Yeah, I know they wanted to keep visual cues to remind us that it was our future, but it needs to be a few thousand years in the future, so definitely too much. Scene with Flick and Wil had a rusted out car sitting there, or at least a door in decent shape, with window glass intact. It was a catastrophe of the order that it physically reshaped the land, shouldn't be too much recognizable after that sort of thing plus thousands of years drift as well. I liked that the book series just kinda hints at a few bits of rusted out skyscraper or whatnot here and there, but mostly treats the old world as just a memory with a few bits clinging on here and there.
Until they get later into the series and they deal with corrupted mechanical things, AI gone rogue, that sorta stuff. Other thing that makes the car being there somewhat silly, as the global disaster/war/whatever was still decently in our future, because we don't yet have the needed tech.
Minor nit, but thought they overdid the remnants of the old world. Don't need a car laying around, or a space needle in decent shape, just use the opening to show us everything blew up and this is what came out of the ashes.
I've got a 1 year old at home, so only managed to stay up for the opening 30 min or so; will check out the rest tonight...
