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** There's a well-documented sociological phenomenon known as "deskilling" or "McDonaldization", which talks about how modern day tasks have been stripped down to their bare basics. In other words, every worker finds himself contributing only a very small part to an overall machine, in order to make workers more expendable/cheaper to train. This has the downside of making all of us very sufficient on the apparatuses that control these "assembly lines" we all work in. With communication down, how many people in industrialized countries have the skill to rebuild any modern tool without somebody else to provide us with instruction, assistance or raw material?
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* What happened to [[spoiler:Basil? He escapes the World's End with the other survivors and takes off on his own, but the entire town of Newton Haven is then destroyed in an explosion. The only possible way he could've made it out in time is in a car.]]
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* What happened to [[spoiler:Basil? He escapes the World's End with the other survivors and takes off on his own, but the entire town of Newton Haven is then destroyed in an explosion. The only possible way he could've made it out in time is in a car.]]]]
** Considering that [[spoiler: Ollie and Peter]] are shown in the epilogue sequence when they would have taken the explosion at point blank (pun absolutely intended) range, perhaps it wasn't as lethal as it appeared to be. Sure, you see everything burned and apocalyptic in the aftermath scene, but who knows - maybe it's some weird alien explosion technology that doesn't hurt people?
* How did the Network get the DNA of the boy that Sam liked? At first I figured that they already had him as a blank, but if that was the case then they should have known that he was already dead. The fact that his actions (and fate) were insofar unknown to the network means that he couldn't have still been in Newton Haven in the months surrounding his death (in which case it's also unlikely he was a collaborator like the Reverend Green, or else they wouldn't have let him leave).
** Considering that [[spoiler: Ollie and Peter]] are shown in the epilogue sequence when they would have taken the explosion at point blank (pun absolutely intended) range, perhaps it wasn't as lethal as it appeared to be. Sure, you see everything burned and apocalyptic in the aftermath scene, but who knows - maybe it's some weird alien explosion technology that doesn't hurt people?
* How did the Network get the DNA of the boy that Sam liked? At first I figured that they already had him as a blank, but if that was the case then they should have known that he was already dead. The fact that his actions (and fate) were insofar unknown to the network means that he couldn't have still been in Newton Haven in the months surrounding his death (in which case it's also unlikely he was a collaborator like the Reverend Green, or else they wouldn't have let him leave).
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*** There's a bit about exactly this in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', where one of the survivors points out that pre-zombie-war root beer had ingredients coming from all over the world, so even something as simple and ubiquitous as ''soda'' became impossible to manufacture. So, sure, someone might have schematics and notes to make computers, but without planes, trains, automobiles, and a phone, he's not going to be able to get the materials to make it.
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*** Bare in mind that the pace of technology has been extremely quick during the 20th and 21st centuries. In the early part of the 1900s, we hadn't even developed flight. Over the course of a single war, we went from biplanes to jet planes. Middle ages might have been an exaggeration, sure, but it's as much about losing those stepping stones as it is the technology itself - knowing how to make concrete doesn't mean you necessarily have the resources to get the materials to make it. And some places would be entirely dependent on continual modern maintenance (Las Vegas for instance has no natural water) on a scale unavailable post-Network.
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** The scratching makes sense since several of the toughs in the bar had things like "Human" etched into their heads.
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*** I may sound outdated, but what about about books? Handbooks, designs, specs, manuals. Surely all that still exists on paper? Also, if it was an EMP blast, then how could it have destroyed ''all'' the technology? Sure, it would've regressed quite a bit, but Middle Ages? That seems quite a stretch.
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*** It destroyed all technology, not just post-90s technology.
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* What exactly is it with the hand dryer in the first blank fight and the alarm bell in the second? At first thought it might seem like they are trying to mask fight, but that would make little sense, consindering that pretty much the whole town consists of blanks and they all know what is going on. Personally I think it's simply a matter of RuleOfCool to imitate the VoiceOfTheLegion bellows they emit while being controlled by the Network directly. Anyone got a better idea?
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* What exactly is it with the hand dryer in the first blank fight and the alarm bell in the second? At first thought it might seem like they are trying to mask fight, but that would make little sense, consindering that pretty much the whole town consists of blanks and they all know what is going on. Personally I think it's simply a matter of RuleOfCool to imitate the VoiceOfTheLegion bellows they emit while being controlled by the Network directly. Anyone got a better idea?idea?
* What happened to [[spoiler:Basil? He escapes the World's End with the other survivors and takes off on his own, but the entire town of Newton Haven is then destroyed in an explosion. The only possible way he could've made it out in time is in a car.]]
* What happened to [[spoiler:Basil? He escapes the World's End with the other survivors and takes off on his own, but the entire town of Newton Haven is then destroyed in an explosion. The only possible way he could've made it out in time is in a car.]]
