I haven’t watched an episode but between this threads, Wikipedia, and TWoP it seems that I haven’t missed great television. Sounds like the show was a missed opportunity–as Heinlein wrote, “There will always be survivors.” Too bad these survivors are a bunch of idiots.
These writers are apparently no Heinlein. Heck, they’re not even a Swanwick. (Swanwick wrote In the Drift, published 1985, that was set a number of years after Three Mile Island melted down.)
Either that or the radiation has given him Mutant Powers™, teleportation to be exact, anyone want to re-watch the episode and listen for faint “BAMF!” noises?
Hey, if Kim Jong Il gets crazy with the nukes, all we have to do is wrap ourselves in several yards of corn husks and tape them all together!
TV is so, so informative.
A.) I live in Cary, NC, which is the apotheosis of suburbia. Yet there is a feed store within biking distance of my house. So yeah, you’d think in small town Kansas, they’d have one.
B.) Yep, it was right on the shelves.
C.) Also, I noticed something. It’s unbelievable enough that the store stocks not only food, but pesticide and phone chargers. But in that scene, you see that this tiny grocery store in a farming community in the middle of Kansas stocks Seventh Generation recycled products. Like there’s a huge earthy-crunchy segment of the population that would want these products, as well as plenty of shelf space for both standard Ziplocks and the granola equivalent.
D.) I could also swear that the coveted corn chips from a previous episode were Target’s “Market Pantry” brand. Hee!
I’m still confused why they would harvest corn that wasn’t dry enough for storage, and stored it in plastic bins in a barn. Couldn’t have been much of a crop (for the largest farm in the area). But hey - it’s only a flyover state - why bother with details.
What can I say, I like masturbating. (Stopped the “Submit Reply” once I realized it included the vacuuming part, didn’t look like first one got through but alas, it did)
I’m not sure this was entirely unreasonable. I don’t have a deep understanding of the physics behind radiation, but I’m not sure food becomes harmful simply from being irradiated. The biggest concern is that some of the actual radioactive elements themselves are ingested. If the husks did prevent contamination, would the radiation from outside the husk damage or irradiate the food in some way as to make it harmful? They even made mention of the corn being mature, and therefore they didn’t absorb contaminated water.
Also, when the power went out, they immediately figured “EMP” - but why? The electrical grid is somewhat unstable in normal circumstances - is it hard to believe power might be a bit shaky after nukes? There was no evidence of an EMP blast early on. Later, they could’ve figured it out.
Also - the piece of evidence they used was that the IRS bitch’s Rolex didn’t work. Aren’t Rolexes known for being mechanical watches?