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

On Feb 14, 2025 at 10:11:54 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:47:55 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

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.

 
So the apparent explosion we saw from the plane in the pilot was
actually a volcano erupting? Okay... Yeah, the rise in the oceans is
crazy.
 
That said even if all that happened it didn't fit with the shots we
got of the four that went outside and were killed by Billy. That
showed a cold world with radiation which fit with the idea of a
nuclear winter. If that was happening then the ice couldn't have
melted.
 

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?

 
No, they clearly wouldn't have that problem. Remember they are inside
a mountain. Further we saw the two kids head into their equivalent of
the aerodrome in San Francisco with all the planes in storage. That is
clearly just a shelter that opens into the air.

It's a shelter that *used* to open into the air when they arrived. We don't
know that it still does.

 So the place was built
into a mountain well above sea level.

The tip of the Washington Monument is also well above sea level.

(Clearly no one bothered to make it all fit together. The shot of the
airplane storage facility clearly suggest the air is fine to breathe
and that there was plenty of sunshine coming through the windows.
Which goes against what the four found with a gloomy cold outside.
Which goes against a world where all of the ice has melted.)
 
Oh, you ask about where the water came from. There's been talk about
huge pockets of water stored deep underwater. So maybe that water was
freed as the volcanoes erupted and the land settled. lol.

Yeah, that's what the crazy religious people say to explain the Noah's ark
story. It's an evidence-free theory.

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?

 
Yeah, what we saw in the pilot from the plane window made me think
there was a nuclear war. As that explosion we saw from the window sure
looked like the effect of a nuclear explosion.