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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9330505" data-attributes="member: 6796661">The book doesn't go into a description of the effects from the perspective of the people on the ship. There is a description of one person on the deck that the narrator (Professor Wang) can observe from shore, who falls to the ground and spits in half. The show obviously works hard to make this important scene visually impressive and are going to take liberties that favor drama and on-screen visuals. The TV show also ups the ethical issues in terms of &quot;collateral damage&quot; and highlighting the families and children. Families and children are not described in the book. It is described as the core base and command center of the Adventists, where the group's leaders usually reside. I suppose one could infer (and the show writers did infer) that the leaders may have kept their families on the ship. The books description of the sliced boat's 40 half-meter slices spreading like a deck of cards seems a bit unrealistic. I would expect that the slices would be &quot;nice and clean&quot; but that machinery and internal construction would start falling apart and that the pieces would not slide smoothly enough to fan out like card deck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9330505, member: 6796661"] The book doesn't go into a description of the effects from the perspective of the people on the ship. There is a description of one person on the deck that the narrator (Professor Wang) can observe from shore, who falls to the ground and spits in half. The show obviously works hard to make this important scene visually impressive and are going to take liberties that favor drama and on-screen visuals. The TV show also ups the ethical issues in terms of "collateral damage" and highlighting the families and children. Families and children are not described in the book. It is described as the core base and command center of the Adventists, where the group's leaders usually reside. I suppose one could infer (and the show writers did infer) that the leaders may have kept their families on the ship. The books description of the sliced boat's 40 half-meter slices spreading like a deck of cards seems a bit unrealistic. I would expect that the slices would be "nice and clean" but that machinery and internal construction would start falling apart and that the pieces would not slide smoothly enough to fan out like card deck. [/QUOTE]

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