After Armageddon on History Channel

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Just watched it on the History Channel and would recommend as a good primer on what to expect after collapse of infrastructure from a catastrophic event (in this case a flu virus).

I don't know what's with the History channel and all the apocalytptic and post apocalyptic fare recently, but this was somewhat entertaining and provided a credible arc of events that happened to a surburban family that later had to leave the city. In some cases, it resembled the movie "The Trigger Effect". They even had all the plausible squabbles you'd expect for a family in this situation :D.

I was surprised at the number of sociology expects being interviewed on the survival aspects. The communes, and fundamentalist religion based communities are also a plausible scenarios, but I also was thinking at the time that this is something something that science fiction authors had covered years before. Harlan Ellison (and other authors before him) had already written about all the survival scenarios in the History Channel's shows recently, and what these experts on these shows are saying may be a conscious or unconscious retelling of this while including more practical aspects like fire making, water procurement and food preservation.

All in all, a good enough show that I would recommend. Others may pick it to pieces, but it has some solid material in it and a credible story arc.
 
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Ultraman said:
...I don't know what's with the History channel and all the apocalytptic and post apocalyptic fare recently...
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this is why i cant even watch that channel anymore :D

but i might check it out for a rerun thanks for the heads up!
 
It is actually worth watching. The scenarios are very realistic of what would actually happen. They are actually telling the truth, lol.
 
I caught the last half hour, and it's actually a pretty good show. A lot of folks have picked apart the details of it, but generally, it did raise my awareness of what I would do in the face of emergency, apocalyptic or not.
 
This particular series is a must watch. Many of the topics covered here in W&SS have been played out in this program.
It was either the narrator or one of the experts they cut away to that said, talking about after healthcare is overwhelmed and those folks retreat to care for their own familes, "People will realize their survival is in their own hands and they may not be prepared for it".
Check it out.
 
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I liked it a lot. I thought it was very educational. I have honestly never really thought about having antibiotics in my BOB bag. After watching that, I will now.
 
I don't know what's with the History channel and all the apocalytptic and post apocalyptic fare recently
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It's not just the history channel. Think of all these post-apocalyptic movies and tv-shows lately, The Road, The Book of Eli, etc. I guess it's just on everyone's minds lately. Wonder why.

It is a very good show. I always love coming into insight about these subjects. Whether we're living in the end-times or not, and I hope we're not, this sort of thing has become a recent fascination, for quite a few people.
 
missin_hobo said:
It's not just the history channel. Think of all these post-apocalyptic movies and tv-shows lately, The Road, The Book of Eli, etc. I guess it's just on everyone's minds lately. Wonder why.

It is a very good show. I always love coming into insight about these subjects. Whether we're living in the end-times or not, and I hope we're not, this sort of thing has become a recent fascination, for quite a few people.
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Exactly:thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE0zzBuwoMA:)
 
I just watched it. I thought it was a pretty good show for someone with no knowledge of this. It might be a heads up for the average. I did not like the part where the father finds the gun in the center console and shows it to his wife saying, "looks like this guy thought he was some kind of cowboy" The writer could have left his personnal views out of an otherwise good program.
 
It was OK, if you're watching it for a "what could happen" viewing experience. The family was retarded. They might be a good example of the above-averagely skilled American family, though. Sad.

At the end, where the guy dies from an infected cut... He died because he didn't have antibiotics? I get cut, scratched, bleed all the time. Sometimes I'll clean it with water and Dawn, sometimes I'll just stop the bleeding and get to it later. My huge cat's always attacking the crap out of my legs and hands with teeth and fish hook claws thirsty for my blood.

I've gotten an infection from only one cut, and that was 8 years ago or so. I scraped a knuckle on a dumpster and thought nothing of it. After a day or two it hurt and was slightly swollen. I cleaned it, cut it open, drained the nasty puss, and washed the hell out of it. The next day, it was like a regular scrape, with a scab and no pain. I would have went to the doc's if it would have still hurt.

