When Ellie is beginning to open the trap door in the floor her flashlight is on her shoulder. As she tries to look in to the area below the trap door she takes her flashlight out of her bag.
On Frank's last day the boat that Bill used as a hauling trailer looked old and worn. When Joel and Ellie arrive and Joel goes to the garage to find the truck, the boat is seen in pristine condition in the background.
It is established early on the bedroom is on the second floor. The closing shoot is designed to be out of the bedroom window, but was shot from a second story window.
In his note, Bill tells Joel (or Whom) what he and Frank have done, and asks that he not enter the bedroom. He further explains that he has left the window open, in order to minimize the odorous effects of their decomposing bodies in the house. As this program ends, the camera pulls back from the road, showing Joel and Ellie leaving town in the truck, through the open window of the bedroom. Though the camera never shows the bodies of Bill and Frank, it is implied that their bodies are behind the camera's viewpoint. YET with open windows, flies would be drawn to the smell of their rotting bodies and mass reproduced. In short, not only should the room be full of flies, but the rest of the house would have had its fair share as well (in spite of the bedroom door being closed). BUT the room was, as far as the camera showed, completely fly free.
(EDIT: Insects will typically devour all soft tissue and leave the body within 12 months. Bill & Frank kept an immaculate house. There was a thick layer of dust on the table showing quite a bit of time had passed. The maggots and flies wound have already moved on if a body is more than a month old.)
(EDIT: Insects will typically devour all soft tissue and leave the body within 12 months. Bill & Frank kept an immaculate house. There was a thick layer of dust on the table showing quite a bit of time had passed. The maggots and flies wound have already moved on if a body is more than a month old.)
Twenty years into the post cataclysmic world, Joe takes possession of Bill's truck. BUT gasoline goes funky after, if not months, then definitely a year or so. And if world civilization has collapsed, then there surely is NO refinery to process petroleum (which also has its production problems in a post cataclysmic world, such as extraction from the ground) into gasoline. In short, the gasoline in this truck (as well as the gasoline in the underground tanks at Bill's local Exxon) would have turned gummy a very long time ago and rendered it inoperable. Yet, Joe easily starts the truck right up with minimal effort.
When Ellie goes into the basement of the store, everything has aged as it has deteriorated, such as the lockers. BUT the galvanized trash can is rust free. If exposed to the same environment as everything else down there, it should have been at least fairly rusted. Instead, it looks like it was just brought home from the local Ace Hardware.
Twenty years into the post cataclysmic world, Bill and Frank have their last supper together in their LIGHTED dining room. Though they have a generator to power their electric lights, gasoline (which powers their generator) will go funky after, if not months, then definitely a year or so. And if world civilization has collapsed, then there surely is NO refinery to process petroleum (which also has its production problems in a post cataclysmic world, such as extraction from the ground) into gasoline, which can then be used by Bill and Frank to power their generator for electricity.
When the scavengers attack, multiple people catch on fire, but the flame throwers appear to be stationary. For multiple people to get hit by them would require the people to willingly walk into the path of the flames.
At the beginning of the episode, Joel and Ellie are camped in a mountainous wooded landscape that's presented as "10 miles west of Boston," but appears strikingly unlike the dense, predominantly hardwood forests in eastern Massachusetts. Much of the show's filming took place in Alberta, Canada, which lacks natural landscapes that closely resemble the U.S. northeast.
Bill's neighborhood could conceivably get its power from Bedford, MA, which is adjacent to Lincoln, MA, but not New Bedford, MA which is roughly 70mi further away.
Joel says that it's believed that the infection happened all at once due to infected food stuffs. However, there is no food which is eaten globally and no way that food would be distributed evenly around the globe so that everyone would eat it over the same couple of days. In reality, outbreaks would have been occurring sporadically in different places over time, allowing authorities a much better opportunity to contain it.