Three possible answers:

It's a sign of the times- I found out about this first from a post from HobbyLink Japan (an internationally-shipping model company) on Facebook, just before I went to bed. Checked the usual newssites, nothing there- I figured it was an update from some earlier quake, and went to bed.

And not only could that Batplane NOT hit the broad side of a barn (or a non-moving target), but it only took ONE SHOT from an absurdly-long handgun to take it out of commission... I SERIOUSLY expect better from the Nolan Dark Knight.

So the "Total Recall" reboot is going to be a contemporary take on a futuristic movie... I guess the future isn't what it used to be.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now, that cloned fetus you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?

That imagery at the top of the thread seems to be inspired by a scene from Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí' s film "Un Chien Andalou", where it was a pun on the feeling of a hand going to sleep- "ants in the hand".

I'm thinking long-term here. I'd be afraid that, within a few hundred years, if civilization hadn't returned our ancestors would be wearing the solar cells as pretty baubles, after the batteries failed... What we really need is a way to build a durable, really-long-term digital storage device, perhaps powered by some…

Hey, now! Those were GREAT for getting around obstacles- there were times I wanted a full size one of those on the 10 Freeway, at rush hour...

Finally! A vehicle that allows me to get around without all that annoying dignity!

Morgan Freeman was from "Deep Impact", The Sum of All Fears", and "Dreamcatcher". Bruce Willis was from "The Siege". What films were Robert McNaughton, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, and David Morse from?

I think the print version would be a good idea- although in a post-apocalyptic world, I can also see someone using the not-immediately-needed parts as toilet paper, so cheap multiple paper copies would be needed.

I'm sure there'll be one for "It's A Disaster!!!" Sunday. If not, my faith in the "Disaster" will be sorely shaken...

"When we were told we could have sodium arc lights OR flashing strobe lights, we decided to use... strobing sodium arc lights. It seemed like a good compromise at the time."

The lightning bolts are a metaphor for what happens, if you DO lift the loincloth...

"Hello, ladies. Look at your boyfriend. Now, look at me. Now, look at your boyfriend. Now, look at my lightning bolt-shooter."

No, that would be "Incarceramus!"

That's how this episode ends- the good guys pile into the TARDIS, and the bad guys slug it out.

Donna Noble (alternate timeline) in "Turn Left".

No- They actually "die" a lot. Of course, they always get better, or get saved, or are replaced by alt-universe versions, or something happens so it isn't permanent.

CORRECTION: Actually, it's Zeera, a female colleague of Svetz, who screws up the job of obtaining a duplicate of the first motor car.