Dark Angel's vision of the future ...
POSTED BY: Zoot
UPDATED: Monday, September 19, 2005 20:23
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After our brief insight into how people in the first world react when faced with disaster and the horrific scenes we saw in New Orleans, am I right to think the image of a future post-pulse American in DA is perhaps a little too optimistic to be realistic??
Sure there’s corruption and it's damn hard to find a chicken worth eating, but people don’t seem to go around randomly shooting each other for no apparent reason …
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Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
armed.
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Zoot, you're obviously angry, just as I am. The DA world is shown to us after the pulse. Watch 'Haven' again to get a description of the land at the moment of it's collapse; it sounds a lot like NO right about now, complete with killings and hysteria.
Chrisisall, outraged transgenic
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OMG Zoot! AS I was going to sleep last night I suddenly thought of something weird.
New Orleans is now a lot like Terminal City....
*cue Twilight Zoney music*
Bad transgenic dreams Chrisisall
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I've just started rewatching DA again (you got me Chrisisall) and the comparison of NO and post pulse America hit me, too.
Eerie, because it seems like it's completely possible.
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"Your toes are in the sand."
"And your head's up your..."
"Hey!"
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That's what makes DA so good, it's TOTALLY possible- the collapse ( and not a total, a partial and realistic) of the world economic infrastructure, I mean (I just hope there are no Al-Queda Dark Angel fans gettin' an idea out there...)
Plain old zeroes Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
That's what makes DA so good, it's TOTALLY possible-
Yeah, until she rides a freakin' hoverdrone... that one scene jars in my head even after all this time.
But aside from that one bit of cheese... I always felt the DA world was possible.
From what I recall, wasn't it said in the pilot that it was mainly the US that had been hit by the pulse? That it was the US that was turned into yet another third world country?
I always figured that the inference there was that the rest of the world remained pretty much as it was.
(to which the Australian in me gloats 'exchange rate *this* beeyotch', but I digress).
This rings true for me, because global devastation would be too absolute to continue as the DA world did. But a nation wide devastation, with access to an outside richer world (but only for those powerful and rich enough as it is to get there) and the sources it could provide, makes it possible.
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"Your toes are in the sand."
"And your head's up your..."
"Hey!"
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Zoot, if the U.S. were to fall into such a depression, a military presence might need to be put in place (temporarily) to quell disorder, problem is, temporary absolute control invites continuation to ensure stability. Conspiracy Theorists, such as myself, get REAL antsy when we see things like the Patriot Act come into play, it makes the future as envisioned by DA that much more possible, however unlikely.
Wary transgenic Chrisisall 524
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Quote:I was just assuming that the whole world economy would be affected, not all other countries woud see nearly the decline of the U.S., but most would feel some effects. And yeah, the rich would still stay rich.
Originally posted by Jacqui:
From what I recall, wasn't it said in the pilot that it was mainly the US that had been hit by the pulse? That it was the US that was turned into yet another third world country?
Quote:Hey, they showed it losing altitude from the moment her weight's on it...she even accidently careens off a police car on the way into Jam Poney, what more do ya want? (okay, a slightly more realistic looking effect would've been nice, but I don't see why it couldn't be done...it was a TV budget, gorram it!)
Yeah, until she rides a freakin' hoverdrone... that one scene jars in my head even after all this time.
Did I sway you w/that?
Maybe?
Well, I bought it Chrisisall
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The first thing that hooked me on the show was Max's opening voice over in the pilot when she says something like, "They call it a depression, but people don't seem all that depressed." It seemed to be a very honest observation from someone who had grown up in that post pulse world. It also rang true with the feel of stories my parents told about life during the depression when they were teenagers.
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Oh that EMP stuff was such bull. To create such an EMP to nock out the entire US would require a massive nuke or a bunch of MIRVs (Talking one or more for every city), which means a big launch vehicle. You don’t just build an ICBM and not get noticed. You try to build something like that you’re going to visited by men in black pajamas armed with MP-5s and C-4, that’s assuming the military doesn’t just blow you away with smart bombs.
And besides computer systems especially military/government ones are shield from EMP. Also old vacuum tube technology is immune to EMP.
If it did happen lots of people would panic and there would be a bunch of junk computers but the Government would be basically intact and rebuilding would be easy. With a Hurricane lots of stuff is destroyed but with an EMP everything is more or less intact- just a little dark.
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