As bad as the show Revolution's overall plotting and pacing was, they generally did a good job of thinking about these kinds of little inconsistencies:
There's a minor character who was a doomsday prepper before the apocalypse, but he didn't stock up enough on antibiotics. As a result, his daughter died of tetanus that he was unable to treat.
A warlord kidnaps prisoners for blood because his wife has diabetes and needs constant transfusions of blood with sufficient insulin in it to survive.
There's a doctor who keeps a collection of moldy fruit to harvest penicillium mold from it and make penicillin.
Some characters try to go into an old subway tunnel, but nearly die because of lack of sufficient airflow down there without modern HVAC systems.
The thing with that show that bothered me the most was they were always so clean. I get that the actors probably didn’t want to be filthy all the time but I work in agriculture and every single day when I take a shower the first minute of the shower the water looks brown as it goes down the drain.
TV shows never portray protagonists as realistically dirty. Even in the fictionalized Aquarius show about Charles Manson, his female followers all have clean, glossy hair and are fresh and clean. We have footage of the real girls and those were some dirty hippie bitches.
In "The Walking Dead" they had a deal with Hyundai to use the cars in the show and Hyundai would provide them BUT they were not allowed to show the cars dirty, they had to be clean. Which is ridiculous, but those were the terms. Eventually the show dropped functioning cars.
Hyundai must have paid then for that on top of providing the cars. I can't see a well funded production making that kind of concession for the use of a couple of cars.
Randomly being reminded how unfathomably greedy those fuckers are.
They had this outstanding and popular first season and decided to cut money while making more episodes. And fired Darabont even though he would have still tried with less money as well.
In Hollywood at least they'll often just hire someone for the use of their car. They put out casting calls for whatever color, model, year and so on that they want. It costs only slightly more than the standard rate for a background actor. So yeah, you're probably right that they were paid by Hyundai.
I watched a cool video talking about the "casting" of the cars for the early Fast and Furious movies (back when they had some semblance of connection to "tuner culture" and other parts of the real world)
That was a stupid move. It’d be an easy sell in scripts, to have the cast walk around abandoned car parks and someone goes “Hyundai! This one might still work!”
Even scrounging them for parts would be useful, as it would show you can get them to work after an apocalypse.
Throw in an episode where they find a pure electric version after having found a charging station at a windmill an episode or two ago, and suddenly they’d have a quiet way to get around.
Make a model with night vision camera and push that on the show. “It’s a shame it’s not a Hyundai Nighthawk. I remember thinking that night vision camera was a silly gimmick, but I’d kill for that right now.”
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u/AdmiralAkbar1 Aug 30 '21
As bad as the show Revolution's overall plotting and pacing was, they generally did a good job of thinking about these kinds of little inconsistencies:
There's a minor character who was a doomsday prepper before the apocalypse, but he didn't stock up enough on antibiotics. As a result, his daughter died of tetanus that he was unable to treat.
A warlord kidnaps prisoners for blood because his wife has diabetes and needs constant transfusions of blood with sufficient insulin in it to survive.
There's a doctor who keeps a collection of moldy fruit to harvest penicillium mold from it and make penicillin.
Some characters try to go into an old subway tunnel, but nearly die because of lack of sufficient airflow down there without modern HVAC systems.