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Dan Sterling was announced as being the new executive producer and showrunner for season two. I'm not really all that familiar with him, except that he wrote two of the terrible late-series Office episodes and The Interview (which I didn't see).
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Sooo Phil's brother was the golden child who achieved everything Phil always dreamed he would achieve himself, but the one thing his brother never had is a lifelong borderline-autistic obsession with everything involving spacecraft. Like train people. Phil knows every bit, every piece, where it goes and how to put what where to make things work, even though he could never actually do any of the work himself because his craftsmanship is pure garbage(as we've seen). NASA doesn't let you bring pistols into space too, so how would he ever open anything? So he helps get his brother home from space somehow? I mean Phil has to be good at SOMETHING right?
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May 7, 2015 01:17
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:So he helps get his brother home from space somehow? I mean Phil has to be good at SOMETHING right? I don't think he needs much help. All he has to do is jump in the soyuz and let gravity do the work. He's probably more worried that if he goes back to earth he will be infected by whatever made everyone else disappear. I don't think tandy will even be able to contact him due to his incompetence. Sudekis is probably reaching a point where the ISS orbit has decayed so much it is unsafe to stay there.
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May 7, 2015 02:09
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Chairman Capone posted:Dan Sterling was announced as being the new executive producer and showrunner for season two. I'm not really all that familiar with him, except that he wrote two of the terrible late-series Office episodes and The Interview (which I didn't see). Oh... poo poo... 
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May 7, 2015 03:05
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:I mean Phil has to be good at SOMETHING right? Incorrect. See: Todd Margaret.
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May 7, 2015 05:00
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Inkspot posted:Next season on Will Forte presents Y: The Last Man On Earth, ... For reals, even got the guy in the space station. It would be much better if it was really the last man.
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May 7, 2015 18:05
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r0ck0 posted:For reals, even got the guy in the space station. It would be much better if it was really the last man. Seriously yeah. Show Phil loving around, taking whatever he wants, smashing things into other things, wiping his rear end with the Constitution, whatever. It wouldn't work because actors need other actors to play off. Still, it would be cool while it lasted.
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May 7, 2015 20:02
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Gynovore posted:Seriously yeah. Show Phil loving around, taking whatever he wants, smashing things into other things, wiping his rear end with the Constitution, whatever. You haven't read Y: the last man
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May 7, 2015 20:06
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Gynovore posted:Seriously yeah. Show Phil loving around, taking whatever he wants, smashing things into other things, wiping his rear end with the Constitution, whatever. He can still do stuff like that with other people. It's just that the other people have to act like somethings different, instead of just living normal suburban lives, unchanged by the death of 7 billion people.
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May 7, 2015 20:07
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r0ck0 posted:You haven't read Y: the last man To be fair, Yorick smashing a pyramid of fish tanks with a truckload of bowling balls really would have spiced up the Kimono Dragons arc.
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May 7, 2015 20:22
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boom boom boom posted:It's just that the other people have to act like somethings different, instead of just living normal suburban lives, unchanged by the death of 7 billion people. Yeah ^^^this.^^^ The first two episodes were awesome, then it turned into a loving generic two-couple sitcom. My guess is Forte turned the writing duties over to lazy Hollywood hacks after the pilot. EDIT: also he should have kept the beard forever.
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May 7, 2015 21:33
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AirCav58 posted:I don't think he needs much help. All he has to do is jump in the soyuz and let gravity do the work. I have to confess that I actually paused several times in the final shot, and I didn't see a Soyuz docked on the station. Not that it really bothers me, they could have him crash the station and climb out of the wreckage and in the context of the show I'd be fine with it.
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May 7, 2015 23:25
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Chairman Capone posted:I have to confess that I actually paused several times in the final shot, and I didn't see a Soyuz docked on the station. Not that it really bothers me, they could have him crash the station and climb out of the wreckage and in the context of the show I'd be fine with it. He can't just steer the station toward the Earth. In NASA parlance, he doesn't have anywhere near enough "delta vee". Also there's no way in hell the station could survive reentry.
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May 7, 2015 23:37
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Gynovore posted:He can't just steer the station toward the Earth. In NASA parlance, he doesn't have anywhere near enough "delta vee". Also there's no way in hell the station could survive reentry. It's a show where, following two years of isolation, the most important things to every person still alive is getting your bone on and/or recreating society from the suburbs up, so I don't think it needs to be realistic.
