The original post: /r/television by /u/Valhallsium on 2025-08-12 11:54:36+00:00.
In The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), the story is about an alien invasion, but at the very end, instead of destroying humanity, the alien Klaatu shuts down all electricity and electronic technology permanently. Humanity is spared—but forced to survive without any electricity at all.
This reminds me a lot of the series Revolution (2012), where a mysterious event makes electricity impossible everywhere on Earth. Not just a blackout or loss of knowledge—electricity physically cannot be generated or used anymore.
Both stories create worlds where the apocalypse isn’t from war or disease, but from the collapse of electrical energy itself—a permanent, physical change that forces civilization to regress to a pre-industrial state.
Has anyone seen other works with this kind of “electricity apocalypse”? How do you think losing electricity forever would reshape humanity?