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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Based on the neglected condition of the flowers at the front of the house that Joel noted as they walked on the property indicating that all was not well. As well dust on the furniture. It's pretty clear it was intended to be more than a few days.
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Yes, the pot of ornamental (probably 'annual') flowers were dried up and dying. I'm not a green thumb, but in my experience it doesn't take long for such plants to die without careful watering. (I've inadvertently killed my fair share of plants because I skipped watering for a couple days...) I didn't notice any particular "dust on the furniture". I
did notice that the food on the table, Bill & Frank's last meal, had barely gone moldy/rotten. To me it was implied to be only a few days.
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I don't want to sidetrack the discussion but he was clearly using a diesel generator in his backyard to power the house. It's possible he gathered up a bunch of solar panels over the years but the reality is that electricity would be pretty scarce without power plants operating so electricity on for weeks on end seems highly unlikely without someone around to ensure continuous operation of generators.
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This isn't a "sidetrack", it's the discussion at hand. You're basically stating that you perceive some 'errors' in the show's narrative/presentation that have interfered with your suspension of disbelief. It's fine; I already stated that the short scene at the beginning of the episode set "10 miles west of Boston" but clearly in the Rockies made me wrinkle my nose in disbelief.
As I pointed out, it shows Bill firing up a generator in 2003. Clearly circa 2003 he was using a generator. Presumably in 2023 he was still using a generator, but it's not necessarily the same generator—I would find it very hard to believe said generator would last 20 years—and
at no point does it actually show how much fuel he keeps stored.
As I said, presumably someone as industrious as Bill would have rigged up a significant fuel supply such that he doesn't have to top up a small tank every day or two. I don't know what you're picturing, but I'm picturing something like a 1000-gallon tank, which would keep a generator running for
weeks. If you can believe the conceit that he reinstated the town's natural gas supply, he also could have replaced the diesel generator with a gas-fired one.