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May 7, 2015 23:42
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Shima Honnou posted:It's a show where, following two years of isolation, the most important things to every person still alive is getting your bone on and/or recreating society from the suburbs up, so I don't think it needs to be realistic. This. If we're playing the "realism game" there's no way he would have been alive for two years with no resupply or support on the station, to begin with.
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May 7, 2015 23:48
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As in everything else, Tandy's brother is much, much better at rationing his supplies.
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May 8, 2015 00:05
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Chairman Capone posted:This. If he's like his brother he probably shoved everyone else out the airlock so he would have more food.
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Shima Honnou posted:It's a show where, following two years of isolation, the most important things to every person still alive is getting your bone on and/or recreating society from the suburbs up, so I don't think it needs to be realistic. If everybody else just dropped dead rather quickly, which we can assume happened based on there being no evidence of looting or anything in Tuscon, the few hundred people left alive could live super comfortably for two years, easy.
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May 8, 2015 00:31
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boom boom boom posted:If everybody else just dropped dead rather quickly, which we can assume happened based on there being no evidence of looting or anything in Tuscon, the few hundred people left alive could live super comfortably for two years, easy. Does anyone know how this would work in real life? It feels like I could live forever off of just the supermarket nearby if everyone else suddenly dropped dead. But then, most of the stuff would expire eventually. Do canned goods have a shelf life at all?
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Phenotype posted:Does anyone know how this would work in real life? It feels like I could live forever off of just the supermarket nearby if everyone else suddenly dropped dead. But then, most of the stuff would expire eventually. Do canned goods have a shelf life at all? You want to use a canned item within one year, but it's generally safe for two years. Max is five for some items before the contents become dangerous to health if consumed (Which can range from just rotten/fermented contents to botulism risk etc). Also, once a can starts to rust, it's no longer safe because it can rust on the inside as well and contaminate the food. Sealed jerky has a similar expiry period (1-2 years). Most food and drink would be spoiled, rotten, or potentially cause you illness within a few weeks/months. Basically if you want to start bringing realism into the equation on this comedy TV show, Phil Tandy Miller would have probably died by poisoning himself from eating expired food before making it back to Tuscon. Shima Honnou fucked around with this message at 01:26 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 01:21
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Shima Honnou posted:You want to use a canned item within one year, but it's generally safe for two years. Max is five for some items before the contents become dangerous to health if consumed (Which can range from just rotten/fermented contents to botulism risk etc). Also, once a can starts to rust, it's no longer safe because it can rust on the inside as well and contaminate the food. Sealed jerky has a similar expiry period (1-2 years). Most food and drink would be spoiled, rotten, or potentially cause you illness within a few weeks/months. Canned food can last almost indefinitely, provided you look out for the signs you mentioned. Any sort of rusting, denting, expansion, whatever is a giant red flag and is definitely something you want to avoid, but that holds whether the item is within the expiration date or not. But a perfect looking can, decades past it's expiration date, is most likely still perfectly safe to eat. Most modern factory sealed food can last a shockingly long time past their expiration dates, especially canned/jarred/airtight and pasteurized items, if they're stored properly and unmolested. Some stuff, like honey, will simply last indefinitely (people have eaten honey found in Egyptian tombs). Pasteurized food in airtight containers doesn't decompose or rot or spoil and pose a health risk to you just by being old. They have to have their container somehow compromised, or not canned correctly, to pose a risk to you. The real risk is not knowing what signs to look for, not with an arbitrary amount of time past the arbitrary expiration date. Here's an old FDA article on canning. They found canned goods on a steamboat wreck at the bottom of the Mississippi river, still fine after 100 years. Also a 40 year can of corn in some dude's basement in California, which was also fine.
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In addition to food with a long shelf life I imagine it would be very easy to find food if you go to a unmaintained orchard or farm. Some crops would die out without bees to pollinate them but some like oranges would be fine.
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Of course, this is Phil were talking about. If he saw a bulging can, his reaction would probably be more like "Ooh, bonus Spaghetti-O's!".
