Nevermind–I see how boss scientist guy explained the totalitarianism now. I’ll allow it.
We recorded this back when it aired, but just got around to watching it last week. I echo many of the statements made in the thread here, but I have one ‘overarching’ question that I haven’t seen asked.
Given that the ‘abbies’ somehow managed to destroy all of civilization and kill off all 7+ billion ‘humans’…how is it that the brains behind Wayward Pines think that their single small town (even backed by the several hundred? thousand? people in the mountain control center) would be able to do any better?
I am only on episode seven, but I didn’t think the abbies destroyed civilization, rather, civilization destroyed itself and the survivors went extinct in the process of spawning off the abbies (who probably helped with that whole extinction thing).
Okay I finished it. I liked it okay.
A lot of you seemed to like the cranky nurse’s character development but it struck me as quite unrealistic. She was clearly a power-hungry sadist in the beginning. By the end she was practically a nurturing mother figure. …nnnnnnno, it doesn’t really work like that.
I suspect the actress didn’t know at the beginning what was in store for her character by the end and for that reason ended up making some choices in how to deliver the lines that really just didn’t end up working by the end.
I see a lot of you didn’t like the very ending, but I don’t see what’s so bad or implausible about it. What did you expect to happen? A democratic paradise arises from the ashes of this giant chaos where no one knows who has actually been responsible for what and there’s an ultimate, mortal danger right outside the gate? No, what I would expect in a case like this is they get in line with their pre-established myths in quick order and go all authoritarian–just as happened in this story.
My problem was with the whole premise. Not just the idea of the abbies and the end of civilization, but the idea that someone could predict it so precisely. Evolution just doesn’t work like that. Then there’s the ridiculous plan, which no educated intelligent person could expect to work, but Pilcher thought it would. And it did!
But how? He developed cryonic processes that he knew would work for thousands of years? He somehow gathered all of those resources and kidnapped all of those people and built a huge underground facility with almost no one getting suspicious, and it went undiscovered for however long civilization continued? He somehow stored trucks and cars for thousands of years with no one maintaining them, and they were still in working order, apparently even things like gaskets and tires? What about fuel?
Oh… and why oh why did they keep the dead bodies for days in that seemingly abandoned and broken down house?
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Yeah I didn’t like that either, but (though I think he did use the word “evolution” in his explanation) I decided to interpret it not so much as predicting evolution as instead spotting a particular mutation causing a person to be an abbie and knowing, not because of evolution but biology more generally, that that mutation would inevitably become prevalent given whatever environmental problems are going on.
Still lame, but not totally implausible.
And what I secretly really think is that actually Pilcher, on spotting the mutation, engineered things to cause it to occur in the general population in order create the end of the world. It was his first drowning of the people in the ark, so to speak…
the warhouse/es that stored that cars and guns and books and TV’s etc, was supposed to be vaccum sealed, i think…
I agree with everything you said but the thing that annoyed me the most was Pilcher wanted to Run Wavering Pines is a stare of fear paranoia lies and secrecy… and expect it to work. To me that was probably the biggest plot hole.
I actually can buy Pilcher’s bad decisions as to how it should be run. I think he was a megalomaniac who wanted complete control. That led him to make very bad decisions.
Regarding vacuum sealing the cars. I’m not at all convinced that doing that would preserve them for thousands of years. I’m not even convinced that you could maintain a vacuum seal for thousands of years. Thinking about it, the same problem exists for the cryogenic units. How did they stay in working order for so long? Parts corrode. Insulation rots.
Oh no.
Those sonsabitches renewed it. The knew they shouldn’t. We knew they shouldn’t. But they did it anyway.
Ugh. Very bad idea.
Oh no! :eek: I nominate davidm for watching it and sparing us all the horror. Show of hands?
aye
Motion passed 2 to 0.
Thanks for volunteering, david!
I await your reports (and decline liability for anticipated therapy).
I’m not watching. I’m not even hate-watching or peeking in out of curiosity. I only didn’t give up S1 with the understanding it would be DONE at the end. Had I thought they really would renew it I’d have dropped it early or never even started it.
This may turn into the next Under The Dome.
Aw crap! Why me?
Next month. May 25.