Now, many things tend to happen in these apocalyptic shows - be it a meaty whore, earthquake, unfeasibly large monster/robot, or even towing the planet through space.
There is Shaky Table, the Wobbly Sideboard That China Plates Fall Off, the Cup Of Tumbling Tea or Glass of Champers. Heck, there's often the Crack Running Up The Wall and/or Across The Ceiling. Not to mention the Bookcase That Falls And Traps You Between It's Shelves.
But this is all par for the course. All dwellings have tables, a handy drink and walls/ceilings - what bemuses ME is the sudden formation of atomic particles to make solid objects.
In this case flying forests of foolscap!
Just why is it, when the room shakes, lots and lots of A4 paper starts drifting through the air, as if some off-set stage manager was lobbing paper props in from of a giant fan?
Look around your living room - are there stacks of A5 sheets lying about? Are there buggery sod as like! So where does it all come from?!?!?!
And how come they call an A4 piece of paper foolscap? Even a fool wouldn't use it as a cap! It makes no sense to me!
Still - you always seem to run out of paper right when you really need to print something off, so the spontaneous appearance of paper can be a godsend in a disaster. Actually, mayhap you don't run out of paper! Maybe it just evaporates into the air, and the magnetic flux thrown up by The Disastrous Event causes the elements to reconnect and return to it's original form.
Unless it's on online form, and that's normally a PDF (which is an acronym for Paper Don't Fit*, so it has to be seen on-screen, which is wider than a piece of paper.)
* PAPER DON'T FIT
I'M IN TROUBLE DEEP
PAPER DON'T FIT
I'VE BEEN LOSING SLEEP
BUT I'VE MADE UP MY MIND
I'M
SAVING ME WEB PAGE
MM-MMM, I'M GONNA SAVE ME WEB PAGE
...AS A HTML DOCUMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE
