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*If such a large portion of the population died from using a chemical or drug, how is said drug no longer available unless people know about the danger, implying that they also know the fate of those dead? | *If such a large portion of the population died from using a chemical or drug, how is said drug no longer available unless people know about the danger, implying that they also know the fate of those dead? | ||
:: It's implied that the virus existed only in the Uppercity - Bliss was never on sale below because the Undercity was inhabited by poor people, otherwise the Undercity and the motorway wouldn't be sealed safely. The poor and the rich seem to have been separated completely. | |||
*Before entering the motorway, pedestrians outside already imply they know that the motorway is so clogged that people spend their entire lives stuck there without reaching their destination. Since nobody has ever made it to their destination (instead being killed or dying naturally while waiting) or received communications for that section of the city, why would anybody in their right mind get onto the motorway? | *Before entering the motorway, pedestrians outside already imply they know that the motorway is so clogged that people spend their entire lives stuck there without reaching their destination. Since nobody has ever made it to their destination (instead being killed or dying naturally while waiting) or received communications for that section of the city, why would anybody in their right mind get onto the motorway? | ||
::The Bliss killed everyone above about 24 years before the events of the episode, the gridlock began after that, so the maximum of how long anyone could spend stuck there is 24 years, which is not exactly a lifetime. Plus they thought it was all because of some repairing and kept hoping all that would end soon. Also they had no idea of people being killed there - you only get killed if you go to the fast lane, which is Macra's territory - and i guess not that many people would die naturally in 24 years, so there was no obvious danger. As for the communications - they could also think those were the glitches because of the assumed repair. | |||
*Early in the show hover cars are shown freely flying about through the air. Why would a motorway be designed specifically to negate the effectiveness of real flying cares by cramming them into an underground tunnel? | *Early in the show hover cars are shown freely flying about through the air. Why would a motorway be designed specifically to negate the effectiveness of real flying cares by cramming them into an underground tunnel? | ||
::The underground was for the poor people. | |||
*Since flying vehicles are established, how is it possible-even with quarantine- that nobody capable of flight can bring any information about the ones who died of the drug/virus years ago? | *Since flying vehicles are established, how is it possible-even with quarantine- that nobody capable of flight can bring any information about the ones who died of the drug/virus years ago? | ||
:: How, if the Undercity was sealed completely? There was simply no way in and out, that's basically what quarantine is. | |||
*How does the virus or deadly chemical kill everyone at the same time? People's punctual deaths would have to mean that both the drug kills within an exact time frame AND that every single member of the population did the drug at the same time. | *How does the virus or deadly chemical kill everyone at the same time? People's punctual deaths would have to mean that both the drug kills within an exact time frame AND that every single member of the population did the drug at the same time. | ||
:: As mentioned in the episode, it became airborne. You didn't have to use the drug at all to be infected. As for why it killed everyone so fast - well, it was superadvanced and superfast, that's the point. | |||
*Why didn't the Macra fly up and kill any other people in cars not in the Fast Lane? | *Why didn't the Macra fly up and kill any other people in cars not in the Fast Lane? | ||
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*How could the people in the undercity not know something catastrophic had happened above? They suddenly can't access the upper city, and the motorway goes nowhere. They must have had communication with the upper city that stopped too. Why in the world would the motorists believe police were coming or that the government was still operational? | *How could the people in the undercity not know something catastrophic had happened above? They suddenly can't access the upper city, and the motorway goes nowhere. They must have had communication with the upper city that stopped too. Why in the world would the motorists believe police were coming or that the government was still operational? | ||
:: They thought it was because of some repair and kept waiting for it to open. Also it's implied the rich and the poor were separated and the Undercity could function quite independently even before the virus. | |||
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