You were about 12 or so issues in (of 60). So a good start!
Spoilers Y The Last Man
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If not, check your local library! That's how I finally read the whole series.
If your library doesn't have physical copies of the comic (unlikely tbh) check and see if they have access to an app called Hoopla. It's free with a library account and all of Y is on there, plus a ton of other digital comics. (Plus ebooks, audiobooks, music, movies and TV shows.)
The comic was amazing. I hope the show manages to live up to it.
Been a while since I read it so I may be wrong, but I thought it clearly was.
Wasn't it..
That as soon as the first human clone was born, Mother Nature/Gaia basically thought "right, so we don't need males for reprouction anymore then, ok" and instantly killed them all.
Which I thought was pretty stupid, but there you go. And as they said there's no way it was a virus or anything as they all died at exactly the same time.
But why not just humans but all the mammals too? That's a bit dumb. Would the surviving female population have to go round cloning dogs & cats too if they wanted pets, or cows & pigs if they still wanted some meat. I don't remember the animal situation ever been overly mentioned much in the comics. But again it's been ages since I read it all so if anyone remembers it better...
Which I thought was pretty stupid, but there you go. And as they said there's no way it was a virus or anything as they all died at exactly the same time.
But why not just humans but all the mammals too? That's a bit dumb. Would the surviving female population have to go round cloning dogs & cats too if they wanted pets, or cows & pigs if they still wanted some meat. I don't remember the animal situation ever been overly mentioned much in the comics. But again it's been ages since I read it all so if anyone remembers it better...
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Yep. Personally, I never liked the "Mother Gaia" one. And if this was the right one, The Apocalypse should have happened after the birth of Dolly..
FX's Y: The Last Man Series Will Explore How Sex Doesn't Define Gender
It interesting because the original comics really didn't touch the gender/sexes subject. I remember only one character that perhaps was a transgender man, and I'm not even sure, perhaps she was a cross-dresser/drag king who was doing it just for the money (in the series some women missed the men so much that they were content with even a passable imitation).
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I'd heard of cisgender women with Y chromosomes, but it wasn't until reading comments related to this show on The AV Club recently that I learned about XX males, i.e., cisgender males with no Y chromosome. According to Wiki, "This syndrome [occurs] in approximately 1:20,000 newborn males," so apparently an insta-plague of death for all mammals with Y chromosomes wouldn't make cisgender men as extinct as I'd always thought.
To put that in perspective, there are about 875,000 humans in my hometown of San Francisco, so, if half of them are men, that would suggest there are roughly 20 cisgender men without Y chromosomes in this city alone. Which is certainly rare, but not anywhere near as rare as the comic series suggested, in which Yorick was the only confirmed cisgender man left on Earth. Fascinating.
To put that in perspective, there are about 875,000 humans in my hometown of San Francisco, so, if half of them are men, that would suggest there are roughly 20 cisgender men without Y chromosomes in this city alone. Which is certainly rare, but not anywhere near as rare as the comic series suggested, in which Yorick was the only confirmed cisgender man left on Earth. Fascinating.
Yeah, and I think I read somewhere that there's a species of rat that has managed to ditch the Y-chromosome altogether. It's really not as important as had previously been believed. I think a lot of it comes from some fundamental misconceptions about how evolution works, i.e. everything has an optimal purpose, vs. the reality that is "whatever ad-hoc mutation worked first, tends to stick". Natural selection isn't picky.
Incidentally, if you apply those numbers world-wide, even rounding down very conservatively you should still get something like a hundred and fifty, to two hundred thousand XX males.
Sure, that number will be cut down somewhat from all the ancillary deaths associated with Y-Day (or whatever it's called), like for example being a XX cis male won't you any good if you're an airline passenger 20,000 feet up and both the pilot and co-pilot are of the Y-chromosome persuasion (see also: traffic incidents, fires, the general chaos and panic of the first few hours.) But even if that kind of thing manages to kill half of them you're still looking at tens of thousands of survivors.
Personally I never bought any of the supposed scientific explanations for one basic reason: the synchronicity. No plague, no virus, no toxin, either natural or artificial could spread that wide, that fast, AND be that lethal all at the same time. Biology simply doesn't work that way.
Paradoxically, the only explanation that really makes sense is the supernatural one. In which case, the presence or not of a Y-chromosome would have been incidental if the goal was to wipe out all male mammals. Since we're into "genie's wish/infinity gauntlet snap" territory the definition of what a "man" is is inherently subjective to the perceptions of who and/or whatever caused it, and not based on actual objective science.
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Well, it is clear that the original intent of the author was to imagine what would happen to a world where men suddenly disappeared. The "how" and "why" weren't really essential to the story he wanted to tell.
The fact is that since story was written the concept of what a "man" is has acquired new nuances. Let's see how they will be addressed in the new series. Of course, the problem remains the same. Much of the a modern society's infrastructure is still run by cisgender biological males. The chaos that would ensue from their disappearance would be devastating.
The fact is that since story was written the concept of what a "man" is has acquired new nuances. Let's see how they will be addressed in the new series. Of course, the problem remains the same. Much of the a modern society's infrastructure is still run by cisgender biological males. The chaos that would ensue from their disappearance would be devastating.
New teaser with more dialogue from Yorick and Agent 355:
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
Can someone explain to me the point of region restricting advertisements? In this day and age especially, it just boggles the mind.
Because the thing it’s advertised for may not be available in your region.
distribution rights. Another company must own the rights to show it in the UK.
I can see it fine in Canada oddly.
That sentence made no sense whatsoever.
I don't think advertising is covered by distribution rights. If that were the case then I shouldn't be able to see *anything* to do with any TV releases outside of the UK. And yet I do, all the time.
This is not a legal requirement, it's a choice, and that choice just strikes me as dumb. I mean is there such a thing as too much exposure? Too much positive word of mouth?
Ok maybe they paid extra for the exclusive rights to advertise it?