How could the loss 2 percent of the population have any real impact?.....other than sadness for the families directly involved......If you lost 2 out of 100 people---you would still have 98 people.....it wouldn't be apocalyptic. I can't get into the show. Just my opinion.
shareThe central premise of the show is how the power of belief affects mankind, its not about the number of people (while its still a lot, 140,000,000)that "departed" its about what it means, and the fact that no one can understand what it means is causing a massive shift in human evolution or devolution.
Great show
How could the loss 2 percent of the population have any real impact?.....other than sadness for the families directly involved......If you lost 2 out of 100 people---you would still have 98 people.....it wouldn't be apocalyptic. I can't get into the show. Just my opinion.
It's not how many, that is important and shocking, it's how. You think that if today 2% of people would vanish into thin air, there wouldn't be hell on earth, with millions of different religious fanatics and cults?
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Because Bible said on Judgement Day exactly 2% of earth population will ascend to Heaven and 98% of the leftovers are sinners that will go to Hell. When you saw the first part came true, you know you are in the 98% and your fate is sealed.
shareIt really is not about the number as much as it is about the event.
Around a hundred million people vanishing into thin air at the exact same time in less than a second, including in front of people of all religions and no religion, wholly without any scientific or religious or spiritual explanation based on ANY of the current religions etc (as there is no commonality among those taken and those left behind), would be the biggest and craziest event to ever have happened to humanity by a thousandfold.
It would also be the first time in history people of all religions and no religions such as atheists have "proof" of something happening totally outside of any known science or spiritual/religious belief system happening right in front of their eyes, wholly without explanation or a common thread to show why/how etc the people who disappeared are the ones who disappeared versus the ones who did not. Add this happening in a modern world where can confirm stuff thousands of miles away with mass communication and mass global transportation, and this would have a more profound effect on our psyche than anything else to have ever happened in history by a huge degree.
It would be absurd to even begin to compare such an event to lots of people dying from a holocaust or from a plague, or missing/abducted children etc.
The show is stupid. That's a fact. It's stupid and random which also makes it unsettling and hilarious. The first season of this show is so ridiculous it's barely worth watching, even if you're utterly bored with life, but it is funny, it's a comedy of errors about a comedy of errors.
The second season uses the typical HBO tropes of shock and awe. There are probably a dozen scenes of full frontal nudity in Season 2. I'll be surprised if in Season 3 we don't see every character's dick or vagina.
So yeah, it is stupid. It's a montage of barely intelligible thoughts but the unavoidable fact of creativity is that it still means something. It still came from something. It still represents something.
Somehow they even manage to string a few episodes together in season 2 that actually follow a shared story arc. This improves the show drastically and gives some kind of reason for all the shenanigans.
Despite all this it's still massively entertaining. I got to the point where every time I saw something utterly ridiculous happen in it I loved it. The more insane it became the more I loved it.
It's completely and utterly stupid, and one of the best shows on TV.