Survivors<\/em>, without despair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI could go on. If it was set immediately after the lack of electricity it could have been interesting, but by setting in 15 years in the future it might as well been called Robin Hood.<\/p>\n
I’ll still watch it – it is well made, exciting and dramatic. But I seriously doubt it will prompt anyone to save food and water. I don’t think anyone will manage to get the message out to everyone \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
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*The most likely 2012 disaster is a power grid going down for months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The premise was both interesting and extremely timely: a world without electricity*. The TV series could have gone in any extreme direction, but unfortunately it seems to be going nowhere. The lack of electricity is not meaningful in the slightest.<\/p>\n
On the positive side:<\/p>\n
interesting characters
\ninteresting actors (great to see the range of\u00a0Giancarlo Esposito)
\nnice fictionalization of a The World Without Us<\/p>\n
But really it is just a generic dystopian future crossed with (perhaps) some mythological stories. It’s lack of originality could be described as:<\/p>\n
Lost, without depth of character
\nFalling Skies, without aliens
\nWalking Dead, without zombies
\nMad Max, without poverty or Mel Gibson or car chases
\nHunger Games, without romance
\nSurvivors, without despair<\/p>\n
I could go on. If it was set immediately after the lack of electricity it could have been interesting, but by setting in 15 years in the future it might as well been called Robin Hood.
\nI’ll still watch it – it is well made, exciting and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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