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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 2972011" data-attributes="member: 2525">I don't think Witichita is anyone's high priority, or even medium priority target.  I've been there, and frankly I wouldn't waste the nuke.As for Colorado Springs, I don't know.  It could well have also been hit.  We see one nuke peaking over the mountains.  I don't know the geography enough to know if you could have seen two.  Or, if the second one hit after the first one, the first one may have blocked view of the second one.  I don't think you or I have sufficent information to conclude that you WOULD have seen two, for sure.[quoteI am currious about this point. If it was another major power why wern't there more ICBM strikes visible. If not a ICBM power then who? There is enough 24 hour news and government leaks to those news chanels that if there were major tensions with a major power then the power would be known.</blockquote>It might have been known.  We are only introduced to people who may well not care what the dispute was about.  We do not see anyone who was actively watching TV, and the emergency speech had not started yet.I don't see why we as an audience need to know this, at this point.  See response above.I'm sure we do.  We go about 30 to 45 minutes after the incident, and most of it involves people grabbing food and water, and dealing with injured people.  I'm sure they know where other towns are.  They just don't have communication so far with them, but are actively trying.The main characters do not know.  I think that is part of the point of the show.  Something happened, it was serious, the President was about to tell people, we don't know exactly what it was, and so far in town nobody has said what it was.  I think you need to deal with the possibility that people may not know, but it might also be very serious.  There are several senarios I can think of that would account for that possibility.See above.That was in fact the Mayor's first reaction, and the police.  But communications appear to be dead (even when they had electricity).  They are trying the short wave next.  They were about to send police officers to the next town I think, but those officers were killed in the prisoner escape (main characters do not know this yet).  Again, it's only 30 to 45 minutes into this.The characters are supposed to be human beings.  30-45 minutes into what appears to be a nuclear attack, they are behaving less than perfectly rationally.  The "trust" issue was not raised by people in the town.  It was raised by the mysterious "ex-cop", who knows way too much and seems very competent in a crises.No, in fact despite the apparent reasonableness of this stranger, they do not take his advice and do not paint over the name of their town on their police cars and are attempting to go to the next town.Indeed.  And the people of the town are not buying into that theory.  It was just something suggested by the stranger.The briefing had not begone, and while the news in the background may have mentioned more specifics, I personally did not catch them nor did any main character so far as I can tell.Of course they have.  Nobody said the geography is a mystery to anyone.The "local government" is a Mayor and a Sherriff.  And their first concern is stopping a riot and getting wounded inside and checking for radiation.It's not a hole.  It's something that was not answered in the pilot, and that appears to be part of the point - something big has happened, suddenly, and people don't know what it was.  I can think of things that could be like that, that are not necessarily terrorist related.  I bet you can as well.Nobody is reacting like you seem to think they are except for one person, who is a stranger to the town.Within 10 minutes they have geiger counters out.  Why do you insist on pretending that is a lack of concern?  The second episode deals with the issue.  How fast did you want them to move with this issue, two seconds?  I think your standards are harsher than you would accept on yourself.We have only one episode to go on.  I don't see how it is a plot hole that they have not revealed everything that could possibly be revealed in a single 1 hour episode, 15 minutes of which takes place before the nuke hits. All I know is the writer has it planned out for quite some time, and he seemed to have well-researched things and plotted things out and had good answers for questions posed to him.  That's a heck of a lot more than most writers seem to have these days for television shows.[/QUOTE]

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