Episode 105: Simple Pleasures

An episode that was sad, but also inspiring. Much like real life.

The death of a friend (and I'll take the liberty of assuming that Johnny and Russ had quickly become friends), often does have the strange duality of sadness while at the same time spurring you on to action.

In fact, I recently lost a good friend and mentor, who I would call my "hero of the blogosphere"....has that improved my writing? probably not...at least not yet, but it has made me take extra time with my daughter, led me to do more adventurous things, etc....I mean you can only worry about your weight or cholorestol level or whatever problem you have so much, but sometimes you've got to live. I'm not sure why we were put on this planet, but I am pretty sure that it wasn't to count calories and drink light beer.

Russ then goes and makes peace with his memories of his parents. His relationship with his parents hasn't come into play yet, so there may be more to that side plot.

As a side note - Why is Seattle a "closed community"? As far as I can remember there hasn't been another "closed community" mentioned...please feel free to add your insights. Was the effect of the fall less in Seattle (seems doubtful)? Did some para-military group seize control? Seattle (the city itself) wouldn't be a hard place to secure...since there is so much water around there, there are really only 2 roads/bridges in from the east, 3 or 4 from the north, none from west. But why close off Seattle?

Episode 104

Of course, shutting off the EMP couldn't happen without a glitch...could it?

The big question is "will Johnny live more than 47 minutes?" (or however long it is until the next EMP burst.)

I really hope so....but I'm not holding my breath. If Afterworld has taught me one thing...it's not to hope for a neat, clean, happy follow up.

Treasure Island is in the Bay between Oakland and San Francisco. So it looks like Russ will be heading to the coast, and then it's 700 miles straight north to Seattle....of course things won't go in that linear of a fashion.....will they? :)

Episode 103: Prisoner of Fate

Well I like that I was right about the effect of the EMP/mini-fall on the civilians.

I still don't like watching and writing about 2 episodes so close together...I meant to watch one earlier and one late tonight...but there were appointments to be kept, and friends and beer and pizza....so I watched 102 and 103 pretty close together tonight.

The EMP might be about to be turned off. and it might mean that those inside the NORAD facility will be able to get out and live for more than 47 minutes. That will be cool to see.

I love the line "I was just passing through and stopped by to save the world".

Episode 102: NORAD

Okay, so along, I've been rooting for Russ to get to NORAD and shut off the EMP, because that would seem like "victory".

In this episode Russ meets Sam Rhodes who has been trading with the folks inside NORAD, and is the only survivor from when the civilians were let out of NORAD.

So it seems that after about 30 minutes passes in the outside world that the civilians who left NORAD all vanished, except Sam, in a very "fall-like" situation. Does this mean that everyone who is inside NORAD and other strongholds are still suseptible to the fall.

Could this time period coincide with the EMP?

I'm really starting to wonder about the reason behind the EMP.

Now that Russ is a prisoner at NORAD, I think that we'll find out a lot more this week...possibly from someone inside who is overly chatty. :)

Episode 101: Road to Redemption

3 new episodes are up today. I'm going to try to view and blog about them at seperate times. So I'll hope to have 102 up this afternoon (pacific time) and 103 up tonight.

Episode 101, a little information about Russ' childhood. He's back in his old hometown?

That should come into play. I wonder if he will run into some old high school buddies, or perhaps even his parents?

You would think that if the Parthia Group wanted him to get into NORAD, they would have given him a little more information.

Has anyone been keeping track of how much time has passed since the fall? I'm guessing it's got to be getting close to a year and half or 2 years. The weather seems remarkably nice in Colorado. Meaning that it is somewhere between April and September, but no mention of oppressive heat was mentioned in Vegas so that rules out May through September. Or else the weather patterns are drastically different since the Fall. Although even if they are different, it's still goign to be cold in the mountains, especially in the winter...and Vegas is still in a desert.

Russ is sporting a new beard. A new look for a new man???

An episode titled Road To Redemption...so what redemption will be found in NORAD?

So the Pathia Group back in the Midwest wanted Russ to go here and stop the EMP. So who is running the EMP? Are the Partia Group and the NORAD group longtime rivals? (I'm guessing that they are both splinter groups from somewhere inside the US government...or perhaps even larger than just in the US).

EMP Trivia ...

in the latest episode of Dr Who (BBC), an EMP blast, from a Cyborg, is used to kill other robots (the Hosts), in the episode (Christmas Special - Voyage of the Damned), a devise that is inside an alien that has become a Cyborg is used to "kill" some other robots, seems that EMP is the trendy weapon of the moment ...

No New Episodes...and Merry Christmas!

No new episodes on Bud.tv this week(so far)...I don't know if there have been any in Australia.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I'll post an update when this is something new on bud.tv

Merry Christmas ...

... and a Prosperous New Year to all readers

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ATTENTION ALL CANADIAN FANS!!!

We apologize for the delays but we are happy to finally announce the confirmed launch of Afterworld in Canada. Here are the facts:

Starting Jan. 11, 2008, Afterworld will be available in Canada on the Superchannel at their website: www.superchannel.ca

Hope you enjoy the show,

The Afterworld Crew

as posted as a comment by Brent