I love me some post apocalyptic fiction but this show is so full of Malthusian and eco-fascist shit I checked out half way through the most recent episode. Patriarchal shit “humans are the virus” shit I just fucking can’t. Fuck whoever wrote what this is based on and fuck whoever decided to turn it into a TV series.
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I’ve read the book years ago, and I don’t really remember there being much by way of that (could be wrong of course). Most of humanity dies, and then the survivors… just find each other and build lives again. None of the zombie apoc stuff where “humans are the real horror” and it’s actually happy they’re dead, felt like it was more about the appreciation of human resilience (and the excellent public infrastructure that keeps ticking along for years post-disaster).
Assuming I remember correctly, it’d be a slooooow TV series. Not surprising they’d fuck around to make it deeeeep - adaptations of such old sources are super susceptible to being hollowed out to wear as a flesh suit.
adaptations of such old sources are super susceptible to being hollowed out to wear as a flesh suit.
Like Foundation. I have never seen a movie or TV adaptation that butchered the original material so much.
Read the books a few years ago, it definitely suffers from “male sci-fi protagonist” tropes but it was mostly a pretty dry story about young guy observing the collapsed society and eventually settling down with a group of people and his observations of his life, then the lives of the children, and his eventual death.
There really weren’t that many parts where there was human/human conflict and those were pretty short subplots that were quickly resolved.
It was like “The Road” but without any cannibals.
… it definitely suffers from “male sci-fi protagonist” tropes …
i only watched the first episode and it felt like the showrunners were either nazis or gay because the protagonists some butch, hot and unrealistic all at the same time.
i felt like it was just me so i was going to choke down another episode since i REALLY like apocalyptic scifi; but now that someone else has voice the same feeling that i had, i think i should listen to what my subconscious mind starting telling me within the first half of that episode.
Yeah I love apocalypse sci-fi stuff too which is why I was so disappointed. Dude literally has a come to Jesus moment in the first episode reading the Bible and I was like nope.
nice catch; i partial stopping paying attention after first 5 minutes simply because of blue eyed, blond haired, 20-something who owns his own home and can afford to randomly go out hunting like they have no job.
Wait…
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…so the protagonist isn’t a young college kid doing a geology project on his own out in the middle of nowhere possibly dying of a poisonous snake bite when the plague hits?
That seems like an unecessary change.
the snake bite is still there; but yes, no college roomates and he lives out in the middle of nowhere in an upper middle class house to himself.
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That’s reactionary garbage and also ”I’m 14 and this is deep” tier edgelordism.
