I actually like this show.*hides* Okay, sure, it has a tonne of plot falls -- I'm impressed that the dude's 15-plus year AC/DC shirt is in good condition -- but I can look past that.  I can look past the vegetation growing at such a rate within the city that apparently 'life after people' fudged their estimated timeline. I can even look past the (apparent) fact that everyone's sunglasses/eye wear remained intact over 15 years. These simple little details, I can ..ignore.. Why? Because I've accepted the first part of the show's premise: The power went out.We dont know how .. the characters themselves (for the most part) dont know how. Is it actually gone or just ...muted?  Its not as though they can load up google to find some comforting answers or even fire up the old ham radio to make outside contact to harness some sort of understanding of the situation; I never watched the previews but in the first episode (and its now mentioned as part of the show's intro) - people left the cities or they died. Isnt it acceptable to believe that by doing so, people left 'knowledge behind' [*]? They left their libraries, they left their school books, hell, those who did stay behind probably burnt the books to stay warm! lol  What I'm saying is, I'm 32 years old and whilst I have some theoretical knowledge of how a combustible engine works, that doesnt mean I'm capable of going out to the shed and building one without doing some form of research.Another point, for those who have dismissed the show before it even began - in the very first episode, they actually say that "Physics went nuts .. it shouldn't have happened". The writers come straight out and say "hey this idea about electricity not working-yadda yadda..yeeeaaah...we know that realistically it shouldnt make sense, we know that, honestly!" And thats just to the viewer's perspective.  Think about it from the perspective of the characters living through those 15 years[^]: confusion, fear, basic human survival instincts being rebooted after years (and years and years) of laying dormant.... This isnt a show where we are expected to suspend our disbelief but rather (I think) this falls in cognitive estrangement:  We know we're fucked without electricity, so what happens if some device - not magical, not derived from fantasy - but an actual device built from science simply took it all away?/end rant.* =   As for 'knowledge being left behind' ... well, knowledge as they say is power.  The show also has a militant aspect, isnt it plausible that Monroe (oh sorry, I forgot that you dont watch the show :p) sent out garrisons to seize/destroy any and all books? ^ = Okay, I grant you that 15 years is probably a bit too of time period.  Perhaps add an extra ten years? 

That is this the Suburban Games?

http://yep.it/kpszid

Is It just me or are those crossbows backwards?

So, this is a continuation of the Day the Earth Stood Still?

Yeah, and if a shotgun can work, why can't they build a rudimentary combustion engine? For that matter, why can't you compress air using a windmill and a transmission, and use that to do work? Argh, this is going to be hard for me to watch. But I'll make an effort because of Katniss.

Glad to see I'm not the only one reading about this premise, and thinking "Wow, that's kinda... stupid".

But, then again, I have long since learned that Mr. Abrams is bereft of good ideas or the ability to form a coherent plot line.

You mean this isn't a show about the Beatles song?

So... a rip off of the Emberverse/Change/post-no electricity novels?http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fir...

S. M. Stirling called, he wants his idea back.

its just going to be another JJ Abrams cousin of Lost......it will start out with an award winning first season and maybe a second and then will try and to stretch it out for as long as they can to get and try to foster a huge internet following and throw in the odd conspiracy to get the conspiracy nuts involved and then just milk it for all its worth and then end it with an unpopular ending that only just wraps everything up but still leaves lots of plot holes open for a future min series/book/web series/fan fiction to fill in the gaps and so keep it alive online for ever.........i hated Lost the first series was fine but then it got silly.

Okay, so am I the only person who was most bothered by the fact that ALL THE MINORITIES in this trailer are VILLAINS??? Seriously, the opening post-apocalyptic scene was "scary black men come to hurt the pretty white people." I was hoping to see it even out through the trailer, but nope! Hopefully the show itself will be better.

Pollo Hermano is wild; I smell a cross-over.

DARPA. I can already see it. I'd bet a 6 pack.

Klaatu, Barada, Nikto...

So...now a TV show is recycling music from Mass Effect 2?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Or did that music come from somewhere else, and I'm too ignorant to realize it?

This is gonna suck.  Isn't it.I couldn't even sit through the whole trailer.

The biggest problem is, J.J. Abrams has become a brand name now.  He's just a producer and less hands on than his early series.Oh yeah, and it's on NBC.

Katniss goes for a stroll through Jeff Kirsch's "Eleventh Plague," runs into Jacob Black, and ends up on the island from LOST.

Why did the plane crash in a flat spin like that? Planes do have a glide ratio.

So does this mean potato clock won't work?

This is kinda stupid...how do car engines stop working while rifles keep firing?  I mean, seriously, disconnect the computer, make a primitive engine, and then BAM, you've got a car.  If stuff can still explode, we can still make cars run.

Also, how does electricity go off and not come back on?  Solar flare that lasts over 15 years?  That'd play havoc with our ecosystem.

I hate to be THAT nerd, but come on, can't we get a multi-million dollar budget TV show with a truly clever premise?  I'm sick of shows that have a simple "what if" idea.  "What if the electricity stopped working?"

It's like asking what would happen if we hadn't discovered electricity.  I'll give you the answer: we'd have discovered it later.  :-)

It does beg an interesting question though...are their thunder storms in this new revolutionary world?

Um, did everyone miss the fact that this was also created by Eric Kripke? Bad nerds. BAD.

My fear is that the entire budget was blown on the pilot.  The subsequent episodes will probably involve flashbacks that conveniently take place in 2012.  Or they'll just find a farm and stay there for an unnecessarily long time.

Dude, why didn't they just adapt Stirling's book series if they wanted to do this?

So even batteries don't work? Someone figured out a way to just make ions stop moving? We suffered a global loss in ion conductance?!

There is no way this can work. I'd buy into it if they made up some story about how every powerplant in the world was ruined. but this...

Yes, I can't wait for this show!

 "Mostly, though, I think it's because it's on NBC, and my brain is no longer wired to accept that NBC could possibly make a compelling drama. Thanks to everyone who turns in the tip."

Clearly someone hasn't been watching Awake. Which is why it got cancelled. Way to go Rob, you killed the only new show this season that I liked >=(

This is a combination of hunger games, book of eli, and several other stories... Yet ANOTHER NBC series to be ignored and cancelled after less than a full season. And so predictable that after seeing this I already know what is going to happen in the series... If it actually lasts long enough.