tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post4246081027604452876..comments2024-03-27T19:38:49.490-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Post-Apocalpytic TVSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-60978177452534683352012-09-22T14:28:21.800-04:002012-09-22T14:28:21.800-04:00(basically alien "enemy action", IIRC) ...<i>(basically alien "enemy action", IIRC)</i> That is the most interesting thing I've heard about the books, I think. <br /><br />The idea that it's "Lost 2" isn't very appealing. I never saw an episode of that, but the scuttlebutt I heard wasn't very impressive. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-75904878904586234942012-09-21T15:44:30.291-04:002012-09-21T15:44:30.291-04:00Stirling's series is entertaining, and in one ...Stirling's series is entertaining, and in one of the books toward the end of the series (leading into another series, of course ;-) he explains how this weird change in the physics of our universe came about (basically alien "enemy action", IIRC). No pendants to allow a way to operate electrical equipment in his novels, though. That is strictly a Hollywood perversion of the story.<br /><br />As far as "backwards" crossbows are concerned: http://www.barnettcrossbows.com/products/crossbows/reverse-draw/vengeance<br /><br />RegTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-34974867938729563942012-09-21T02:30:21.615-04:002012-09-21T02:30:21.615-04:00Okaaaay....I get the Dies The Fire thing and the H...Okaaaay....I get the Dies The Fire thing and the Hunger Games attraction of the backwards crossbow wielding female lead. What you guys are missing....and it took my 'bread and circuses' wife to point out to me, is that the creators are the ones that 'gifted' us with Lost a few years back, one of her faves. I just couldn't figure out why she would want to watch a post apocalyptic sci fi type of show.<br /><br />hbbill Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-71821785082289260192012-09-20T17:17:59.893-04:002012-09-20T17:17:59.893-04:00I came across a reference to "Dies the Fire&q...I came across a reference to "Dies the Fire" last night. It's still a hard concept to do the "willful suspension of disbelief" over, as Anon 1307 says. Electricity is moving electrons, but so are chemical bonds. If chemical activity stops, we stop, because we are chemical plants. Hopefully, there was thought about that in "Dies the Fire". <br /><br />At the end of the episode (spoiler alert) a woman they meet produces one of these magic pendants that make electricity work around them, and turns on an old computer - complete with the sound of an old phone modem and green screen, modem to modem talking like the old BBS systems. OK, so electrons move around the pendant. But if they stopped moving at some distance away, she wouldn't be able to talk with the party at the end of the line. So these pendants make electrons move everywhere. But if they did, why isn't the power on? <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-26376397149394669712012-09-20T15:12:58.590-04:002012-09-20T15:12:58.590-04:00Still looks like a very close clone to Stirling...Still looks like a very close clone to Stirling's "Dies the Fire" Emberverse Series. One day in 1988, physics changes, electricity does not work, explosives no longer function, any steam pressure above low pressure does not work.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_the_FireUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718313479294604561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-56885055976062619332012-09-20T14:06:35.155-04:002012-09-20T14:06:35.155-04:00Television is not real life. In real life people a...Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.<br /><br />Anti Money Launderinghttp://aml-assassin.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-57446619329909179832012-09-20T13:07:19.406-04:002012-09-20T13:07:19.406-04:00The deliberate refusal to acknowledge even the bas...The deliberate refusal to acknowledge even the basics of physics had beaten "the willful suspension of dis-belief" into a pulp 15 minutes in.<br />Decent acting, decent plot, absolutely thick-skulled, deliberate bombing of the execution.<br />Airliners, having lost all power, lit by their own lighting as the flat-spin to earth...a multi-lane Interstate full of vehicles, all stop in orderly fashion before they lose power...the home of the opening scene loses all power, move to the yard, and watch the rest of the block lose power...<br />The next episode will be better, no way to be worse.<br />eliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-52013630672357729152012-09-20T08:29:16.170-04:002012-09-20T08:29:16.170-04:00I did not get to see it. Plot looks heavily borro...I did not get to see it. Plot looks heavily borrowed from "Dies the Fire" by S. M. Stirling only not as well developed.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62684016128848129652012-09-19T23:16:47.310-04:002012-09-19T23:16:47.310-04:00DAMN, I missed DVRing it!DAMN, I missed DVRing it!drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com