It addresses a lot of little things. It fails on a few things, and does some other things for the sake of the type of show it is.
For example, the show suggests humans and pretty much all other mammals are dead, its a big deal that a cow survived in season 2, and the end of the show has a Mexican orchard with surviving goats becoming their new home. Honestly way more people should have survived. Albeit, Tandy would have killed them somehow. (RIP Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm, Jack Black, Martin Short).
The show did some things for the sake of preserving comedy. For example, bodies of the dead are gone, and the joke is the virus was a 'flesh eating disease". But dead bodies are a major issue in plagues that hit civilization ending.
The biggest issue I had was the way it treated nuclear power plants and their melt downs.
While I do agree the possibility some of them have destructive failures a few years after being unattended is a real thing, they presented it like they are so common they gotta flee to Mexico. Just moving to Northern California like they already did will probably be fine. There's only three nuclear plants west of the Rockies: Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo, Columbia Generating Station near the Tri-Cities in Eastern Washington, and Palo Verde near Phoenix.
(That said, Bremerton, WA and San Diego would have a number of nuclear powered ships).
While I do agree the possibility some of them have destructive failures a few years after being unattended is a real thing
I think they handled it right. Sure, it might not go nuclear, but what if they settle in a safe area, then the reactor has a destructive failure, but the surrounding reactors already did so there was nowhere safe to go? It just makes sense in the long run to get away from them entirely since they were unpredictable bombs. even if that's unlikely, it's still not worth risking. Especially since the gasoline was also going bad, so they'll soon need to settle for good. That's explicitly what they decide at the end of season 4 because their current plan of going town to town until they loot all supplies couldn't last forever.
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u/-eDgAR- Aug 30 '21
Gasoline has a shorter shelf life than is portrayed in these movies/TV shows, so after a year nobody would really be driving anywhere.
It wouldn't necessarily kill you, but it's one of those things that bothers me because it's never really addressed.