Survivors

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Why am I watching this when I know it's just going to freak me out??

I laughed at the casting.

All decent characters are Asian/West Indian/female/Scottish.

All baddies are Anglo-saxon males: Max Beasley, the loon at the petrol station who blows the place up, that man with the shotgun we meet next week.

I enjoyed it but did try and ignore gaping plot holes
There'd be 6 million people left in the UK if 10% survive.
I couldn't help worrying about the babies
So I made my plan. Drive to nearest hozzie and get 40 years supply of dd's epilepsy meds cos of cousre she and myself survive
Find farmhouse with fireplaces.
Drive to supermarkets and camping shops and load up on everythingneeded.
Farmhouse needs to be out of view so maruading evil survivors don't see smoke from chimney.

Can you see I couldn't sleep last night

Funnily enough I was thinking about how I'd have to raid pharmacies to get in a stock of my children's asthma inhalers!

I'd probably stay here because it's good arable land for growing things and you can graze livestock, too.

But as you say, there'd be quite a few people left so even in our little village of 200 souls, there'd be a score around to chop wood/grow wheat/sort out water.

I thought this was absolute rubbish compared to the original (or is that because I was a child then?)

I was very disappointed tbh,

Does anyone else keep getting distracted by the fact that Greg is Johnson from Peep Show?

It seemed to be a drama about a special vanguard virus that selectively killed off all the halfway decent scriptwriters and directors before going on to kill the rest of us.

I think it was written by these people

My Plague Plan was formed last night too!

1. Survive (along with DDs who share my genetic immunity )! Haven't decided on DH's survival. He was hogging the bed and snoring when this question was being considered so the last consensus was that he didn't make it.

1a) Drive to a bookshop / library (in a very big car or van) and get a load of books on survival, gardening, husbandry, medicine and pharmacy stuff.

2. Loot a chemist and stock up on loads of painkillers, and antibiotics (for some reason I got myself into a paddy about dying of some easily preventable septic something which a quick dose of penicillin would sort out. This might be something to do with DD currently having anti-b's for mild and non-life threatening ear ache at the moment tho)

3. Loot a camping shop and get loads of survival equipment.

4. Go to a garden centre and get seeds and stuff to help grow things.

5. Head to either the country or the coast - couldn't decide which and am still considering the pros and cons of each one.

Ta-daaaa!

I keep getting distracted by Max Beesley.

I luuuuurve him.

He is on my "list"

Thank god the older (ho ho) feale character survives.

All the others are your standard vaguely attractive early-30-somethings.

I want to like this....but HATE most of the casting.

meant 'female'

Pennies your post about DH has just made me lol , I watched it with my dp last night and I decided he could survive until I realised he had ate all my kettle chips so I promptly killed him off .

In my bleaker moments, not even the dc survive. Just me and the dog. We hike up to nearby farmhouse in hills, which has two rather nice sturdy shetland ponies.

I locate the farmer's stash of shotguns and his 4x4. Me (dressed like Mad Max)and dog make occasional armed forays into Tesco (and seed shops, bookshops with Ray Mears and Penguin Classics, etc)

When the petrol runs out I make my forays on the shetland ponies.

What I was wondering is that the Freema character had a lump in her armpit, so did the mum who went looking for her boy. She was presumed dead by her hubby so maybe Freema isn't dead after all? Easy mistake to make even for a doctor as she would have just been waiting for her to die. Didn't hear anyone else go on about lumps as being part of the infection?

I would so be doing some five-fingered discounts in the posh shops! Walking around in a ballgown draped in diamonds, having fun. Then time for all that Ray Mears stuff!

Bugger ! Was it on last night?

I used to love the one back in the 70s.

I'm quite intrigued by the numbers of mumsnetters who would take the time to go try on shoes, clothes and jewellry

I agree, no need to try them on, you can just take them!

If i was a survivor i would get myself some essentials (food, equipment), drive to a hillfarm in the middle of Wales or Scotland and just live there.
It would have to be a little farm.
I would not really contact anyone else because you don't know who they are, but i would gather up any little kids as i would be feeling motherly and would want to look after them and they are less threatening.
My first instinct would be to GET OUT of the city!

DP and I worked out our plan for a life of self-sufficiency and fishing whilst we were watching it last night, and I'm planning for us to head to Cornwall, whilst he thinks coastal Wales; I guess we'll have to flip a coin should the time come.

A slight problem is that neither of us drive, but we decided that if they weren't many cars on the roads to crash into, we could probably figure it out between us. I mention this now, just so that any other MNers on the road to Cornwall know to watch out that their cars don't get hit by a wildly swerving vehicle being 'driven' by two shouting Londoners swearing aggressively at one another.

oh yes max beesley. I would, definitely. And didn't he used to play keyboards for robbie williams?

Interesting, CrushaGrape - why have you chosen the coast as opposed to an inland haven? I'm still in a quandary over which option to choose and would be interested in your decision making process on that one.

donnie, he is a percussionist (drums etc)

yes, for robbie williams

< wanders off fantasizing about the possibilities there........

Also though, how did they film the empty motorway scenes?

< goes for cold shower >

It's a test road, I think Pennies.

I had such a disturbed night after that one! My ds2 is diabetic and will die within 6 months without insulin. Strangely, I do worry about stuff like that, as it needs to be kept refridgerated and only has a certain shelf life. My previous worry was plane crash on desert island and has been replaced with this one (zombie attack was a fleeting worry).