lurkinghorror <lurkinghorror@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Just wanted to say, that I have wondered for YEARS why there was never
> a show on like Jericho.
>
> This wondering goes all the way back to the friggin' Cold War, when,
> lets face it, this show would have been REALLY appropriate.
>
> But no. Other than a really poorly conceived COMEDY (I think) about a
> bunch of people in a farmhouse that lasted (I think, again) like 2
> episodes, NOTHING.
There were a couple of attempts.
Gene Roddenberry tried twice, with two pilot films: "Genesis II" (CBS) and
later, "Planet Earth" (ABC). Both of them concerned a guy, Dylan Hunt, who
is in suspended animation for centuries. He awakens in a future time long
after a global war in which civilization is starting to come back
together, and has various adventures exploring the new societies.
But as someone else already pointed out, if you want to set the TV series
in the *immediate* future after the nuclear war, you need a scenario to
keep the nuclear war so limited that enough people survive it! In the
usual all-out war scenario between America and Russia, so many nukes would
be fired that there wouldn't be much left of America afterward:
http://www.endtimesre****t.com/pictures/aacont2.jpg
That's because in the U.S., unlike Russia, we had a habit of locating
strategic military bases right near our population centers. So even if
the Russians only wanted to attack our military bases, they couldn't avoid
heavy collateral damage to our cities. Examples:
NORAD headquarters at Colorado Springs
Trident submarine base located at Puget Sound, WA
Early warning radar located at Cape Cod MA
B-52 base at Plattsburgh NY (would send radioactive fallout across
Vermont)
B-52 base at Spokane WA
B-52 base at Limestone, Maine
Most New Englanders were unaware of the fact that they lived in a
strategic target area!
--
Steven L.
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