I love me some post apocalyptic fiction but this show is so full of Malthusian and eco-fascist shit I checked out half way through the most recent episode. Patriarchal shit “humans are the virus” shit I just fucking can’t. Fuck whoever wrote what this is based on and fuck whoever decided to turn it into a TV series.

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    9 days ago

    … it definitely suffers from “male sci-fi protagonist” tropes …

    i only watched the first episode and it felt like the showrunners were either nazis or gay because the protagonists some butch, hot and unrealistic all at the same time.

    i felt like it was just me so i was going to choke down another episode since i REALLY like apocalyptic scifi; but now that someone else has voice the same feeling that i had, i think i should listen to what my subconscious mind starting telling me within the first half of that episode.

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      9 days ago

      Yeah I love apocalypse sci-fi stuff too which is why I was so disappointed. Dude literally has a come to Jesus moment in the first episode reading the Bible and I was like nope.

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        9 days ago

        nice catch; i partial stopping paying attention after first 5 minutes simply because of blue eyed, blond haired, 20-something who owns his own home and can afford to randomly go out hunting like they have no job.

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          8 days ago

          Wait…

          spoiler

          …so the protagonist isn’t a young college kid doing a geology project on his own out in the middle of nowhere possibly dying of a poisonous snake bite when the plague hits?

          That seems like an unecessary change.

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            8 days ago

            the snake bite is still there; but yes, no college roomates and he lives out in the middle of nowhere in an upper middle class house to himself.