The scenes where Phil is conveying New Phil back to the house embody the appeal of this show in a nutshell.
Particularly when he elects to shoot the fin/whatever off the surfboard, and then moves his line of fire out of the way of New Phil's leg. Guns solve everything after the apocalypse!
This season has retroactively made the first one better. Tandy's arc has been perfectly done this season.
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I wasn't sure which way that was going to go - I thought someone else from the group might see Tandy pointing a gun at New Phil (passed out on the beach) and mistakenly think he'd killed him, and Tandy would end up back on the shit list.
And I wish I could go shopping for chips in a pick-up truck.
It is pretty funny to see them pissing away gasoline when the last episode literally featured them being reminded that, yes, gasoline does not have an infinite shelf life.
At least he got a truck load of chips, though you really have to think that was practically an afterthought, and that he was pissing that fuel away just to save himself the trouble of walking in the aisles.
Of course they'd waste gas. Why conserve something you cannot possibly exhaust before it expires?
I thought the point was to use the gas to find more gas elsewhere. As oppose to, well, getting chips.
(I'm assuming that they aren't literally dealing with the newest possible fuel reserves, but again, I don't remember the exact time frames involved, if the show even gave them.)
According to the show, I think it was a few years. According to the resources I checked out because I was curious, it varies, but usually looks like closer to a a few months before it starts losing effectiveness. Not sure when it would just completely stop working.
Either way, no sense conserving.
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Of course they'd waste gas. Why conserve something you cannot possibly exhaust before it expires?
I thought the point was to use the gas to find more gas elsewhere. As oppose to, well, getting chips.
(I'm assuming that they aren't literally dealing with the newest possible fuel reserves, but again, I don't remember the exact time frames involved, if the show even gave them.)
In doubt there's much usable fuel left. Sure, maybe you can find the one gas station that had the freshest possible fuel at the end...but that probably only buys you a year. Phil wasn't wrong, they need to move past the need for gasoline because every last drop has an expiration date, and one coming sooner rather than later.
I mean they could convert the cars they have for biodeisel right? Theres tons of fry oil laying around
Cooking oil definitely has a shelf life when it comes to consumption. No idea how that'd effect whether or not you could use it for biodeisel though. I mean, at some point the consistency has to change too, which might be a problem.
They should have stored some of it in the working freezer Todd found.
Really, they should have people out there using up what diesel fuel they have left and scouring the country for cattle. Get enough to make a sustainable population and then take over a ranch upstate in Cali (like in the Salinas valley or something).
...keep the bull on hand to try and breed with the cow further. I mean, eh, having a lot of beef store up is a good idea, sure. Maybe that would be too labor intensive? Maybe all the tranq darts killed it anyway?
Also, every time I stare at the ISS, I don't see a Soyuz return vehicle docked to it. So that's at least one less avenue (also in real life, the only one) of escape for Phil's poor brother.
...keep the bull on hand to try and breed with the cow further. I mean, eh, having a lot of beef store up is a good idea, sure. Maybe that would be too labor intensive? Maybe all the tranq darts killed it anyway?
Also, every time I stare at the ISS, I don't see a Soyuz return vehicle docked to it. So that's at least one less avenue (also in real life, the only one) of escape for Phil's poor brother.
They accidentally killed it. Keeping it wasn't an option.
...keep the bull on hand to try and breed with the cow further. I mean, eh, having a lot of beef store up is a good idea, sure. Maybe that would be too labor intensive? Maybe all the tranq darts killed it anyway?
Also, every time I stare at the ISS, I don't see a Soyuz return vehicle docked to it. So that's at least one less avenue (also in real life, the only one) of escape for Phil's poor brother.
I'm really not a fan of the ISS aspects of this show. It puts it over the threshold of bleakness I can stand in a comedy. Those scenes are so depressing. Especially when
he thought he had found somebody on the radio, but it was him looping back over and over.
They should have stored some of it in the working freezer Todd found.
Really, they should have people out there using up what diesel fuel they have left and scouring the country for cattle. Get enough to make a sustainable population and then take over a ranch upstate in Cali (like in the Salinas valley or something).
But they are like the worst group of people who could have found each other to create something sustainable for the future. Every one is a major shithead in their own special way, and nobody is respected enough by everybody in the group to take the leader role and steer things in the right direction.
I find the ISS scenes compelling because they mirror Phil's own previous isolation, provide a nice counterpoint to the comparative happiness down below, and because it will make it that much more empathetic when he inevitably gets to Earth.
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I find the ISS scenes compelling because they mirror Phil's own previous isolation, provide a nice counterpoint to the comparative happiness down below, and because it will make it that much more empathetic when he inevitably gets to Earth.
Ya, I suppose that is very likely and should take the edge off those scenes for me. But the thought of being trapped in space thinking that you are the only human left alive is just so chilling to me.
...keep the bull on hand to try and breed with the cow further. I mean, eh, having a lot of beef store up is a good idea, sure. Maybe that would be too labor intensive? Maybe all the tranq darts killed it anyway?
Also, every time I stare at the ISS, I don't see a Soyuz return vehicle docked to it. So that's at least one less avenue (also in real life, the only one) of escape for Phil's poor brother.
I'm really not a fan of the ISS aspects of this show. It puts it over the threshold of bleakness I can stand in a comedy. Those scenes are so depressing. Especially when
he thought he had found somebody on the radio, but it was him looping back over and over.
