Goth wolves! What will they think of next?
spudnik
joined 7 months ago
It was a surprisingly good show, I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was. Great cast too!
formerly carnivorous plants
This is so cool! Probably a tough sell for a few years though lol
Yup, exactly! But there a ton of other different species of carnivorous plants that aren't flytraps specifically that grow all over. There are actually varieties in equatorial jungles, and all the way north into Canada too
They were also involved in making the show Duckman if you're interested in more. It has that very specific 90s anticapitalism that was allowable in media before 9/11
I think we think it's wild because all the media depictions of them are in cool and interesting places for plot reasons. In my mind they belong with like komodo dragons and birds of paradise or something
The only place on earth that Venus Flytraps grow naturally is within a narrow range along the coast of the southern US. They aren't from the Amazon, or Borneo, or any place exotic like a rain forest. They only grow in a bare sandy patch of geography about an hour north of Myrtle Beach
A lot of people from Star Trek TNG were involved in making it. Once I heard that, it clicked that this is basically a really good extended TNG episode where they don't leave the ship
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Cutoff
I wrote a previous comment on this, but pretty much this exact same thing happened, and it caused the Donner Party. The real life guy was somehow even dumber than Zapp Branigan, and later helped establish the famous colony of ex-confederates in Brazil.
If you liked it and want another Steinbeck banger set in the Great Depression you should check out In Dubious Battle. For some reason it gets left out when The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men are mentioned, but it is my favorite of the three. It's about an apple pickers strike in California, and follows the communist organizers trying to lead it.