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The Rain (Netflix)
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Started watching this Danish show that Netflix picked up. I'm a sucker for anything post-apocalyptic as long as it doesn't have zombies. I like seeing the urban decay and usually there's decent morality issues to think about. In this show some kind of plague is carried in the rain then spreads among people. Brother and sister spend years inside a bunker then come out after they run out of food. Most everyone is long dead outside except for a few other survivors, most of whom are starving and will kill for a few crumbs. The sister knows where other supplied bunkers are so they're using those as waypoints as they try to get somewhere that wasn't infected. Not a groundbreaking show but good enough I'll keep going.
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I also can't stand the zombie genre because the following always bugs me: Is the virus or bacteria blood borne? Why is it transmitted by only a bite or a scratch? Why doesn't it exist in blood splatter? Also, what energy source animates the tissue for a zombie? They eat, supposedly because of a primal hunger from the base function of the hypothalamus, but, they are incapable of digestion since those parts decompose. Where's the energy coming from if the Law of Conservation of Energy and Mass exists?
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hotseatgames wrote: It's nice when stories can get along with science, but if you have to be strict about that kind of thing, you might as well give up on 99% of shows.
I dig the fantasy side of it, but, at some point, science fiction has to have a bit of science in it or it isn't believable and distracts.
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I've literally watched about eight minutes so far. But it looked interesting enough to continue. Just need to find some TV time when the rest of the family isn't in tow.
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I do watch it in Danish. And while that sentence is obviously in there for comedic effect andd ( not something you would normally say, it's more inappropriate than rude. But in Denmark teachers also go by their first names and "fuck" has been incorporated as a word you'd (also) use instead of "oh shoot" or "damn" or some such. So maybe we are just rather rude as a people.Sagrilarus wrote: I'm leaping to the conclusion you're watching it in Danish. For the rest of us it's dubbed into English, and the technical aspect of it is quite good. The voices seem to fit the motion well and it's not disruptive. Though at one point one of the kids looked at his teacher and said, "I have to take a dump first" which struck me as a phrase that most kids, even disruptive ones, would not use with a teacher. Little things.
I've literally watched about eight minutes so far. But it looked interesting enough to continue. Just need to find some TV time when the rest of the family isn't in tow.
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