Y the Last Man

Originally posted by Scoobless
[b]This post contains one or two spoilers
Like they said in the comic, "what reason would have been satisfying?" ... "Aliens?"

Seriously, most of the proposed reasons seem woefully far fetched, there's just no way any virus could reach that many people/animals at exactly the same time planetwide, and a bioweapon wouldn't work without meticulous planning and hundreds of thousands of delivery systems covering the entire planet, which would have been discovered eventually. An ancient Curse? anyone believe in those? nature cutting out the Y chromosome because cloning was almost perfected? seriously doubt it.

I think they may have started out with an idea of what caused it but then realised that any explanation would have been called as bullshit, so they left it open instead.[/B]

It's a story about consequences. The reason for them dying isn't important.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
It's a story about consequences. The reason for them dying isn't important.

You can't have consequences without a triggering event though ... how are people supposed to learn from their mistakes if they don't know what their mistakes were.

Not saying the "plague" is important to the quality of the story, but it did matter.

Originally posted by Scoobless
You can't have consequences without a triggering event though ... how are people supposed to learn from their mistakes if they don't know what their mistakes were.

Not saying the "plague" is important to the quality of the story, but it did matter.

It was about how a demographic, who were either considered equals or lessers, could cope with it.

Originally posted by Boy Blue
It wasn't about the mistakes that led to the plague, IMO.

It was about how a demographic, who were either considered equals or lessers, could cope with it.

Yeah, that was the main point of all the background stories and subplots but for Yorick, Alison and 355 it was about curing the plague and surviving in general.

Originally posted by Scoobless
You can't have consequences without a triggering event though ... how are people supposed to learn from their mistakes if they don't know what their mistakes were.

Not saying the "plague" is important to the quality of the story, but it did matter.

The plague was a MacGuffin. The story was really about balance, trauma and discrimination.

I forgot I made this thread way back, and thus haven't read all posts here yet, will take a look at them tomorrow.

Just popped back in to say that this weekend I finally finished the last TPB, ending the series. Overall I really enjoyed this series, even though we never got to know what explanation of the tragedy was true.

Yeah I finished this a few months ago. I felt that the whole thing was really strong and the story really hung upon Yorick's relationship with 355, Dr Mann and Ampersand. That traveling group really made the series.

My favourite storyline was the one where they meet those women who have closed off one of the roads they need to go down and just piled up a load of lorries. 355 and Dr Mann are captured but just go crazy, taking down an entire firing squad. Meanwhile Yorick has to kill a young girl or be killed by her in a standoff.