Fridge Horror: Imagine the trauma that someone who was actually asleep for 504 years would go through upon waking up. Assuming Buck's physical and mental state weren't affected by being in suspended animation (or could be restored with 25th century technology) he's in a completely alien world. Essentially he has to learn a new language from the ground up, then deal with all of his education and training being hopelessly out of date. Even the very basics have changed, such as clothing and personal hygiene. And even if there hadn't been a nuclear war in the series' back story, everyone he had ever known and loved is long dead; their descendants (if any) are so far removed from him as to make the connection academic at best. Finding intact records (much less their grave sites) would be nothing short of a miracle.note Buck is pretty much an infant in a grown man's body once he wakes up, making him vulnerable to whatever faction recovered him first. The pilot movie actually played with this, when the Draconians attach a tracking device to his ship's navigational equipment to learn the way past New Chicago's defense grid. They could just as easily have made him a full-on Manchurian Agent ( and he is in fact suspected of being a Draconian spy when he first shows up) or worse. The whole premise, with just a little bit more realism, would have been prime Nightmare Fuel!
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