Welcome to the End of The Road

The End of the Road

Welcome to the End of The Road. This is an ongoing look at a particular genre in the overall entertainment field. It is one of my favorite ones, that oftentimes is not well represented with quality. There is plenty of quantity in the genre of The Post Apocalypse (Post Apoc from here on).

My personal take on what qualifies for Post Apoc is pretty simple. The aftermath of something that has happened that was Catastrophic and predominately Natural or Man Made in origin. So things like Meteor Showers, Nuclear War, Asteroid Strike, Man-made Volcanoes erupting causing Tsunamis, these all qualify as to the reason for the Apocalypse. Other events that could fall in I am not considering. The Zombie Apocalypse I am not going to treat in here, nor am I touching too much on what I term Alien Invasion (typified in movies and series such as The War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Falling Skies, etc), leaving those to their own devices.

So The End of the Road will talk about sources, conventions, stereotypes, tropes, reviews, and original elements for the genre.So grab up your bedspring crossbow and sharpen that makeshift machete and with some roadkill stew lets go on a trip into the Post Apoc.