Survivors

[Asset]

Did anyone watch this last night?

I thought it was quite good, if a little unbelievable at times.

I remember being traumatised by the series as a child in the seventies (the rabies episode stands out) and wonder how many of the plot lines this series will borrow from the original. Don't know if they are merely nodding to the original or recreating it.

I intend to traumatise my eldest by letting him watch it.

[mockney piers]

I thought it was ok; impressed they managed to shut a motorway!!

The doctor's very cute!!

[Moos]

Soooooooooooo much less traumatic than The Road by Cormac McCarthy. [glares at a fellow book club member]

At least there's still blue sky!

[Keef]

Bugger, totally forgot about it. Is it repeated at all?

[zephyr]

It should be on BBC iPlayer. I have recorded it (will record the series).

[SeanMacGabhann]

you can't even BEGIN to compare the Road with Survivors, Moos!

(he said, breaking cover)

[SeanMacGabhann]

speaking of iPlayer - has anyone with a Wii used the iPlayer on it? It sure beats gathering around a laptop to watch a programme

[mockney piers]

I've not, but sincve you mentioned it could be done, I've been enjoying streaming stuff from my PC to the xbox 360.

You started Generation Kill yet? (did I ask on saturday?)

[SeanMacGabhann]

you did, I haven't (waiting to finish another show first)

But I fear we are venturing a tad off-topic!

[LuvPeckham]

two answers in one

1. Yes have used the Wii to watch iPlayer, it is a good way of doing it, although a wee bit 'jumpy' at times which makes you feel like you have just gotten back in from the pub when watching it (note to self must try to use wii iPlayer BEFORE going to pub next time)

2. Survivors is a well written program a nd I enjoyed it last night, got a call from my dear old mum to ask "where have all the cars gone ?" (you see them when they want to show them, but msot of the time no cars anywhere) and also how did everyone die at exactly the same time ? (see the bit where the young boy wakes up in the mosque to see everyone dead at the same time) - strange

I too (just) remember the origional series and it is good to see it brought back and modernised, just wish part 2 wasn't on again tomorrow night as I can't keep up with more then one night of telly a week at the moment !!

[david_carnell]

I saw it and thought....meh.

It was ok. Fairly untaxing to watch and midly entertaining but the script was iffy and it was too long. The only relief came with the new added twist at the end. Plus, it wasn't the most uplifting Sunday night viewing. The next time I get the sniffles though I'm gonna be shitting myself....

On an aside, I did realise I'd be next to useless come armageddon. I have very few practical skills that would come in handy. I can shoot a gun quite well (if I could get my hands on one), I can drive (should there be any cars/petrol left) but otherwise I terribly modern and gizmo centred. Perhaps an evening class in butchery, horticulture and building structures from mud and straw may be in order.

[buggie]

Think this has come too soon after Dead Set - kept waiting for the zombies to appear. Also found it difficult to take the guy who was Mark's manager in Peep Show seriously.

Agree with LuvPeckham about the mosque - especially as everyone else was waking up to find everyone dead... were we to believe they'd been praying all night?!

If anyone wants to pm me to explain how to use the iplayer on the wii that'd be much appreciated! x

[mockney piers]

"Also found it difficult to take the guy who was Mark's manager in Peep Show seriously."

Ha, yes, I had exactly the same problem.

Yeah, they did a slightly weak bit with the doctor explain some last a long time, some die really quickly. I got the feeling that was put in retrospectively to justify why the playboy's pull dropped dead with barely so much as a sniffle whilst tens of thousands had been suffering the flu for seemingly a week or so.

How that coincidentally results in the nation all dropping dead at the same time, most of them in their cars for some bizarre reason.

Still, enjoyable if, as D_C points out, depressing sunday night fare.

Did I mention that I thought the doc was cute?

[LuvPeckham]

buggie Wrote:

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> If anyone wants to pm me to explain how to use the

> iplayer on the wii that'd be much appreciated! x

IPlayer on the wii is dead easy

Three steps are required

1. Ensure you have downloaded the internet channel on the Wii (this of course assumes you have it connected to the internet, if not all is lost until you do)

2. Start the Internet Channel

3. go to web address http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ and select the program you wish to watch

tis childs play and hence why I got a child to explain it to me in the first place.....

[Moos]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> you can't even BEGIN to compare the Road with

> Survivors, Moos!

>

> (he said, breaking cover)

Come off eeeeeeeeeeeet, they're both post-apocalyptic stories about surviving in a changed world, why not? OK, one is Litracha, and the other is a telly show but it's reasonable innit? I wish I'd watched it now, and haven't got an iAnything so may just have to catch up with episode 2 and forever be going 'Polar bear? What polar bear? Eh?'.

After reading The Road, I have been known to lie insomniacally in bed thinking about what I would grab if I had to leave the house in 5 minutes and survive only on my wits... oh dear. I'm genuinely perturbed that we have to return our baby back pack and now I'll have to carry Moosling in my arms! Clearly I need help. And like d_c, I have limited survival skills anyway...

[mockney piers]

You must have internet, if you can read the BBC news, you can watch iPlayer. It's just a posh auntie beeb youtube basically.

[Moos]

Oh, OK :-$

Now I realise I have limited survival skills in a pre-apocalyptic world too...

[Keef]

If we are all blinded like in Day of the Triffids, I shall happily teach you all to get around safely, and use your haptic sense. Hurrah, finally I'd feel useful!

Come on you stupid plants, give me a reason to live!!!!!

[mockney piers]

I did think about the old survival skills whilst reading World War Z, I think mine more or less amount to zilch.

Maybe something about dock leaves being good for stinging nettles, that's about it.

[AllyCat]

I watched this last night too and thought it was pretty good... and yes - worried about my runny nose!

However it made me wonder though if you were one of the few "survivors" left in East Dulwich what would you get up too? Would you be nosy and check out the posh houses, or peep behind the door of the shop next to the Butchers to see what's there...?!

[Moos]

OK, I've thought of one - I'm very good at climbing trees. I feel this could be helpful in the Post Apocalypse East Dulwich Commune. (??)

And I'm the stubbornest motherfunster I know, also useful I assert.

[Keef]

Climbing trees is a transferable skill, we'll make a cat burglar of you in no time!

[david_carnell]

Or you could be a lookout. Like a human meercat.

[Nero]

It was atrocious. It was cringingly PC (crow-barring minorities into several roles), non-geographically correct (how many accents that were not Mancunian did you hear?), full of the same people (the black man who's been on Spooks or something similar, the Scottish woman who's been on Bonekickers), and lacking in action. The most captivating things were the empty highways and backstreets of Manchester.

It's like a bloody factory, the BBC drama production unit at the moment. If it's not bonnets and bibs, then it's chaos and conspiracy. Either way it's slavish, patronising and boring. I don't want shimmery FX, clever plot-lines and knowing dialogue. I just want a good tale told well.

[mockney piers]

It wasn't the best thing in the world, but it was far from terrible, clearly something rubbed you up the wrong way.

If by "the black man who's been on Spooks" you mean the wonderful Paterson Joseph, you've probably know his face because he's been on practically everything except spooks - dangerously Motty of you there Nero ;-) , though as buggie hinted, once you've seen his wonderfully OTT character in Peep Show it's hard to take him seriously.

Everyone in the office here has had a bit of a chuckle at the hetrogenous range of survivors, but hey, maybe that's part of the nefarious government organisation that caused it all in the first place ;-)

I'm going with an insane Trevor Philips creating a special virus that leaves precisely one of every race alive in each country as he takes his remit just a little too far!!