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Depends where in the Pern chronology you mean. The time of the White Dragon read as very fantasy but the discovery of Pern read very sci fi - then all their tech broke and it became somewhat post apoc.

Ividia, good point. The First Fall was pretty rough, and civilization, such as it was, definitely had broken down.

Same with the Shannarra books. Supposedly they are post-apocalyptic.

I just saw the first episode... anyone else watching the Chronicles of Shannara?

And speaking of... the Book of Swords by Saberhagen was another post apocalyptic setting.

Yes. I liked those books, although they got a little silly towards the end.

Fish and I watched it last night. I liked it quite a bit. The visual evidence of post apocalypse is much stronger than the vague narrative references from the books.

Also... wheel of time series by r jordan is post apocalypse- over and over- but it is our earth very far in the future.

Yup, wheel of time is in the same category as Numenera and Vance's Dying Earth, post all the apocalypses.

Mina, yeah. I have to say that seeing the rusting hulk of what looked a lot like an oil tanker stranded on land certainly ... 'hints' ... at a 'post apocalypse' world <chuckle>

On the other hand ... at least in the first episode ... it certainly seemed 'out of place' compared with everything else in the show <g>

Yeah the satellite dish farm scene was subtle.

But all that aside, i did enjoy the show

Mike and Jim, loved the show as well. I think it has a lot of promise, and I hope the expense will not be too steep for it to get renewed.

I think while I love the Apocalypse Now part of the Post Apocalypse Genre, I think currently I am really getting into the Dystopian aspect. Returning civilization, remnants of the past that may or may not play a part...

OK, so if we stick to purely visual media, what is your favourite post-apocalypse film/TV series?

I'm mostly just curious if that 'past' will somehow be brought into the story at some point ... or is it just 'conversational window dressing', as it were.

Mina, dystopian settings work better for me in movies than in games. But I did play in one f2f game many years ago that was a blast. So it feels more like ... for me ... there is a 'narrower window' for 'getting it right' there than, say FRP. I suspect that at least some of that comes from the diversity in 'good' FRP stories and games compared to 'good' dystopian settings. Most seem so ... limited, mostly in the sense that they could not sustain themselves ... or something like that <g>

I have a soft spot for Fist of the North Star. (Having said that, the post-apocalypse setting in those films, series is purely window dressing for exploding heads.) But yeah, Mad Max is hard to beat.

Concur, Mad Max.

I really enjoy those, but for my word is gone movies, I like Day After Tomorrow (since most of the earth become uninhabitable I think it qualifies ) and any of the original Planet of the Apes movies.

Ah, good point on Apes. I enjoyed the new films a lot, the apes themselves were mesmerising.

But I dunno, the post-apocalypse isn't the same if the environment looks better off without us. It probably would be, don't get me wrong. But humans wandering around a magnificent, verdant wilderness -- even with a few ruined cities and talking apes thrown in -- doesn't spark my imagination as much as the stereotypical "Wastelands".

I wanted to get into Into the Badlands but really struggled with the palette. Bloody pretentious thing to say! But if you watch the trailers, you might see what I mean. It's so colourful, it could be Oz! It just doesn't feel post-apocalyptic.

I am with you. Give me desert or at least a totally destroyed cityscape.

TV Series, quite liked Falling Skies & Revolution - for a while at least!

I liked Fallen Skies for a while but it got to the point where I just couldn't take it. Then the end of the first season the main character does something so out of his personality I gave up.

Revolution started ok but lost my interest. Can't say why exactly.

I liked Book of Eli as I mentioned above. Mad Max works, certainly the first set. I am not sold on the remake. It was ok, but.



For a world that I liked though honestly the movie is so so The Postman.

I agree with Mike about the original Apes series. The new ones are not bad but they don't have the same edge. Though I am dying to see the one the previewed at the end of the first one.

There have to be others just not coming up with them at the moment.

The one redeeming thing in Into the Badlands is the fight scenes. If you are a fan of marshal arts movies, they are very well done.

Hmm. Might have to give em a try. I love martial arts movies.

Aye, that's what I liked about the series. I think what they were aiming for with the colour was a Zhang Yimou look, but it didn't quite gel with the post-apocalypse theme for me.



The post-apocalypse doesn't have to be all melancholy and soul-searching though, imo. Sometimes it's best used to serve up mad, feverish, fun antics that'd be indecipherable in another genre.

There a Netflix series I've been watching called "100". It's a short time into the future, and post apocalyptic, after a nuclear war destroys the world. Start of the series takes place in space. There were about a dozen space stations orbiting the earth when the war happened and they joined together for mutual survival. It's now about 100 years later. Rest of the series is about them trying to get back to earth to see if the radiation level will let them live and what happens when they do.

So far it's pretty good.

It is on my NF list too. Have not gotten to it yet though.