They should have stored some of it in the working freezer Todd found.
Really, they should have people out there using up what diesel fuel they have left and scouring the country for cattle. Get enough to make a sustainable population and then take over a ranch upstate in Cali (like in the Salinas valley or something).
But they are like the worst group of people who could have found each other to create something sustainable for the future. Every one is a major shithead in their own special way, and nobody is respected enough by everybody in the group to take the leader role and steer things in the right direction.
I think Military-Phil was the closest, but him finally snapping in S2 knocked him out of that role.
I find the ISS scenes compelling because they mirror Phil's own previous isolation, provide a nice counterpoint to the comparative happiness down below, and because it will make it that much more empathetic when he inevitably gets to Earth.
If he ever does get back to Earth, it's going to end the same way as Will Farrell.
his personality is probably a consequence of his brother being a god damn astronaut on the ISS.
We've come full circle that everyone is the worst for different reasons now, which I find is good. the acceptance of carol and tandy's personalities and sometimes positive response to their sillyness is a welcome change.
edit: I thought the reaction to Tandy's gift by all was meh. Lets not act like you party every day and act like you can't just go get another one.
his personality is probably a consequence of his brother being a god damn astronaut on the ISS.
We've come full circle that everyone is the worst for different reasons now, which I find is good. the acceptance of carol and tandy's personalities and sometimes positive response to their sillyness is a welcome change.
edit: I thought the reaction to Tandy's gift by all was meh. Lets not act like you party every day and act like you can't just go get another one.
That could be the point, that they've all grown bored with ostentatious displays of excess such that Phil blowing up a yacht elicits no reaction.
I think it shows their expectation when it comes to his actions that it should be for them while in self service. Which Tandy kind of deserves but not really anymore since everyone has slid into being jerks(except erica I guess?). This was a gift purely for him from him(he would have done this, alone), but he still wanted to share it and his love of explosions. The gift wasn't even about bragging, except for whose boat it was. I don't think he shared it to get applause, it was innocently so people would go "whoa, cool explosion".
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Ultrasound machine/setup was a way better present than the diamond, Tandy's going to regret being a jerk about that.
I kind of think the stuff with Phil at the end is a setup. Like, he's not faking, but it was induced, maybe? Him taking Tandy out for a drink, except then doing nothing and then WHAM is kind of suspect in my mind.
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It's alluded in the pilot, where we learn that the virus was a drawn out process (and not "you wake up one day and everyone is dead").
Also, Phil's brother mentions the he know's about the virus, meaning that he was in contact with NASA as it was happening.
Carol's Oklahoma shirt at the beginning of the second episode is grade-A super great wonderful
Whoops, spoke too soon.
"I want to exist!"
Yeah it was pretty enjoyable in this episode. I guess it really wasn't just about the bacon.
This episode felt specifically design to address complaints about last season.
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Particularly when he elects to shoot the fin/whatever off the surfboard, and then moves his line of fire out of the way of New Phil's leg. Guns solve everything after the apocalypse!
And I wish I could go shopping for chips in a pick-up truck.
At least he got a truck load of chips, though you really have to think that was practically an afterthought, and that he was pissing that fuel away just to save himself the trouble of walking in the aisles.
I thought the point was to use the gas to find more gas elsewhere. As oppose to, well, getting chips.
(I'm assuming that they aren't literally dealing with the newest possible fuel reserves, but again, I don't remember the exact time frames involved, if the show even gave them.)
Either way, no sense conserving.
In doubt there's much usable fuel left. Sure, maybe you can find the one gas station that had the freshest possible fuel at the end...but that probably only buys you a year. Phil wasn't wrong, they need to move past the need for gasoline because every last drop has an expiration date, and one coming sooner rather than later.
Or a biodiesel car.
Cooking oil definitely has a shelf life when it comes to consumption. No idea how that'd effect whether or not you could use it for biodeisel though. I mean, at some point the consistency has to change too, which might be a problem.
Really, they should have people out there using up what diesel fuel they have left and scouring the country for cattle. Get enough to make a sustainable population and then take over a ranch upstate in Cali (like in the Salinas valley or something).
Also, every time I stare at the ISS, I don't see a Soyuz return vehicle docked to it. So that's at least one less avenue (also in real life, the only one) of escape for Phil's poor brother.
They accidentally killed it. Keeping it wasn't an option.
I'm really not a fan of the ISS aspects of this show. It puts it over the threshold of bleakness I can stand in a comedy. Those scenes are so depressing. Especially when
But they are like the worst group of people who could have found each other to create something sustainable for the future. Every one is a major shithead in their own special way, and nobody is respected enough by everybody in the group to take the leader role and steer things in the right direction.
Ya, I suppose that is very likely and should take the edge off those scenes for me. But the thought of being trapped in space thinking that you are the only human left alive is just so chilling to me.
If he ever does get back to Earth, it's going to end the same way as Will Farrell.
We've come full circle that everyone is the worst for different reasons now, which I find is good. the acceptance of carol and tandy's personalities and sometimes positive response to their sillyness is a welcome change.
edit: I thought the reaction to Tandy's gift by all was meh. Lets not act like you party every day and act like you can't just go get another one.
That could be the point, that they've all grown bored with ostentatious displays of excess such that Phil blowing up a yacht elicits no reaction.