Hopefully, this version will remain true to Terry Nation's original (if somewhat garbled) vision: That modern society is one major catastrophy away from a new dark age, and ill prepared to survive it.

The survivors of any major population cull could live for quite a long while off canned food, gasoline-generators, and other stock-piled supplies. In fact, it's our first instinct when presented with a post-apocalyptic scenario: hole up someplace safe with more material posessions than most of us have ever seen in our entire lives, and live out the rest of our lives in relative luxury.

But what about the generation after us? And the one after that? While we're busy scavenging and defending our hordes, who's planting next year's crops? How many of the plants and animals we take for granted will simply cease to exist during that first year because we were too busy scavenging the remains of a dead society to start thinking about what we'll need for a new one? What will happen to our own offspring once the technology we relied on finally breaks and we no longer have the knowledge to replace it?

The people who survived the plague were just lucky. The real test of survival is what comes afterwards.

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