modern conveniences

Yeah and the girl who was murdered, she said she loved a particular song and you find out later her boyfriend was jailed 18 years. Unless those teens were into oldies but goodies, that, too, was way off. Sloppy writing. At least spend 5 minutes off someone from 100 years ago reacting. But then everyone barely reacted to the dead coming back to life.

Thank you for posting about this, because this definitely irritated me. When Kirstie (sp?) was in denial that they were all back from the dead, my first thought was "LOOK AROUND YOU!" Geez. All of the modern amenities should've had them all spooked and confused, like Charlie was when he was touching the lamp. The only person that I could understand not being too affected was Kate, since she had died only two years prior. But as for everyone else...especially Paddy, having been dead since the 1800s...I was expecting a much more obvious "wtf" reaction regarding the time period they were in. Definitely a considerable oversight on the part of the writers!

I thought about this multiple times throughout the show. Also regarding how they acted/spoke. I just suspended my disbelief.

Yeah that was odd , Paddy should have been so disoriented that he shouldn't have been able to function


Even Kristie should have been in amazement at smart phones and the Internet.

Also it seems no one had heard of Google in the show, lots of questions could have on Charlie and Paddy it seems could easily be online as they were historical characters, even Maria and Kristin's likely had obituaries online.

I have pondered on this too. I think it could be because at first they have no clear memories of who they are and how they died. If you take the scene where John is looking at an aeroplane, the doctor asks him if he has seen one before and he says that he can't remember.

The thing that bugs me more is people's reactions to seeing the dead back alive, like Sarah and the other policeman when they see Kate again. I'm sure in real life people wouldn't just accept that they have risen from the dead. I know I would be thinking that she must have staged her death or something.

But apart from that mild annoyance, I still think it's a good show and can't wait for season 2. I certainly rate it higher than The Returned, which was just a snooze fest.

I was also disturbed by Paddy's use of the F-word. (Not to mention other colloquialisms.)

If he died in the 1860s, even if he was the mayor with the foulest mouth in antique Australia, that wouldn't be rolling off his tongue like he's stepped out of a Scorsese movie.

It seems to me it would ground the show in its "reality" a lot more if they paid attention to character details like those.

And then there's the fact that they all speak modern Australian.

Truth be told each "zombie" could have a series unto itself. There's enough to cover so that all the fascination scenes have to be limited else it encompasses the entire show. Seeing 3 or 4 people totally fascinated for half the series wouldn't work well. Same with people realizing dead people climbed from the grave. Sarah has the best reaction of all, which would really take days, weeks or maybe years to get over. You'd suddenly realize that death isn't permanent, that religion is wrong in many ways, and you'd want to be as far away from it as possible. I'd leave the area, I don't care who climbed out of the grave.

WWI guy was fascinated by the lamp, but not the vehicle he climbed into. Paddy had no problem realizing a modern window opens by sliding upward. He knew how to operate a beer tap. Him finding that will still in that dress in a fireplace is simply bad writing. The fires built in that thing in that many years would have long ago burned everything to a crisp, and can you tell me not one time did a chimney sweep clean that thing? It would be a nightmare.

I can never recall names, but the main character's emotional range doesn't include surprise and disbelief.