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*** It's stated the Network didn't arrive until 1990, the night of the pub crawl [shooting star]. We got to space in the 1969, 20 years before the Network arrived.
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*** It's stated the Network didn't arrive until 1990, the night of the pub crawl [shooting star]. We got to space in the 1969, 20 years before the Network arrived.arrived.
*** Getting into space =/= getting to other habitable planets.
*** Getting into space =/= getting to other habitable planets.
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*** It's stated the Network didn't arrive until 1990, the night of the pub crawl [shooting star]. We got to space in the 70s.
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*** It's stated the Network didn't arrive until 1990, the night of the pub crawl [shooting star]. We got to space in the 70s.1969, 20 years before the Network arrived.
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*** It's stated the Network didn't arrive until 1990, the night of the pub crawl [shooting star]. We got to space in the 70s.
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*** Human tech will probably get back up to speed within a few hundred years, because a lot of people would remember basics of how stuff worked, but the lack of resources and mass communication would be a hindrance.
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** For all they know, the Blanks can fake minor injuries to convince people they're human, whereas a scar that happened long before that night is more conclusive proof.
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** For all they know, the Blanks can fake minor injuries to convince people they're human, whereas a scar that happened long before that night is more conclusive proof.proof.
* What exactly is it with the hand dryer in the first blank fight and the alarm bell in the second? At first thought it might seem like they are trying to mask fight, but that would make little sense, consindering that pretty much the whole town consists of blanks and they all know what is going on. Personally I think it's simply a matter of RuleOfCool to imitate the VoiceOfTheLegion bellows they emit while being controlled by the Network directly. Anyone got a better idea?
* What exactly is it with the hand dryer in the first blank fight and the alarm bell in the second? At first thought it might seem like they are trying to mask fight, but that would make little sense, consindering that pretty much the whole town consists of blanks and they all know what is going on. Personally I think it's simply a matter of RuleOfCool to imitate the VoiceOfTheLegion bellows they emit while being controlled by the Network directly. Anyone got a better idea?
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*** A bit of AlternateCharacterInterpretation / UnreliableNarrator is present here, however, since we're essentially seeing Gary reflecting back on his own life, where he's positioning himself as the cooler-than-thou white knight who everyone looked up to. There are some implications that Gary's reflections and testimony on their shared past is not entirely to be trusted, since his friends appear to have plenty of fairly valid reasons to hold grudges against him (although it is likely he wasn't ''entirely'' uncaring towards them either).
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*** A bit of AlternateCharacterInterpretation / UnreliableNarrator is present here, however, since we're essentially seeing Gary reflecting back on his own life, where he's positioning himself as the cooler-than-thou white knight who everyone looked up to. There are some implications that Gary's reflections and testimony on their shared past is not entirely to be trusted, since his friends appear to have plenty of fairly valid reasons to hold grudges against him (although it is likely he wasn't ''entirely'' uncaring towards them either). At very least, then AND now he appears to have been rather self-centred.
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*** A bit of AlternateCharacterInterpretation / UnreliableNarrator is present here, however, since we're essentially seeing Gary reflecting back on his own life, where he's positioning himself as the cooler-than-thou white knight who everyone looked up to. There are some implications that Gary's reflections and testimony on their shared past is not entirely to be trusted, since his friends appear to have plenty of fairly valid reasons to hold grudges against him (although it is likely he wasn't ''entirely'' uncaring towards them either).
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* Gary clearly has a scar through his right eyebrow, evidence of his hard life since graduating, and also gets a red wound in the center of his forehead when he smashed it into glass during the first fight. Both of these are ignored when his friends demand proof that he's not a Blank.Blank.
** For all they know, the Blanks can fake minor injuries to convince people they're human, whereas a scar that happened long before that night is more conclusive proof.
** For all they know, the Blanks can fake minor injuries to convince people they're human, whereas a scar that happened long before that night is more conclusive proof.
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** I'd also imagine that, since he's just learnt ''why'' Gary is so insistent on completing the pub crawl, it's a sort of attempt to try and get Gary to take the first step to moving on with the rest of his life.
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** Without technology, humanity won't be able to go into space and screw up the Network's enlightened civilization.
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** It's not about it being regressed--it's about all the stuff that did exist not working anymore. So nobody can turn on their computer to retrieve the designs to build more computers. The computer-controlled drilling systems no longer work. Industry and manufacture has been destroyed.destroyed.
* Gary clearly has a scar through his right eyebrow, evidence of his hard life since graduating, and also gets a red wound in the center of his forehead when he smashed it into glass during the first fight. Both of these are ignored when his friends demand proof that he's not a Blank.
