TV Show: Life After People

[pmulcahy11b]

If you can get the History Channel or National Geographic channel, I urge you to watch Life After People. The premise is different from T2K (the idea is that, for whatever reason, humankind simultaneously all vanish), but it does give a very good look at how fast human structures and landmarks would deteriorate. The power grid fails after only one day without supervision due to automatic overload cutoffs. After the power grid fails, breweries explode after less than a month due to carbon dioxide buildup in the fermentation vats. A lot of interesting things you might not have thought of. It doesn't all apply to T2K since there are still people around, but it's worth watching.

[Canadian Army]

I’ve watched it and thought it was really well done

[kato13]

In case anyone is looking for this there is both a Documentary and a TV series done by the same people on the same subject. The Documentary was aired over a year ago and has a DVD out. The series is currently running and has run 4 episodes out of 10. In the US it airs on Tuesdays on the History Channel

[Abbott Shaull]

Yeah there is a lot of useful info in there. Especially if you running thing in urban settings for it does go into some details what fails and why, along with some interesting back ground.

Points out things that many people wouldn't think of.

Great show for evil GMs...lol

[kato13]

For our US members here is a schedule.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433058/tvschedule

Looks like they rerun them quite often.

[Abbott Shaull]

Originally Posted by kato13

For our US members here is a schedule.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433058/tvschedule

Looks like they rerun them quite often.

Yes the history channel does a good job of show re-runs of their prime time shows. Especially in the weekend.

[Raellus]

It's an interesting show. I found the two-hour pilot, aired about a year ago, to be particularly enlightening. The series seems to just be elaborating on the premises originally presented in that first show.

I believe the series is based on the book The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. I haven't acquired it yet (read excerpts in Discover magazine)but I plan on it. I find having a print resource is usually more convenient than scanning DVRed shows or DVDs. But, for pure visual impact, the TV version is pretty effective.

It's usefulness for T2K is probably somewhat limited, although the stuff they've done on life 1-5 years after people is applicable. For the Morrow Project and similar long-view post-apocalyptic stuff, though, LAP and the WWU are pure gold.