"Cities wouldn't be overgrown in 15 years!"
"Where'd you get skin-tight leather pants?"
"After 15 years, you are just now questioning the nature of the blackout?"
Which is really why the show annoys us so much. Electricity doesn't just stop. If you have fire and gunpowder, why can't you burn coal? It's only been said a couple of times that "physics went whacky", but 3 episodes in, I would like a demonstration of why windmills or waterwheels cease to produce power.
Also, who's the blacksmith that makes all those swords? And who trained everyone to sword fight?
As for the lady with the secret internet connection in her attic....dude. That means the infrastructure is fine and still getting power. That means there is a power plant somewhere with live wires into her house. I doubt she has a generator because that requires diesel fuel and "physics is whacky". Anyway, try hiding a working power plant, live infrastructure, and working internet. Not gonna happen.
There's also wayyyyy too many people running around. Hubby and I disagree on this point, but the human population would be absolutely, mother-bleeping decimated. Most people wouldn't know to get out of the cities right away and would be waiting for the power until they starved or were killed by the neighbors. If you were within walking distance of a city (like Chicago), you wouldn't have made it the first month.
If you did manage to get out to the farmland or mountains, you probably wouldn't survive the first year. Sickness and disease and weakness from malnutrition would claim you. The only people that would survive are ones living in extremely remote locations with a calm climate and protections from raiders.
Right, so 99% of us wouldn't make it.
Last point, if the father had an idea the blackout would be possible, how the FUCK do you not build a bunker full of supplies? Or move your family out to the country? I'm thinking of the scene where the father comes home and tells the mother to start getting water because they don't have a lot of time. You didn't do this before?? Even if the chance was remote, maybe 10% likelihood of occurring, I would buy farmland in the middle of nowhere, move my family out there, and tell them to stockpile seeds, weapons, ammo, matches, medicine, and toilet paper. Anything they can get their hands on. Buy horses and livestock too. After all, if the blackout does happen, money won't matter. Might as well spend it.
If the blackout doesn't happen, well, you blew your life's savings. But at least you have a farm.
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