Survivors
Is it just me or is this already worthy of a "not as good as the original" tag ... ? Like my - recently ridiculed elsewhere on this site - perception of the Sex Pistols as being 'a dangerous thing', maybe it's because I was a teenager when the original was broadcast, but I remember being absolutely terrified.
I didn't realise back then that the next impending world wide catastrophe was more likely to be economic, rather than chemical, nuclear or biological.
Last night I found myself thinking: well, at least it would be one way to sort out mortgage repayments, traffic congestion, and George Lamb; and wondering where I could find a wind-up gramophone that would play my old LPs at 33 1/3 when the power went off.
P.S. Whatever happened to bird flu?
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But what would you do?
First of all I'd find a Porsche Boxter and race it around London. Then when I got bored with that I'd drive it to the top of a multistorey carpark and push it over the edge. That would be fun.
Then I'd stock up on batteries and a generator, get myself some neat stereo equipment and a big TV, roam around HMV on Oxford Street filling a trolley with CDs and vinyl, then wander round Borders filling another trolley with books and DVDs. Then I'd find a transit van, put all the stuff in it, go to a garden centre and takes lots of seeds and fertiliser and such like, go to Tescoes and take everything tinned. Then I'd head out to some farmstead in the middle of nowhere, siphoning petrol out of cars as I went, round up some cattle and sheep, plant the seeds and wait out the apocolypse.
I just though I'd share that since I did lie in bed thinking about it for at least half an hour last night and it would be shame to waste it.
Sounds about right.
I'd also stock up on fabulously expensive acoustic guitars and drumkits, for when the generator went down. I'll be one farmstead over - working my way through the tinned soup, re-reading Gormenghast, and listening to the gramophone trying to work out the chords to 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' on George Harrison's old Gibson.
Wine, beer, fags...
on top of all the above and a few DVDs so I had something to watch
Oh christ yes
Since you've already outlived the vast majority of the rest of the world you could chain smoke all day with impunity and all the fags would be free. That would be heaven.
I think...
...there is a series here. A small community of rock snobs have survived some form of catastrophe. When not arguing over best album/guitar solo/B side, they make perilous expiditions in search of rumoured hoards of mint condition vinyl and replacement styli.
Terrific
After about 6 months a primitive group philosophy will emerge and all actions are based on a literal interpretation of the lyrics of Richard Thompson. The first season ends on a cliffhanger when the group encounters a rival group who are following the teachings of George Lamb. Which philosophy will prevail...?
When did BBC dramas all end up looking the same? Same faces, same camera angles, same heavy handed treatments. Was it always ever thus? No-one ever has a beard either.
mid ground:
the Prog and Goth colony would probably survive, they assimilate so well, I mean would you know if one of them walked amongst you?
I got very bored with it
Like you I was riveted by the concept of the original and whilst it lost its way after a while it was still a cracking set up.
Mrs Diz and I watched just over an hour of last nights episode and gave up on it. It all seemed like an episode of Eastenders (not that I've ever watched Eastenders!). We went to bed saying well at least it would sort global warming out.
No episode 2 for me.
But I have high hopes for Wallender or whatever the new series with Kenneth Branagh is called
The BBC
really showed a startling lack of imagination in the casting of this. Virtually everyone in it had recently starred in another BBC prime-time series.
I have to agree.
Having been a fan of the original series* I was pleased to see that the essential plot had been left as Terry Nation imagined it (thus far) and that they had retained the principal character's names, while losing some of their 1970s middle class mores.
The casting, however, does leave a lot to be desired. It's like the annual Christmas play being put on by the BBC Eastenders/Casualty/Holby City/You Name It regulars.
*Potential Spoiler alert! Until it got to the point that Greg rode off into the sunset dying of typhoid, and the rest of them started printing money and flags with his fizzog on: oh deary me, did they run out of ideas or what?
Jericho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(TV_series)
An American version about a town that survives a nuclear attack. I watched about seven or so episodes before giving up. It was a bit crap.
Series 1 and 2 can be bought on DVD.
"It was a bit crap."
That's one hell of an advert, LOUD...
Hey, some people might be interested in it
and I just wanted to inform people that it exists. And that I wouldn't recommend it.
I absolutely loved the
I absolutely loved the original series - have it now on DVD.
I've got the new ep.1 taped but haven't got around to watching it, and I'm not certain I will yet - I don't think it will taint the original for me, but I don't want to waste time on rubbish when I could do something else...