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Originally Posted by
Selden Ball 
They only needed enough fuel for one or two nights, since they're going on to SC right away. They'd never be coming back, so why care?
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Originally Posted by
jpillar
It amazes me how some are so critical about detail in a summer series TV show like this. I have yet to see any show that pays attention even to the most obvious. Many of those Hallmark Christmas shows look like they're filmed in the middle of summer. In the film Cinderella Man there is a seen with Russel Crowe in their backyard supposedly in late November in New Jersey in short sleeves. The only movie I can think of that took the pains for detail was It's a Wonderfull LIfe. That set just blows my mind: both the summer and winter settings and it was just a B movie back then. I know a little off topic but the powers that be in the film industry have really lost their craft to impress and make the film plausable to the viwer.
It's a Wonderful Life was most certainly not a B-Movie. It was a major studio release with a full newsreel media blitz to promote it. They spent over $3 million on it back in 1946 which would be over $40 million now. While not Gone WIth the Wind level of budget, it's hardly a B-Movie.
Further, there always seems to be some kind of excuse why things are sloppy when it costs nothing to make some effort to show them hiding themselves better. Why is it necessary to have the sign on the front of the building lit? Why can't it appear the blinds have been drawn on the windows? Why can't they use few lanterns and candles to light a room? Why can't they paint cat's eyes on their headlights?
We're sitting here spotting all these things and coming up with better options for free when the people paid to get it right fail at it. Sorry, but this isn't 1980 when you had to haul your but down to the library to research stuff. Productions now have a gaggle of writers, producers and consultants that should be saying stuff like "aren't all those lights going to be visible to the aliens?"
At least a campy show like MacGuyver had his little tricks grounded in real science, even if it was exagerated or oversimplified a bit for TV purposes. In fact, in many cases, the writers would leave out a step in a process specifically to make sure someone couldn't reproduce the result. Sure, maybe every foreign country looked suspiciously like Southern California, but you got the sense there was some care and effort to make things logical.
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billybobg
Yeah, I know it's minor, but the fuel for the lights could fuel the bus.
Maybe, maybe not.
A generator system large enough to run a hospital would likely run on propane or natural gas. While they might run on diesel, that's usually less desirable in a situation where you want lots of power that can run long periods of time without refueling.
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Sharp1080
Just to point out you don't need a key to unlock a door! It's not like they are going to be arrested for forcible entry to a door in an abandoned building. I am learning with this show you really need to strecth the imagination.
It's not about being able to legally open the door - it's about being able to open it at all.
The electrical closets in the building that I work in have steel doors and heavy duty locks on them to keep people out of them. Sure, they could likely take a sledge hammer to the works and get them open, but at that point it might be easier to simply send some of the cannon fodder extras around to turn some switches off.
