Prepper Tv: Revolution premier Monday (vanity)

NBC ^ | 9-15-12 | lulu16

[lulu16]

It's been a long time since the great series Jericho, dealt with the topic of a SHTF situation and the lights are out all over the United States again. This one is years after an inexplicable EMP-type of event, and the story picks up when a young arrow-wielding heroine, takes a trek to Chicago,(inexplicably) of all place. Who's gonna watch tomorrow night 9/10C? And what survival book are you reading right now. I am reading the ebook The Prepper Road Compendium. Right now our hero, who has been trucking down the road in style in an old tractor, is going to be spending the night lying in a hammock by a lake and luring trout with rancid freezer food. What are you reading?

[Biff55]

Watched it last week, downloaded from iTunes. Too predictable. Baaaad writing. Doomsday Preppers and The Colony had better plots and acting.

[cripplecreek]

The movie started with Charlize Theron announcing that she was going to wander off into the dark and freeze to death and she did.

And then it got depressing.

[bgill]

Apparently, some people have those special time warp tvs.

TVguide.com says the first airing of the pilot is Monday.

[lulu16]

Time to watch a happy survival movie like Flipper. Remember when Flipper flipped all the canned goods on the beach and they found that underwater cavern? Neat.
Or that sweet movie where the character lived in an underground bunker until it was time to go out and date. They had nice traditional 50’s American values.

[cripplecreek]

Or that sweet movie where the character lived in an underground bunker until it was time to go out and date.

That was Brendan Fraser in Blast from the Past. His father was played by Chris Walken and his mother was played by Sissy Spacek. It was actually an OK feel good movie.

[lulu16]

Then I think I'll cook something in the solar oven for dinner to get into the mood.
And I love time warp/ time travel movies. I wish I could have a time warp tv, and watch late night music videos in the 80’s again. (VHTV doesn't have the cool art house ones)

[lulu16]

Sometimes it is just the idea of something that lingers sweetly upon me. We had a bomb shelter in the backyard when I grew up in Pearl Harbor, right next to the dimpsty dumper. Loved that thing!

[lulu16]

Have you seen that survival food network show? I just saw one episode and they were dropped somewhere like the Salton Sea and had to make do with a blow torch, a chopping block and a bowie knife, and the contents of someone’s bugout bag.But imagine, no spoons!

[cripplecreek]

I just loved the innocence of Blast from the past.

[boxlunch]

I’m not reading anything about popular “prepping” (too old for camping fantasies) but am only working at home to save on energy costs, other costs, and get through poorer economic years. People “prepping” too much for civil unrest might find themselves much poorer in the near future (the real danger for most). Many jobs and fortunes will be lost, if government spending continues as it is without a large manufacturing base.

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I would be interested to hear your take on what type of “prepping” to do. Are you saying the type of prepping that may be more important is just to learn to scale back and get by on much less, rather than trying to store up to survive a total society breakdown? In other words, the odds of just living in a much poorer America are actually pretty good compared to the odds of a total breakdown of all our society and infrastructure?

[TADSLOS]

Yeah, that one will make your heart sink. One thing about Cormac McCarthy, he writes some mean, hard bitten stuff.

[Florida native]

Alas, Babylon was required reading when I was in 10th grade English...still have my copy....great story.

[cripplecreek]

Nevil Shute’s “On the Beach” was similar in the sense that no one would survive but at least they were trying to live their last days as normally as possible or die doing something they wanted to do.

[lulu16]

Read that book last supper. It was quaint to me, the way people lived: milk from a cart, cigarettes and phonograph records at parties, the way they stood in line in an orderly manner to receive their cyanide pills. Sad story.

[TADSLOS]

Never read the book, but saw the movie. Yeah, a pretty depressing outcome.

[lulu16]

supper-summer. My book was used. Sits right next to Shute’s A Town Like Alice. Excellent!

[lulu16]

People! Literary fiction can be pure poppycock. Watch uplifting movies, like Cowboys and Aliens. Spoiler alert. The cowboys win. As they should. If you have to watch something post-apocalyptic, watch In Time. Justin Timberlake steals time from a time hoarding tycoon, and leads a drone rebellion. Wait, the agenda isn't quite that appropriate for a conservative site. Maybe wait for the new version of Red Dawn. Now it's the Chinese who want our land. I hope the kids win in for us this time again.

[cripplecreek]

I believe the book is considered to be a classic. I know Nevil Shute was a pretty prolific writer.

[chae]

The first episode has been available on hulu for a couple of weeks.

[lulu16]

The book influenced me to travel to Malaysia, because that is where the characters met, during WWII, on a hard march to the concentration camps. Wonderful hero, reminded me of the first Catholic reading today in Mass, did not complain about the maltreatment he received. Very brave.