Talk:Doomsday film

message: Baumfabrik's edits (July 5, 2006) include good additions (such as Day the Earth Caught Fire, Threads, and Dawn's Early Light) and other edits, which I have retained.  But Baumfabrik's grouping of doomsday films into subcategories was overly complicated and too clever by half. The various articles on apocalyptic events already go into exquisite detail (although not with 100% consistency) about the subcategories of such events.  Let's leave this material in those other articles, where it belongs.  Here the subcategories just cause redundant entries (hence, Baumfabrik's own double-entry of Day of the Triffids).  Many films could arguably come under multiple subcategories and there will always be at least one film that never quite fits any of them (e.g., The Quiet Earth, which is about a scientific experiment gone awry). - WikiPedant 03:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: I removed "Ghostbusters" from the list.  I love the film, but I just think it's too much of a stretch to place it in the genre of doomsday film.  Geoffrey.landis 17:13, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed Ghostbusters 

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message: Since there really aren't that many examples, I think it's justified to include doomsday-related TV series in this article (rather than creating a separate list). The fact Doomsday also forms the backdrop for a number of shows, including Star Trek which has a nuclear war as a major part of its backstory, is worth noting as well. The reason for Doctor Who being included is that over the years it has featured episodes in which earth and humanity has been wiped out, either through warfare or, ultimately, the expansion of the sun and the ultimate death of the universe. Twlight Zone featured many doomsday episodes, while both Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dark Angel involve doomsday events setting the scene, and Jericho of course is about the world rebuilding. Survivors is a truly explicit example as it's a show about civilization rebuilding after most of the world is wiped out. There are doubtless other examples even before we get into doomsday-suggestive themes like those of The Prisoner. That's probably going too far into OR territory, though. Also, I'm not suggesting we include every show that mentions a doomsday scenario. Heck, even Wonder Woman (TV series) reveals in one episode that nuclear war is supposed to wipe out civilization (in the show's timeline) by 2007.) But if it plays a major role, it should be noted. 68.146.41.232 (talk) 14:28, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: Is there a cite to support this "genre" of any sort? What makes these Doomsday and not apocalyptic films? Alastairward (talk) 14:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
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