Ah, media SF fans, setting the bar so low it needs a trench

[james_davis_nicoll]

It's rare to watch a short film that manages to do serious worldbuilding and smart character development in roughly 10 minutes.

See if you can spot the moment when I said "this is too stupid for words" and turned the video off.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Less than a minute, but enough to get (and discard with great force) the premise.

[dorothy1901]

"Fifty year earthquake"?

[randomling]

I got as far as "there is a city with the strikingly imaginative name of Noon", but I wonder if you didn't jump out before that. I was before the 1min mark, anyway.

[ironjeff]

Yep, my reality-suspenders failed catastrophically during the introtext.

So Many Levels of BadScience!

[mab_browne]

I was crap at science at school but my eyebrows are still rising at the number of unlikely events described within the first 45 seconds.