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Originally Posted by 30-30remchester
I like the concept but is so far fetched it is hard to watch. Apparently there are few people left in the world. Once there were over 4 billion, now only thousands in the US. Yet there seems to be shortages? The vechiles are old and decrepid, always out of gas, food and medicine. If there was enough supplies for over 300 million people before the invasion, what happened to all the supplies? There would be millions of new cars, motorcycle, ATV's, trucks, for the taking. Every gas station would have gas. Every kind of guns and military grade weapons available for the taking. Every house and hospital would be full of medicine along with pharmacies, big box stores to name just a few. There would be an abundance of food as every house would have some as well as the stores. Cattle. pigs, chickens would be everywhere. There was an episode in which a compass was highly prized. Think of how many sportings goods stores would have cases of these. The show has some good point but I just cant swallow the entire lack of supplies.
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the show takes place months after the initial invasion. what hasn't already been looted or pillaged has either been destroyed in the fighting or is "staked out" by the aliens. the opening scene in the first episode is a group of survivors being chased by aliens while returning from a food run. of course most of the food is destroyed and left behind as the survivors are seriously outgunned. it is not so far fetched to believe that months into an invasion, such supplies would be hard to find, whether it be from survivors hoarding them or consumption.
as far as the compass goes, it was a sentimental value to it as the leader(capt weaver) gave it to the young man(13ish i believe) because he was a good fighter, but not so good with directions. the boy was almost like a son to the capt weaver. when the boy was killed trying to kill a couple of the aliens, one of the rogue soldiers took the compass from the boy. the 2nd in commands son, who had been harnessed planned on giving the compass back to the leader. the 2nd in command fought with the rogue soldier, not over the compass, but to show who was boss, with the compass being "the straw that broke the camels back". the compass was eventually returned to the capt.