First aid kit, check.

Game console with blue-ray player, check.

Complete print out of TVTropes.org.

Check.

Sorry I can't rant now, I'm too busy prepping

for the end of civilization as we know it.

The signs are everywhere.

Just look at the egregious errors in basic logic

that are allowed to exist in today's TV pop culture.

The best example of this today is NBC's Revolution.

The supposedly realistic look at how

the world would change if inert air populated nanomachines

rendered every electrical appliance inoperable.

The show would have us believe that humanity

would turn into some weird Amish cowboys

who forswear the riding of bicycles

while they fight pitched battles over horses and wagons

with the few remaining bullets.

If the show runners had spent a little less time

dreaming up urban ruins and a little more time

reading any work of steam punk,

they'd realize that the actual result of these nanomachines

would be to unleash industrial revolution 2.0.

Within a few years, Connecticut yankee types

and maker-faire stalwarts would be cranking out

steam powered jet skis and self-aware difference engines.

And apparently a lot of brass monocles,

I don't know why they always have those.

Anyway, Sci-Fi's Defiance presents us with

the same sort of inexplicably old-school dystopia.

In this future apocalypse scenario,

a massive influx of aliens, an inter-species war,

and extensive environmental changes on Earth result in

a Sons of Anarchy in the old West kind of milieu?

I don't get it.

There's funky alien technology all around,

but the characters dress like they just got back

from an inauguration party for Rutherford B Hayes.

Did a network exec get a great deal

on the old sets of props from Doctor Quin Medicine Woman?

(whistling)

'Gratulations, Revolution and Defiance.

Your doomsday scenarioses managed to be less plausible

than the one in that apocalyptic Seth Rogen movie.

No, not This is the End, I'm talking about,

ugh, Green Hornet.

Man what a disaster that was.

And don't get me started on the

logical flaws in zombie movies.

What do you think Walking Dead

gets wrong about societal collapse?

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