Y: The Last Man

Unfortunately I agree with the fact that they will spin this into "look at the horrible position all those men put the women in (by dying!), they're obviously to blame for the fact that women never tried to get into STEP and/or make up half the industrial class workforce."

And as mentioned above, what do they do about all those beautiful women who just happened to have been born men and transitioned? Will they change up the cause to say it only affected people with over a certain Testosterone level? If they do that what about the FtM who are on T boosters? And do little boys get born, then die when they hit puberty? I don't see a way through this minefield for them without pissing large swaths of people off this day and age.

spronk said:

yeah thats 2002 comic book Y the last man, i think a bunch of us are saying 2021 TV version will NOT do that and somehow trannies will survive. be really happy to be proved wrong by the show tho

either way it's gonna be good for a laugh

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Well.. in the comics they presented a lot of possible reasons for the "all the men died" event happening. In the end the author said they told the audience the actual reason, along the way, but also included a lot of red herrings. This was so that people would supposedly have to think and be led to the reason/excuse they felt was correct. This included everything from Nature "self correcting" once men were no longer needed to reproduce, to chemical warfare gone horribly wrong, to ancient curse on an amulet.. I think there were something like 4-5 "explanations" and the most the author did after the fact was say "Yeah.. one of those was right."

Now, this leaves the TV series open in that they can go "hard science" and kill the MtF trans folk as well and that leans towards the scientific explanations. They can go the "what gender you represent as determined it" which would lean into the mystical reasons. And various permutations in between. Most fear they will hardline on "present as".

Now, they wrote a movie based on this afterwards. And in the movie treatment as to make the audience not have to do that silly "thinking" so much they just nailed it down that it was the US launching some chemical warfare attack on China intended to decimate them by making all the women be unable to bear male offspring, and instead the chemical went ham, killed everything male, and went global. Which leans right into "We can blame this all on those MEN in the government"

I guess we shall see. For me I suspect this will be a "wait for the whole first season, then visit my friends at the bay for a copy and watch it" thing.

Think I'd rather watch the Sliders episode where they jump to a world where the men died off. At least it was fun watching Quinn, Rembrandt, and the Professor have another wacky adventure.

This just looks miserable, and I'm sure we'll be lectured to every episode about the patriarchy.