What I'm saying is that we don't get antibiotics all the time now, so why would it be any different in the post-apocalyptic future, when we're eating fresh foods and living healthier lifestyles?
 
I saw it,they got it accurate IMO.
Anyone see apocalypse man,kind of a cross between Bear Grylls and Les Stroud but in an urban setting.They showed a few things I would not have thought I would see them show how to do on TV.
 
I thought it was a good interpretation of what would happen in that type of senerio, most people aren't prepared for such an event, as hard as I try you just don't know what will happen at that time, as far as the antibiotics go I don't normally even clean a cut, but a few years ago I got a staff infection from a small pimple on my knee and was hospitaleized for six days, I'll be aquireing some antibiotics soon.
 
wulfshrunting said:
It was OK, if you're watching it for a "what could happen" viewing experience. The family was retarded. They might be a good example of the above-averagely skilled American family, though. Sad.

At the end, where the guy dies from an infected cut... He died because he didn't have antibiotics? I get cut, scratched, bleed all the time. Sometimes I'll clean it with water and Dawn, sometimes I'll just stop the bleeding and get to it later. My huge cat's always attacking the crap out of my legs and hands with teeth and fish hook claws thirsty for my blood.

I've gotten an infection from only one cut, and that was 8 years ago or so. I scraped a knuckle on a dumpster and thought nothing of it. After a day or two it hurt and was slightly swollen. I cleaned it, cut it open, drained the nasty puss, and washed the hell out of it. The next day, it was like a regular scrape, with a scab and no pain. I would have went to the doc's if it would have still hurt.

What I'm saying is that we don't get antibiotics all the time now, so why would it be any different in the post-apocalyptic future, when we're eating fresh foods and living healthier lifestyles?
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I agree with this, usually cuts like that won't get worse if it's cleaned, same with draining, etc. My interpretation is that this was being used to show that what used to be taken for granted in modern life will be much different when the system breaks down.

I came across a posting by one of the experts in the show (Kevin Reeve, I think), and he mentioned that after the show he got the same infection that killed the father (septicemia? sp.?).

I didn't catch the remarks about being a cowboy....the scene on getting water from the radiator was misinformed due to the toxicity of antifreeze (ethylene glycol). Maybe glycol evaporates and leaves water behind? They could have sought water from a rural well, or from the water closet, or built a solar still, maybe.
 
I heard it's just a plot by the government to get us all scared so they can take away more of our rights. Like this crap about 2012 and the end of the world.

That's just what I've heard. What do I know?
 
Personally, I don't think 2012 is the end, reminds me of Y2K.
I had a lot of tech friends that shut off the computers WAY before midnight.
I stayed on, back then I had an old IBM laptop. Nothing happened but later in the day
I stared hearing from people in Australia that they did have some problems.

I don't doubt things will start getting WORSE, not better, things WON'T get better, the 80's and 90's are GONE, never to come back again, things will only get worse, that is just the way it is.
 
PastorMarko said:
I don't doubt things will start getting WORSE, not better, things WON'T get better, the 80's and 90's are GONE, never to come back again, things will only get worse, that is just the way it is.
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We'll see. Personally I think things will get better for some people and worse for others. Most of the people on this planet live in shit. People say the economy is bad, but as one writer said, you're not really poor until you have to pour water on the cornflakes.
 
Three letters, A-I-G, hopefully some day soon, people will finally get tired of this shit and take what is their's. All of our money is basically being stolen by these looting turds.
 
shangchi108 said:
We'll see. Personally I think things will get better for some people and worse for others. Most of the people on this planet live in shit. People say the economy is bad, but as one writer said, you're not really poor until you have to pour water on the cornflakes.
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LOL, how true. Yes there will be those, we are not in the world anymore, where things will actually get better, to a point. :)
 
Good show , I found it pretty realistic , including the scene of the wife losing it , I can imagine what the guy ( husband) would have to deal with. The end of society , an emotional wife and a TV/video game spoiled son.

As to why all these shows and movies lately ? We are at war, 2012 is coming up , the economy is a big turd , doom and gloom !

ohhh the end is nigh. :D

Tostig
 
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