Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-12 (Wednesday)

On Feb 14, 2025 at 1:16:31 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:32:50 -0800, suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
 

On 2/13/2025 6:23 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

 Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

 On 2/13/2025 7:40 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

 Yesterday, I worked in the morning, and ran errands in the afternoon,
 but still had enough time to get through soaps, and to binge a couple
 more episodes of "Paradise":
 
 
 Paradise (Hulu) - Ep's #3 & #4. Reddit was all saying how "episode #2
 was a letdown, but episode #3 was so much better", but I don't think
 that was true at all - the best part about episode #3 was giving
 Sterling K. Brown a chance to shine; but otherwise, I thought it was on
 par with ep #2. But episode #4 I thought was much better, finally
 delivering some answers.

 
 snip.
 So this is a show worth watching?

 
 No

 
Maybe not for you, but it might be for Arthur.

 
I've been enjoying the show. Sure, there are holes in the plot but
overall it's been an enjoyable ride. It also helps that the show isn't
intended to last for many seasons.

SPOILERS BELOW

I'm having a problem with the outside apocalypse. From the data the president
pulled up on his special iPad, apparently global warming caused the ice sheets
in Greenland and Antarctica to melt enough that the decreased weight on the
earth's crust allowed volcanoes to erupt that had been "plugged" by the weight
of the ice, including a heretofore undiscovered super-volcano under the
Antarctic ice. This then melted all the ice that was left, which inundated the
earth and turned it into Waterworld. We're treated to several shots of just
the tip of the Washington Monument obelisk sticking up above the waves, which
means the world's oceans have risen not just the seven inches that even the
most dire Warmists predict, but over 500 feet.

The problem with that is that even if you melted every bit of ice on the
planet and condensed every drop of water out of the air, there's not enough
water on earth to account for that kind of inundation. So where did all this
extra water come from? And does this mean that in addition to being in a huge
bunker underground, there's a massive ocean above them, too? Where are they
getting their air?

And none of this explains why the team they sent up to explore was talking
about intense levels of radiation. Where did *that* come from? Was there a
nuclear war in addition to a flooding catastrophe? And if so, why is the
Washington Monument still standing?