How could the loss 2 percent of the population have any real impact?.....other than sadness for the families directly involved......If you lost 2 out of 100 people---you would still have 98 people.....it wouldn't be apocalyptic. I can't get into the show. Just my opinion.
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Yeah - even though its a pretty weird event that would ramp up mindless religiosity and cultism - at least for a while - as time went further along people would just adapt and move on. The families that lost loved ones would remember and mourn but people generally would compartmentalize and, well, gotta pay bills - life goes on.
it may not sound like a lot but it actually is, and sometimes it isn't the whole number but the way the number is distributed and the stories surrounding those affected. The main family on the show suffered no loss at all, while Nora lost her husband and 2 children. And everyone is dealing with it differently.
If you look at 9-11, a little under 3,000 people were killed in a city of over 8 million people (and not all were from NYC). Way under 1% but does that make it any less tragic? These people weren't attacked but disappeared out of nowhere. Trust me - if this was reality, it would be quite tragic
Anyway - if you don't like the show, you don't like it. No biggie - Is it really about the numbers or do find the storylines stupid?
Across the world, 1 in 50 people disappeared from the face of the Earth. Unless you've met less than 50 people, that's a big deal.
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Never underestimate the number of people who post comments on the internets who have actually not met more than 50 people.
Now I could understand an over arching sense of apocalyptic doom if the numbers were reversed: 98% gone 2% left behind.
That would be a disaster of biblical proportions...
Then I guess it would become like a darker version of "Last Man on Earth" - even though that would still leave some 120million people behind on the planet.
Roughly 6million in North America.
I can see the survivors of something like that being seriously messed up. But even then. Eventually. The demands of living day-to-day would win out over just sitting and fearfully watching the sky for the next...whatever...
I agree, it's a pretty weak premise. You'd get a lot of cultish nuts claiming it's divine intervention or whatever, which would cause problems, but generally after a while, some smart people would do some population studies, figure out the demographics of the missing people, and find whatever links them and solve the mystery. It'll become apparent very early on that it's not a religious thing since the demographics don't conform to any known religion. It's more likely that earth was populated by alien-human hybrids. The aliens decided to up stumps and pulled out all the hybrids. Leaving the local humans confused, but otherwise unharmed.
If thats the actual answer, it'd probably take only a few months to work out based on geneology and medical records that it's the truth, mystery solved, the earth is pissed, but otherwise goes back to normal. Probably motivated to go *beep* up some aliens one day, but otherwise the world is like "eh".
But regardless of what the mystery is, the biggest problem the world would face is idiot cultists and the religious, and like i said, with demographic study those theories would be debunked in the first few months.
but generally after a while, some smart people would do some population studies, figure out the demographics of the missing people, and find whatever links them and solve the mystery.
It'll become apparent very early on that it's not a religious thing since the demographics don't conform to any known religion.
Except they specifically stated that after 3 years of research, they've still discovered no such link.
What if there truly IS no link that can explain everything? Just because you say "smart people would've figured it out" doesn't make it so.
Because the show isn't about the mystery of what happened. It's how the other 98% handle that inexplicable event. That's why it's not called "The Departure" or "The Disappeared."
Maybe there is no scientific answer, maybe it's just something that's beyond our scientific understanding, maybe it's something magical or spiritual. Just because you think something SHOULD be figured out after 3 years doesn't mean the show is stupid for not having someone figure it out.
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Maybe there is no scientific answer, maybe it's just something that's beyond our scientific understanding, maybe it's something magical or spiritual.
Or this show has no answers to begin with. They just lead us on without any idea of how this will all end.
I think that's the reality, they've written a show specifically without an answer
So if you're watching it for the purpose of getting an answer, you'll just be wasting your time, because they have no intention of giving one, and have planned on that since the beginning.
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^^^^^THIS^^^^^
I guess my problem is that it's clear they've written a story without an explanation or conclusion.
How do you know there's no conclusion?
Point goes to you Rusty.
This show is basically written around a substanceless gimmick.
"that's what makes the show stupid though. How did they pitch it?
"Hey guys, what if we make a show where something impossible happens, and the twist is that there's actually no explanation for it. It just happened for no reason. Then we follow people coping with this nonsense as if it was real"
If there's no explanation and no link, then it's just stupid. I mean, you could substitute any idiotic idea and have the same show
"What if, one day, 2% of the worlds population suddenly turned into cats! For no reason!"
"What if, one day, suddenly 2% of the worlds population grey wings! For no reason!"
It's just... dumb."
And THIS ladies and germs is why there is very little creativity left in tv and movies in 2016.
It isn't the number of people that vanished. It the -why-. If something like this happened, it would turn life as we know on its head. Centuries old beliefs would be vanquished in an instant. People would literally have to revaluate who they thought they were, there would be a ever present sense of doom. Always. That is why.
I am you and what I see is me.
But then -as nothing else happened in the wake of the vanishing and neither science nor religion could offer convincing explanations of what originally happened - people would grow weary of being fearful, look around, maybe silently count themselves as lucky, and get on with the grind of living.
As time went on, the event - as unexplained and mysterious as it was - would become more the province of cranks, cultists, conspiracy theorists, and scammers rather than a topic for mainstream religion or science to discuss because of the lack of anything definitive that could be said.
The event would finally fade into the weave of historical memory.
Until finally supplanted by the next big world shaking event.
But then -as nothing else happened in the wake of the vanishing and neither science nor religion could offer convincing explanations of what originally happened - people would grow weary of being fearful, look around, maybe silently count themselves as lucky, and get on with the grind of living.
As time went on, the event - as unexplained and mysterious as it was - would become more the province of cranks, cultists, conspiracy theorists, and scammers rather than a topic for mainstream religion or science to discuss because of the lack of anything definitive that could be said.
The event would finally fade into the weave of historical memory.
Until finally supplanted by the next big world shaking event.
You might be right.
Or it could be that you're underestimating the resilience of people. There have been huge events - wars - huge natural disasters in the past - even now. And people reel from them. But eventually, over time (not generations), they process, they mourn, they go back to living -maybe even in the shadow of the thing that so disrupted their lives and could very well do so again.
Like the people who live near volcanos. Or near tsunami prone shorelines. Or in active earthquake zones.
For those people too there are the questions of "why?" and "when again?" but they press on.
Thats what makes us human.
There have been huge events - wars - huge natural disasters in the past - even now. And people reel from them. But eventually, over time (not generations), they process, they mourn, they go back to living
I don't see what you don't get. Society goes nuts when just one person goes missing for unexplained reason. 2% of the population disappearing would undoubtedly cause chaos. The show is about societal chaos.
Maybe there aren't enough car chases.
Really?
I haven't seen society as a whole come to a screeching halt for the unexplained disappearance of one person. "Unexplained" disappearances happen all the time and if the disappeared come from the wrong side of the tracks its not even newsworthy.
Until the remains are being dug up out a mass grave filled with other poor souls for whom society didn't come to a halt when they went gone as well either.
While I do agree that the unexplained vanishing of 2% of the global population would have an impact, I just disagree that the impact would be as disruptive as some are suggesting for as long as some are suggesting.
The show is about depressive pretentiousness masquerading as depth.
It will prove to be another LOST class onion.
And, yes - not enough car chases or gratuitous nudity.
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