Survivors

[chipmunkswhereareyou]

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

On again tonight.

Can't see what anyone sees in Max Beesley.

I though Greg was fab. A loner, travelling along with everything he needs, doesn't initially want a companion, good in an explosive crisis... hmm... strokes chin

mmm, Max Beesley

thenewme, you obviously didn't see the series "Bodies" where Max B played a rather horny doctor

the sex scenes were inventive and I have had a thing for him ever since

where are all the dogs???

No, I haven't seen Bodies.

And cats, 2shoes.

What time is it on tonight

9pm beeb 1

well there are birds so the cats will be ok.

Surely the lab can't be a good thing can it?

Since when has that actor from playing the field / the chase ever played a goody?

ah that was sweet when she kissed the boy good night.

I'm watching this, but can't get past the fact that it isn't that good.

None of the characters i like, except maybe the boy - the rest i would rather have died

I know there wouldn't be much of a story if they all buggered off somewhere remote, but why would you stay near that one supermarket with the nutjobs around, are their cars fitted with mileage limiters ?

And why would you stay where all the manky diseases are going to be rife? On second thought, give them typhoid, malaria or cholera - it may well be more exciting

The programme has helped me focus on my survival plan though :

borrow hgv
raid supermarket for food, shampoo, batteries,etc
garden centre
book shop
survival shop
clothes shop for bikinis, etc
toyshop
chickens and a goat

head to the coast for a (large) sailing boat and head for warmer climes, nice little island somewhere in the carribean, with a waterfall

Strangely I'm finding that the fact that it's not very good is making it more powerful, not less. I think it's because it has retained such a 70's feel from the original somehow. I think I'm 7 again and watching Doctor Who or Day of the Triffids from behind my fingers.

Would anyone else have just run that bloke over once he'd fired his second shot from the shotgun? I'd have jumped in me little jeep like I was driving off and then revved him into strawberry jam up a wall

(on a far too personal note, hasn't the blonde 'baddies' woman got HUGE teeth? There's a camel out there somewhere wondering who nicked its falsies!)

Iklboo: YES! on both counts...

With the vast amount of supermarket superstores around these days you'd think they'd find something better than a Netto guarded by nutcases!

Netto - pah! Nothing less than Waitrose & M&S once there's no money to worry about.

Bugger that, what about Harrods Food Hall or Fortnums?

This is GREAT I am loving it and I never watch telly

I love it's cheesiness, it has a John Wyndham feel about it

Chipmunks - well most of that is fresh stuff so I imagine it would honk in there very soon and I'd be loathe to waste petrol just for a hit of fois gras.

Where is the army and police? It ten per cent of the population survived, that must mean that some PCs, officers and soldiers and territorials are still around and presumably their first objective would be to safeguard food and water supplies.

The 10% thing is total tosh isn't it.

Also as someone pointed out earlier in the thread, the car parks at the supermarket aren't full of abandoned cars, yet the hospital car park was and in lots of places people died on the spot yet in others there are no bodies at all.

Everywhere they went there would be stinking, rotting bodies, except that's hardly the case - only once I think.

Just watched it on iplayer- had to stay away from this thread in case it gave anything away.

I absolutely hate and detest the new blonde girl. She is pathetic and I hoped she would stay with the baddies. Or die. Or something. You just know that our gang are going to look after her and feed her and she'll be there saying 'eww, the eggs have chicken poo on them' and refusing to do anything remotely useful.

I would have run over the guy with the shotgun rather than getting out of the car and facing up to him too. And why, after they had established that he wasn't shooting anyone, did they run away rather than taking a share of the loot?

Oh I just caught up with episode 2 last night as well. I am hooked - it is kind of cheesy and implausible as well as strangely compelling! After watching the first episode last week I literally could not sleep almost all night planning out my scenarios etc. Watching episode 2 it felt somehow a bit less realistic and I started to pick holes in it. Like some of you have already pointed out where are the piles of rotting bodies, the rats, etc? I also love how they have found this palatial house to live in complete with aga, gym, and pool table (and not a dead body in sight). And where are they getting their petrol from? And the oil for their oil lamps? And how come the women all look beautifully well groomed and made up - I am assuming there would be no water (or at least not clean water). I like the idea of heading for the hills to raise chickens but that sort of implies that all the chicken farmers etc are dead - also if 6m people were all simultaneously heading for the hills wouldn't that make them a bit crowded? I do think the idea of raiding a garden centre was a good one - ours has a great food section so along with getting spades, seeds etc I could stock up on organic chocolate and panettone lol! Looking forward to the next installment....

I want to know practical stuff like if theres no water where are they going to the loo and all the other natural things we have to do to survive. theres no I just had to go out in the rain to the pit and it honks complaints from them is there.
I would be getting water butts from the garden centre as well as all the other gubbins oh and I would raid the feed merchants. I already have parent stock meat birds so would take them with me though I'm not sure I would go far I already live in rural Norfolk.

Though having said all that I think I would have preferred to have karked it as long as my kids had too.

Oi mrsmalumbas - it was MY idea to go to the garden centre. You'd better keep well clear of mine or I'll clobber you with a Cath Kidston spade and set some garden gnomes on you. This is survival of the fittest you know.