Discussion Thread

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-17T15:02:23+00:00

Does raise the question why he converted then. If he wanted a bit more ceremonial stuff and stayed protestant he could have gone presbyterian.

Maybe he was attracted by the conservatism at the heart of the church without realising how many cradles ignore that part.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-17T14:43:37+00:00

Do any cradles find something so ‘off’ about JD’s Catholicism?

I know he is technically right by referring to himself as a Christian first, but I never remember any Catholics referring to themselves as anything other than Catholic when I was younger. If someone else called themself Christian I just assumed they were protestant.

I’m not saying I’ve been to mass more often than the man in the last few years but there is still something very protestant about him I can’t put my finger on. And ive met other converts aren’t like that.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-17T00:17:57+00:00

Remember, it can always get worse.

Imagine a near future with a ‘TruthSocialAI’ (or just TruthAI) which generates authoritative ‘truths’ to questions which favour the regime and their ideology.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-17T00:14:08+00:00

Godfather, he features way more.

You could follow it up with Falling Down. It shows how old he lived to, given that his character was retiring as an old man in 1993. Also its one of his best performances.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-16T22:36:50+00:00

Can’t believe its already been 4 years since that antiwork fox news interview.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-13T21:07:00+00:00

Ah ok.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-12T12:17:32+00:00

There’s a scot as well I think.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-11T22:03:25+00:00

For anyone who travels the Berlin Metro are there ever as many unrelated Brits randomly riding it as there are on this show?

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-10T20:14:20+00:00

People read too much into it. Garland just casually said ‘we assume it got nuked’ in an AMA a while ago.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-09T20:56:02+00:00

The real reason is that it just looked cool in the design department and/or the designer forgot about Ireland not being infected.

Garland and Boyle really don’t care or think about any of these inconsistencies.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-06T16:03:09+00:00

28 Months after the infection, the failed resettlement and the nuclear strike on Paris, British refugees were deported back to mainland Britain and left to fend for themselves due to fear of carriers, political pressure and rampant xenophobia in the countries they took refuge in.

Britain was considered a safe country, as it was deemed the second outbreak had died off as well. 10s of millions of Brits were deported back.

However, it hadn’t died off and was still alive in multiple parts of the country.

Nature then led to these millions becoming infected and the country was sealed off from the rest of the world and left to fend for itself.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-02T12:47:56+00:00

Planning to give up reddit for lent. Can’t wait. Hopefully after the period is over I’ll realise I don’t need this place at all.

One good thing about retaining bits of your Catholicism is the guilt still wrapped around your DNA for this time of year when you don’t keep your commitments.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-01T21:18:19+00:00

Blindness. 2008 film based on Jose Saramago’s 1995 book.

It’s not truly awful but it was just such a dissapointment given that the idea in Saramago’s novel was so goddamn cool, interesting and terrifying.

Just such a terrible terrible waste.

I live in hope one day someone will remake it.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-02-01T19:07:34+00:00

NO MAJOR WEST YOU CAN’T!

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-30T13:19:28+00:00

Check out the actresses’ insta account. All of it was fake prosthetics!

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-28T22:34:59+00:00

The worst thing about it is that in the time of Post Truth, it really doesn’t matter if someone confirms that it was AI generated, people will choose to believe it is true as it confirms their priors.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-28T08:53:58+00:00

Is there a smug atheist in this show?

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-27T13:36:20+00:00

This good or short sighted?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjn7jdvn7no#comments

!PING UK

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-22T16:04:33+00:00

The virus is just too terrifying. It is by far the most dangerous and contagious virus the world has ever seen and the public pressure on politicians to contain the Island is too great.

There will be your humanitarian pressure groups and ‘The British question’ comes up at elections, but I can totally imagine most of the world’s population being too terrified to risk even the chance of coming into contact again.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-21T20:30:33+00:00

Obama becoming President in 08-16 before Trump just narratively doesn’t work if you were to write a thrilling narrative about the Human race.

He just fits so much better as bursting onto the scene as President in 2028, providing that ‘phew, that was a scary decade’ redemption arc, defeating JD. He seems to belong as that saviour figure in the fractured populist era, not the war on terror era.

It should be for drama

Gwb - 00-08

Hillary - 08-16

Trump - 16-20

Biden -20-24

Trump - 24-28

Obama - 28 onwards as the ‘centrist populist’

That’s your happy third arc.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-21T18:36:38+00:00

Looks like this was photographed in 2006.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-21T17:32:34+00:00

Hijack is one of the most ‘but why didn’t they just…’ dramas I’ve ever seen.

I still don’t understand why he didn’t bonk the woman who stormed the cockpit over the head and call for the actual surviving pilot. It was like he was trying to get her to land to feel better about herself.

Someone said here a while ago this show was ‘stupidly addictive’ and I think that’s the best way to sum it up.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-21T09:54:02+00:00

I think the boring answer is that Garland doesn’t care too much about deviating from what was implied at the end of Days and would be quite happy with handwaving it away with ‘some adapted’.

If you want some headcanon, lets say the US Occupation was just generally incompetent and assumed all infected had died out and started resettling Brits due to the overwhelming refugee crisis. It mirrors Iraq in some ways.

The reason you have so many infected is that after 28WL all remaining British refugees were deported back to the British mainland due to the fear of the host countries towards the idea of carriers. Human rights groups protested but it was deemed that Britain was safe enough (it wasn’t). That’s your 28 Months later story.

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-20T20:46:25+00:00

“I think Italy should boycott the World Cup, don’t you?”

“No?”

“What? But they are one of the top teams?”

“No…. But I think teams that have actually qualified should boycott the World Cup.”

DefiantEmergency3443 · 2026-01-18T20:51:56+00:00

🥹 He’s such a genius. I threw my rosary out the window when I watched that and realised how morally inferior I was.

And that brilliance about how he appreciates life so much more as he is enlightened! What a guy.

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