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Chairman Capone posted:This. Also, the cars in the LMOE universe that magically have unlimited fuel. Shima Honnou posted:You want to use a canned item within one year, but it's generally safe for two years. Max is five for some items before the contents become dangerous to health if consumed (Which can range from just rotten/fermented contents to botulism risk etc). Also, once a can starts to rust, it's no longer safe because it can rust on the inside as well and contaminate the food. Sealed jerky has a similar expiry period (1-2 years). Most food and drink would be spoiled, rotten, or potentially cause you illness within a few weeks/months. I've always wondered about this, because back in the era of Cold War fallout shelters, didn't people stock up with canned goods that were supposed to last several years? As in more like 10+ years as opposed to 5 max? Not that there were a lot of sensible decisions made back then, of course. raditts fucked around with this message at 14:26 on May 8, 2015 |
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pnumoman posted:Canned food can last almost indefinitely, provided you look out for the signs you mentioned. Any sort of rusting, denting, expansion, whatever is a giant red flag and is definitely something you want to avoid, but that holds whether the item is within the expiration date or not. But a perfect looking can, decades past it's expiration date, is most likely still perfectly safe to eat. People pretty regularly find and eat K-rations from WWII so it's not like this isn't unheard of either. Granted, Phil's pretty dumb though...
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May 8, 2015 20:09
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raditts posted:Also, the cars in the LMOE universe that magically have unlimited fuel. You could go to every hunting/fishing supply store in the area and steal the MRE's they sell, then break into military bases if you are able and steal their real MRE's. Store those away, and live off cans and oranges until that wasn't viable anymore at which point you start on the MRE supply while making your way to a new grouping of military bases to raid those.
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There's an infinite amount of ways to survive better than what Phil ultimately chose to do, but if he had chosen any of them, would he still be Phil? Like, If he had stayed at the White House, where he picked up his sweet POTUS rug, he would have gotten his wish to bang both Erica and Gail. Probably at the same time. But, he would never have met Carol, who is arguably the perfect woman for him. So, ... I can't wait to see what the bingewatchers think of this show, and how the opportunity to absorb it all in rapid succession vs. the course of a few months might change their perceptions. I imagine the middle will still be kinda rough, but the introduction of NuPhil will really kick things into high gear and the response will be more or less positive.
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May 8, 2015 22:02
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The White House has a vegetable garden too. It'd be a pretty good place to live.
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:You could go to every hunting/fishing supply store in the area and steal the MRE's they sell, then break into military bases if you are able and steal their real MRE's. Store those away, and live off cans and oranges until that wasn't viable anymore at which point you start on the MRE supply while making your way to a new grouping of military bases to raid those. Different parts of MREs can last a while. At which temperature they were stored is what on which it all depends.
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May 8, 2015 22:29
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Cojawfee posted:At which temperature they were stored is what on which it all depends. That can't be right.
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May 8, 2015 22:48
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Max22 posted:That can't be right. I agree; it's kind of the whole point of MREs that you can store them pretty much anywhere, anyhow, and they'll be fine provided the seals aren't compromised by puncture or something.
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pnumoman posted:I agree; it's kind of the whole point of MREs that you can store them pretty much anywhere, anyhow, and they'll be fine provided the seals aren't compromised by puncture or something. *whoooosh* Edit: No but seriously, MREs don't last as long as people think they do.
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Cojawfee posted:*whoooosh* Really? That kinda sucks, but I guess it makes sense when you have a giant military industrial complex constantly churning out stuff.
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MREs can go bad extremely quickly due to temperature variances. http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mre-shelf-life.html
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Echo Chamber posted:The space station thing was effective. I could have accepted it was some astronaut cut off from earth; but it was definitely implied that the astronaut wasn't just another Miller, but Tandy's brother. Why else would they need to mention it seconds before? It's quite a coincidence that two of the few people alive are brothers, but I'll take it. It's not too much of a stretch, there might be some kind of genetic resistance to the virus that wiped out the population. Grim posted:I really was hoping that after so long of not using his ultimate multi-tool that we would have gotten some callback to it near the end of the season, it was a bit too good to not use It's Phil Miller's gun, not Chekhov's 
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May 9, 2015 04:11
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What's the ultimate multi tool? I don't remember it at all.
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Met posted:What's the ultimate multi tool? I don't remember it at all. He was using a handgun to open doors, tried to use it to open that water faucet thing, etc
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Oh! Ha.
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I think Phil is going to think that when Carol brought supplies to Tandy, Tandy kidnapped her and stole her car. Phil loves her and spends the offseason looking for her.
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PassTheRemote posted:It would probably take Tandy more than 2 days to get to another town on foot. Tuscon to Pheonix is 115 miles. Phil left him to die, while saying he had a chance. Walking from Tucson to Phoenix (or anywhere) is a death sentence. It's a desert. It's like the billboard situation for Phil, except if he was on a treadmill.
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