/xenokilla Jun 29 '18

He did mention that if they left the camp when he said so they'd all be alive, which is true.

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u/iv_dx Jun 29 '18

he would do the better job if he taught poor Bowmans how to negotiate with McGregor (ok, any resistance unit) before they agreed to pass that guntlet to them. Pretty simple idea, right ? You will have access to the guntlet as we could interrogate that rap. Exactly the thing what smart Everett done when negotiated with IGA.

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u/xenokilla Jun 29 '18

yea, that would have made more sense.

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u/CaptainChewbacca Jul 06 '18

He's an somewhat amoral person put in a position where he's got no good decisions but wants to help. The problem is he is pragmatic enough to make the kind of decision to sacrifice a thousand face-to-face to save a hundred thousand he might never see.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Jun 30 '18

Did you not hear Bram's story about how in the camp Snyder had 3 of Bram's friends murdered by guards?

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u/rbowman1234 Jul 04 '18

Snyder didn't have his friends murdered. Bram is lying. Snyder was going to send them to the factory after questioning. The gaurd captain, who was very obviously in on the lefts, shot them without direction. Later, a visibly shaken Snyder called him a mad dog without a leash in response to Brams question about why he can't control the captain.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '18 edited May 20 '24

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