* Gary clearly has a scar through his right eyebrow, evidence of his hard life since graduating, and also gets a red wound in the center of his forehead when he smashed it into glass during the first fight. Both of these are ignored when his friends demand proof that he's not a Blank.
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* Do no actual humans know how 21st century technology, or even electricity, etc. works? The Network supposedly only arrived 23 years before, in 1990, so why has technology regressed so far with no organized attempts to get it back?
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* Do no actual humans know how 21st century technology, or even electricity, etc. works? The Network supposedly only arrived 23 years before, in 1990, so why has technology regressed so far with no organized attempts to get it back?back?
** It's not about it being regressed--it's about all the stuff that did exist not working anymore. So nobody can turn on their computer to retrieve the designs to build more computers. The computer-controlled drilling systems no longer work. Industry and manufacture has been destroyed.
** It's not about it being regressed--it's about all the stuff that did exist not working anymore. So nobody can turn on their computer to retrieve the designs to build more computers. The computer-controlled drilling systems no longer work. Industry and manufacture has been destroyed.
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* Do no actual humans know how 21st century technology, or even electricity, etc. works? The Network supposedly only arrived 23 years before, in 1990, so why has technology regressed so far?
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* Do no actual humans know how 21st century technology, or even electricity, etc. works? The Network supposedly only arrived 23 years before, in 1990, so why has technology regressed so far?far with no organized attempts to get it back?
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* Do no actual humans know how electricity, etc. works? The Network supposedly only arrived 23 years before, in 1990, so why has technology regressed so far?
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* Do no actual humans know how 21st century technology, or even electricity, etc. works? The Network supposedly only arrived 23 years before, in 1990, so why has technology regressed so far?
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* Do no actual humans know how electricity, etc. works?
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* Do no actual humans know how electricity, etc. works?works? The Network supposedly only arrived 23 years before, in 1990, so why has technology regressed so far?
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** Considering Gary gave the middle finger to the Network, we'll probably never know.
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** Considering Gary gave the middle finger to the Network, we'll probably never know.know.
* Do no actual humans know how electricity, etc. works?
* Do no actual humans know how electricity, etc. works?
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**Only as he grew older and became an alcoholic did he stop caring about his friends; during the opening montage when Shane smacks Peter with his backpack Gary leaps to Peter's defense.
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* Does the Network control all the planets that it showed off when showing how barbaric Earth is, or did the planets send the Network down to Earth. Who controls what?
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* Does the Network control all the planets that it showed off when showing how barbaric Earth is, or did the planets send the Network down to Earth. Who controls what?what?
** Considering Gary gave the middle finger to the Network, we'll probably never know.
** Considering Gary gave the middle finger to the Network, we'll probably never know.
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** Also, he now seems to have a purpose in his life, which he had been sorely lacking before and was the cause of most of his personal problems.
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** Along with going from alcohol to water, Gary finally learned to care for his friends [[spoiler: even teenage, Blank versions]]. He took them under his wing [[spoiler: and defended them against Blank discrimination in the bar]], when before he didn't care that his friends had been bullied or were unhappy.
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** Last straw thing, isn't it? I'd want to smack him for the actual trying to drink a pint at the Hole in the Wall. It's idiotic and infuriating that he'd keep trying to finish the crawl when there wasn't even the excuse of keeping their cover from the Blanks anymore.
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** Last straw thing, isn't it? I'd want to smack him for the actual trying to drink a pint at the Hole in the Wall. It's idiotic and infuriating that he'd keep trying to finish the crawl when there wasn't even the excuse of keeping their cover from the Blanks anymore.anymore.
* Does the Network control all the planets that it showed off when showing how barbaric Earth is, or did the planets send the Network down to Earth. Who controls what?
* Does the Network control all the planets that it showed off when showing how barbaric Earth is, or did the planets send the Network down to Earth. Who controls what?
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** He acted just as cringingly cocky at the AA (rehab? whatever) meeting, he apparently hasn't held a real job, and he still dyes his hair black and wears that duster around...I'd guess he's an actual ManChild.
* Why was Andy so insistent that Gary not have that final pint, after all the otherones?ones?
** Last straw thing, isn't it? I'd want to smack him for the actual trying to drink a pint at the Hole in the Wall. It's idiotic and infuriating that he'd keep trying to finish the crawl when there wasn't even the excuse of keeping their cover from the Blanks anymore.
* Why was Andy so insistent that Gary not have that final pint, after all the other
** Last straw thing, isn't it? I'd want to smack him for the actual trying to drink a pint at the Hole in the Wall. It's idiotic and infuriating that he'd keep trying to finish the crawl when there wasn't even the excuse of keeping their cover from the Blanks anymore.
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* Why was Andy so insistent that Gary not have that final pint, after all the other ones?
* Why was Andy so insistent that Gary not have that final pint, after all the other ones?
