--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > Hugo wrote: > > do you get this nonsense from dude? > > > > > > BTW the BBC have finished the second series of my fave > > TV show "Survivors." Broadcast starts on 12 Jan. > > > > Catch up here: > > > > http://survivorsbbctv.wordpress.com/ > > > > The best post apocalypse show ever made. As bleak as the > > day is long. I like my doom and gloom. > > It starts on BBC America in February and probably season one. I don't > have BBC America unless they play the series OnDemand. The robber > barons at Comcast seem to want $61 more to get the tier with BBC > America. Ridiculous! The trailer sports a "one person" super-hero > theme, seemingly a woman who is immune to the virus -- and yes that's a > theme that has been done numerous times. It is a reinforcement of the > "me" meme.
It was done first by the BBC in the 70s, this is a remake or rather re-imagining as they like to say these days. It's bang up to date with guns in yer face and everything whereas the original, while bleak, was more stagey and philosophical but still unsettling viewing with it's plagues and packs of wild dogs giving everyone rabies, such fun! It's worth a look anyway. I think if you can't make a good drama out of the end of the world there must be something wrong, but the BBC failed with Day of the Triffids recently. Survivors is much better. I'd tell you about the central character but don't want to spoil it. > I watch trends and if you do that you can see where things are going. > We've slammed into the wall of overpopulation. That problem could be > solved if the wealthy would give up their power. But they want to stay > in control and leave millions possibly billions in misery. They have > NO RIGHT to do so! Our job is to make the public realize this and take > action. I'm with you all the way. Do I have to get out of my armchair?
