He makes a bunch of what I frankly think of as comforting Minnesotan noises, which may be part of why I was face-clutching. It's just, like, mild soothing nonsense sounds like "there" and "okay" over and over. It was so warm. It gave me so many emotions.
YES. It was so totally natural too. Tom Hardy just did an amazing job with not really many lines at all (like SebStan in Winter Soldier). And I was SURE she was not going to make it, like Sam in Winter Soldier, and I was pleasantly surprised too! except I wasn't like ONE THOUSAND PERCENT INVESTED WITH MY WHOLE HEART then, so this was EVEN FUCKING BETTER.
....omg bicycles in that terrain? Nooo...for one thing, bikes give no protection from intense heat, if not radiation also, and you also lose a lot of calories and water (sweat) pumping the bike around, and you are SO vulnerable on a bike, especially if there are other assholes around with their deathmobiles picking off the people eschewing cars. You can't take heavy supplies on a bike, either, unless you're towing which slows you down, and it gets COLD in the desert at night and cars provide shelter.
I grew up in a semi-rural semi-desert area -- New Mexico -- and I don't think people who haven't lived in one realize how many different ways a desert climate can fuck you up. If you have a car in the desert, you have shelter from the wind/sun/cold, ability to carry enough water for a while, ability to travel hundreds of miles over unsupplied land and protection from wildlife and the weather. One thing that got drummed into me when going on even just a day hike in the mountains was ALWAYS CARRY WATER, A CANDY BAR, A SPACE BLANKET, MATCHES AND SOME WAY OF SIGNALLING because if you are caught unsupplied your chances of survival go in the toilet. And that wasn't even a postapocalyptic scenario!
Oh, yeah, man, the water cost of sweating at all! The car as a stillsuit! Had not thought of that and now I'm fascinated. But I had thought of it as a kind of turtle shell; you pull inside it and you're pretty much okay.
also car as hermit crab shell! And hideout! (HOW MUCH did I love Max frantically gathering all of Furiosa's many, many stashed weapons, and then ordering her to give up more, and then SHE HAS A KNIFE CONCEALED IN THE GEARSHAFT. YES)
And yeah, when I was growing up, even if you wanted to go to, say, Albuquerque which was "only" about 80 mi away, you needed a car, not only because there was just shitty Greyhound and the pricey airport shuttle back then, but because you just can't get through that terrain with nothing but a bike and what you can carry on it. I mean I guess you can if you're one of those long-distance endurance sport types, but they're also going to collapse when they get to the destination and that assumes nothing's going to be trying to pick them off on the way there.
(And OMG it looked like you could barely hope to survive those giant fucking dust storms, did they just roam the earth? or strike unpredictably? even in a BIG fortified car, Jesus)
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YES. It was so totally natural too. Tom Hardy just did an amazing job with not really many lines at all (like SebStan in Winter Soldier). And I was SURE she was not going to make it, like Sam in Winter Soldier, and I was pleasantly surprised too! except I wasn't like ONE THOUSAND PERCENT INVESTED WITH MY WHOLE HEART then, so this was EVEN FUCKING BETTER.
....omg bicycles in that terrain? Nooo...for one thing, bikes give no protection from intense heat, if not radiation also, and you also lose a lot of calories and water (sweat) pumping the bike around, and you are SO vulnerable on a bike, especially if there are other assholes around with their deathmobiles picking off the people eschewing cars. You can't take heavy supplies on a bike, either, unless you're towing which slows you down, and it gets COLD in the desert at night and cars provide shelter.
I grew up in a semi-rural semi-desert area -- New Mexico -- and I don't think people who haven't lived in one realize how many different ways a desert climate can fuck you up. If you have a car in the desert, you have shelter from the wind/sun/cold, ability to carry enough water for a while, ability to travel hundreds of miles over unsupplied land and protection from wildlife and the weather. One thing that got drummed into me when going on even just a day hike in the mountains was ALWAYS CARRY WATER, A CANDY BAR, A SPACE BLANKET, MATCHES AND SOME WAY OF SIGNALLING because if you are caught unsupplied your chances of survival go in the toilet. And that wasn't even a postapocalyptic scenario!
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also car as hermit crab shell! And hideout! (HOW MUCH did I love Max frantically gathering all of Furiosa's many, many stashed weapons, and then ordering her to give up more, and then SHE HAS A KNIFE CONCEALED IN THE GEARSHAFT. YES)
And yeah, when I was growing up, even if you wanted to go to, say, Albuquerque which was "only" about 80 mi away, you needed a car, not only because there was just shitty Greyhound and the pricey airport shuttle back then, but because you just can't get through that terrain with nothing but a bike and what you can carry on it. I mean I guess you can if you're one of those long-distance endurance sport types, but they're also going to collapse when they get to the destination and that assumes nothing's going to be trying to pick them off on the way there.
(And OMG it looked like you could barely hope to survive those giant fucking dust storms, did they just roam the earth? or strike unpredictably? even in a BIG fortified car, Jesus)