Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-12 (Wednesday) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:34:47 -0800 Message-ID: References: <304040034.761192352.920039.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <471vqj17m3o0obmeli82oqov6lbgichiu5@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:34:49 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="253296"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:TBaf6hfFst23/fWUxsboy4GedY0= X-User-ID: eJwFwYkBwEAEBMCWBMspx9t/CZmB2GftajDF4TaTqCXHVRoxJT7BV0xur1gpdm+CRkPfQn4o1RE2 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <471vqj17m3o0obmeli82oqov6lbgichiu5@4ax.com> Bytes: 6012 Lines: 94 On 2/14/2025 10:11 AM, shawn wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:47:55 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 > wrote: > >> On Feb 14, 2025 at 1:16:31 AM PST, "shawn" >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:32:50 -0800, suzeeq wrote: >>> >>>> On 2/13/2025 6:23 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>> Arthur Lipscomb 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. So the place was built > into a mountain 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. > >> 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. > Could have been a combination of events. And where is the bunker located? I figured in the Rockies somewhere and the outdoor scene was just a regional blizzard and not indicating the entire world was like that.