Day of the Triffids

[scook94]

Is anyone else watching it who has read the book?

Read it when I was at school.... This would appear to be an adaptation, the old TV series with John Duttine was much closer to the original as I recall. Enjoying it well enough, especially as the rest of what's on doesn't appeal.

 

[Speicher]

I've read the book, but having read the blurb about it on the BBC website I'm not sure I can be bothered watching an entirely different story that happens to have some characters with similar names...

I note your comment with interest .

 

[dan_bo]

Butter or Margarine? Please tell!


We're currently watching:


The fire.

 

[Speicher]

Pah - Eddie Izzard (Torrance) says he was a submarine maintenance engineer, hah with that moustache - I do not think so.

Also remember the name of the street he was first seen in?

 

[Wigsie]

WTF is he doing with a blind woman called hilda in his car?

 

[gaz]

I watched it on Boxing Day!

Why can't the beeb find a decent gun shot sound effect?

they have some realistic ones in this video

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUlUS2mqzWY

 

[Speicher]

WTF is he doing with a blind woman called hilda in his car?

She was the Prime Minister's clerical assistant or under secretary or something - do I have to explain everything to you?

I very seldom watch tv and log in on cycle chat at the same time, this is a new experience for me.

 

[Norm]

Dunno but I'd have picked a honey if I was one of the few sighted peeps left in London.

It is very BBC / Dr Who at the moment, though, isn't it.

 

[Noodley]

I have just switched over to watch it....

 

[dan_bo]

.......are you sure you're not watching the microwave?

 

[Wigsie]

She was the Prime Minister's clerical assistant or under secretary or something - do I have to explain everything to you?

Yes please, I thought you knew that by now?

I very seldom watch tv and log in on cycle chat at the same time, this is a new experience for me.

Me too I am usually interested in what we choose to watch!

I am waiting for a tardis..... still no sight, some laughable plasticine plants on the M20 though.

Ha ha "Look after Hilda for me Joe" Genius!

 

[jonesy]

I note your comment with interest .

Well I think the story would need a bit of adaptation to make it work as a new production, not least because the original was written in the 1950s and as far as I can tell was set in that period, so picking up on a current theme like creating a new species of plant to provide biofuel would make sense if you were to set it in the present day, but I get the impression they've departed a long way from the core of story about how isolated groups of people try to survive the collapse of civilisation, with competing ideologies and visions for the new world they are trying to build.

 

[Noodley]

It's been written by a team of writers terrified that anything other than a cliche-laden forumulaic approach to sci-fi will die on it's arse.

 

[Speicher]

I am going to get another drink, please tell me if I miss anything.

 

[Wigsie]

It's been written by a team of the Doctor Who writers terrified that anything other than a cliche-laden forumulaic approach to sci-fi will die on it's arse.

Corrected for you.