There's two things about P&S I think get under-covered, but which I think are huge. One is AIDS, because you're going to have a plague without proper infrastructure for screening, prevention and treatment. Two is that the Exchange is a scattershot of wherever OTL people were at the time, and that there is a whole drama to play out based on them being wherever they were. And I don't know the details of this, so this isn't fact, but these are just examples of possibilities: Bill Murray in LA doing an interview on the Tonight Show, Arnold Schwarzenegger driving through Illinois, Michael Jackson flying to Paris on a private jet, all at the moment nuclear war erupts, the world is instantly thrown into the apocalypse, and now it's a survival drama of an interrupted normal day. Again, I don't know what any of these people were really doing in the OTL on that day, but with enough research, you could probably find out and then it is an interesting thought experiment to interrupt that normal day with a wild card of atomic war.
Chipperback established in Land of Flatwater, with a wink and a nod, that Johnny Carson had gone home to Nebraska and was working with FEMA.Those examples of possibilities regarding the Celebrities you mentioned would likely be impossible in the P&S Universe probably due to these facts.
1. The Tonight Show (As well as all Entertainment programming on Television) would have likely halted all scheduled tapings until "Further Notice" on or before February 18 due to the events in Europe and preemption's would have likely occurred for those same reasons. And in the P&S Universe It's completely all but impossible to get even anywhere remotely near Los Angeles once the World War III begins (Roads are likely one way going out and Planes landing in the area are only likely doing so for Emergencies only). {snip}
Chipperback established in Land of Flatwater, with a wink and a nod, that Johnny Carson had gone home to Nebraska and was working with FEMA.
That being said, Protect and Survive Miami: End of Watch continues onward, so if any of you haven't been reading, stop on over!
They were..they were examples to provoke imagination, not suggestions.
I would imagine someone like Bill Murray would be on the set of Ghostbusters, for example.
One of my favorite movies, seen it more times than I can count, and its loss is the cherry on top of the dystopian sundae.
I feel the same way about the loss of Metallica's second album. We get left with the tacky bits of the 1980s ITTL.
I'd imagine that with the longish Time To War in P&S some celebrities would have the money to get out of the cities or into shelters - like John Peel or Saville.
Who survived? Speculation beyond what we already have.
It would be interesting to read this.So I was thinking about doing something brief in terms of a timeline. It would be a C-SPAN panel on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which would devolve into a flame war hostile argument between two author-historians (a conservative and a liberal) when the topic of how the Crisis related to the 1984 crisis, while the other historians just sit back very uncomfortably. And maybe Harry Turtledove could be on there discussing his book "1985" about the alternate history of no war.