History Fridge / Doomsday

* I was thinking about how downright pathetic and unable to stand up for herself Cally was in ''Doomsday'', which was weird given the writer/director's love for the Action Girl trope. It eventually hit me after reading about the main character's background - Cally was supposed to be the contrast to Eden Sinclair. Eden grew up on the streets and learned to be tough and hold her own, so now she's a super tough Action Girl. Cally would have grown up with her abusive and psychotic father and brother without a chance of holding her own, so she learned to be afraid of them and stay away from violence. -Whatever

** Also the Beverage in question is a can of Tennants, a popular beer in scotland, beer expires after about 1 and a half years in fridge conditions, and is technically still drinkable after it expires, it just doesn't taste very good and gives you a stomach ache, mind you after eating people for 20 years and drinking expired beer they probably have abit more tolerance.

*** I'm skeptical about any of the listed items, as examples, having sufficent RagnarokProofing to still be in usable state after so long.

** Almost the entire population of Scotland died and it's only been about 20 years. There'd be a lot left to scavenge.

** Several of them were splattered with his blood, infecting them. Knowing they were now doomed they rushed the soldiers for thus dooming them.

* Where are they getting supplies like motorcycle fuel, whatever canned beverage Sol dumped on Eden's head, nail polish....?

** The first attacker may have been a friend or relative of the infected person, who got pissed off about their companion being killed regardless of whether they were a Reaper victim or not. Others in the crowd realized that the soldiers would be ordered to seal up the gate as soon as they reported the presence of the virus among the refugees, so jumped the troops and charged the gate in a desperate attempt to get through before those orders came down.

* Why did the Scots freak out in the beginning when that soldier shot the infected person? One would think that they would be more concerned with getting away from the infected person and the area surrounding him instead of attacking the soldiers. You could even see them running away before the infected person got shot, it's not like they killed a random person.

** We don't know much about how the Reaper virus works. Possibly cattle can be carriers of the virus even if it doesn't make their faces rot, so nobody but the already-infected would dare to get near them, let alone eat (or milk) them.

** Not to mention, lots and lots of people would have sealed themselves in with some food and water at the news of a major virus outbreak that was transmitted by touch/blood/whatever. It's established in the intro that it took at least a couple months from first infection to where they were rioting and building a wall. How would you not plan for survivors who simply avoided contact?

*** Granted, but cows are a much better source of meat than people ever could be... it takes a human being 15-20 years to grow to a 150-200 pound state, it takes a cow maybe 9 months to grow to 550 pounds or more. You'd think if cows were a few hours travel away, humans wouldn't be quite such a delicacy.

* Another piece of Fridge Logic: Why were people surprised at survivors in Scotland? Even without immunity it's clearly not an airbourne virus and there is a lot of Scotland with next to no-one living in it that would remain isolated from infection. A few survivors were inevitable.

** Also there were that many cows after 20 odd years of barely anyone around, not as the virus swept in.

** Possibly they did. They just ate people as well, for the hell of it.

* More Fridge Logic than anything. Why didn't the cannibals eat the cows outside of the city? You know instead of people.

* I was thinking about how downright pathetic and unable to stand up for herself Cally was in ''Doomsday'', which was weird given the writer/director's love for the Action Girl trope. It eventually hit me after reading about the main character's background - Cally was supposed to be the contrast to Eden Sinclair. Eden grew up on the streets and learned to be tough and hold her own, so now she's a super tough Action Girl. Cally would have grown up with her abusive and psychotic father and brother without a chance of holding her own, so she learned to be afraid of them and stay away from violence. -Whatever