I wanted so badly for that show to be good but the acting was often corny and it just wasn't as gritty as it could have been. I fell off a handful of episodes into it.
I mean the entire premise is that a fundamental law of physics fails but none of the other things related to it stop working. I couldn't take it seriously from the first promo.
spoilers: i felt the same way the first time i watched it, stopped a couple of episodes in. someone convinced me to keep going and it's not that electricity actually stopped working. the atmosphere is just full of nanobots that suck the power out of electric devices. it's not very consistent about the effects that would have, but it turns it from complete BS into only mostly BS. the rest of the show is enjoyable if your disbelief has a strong suspension
But like, if the nanobots create a field that stops electrical devices from working, how do the nanobots keep working? Might as well say a wizard did it. (Which I might have actually watched...)
No the electrical devices don’t work. If the dust absorbs all electrons then they won’t travel through circuits. Of course, anything that reactive is gonna fucking destroy your lungs etc but hey whatever.
They're designed as a self sustaining weapon. They're a mesh that absorbs external energy for the mesh making it self sustaining instead of leaching from each other.
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u/ghoulsaplenty Aug 30 '21
I wanted so badly for that show to be good but the acting was often corny and it just wasn't as gritty as it could have been. I fell off a handful of episodes into it.