Someday I must get around to that "Lucky Star characters in the world of Threads" fanfic that I've been mulling over.
Protect & Survive Miami: End of Watch
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Someday I must get around to that "Lucky Star characters in the world of Threads" fanfic that I've been mulling over.
Christ, I haven't watched that movie in some time. I could handle The Day After easily, but Threads fucked me up for days.
Oh god, Threads makes The Day After look like Willy Wonka. I still can't watch the ending of Threads without getting horribly depressed.
I still haven't watched The Day After. I made the mistake of watching Threads first and lost my appetite for nuclear war films pretty much immediately after.
That was the happy part of the film. It gets much, much darker.
One night, shortly after I lost my job, I was up late struggling to get to sleep. The Emergency Alert System test woke me up for good. So shaken from a fitful slumber, I went onto Youtube and decided to search out old pre-duck fart EBS alerts for kicks and giggles. When I typed in "Emergency" in the search bar, it suggested "Emergency Alert System nuclear attack".
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oh sure what the heck, I'll watch that.
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*cringe*
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After a few videos depicting the end of the world in varying degrees of quality, I noticed segments of Threads were available to watch. I knew that it was roughly a British counterpart to The Day After, which I hadn't seen in many years, but that was about it.
eh whatever, i'm up anyway, might as well tuck in.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAH OH GOD NO NO NO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Six years later I'm posting in a nuclear war alt-history thread.
Thanks, Emergency Alert System!
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oh sure what the heck, I'll watch that.
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*cringe*
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After a few videos depicting the end of the world in varying degrees of quality, I noticed segments of Threads were available to watch. I knew that it was roughly a British counterpart to The Day After, which I hadn't seen in many years, but that was about it.
eh whatever, i'm up anyway, might as well tuck in.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAH OH GOD NO NO NO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Six years later I'm posting in a nuclear war alt-history thread.
Thanks, Emergency Alert System!
For some reason after the last few chapters and knowing whats about to occur this seems to be in my head.
If those guys on the radio are monitoring the right frequencies, then they might pick up the EAMs and Skykes ordering launches. That's when they know the bombs are minutes away.
Only the ending?
I'm not sure how old other posters here are, but Threads traumatised a generation when it was first broadcast, and subsequently re-circulated in the mid-80's. I turned 9 in 1985 and remember the aura/reputation it cast - people would talk about seeing it in hushed whispers (in an era where pre-teens bragged about watching the Sunday Night Horrors at school on Monday morning). It featured at the BAFTA awards, and I remember watching the awards with my older sisters when they showed a short clip of the actual attack segment. My sisters said something like "ooh I want to watch that" in full-on teenage bravado mode, and wanting to keep up I said "me too!". Nope nope nope nope. Fortunately my parents were a bit more sensible and made sure I didn't see it when it was broadcast on NZ TV. Our neighbours at the time were anti-nuclear activists, who happened to have a great book collection (like complete collections of Asterix and Tintin) so I'd regularly go over there to grab or return books. I was doing this one day and they were just settling down to watch Threads, as nice after dinner family viewing. I didn't linger
.The Day After didn't screen on NZ TV until 1987, and it was a fairly big deal. The year 8 class next to mine watched it at school since they were doing a project on disasters at the time. When I was in 4th form/Year 10 we watched Threads and The War Game as part of the Social Studies curriculum (Nuclear Issues topic). As a parent now that seems nuts to me in hindsight, but it was a different era. I had a cold at the time and while I could handle The War Game (probably because it was in black and white), the screening of Threads was spread over two classes, and after the first session I played up the cold so I could have a day off and not be forced to keep watching it. Still haven't seen the whole thing in one sitting.
I once watched The War Game and Threads back to back thanks to BBC4. An interesting evening's viewing.
I'm not so sure that Tallahassee is going to be a target. As someone who lives in Florida regardless of the party affiliation very little comes out of Tallahassee Plus it's going to be hard for them to have communications with what's left of Southern Florida. Gainesville is a perfectly located capital. It's close to being about the same distance from Tallahassee Jacksonville was it ever left of Gulf Coast and not and not really that far from the Atlantic coast, I didn't sit down at a map to see the exact distances between the different areas but there roughly the same distance give or take. And Tallahassee is the most hard to get to state capital.