Pretty cool seeing the Model X in the Handmaid's Tale season finale. Looks great in Ultra White seats! I just wonder if free unlimited supercharging still applies in Gilead?
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Model X in Handmaid's Tale
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wallstguy
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They contacted some members here in the Toronto area to borrow last year 
JimVandegriff
Member
The music sounded good too (Walking on broken glass), although it was a harrowing scene that Alexis Bledel played brilliantly. Free supercharging only for men though - ugh, what a dystopian vision, but done extraordinarily well.
No spoilers! (GF hasn't seen Season 2 yet, I've not watched any of it...)
Sigh, need a list of shows that you have to watch, or you feel like you are divorced from reality, with all the memes and other 'items' you are cut off from.
Start with:
Game of Thrones
Westworld
Handmaid's Tale
....
(GF hasn't seen Season 2 yet, I've not watched any of it...)Sigh, need a list of shows that you have to watch, or you feel like you are divorced from reality, with all the memes and other 'items' you are cut off from.
Start with:
Game of Thrones
Westworld
Handmaid's Tale
....
reddy
Active Member
I thought Gilead had no Internet, yet looks like nav was working.
Yes, was thought provoking to see a Tesla there.
Yes, was thought provoking to see a Tesla there.
dhanson865
Well-Known Member
Commander waterford uses his laptop in his home office. No reason to think there is no internet, just very elite if you have access to it.
Women aren't allowed to read, lower classes (drivers and such) don't get internet. But the doctors have access to computers and the military/government of Gilead surely does.
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Battlestar Galactica. The new series, not the 1978 original.No spoilers!
Sigh, need a list of shows that you have to watch, or you feel like you are divorced from reality, with all the memes and other 'items' you are cut off from.
Start with:
Game of Thrones
Westworld
Handmaid's Tale
....
I have a fondness for Babylon 5.
I liked Farscape because they had alien aliens, not just bipedal stereotypes.
I loved Firefly.
I like The Expanse because they get a lot of the small science touches correct...except there's no sound in space!
dhanson865
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The expanse is nice but they tend to leave the engines running non stop with no mention or observable effect of coasting phases in places I'd expect to see it. Its as if they have infinite fuel so they are always speeding up or slowing down (running the engines 90% of the time). I mean they do have coast phases, you see them turning on/off the boots to deal with the engine being off or on. It just seems every external shot of a ship has engines blasting way more than the path they are taking requires.
They do get a ton of the science right. It's just hit and miss whether they'll go with science or looks for the next thing you notice.
Oh and no sound in space, the expanse got that right in having holden and the girl touch helmets (helmet to helmet) to talk without comms. It just depends on if the no sound thing is in the script or not that day.
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Seattle Tom
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I also had a fondness for Babylon 5. I say had since I rewatched it over the past few months since it came to Amazon Prime. Wow, I don’t think it’s aged very well. The acting seems stilted and though I know Season 5 was an add-on since they didn’t think they’d make it past Season 4, my gawd is it bad.
Still, the multi-season story arcs are well done and set the stage for what we see today when stories go beyond just one episdoe. No criticism of Babylon 5 for pushing the genre forward - I wish they had a budget to match!
Are we on the Tesla board still or is this the SciFi network?
dhanson865
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great show (prisoner 60s version) I just didn't like the final episode. It felt like it could have gone one for another season or had a better ending if they wanted to stop there.
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Indeed. I was wondering if Tesla still exists in Gilead. Ditto for Ford and GM. IIRC, they had some BRoD0-class GM SUVs and some Fords besides the various Mercedes and a gen 3 Prius I recall seeing. Was very surprising to see a Tesla in the final ep of S2. (I started watching the show a few months ago and finished thru S2 within the past week or two.)
I also wondered what Gilead produces besides foodstuffs. Do they still have an auto industry? What about other industries? What do they trade besides handmaids? What do most of the men and women do besides being guardians along w/the few commanders, Marthas, Aunts, wives, handmaids, etc.?
If you need a show to hold you over, Dead To Me is pretty fricking amazing! If Christina Applegate doesn't win an Emmy then that award has no reason to exist!
I was thinking a few weeks ago that B5 is one of those show I wouldn't mind being remade, with modern CGI.I also had a fondness for Babylon 5. I say had since I rewatched it over the past few months since it came to Amazon Prime. Wow, I don’t think it’s aged very well. The acting seems stilted and though I know Season 5 was an add-on since they didn’t think they’d make it past Season 4, my gawd is it bad.
Still, the multi-season story arcs are well done and set the stage for what we see today when stories go beyond just one episdoe. No criticism of Babylon 5 for pushing the genre forward - I wish they had a budget to match!
Are we on the Tesla board still or is this the SciFi network?
Johan
Ex got M3 in the divorce, waiting for EU Model Y!
dhanson865
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It seems by then the entire planet is in population decline. The early stages were years of reduced births, how many years we don't know. But during season 1 it was revealed Mexico city hadn't had a single child birth in 6 years. I imagine the transition and turmoil before the Gilead takeover was preceded by a decade or more of significantly reduced birth rates.
anyway, eventually the population has started to decline due to low birth rates and then that is followed up by population dropping drastically due to war and lack of replacements for casualties to wars/political executions. Every day more are killed and almost zero new children born to offset the losses.
But durable goods are just sitting around for the taking. Warehouses full of them, confiscated houses full of them, office buildings, garages, stores. All orderly plundered before or after the people that used to own it were killed or enslaved.
Think of all the cars, houses, and such sitting around in the walking dead but with a more orderly reduction in population. They just harvest the best vehicles and when those get too old, they can import from Canadian and Mexican car plants or from Europe if needed to get new models. The amount of imports they would want would be very minimal. Most of the "citizens" of Gilead walk or take mass transportation.
Assuming Tesla isn't still in operation in the western US there might be a Tesla plant in Europe by then and surely the one in China is still pumping out cars. With billions of workers that have a least 40 good years in them you can keep the factories going in China. With drastically declining population there would be nobody using birth control, no one child rules or killing non boy children. Parents would be happy to have any child vs no child.
I'd assume Elon moved to one of 3 destinations
* Canada
* China
* Mars
depending on what he could achieve during the turmoil (I'm assuming he bugs out on an international trip before the great upheaval and is smart enough to stay gone).
Mars would be non viable long term if you can't have kids. The colony would never be finished or would die off without a influx of fresh settlers. Still he might go there to spend a few years before dying if the mars city had progressed far enough to do that.
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JimVandegriff
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I think this shot is a sly takeoff on the Danaerys scene of addressing her assembled troops after taking Kings Landing in Game of Thrones (with her dragon landing in the background and its wings showing behind her.) I'm hoping our heroine here has a different fate and leads a successful revolution (and maybe gets the model X besides).
On this note, since Commander Lawrence was the driver of the Model X, I recently saw an panel (pretty sure it was with GalaxyCon Live) where Brent Spiner (Data on Star Trek: TNG) says he auditioned for Bradley Whitford's role on Handmaid's Tale but didn't get it.
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DMC-Orangeville
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Yeah, this is a 3 year old post.....but I was one of the people they contacted. My S is red....and all of the cars used were black or dark blue.They contacted some members here in the Toronto area to borrow last year
$1000/day and I would have driven my own car
