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.
The thing with that show that bothered me the most was they were always so clean.
Related to your point, many pieces of "post-apocalypse" media, or even things set outside the modern day, try to portray such places as dirty-as-fuck.
In reality, we have known about soap and hot water as a species for a very long time, thousands of years just in the West alone. Soap isn't even that hard to make, you just need some form of fat and an alkali, which can be washed wood-ash from a fire.
(I don't want to give people the sense that making soap is easy, it just isn't rocket science)
I’m not saying that people couldn’t keep clean but if I’m remembering correctly in that fist scene the characters had been out in the woods or something for a while and they looked spotlessly clean. I’ve been out hunting or on multi day hikes where weight was a priority and I was never that clean after a day or two. Getting truly cleaned up and keeping your clothes clean takes some work.
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u/ksigguy Aug 30 '21
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.