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Setting is Inconsistent

posted 8 years ago by StammerCob
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So is anyone else wondering where on Earth exactly Offshore conducts the Process? Is Offshore populated solely by Brazilians and are the candidates only recruited from that one city? Or are Processes conducted elsewhere in the world?

Speaking of the city (which is only referred to as "Inland"), where the hell is it? It looks like it's at the bottom of an open-pit mine which seems like a weird location for a settlement to spring up. The first episode only establishes the location as "Sub-equatorial Amazon". Since it looks like the pit is surrounded by desert, does that mean the Amazon rain-forest has turned into a desert?

I also didn't see open water anywhere so I'm not sure how they launch that submarine from the Process center. So it doesn't look like they put in enough effort to keep the setting consistent.

[–] ricierij 8 years ago

In the opening sequence there is a scene where a line leaves Amazon through the Amazon River and goes to the sea until the islands knowm as Fernando De Noronha (they are quite big and were a brazilian state with capital city and all before becoming part of another state). I think that is the headquarters of them. I believe the focus was to create a representation of a society so they didn´t think in terms of brazilians and foreigners: its just the system vs the rebels.

[–] StammerCob 8 years ago

Just looked up Fernando De Noronha, it doesn't seem too far from the Brazilian mainland. I wonder why there isn't more Inlanders who try to reach Offshore via boat. After all, there's currently many people who are trying to reach Europe and Australia via rickety boats.

[–] Lucky_Number_7 8 years ago

Maybe there are patrols guarding the waters around the island.

[–] irvintang 8 years ago

Rocket launchers my friend, rocket launchers.

[–] Movie_Guy79 8 years ago

I wondered which city that was supposed to be as well. And what hapened to the coastal cities like Sao Paolo and Rio?

Also, if the rain forest is now one giant desert what do they farm?

And since the "processing center" seems to be a stand alone building in the middle of the desert with one road leading to it, why aren't more people camped outside the front?

[–] Camikka 8 years ago

I read the coastline shown in the opening is somewhere in northern Pará, just below the equator, hence "subequatorial amazon". Yes, I think it's implied that the Amazon Rainforest was destroyed. I think it's a fictional island, maybe even an artificial one. Fernando de Noronha is another option.

[–] maurobailey 8 years ago

Yeah, the show do not explains very good the context, it focus on the Process.
I think that offshore is an artifical island. Fernando de Noronha is east from the east part of Brazil, the island in the show is northeast from the northern part of Brazil.

[–] justabitofeverythingplease 8 years ago

I think we're not supposed to see it as a Brazilian thing but more broad. Maybe it's a global thing and there are Islandsall over the place. Maybe in the time this takes place many natural disasters have ripped some parts of continents apart and made it necessary for mankind to establish these Islands and let only the smartest people on them, and maybe they are trying to work on a better world for everybody although the context of this season didn't hint in any way to something like that but I like to let my fantasy have a party with this one instead of trying to solve it in the rational world we know.