[mondoman]

Watched the conclusion last night:

• 10% ROI to the investors capital
• 4 fish
• 50% return on the corn seed.
• Most of the food from imported supplies (salt cod, beef, dried grain)
• L6 of Furs for L8 of trade goods (L=pounds sterling)
• No defensive palisade
• Lots of 'plans and dreams' for creative thought (which never kept out the Indians and put food in the belly).

And, the evaluators considered the Colony A SUCCESS !?!? I guess they agreed with the Lay Minister's wife, Carolyn, that the colony was a success because they were "confident". I could not understand how, except for political correctness, the evaluators could possibly consider this colony a success.

It's almost an allegory for our public school systems which "doesn't want to hurt Jonny's self esteem" and passes him along, even though he is failing 3rd grade.

[mondoman]

Ping

any comments now that the series is completed?

[rwfromkansas]

I agree that it would not have been a success in reality.

I watched last night as well (well, the last hour conclusion) and the evaluators even said they were a lot more inclined to "be nice" because everybody "stuck together."

[KeyLargo]

If the original colonists had that kind of success we would not be communicating now by internet but instead by smoke signals! I think that the show participants were smoking somthing in their clay pipes other than tobacco.