Survivors

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

Oooh you can get the original 1970s Survivors series on DVD! God I LOVED that programme.

So who has thought it fishy that we didn't see Greg's 'back story' ie what he was up to before the plague hit? My theory is that he's one of the mad scientists and it's all an experiment or something.

Anyone watching tonight?

fuck, had forgotten this was on until I spotted the thread title on active convo's

I have missed the 1st half-hour of this episode

what have I missed ?

Abby stumbled upon a community led by that woman who was health minister - they have electricity, hot water etc.

The dodgy people who presumably created the virus or whatever - the scientists - have done a helicopter reccy to see how many survivors there are and now have a vaccine.

That's about it really.

ooo thanks you kindly

well... the vaccine doesn't quite work the way they wanted though, does it?

(it killed the first person they tried it on)

Oh drats, I forgot it was on today! Will have to get it on iPlayer, there goes my WoWing for tonight.

Hmm it was good but I didn't like the fact the ex-minister had gone power mad and wanted to shoot intruders.

Looks like Abby gets up to some saucy stuff in a lake next week !

Where are they all crapping, that's what I need to know.

obviously in lazy stroppy sarah's bed.

She'll discover them all next week, simper a bit over Greg hoping that he'll sort it out for her, Al will pop to B & Q and get her a new bed, which the chickens will inhabit leaving Sarah to fend for herself in the henhouse.

probably

UD - the doctor lass is sneaking ground up drugs into their food to constipate them and make sure they NEVER have to crap.

I thought it got a lot better again this week. Liked the whole "lets live a lovely touchy feely communal life in an eco lodge and blow the brains out of any fucker who dares break in" ethos .

And the slavering scrawny rabid dogs?? Where are they??

I wonder what Abby thought was going to happen at the looters' trial? Was she sitting there thinking they were going to get ten hours' community service each?

It's also very unclear how much time has passed since the Virus. Some aspects of it indicate just a couple of weeks (people don't look too dirty and unshaven yet, they're making their first foray out to get petrol, the eco-community are still living off the freezers), but others hint it may have been more like months (it's now getting "a bit nippy", mini-society structures and routines are in place)...

Also now we have been told that maybe 1% of the population survivived but that's still a lot.
That'd be what almost 600,000 people.

Seems more like 0.1%.

Am I the only one who got genuinely tearful about that family with the young girl who looked like Samantha Morton who hadn't been in contact with the virus yet, but decided to just go outside and see what happened. Sob.

No, if there are 6 million people in the UK, 1% would be 60,000 people.

That helicopter pilot had great eyesight to be able to spot all those survivors - must be all those carrots they stashed away

I'm still having trouble getting past the lack of plot, but the family i liked.

I also can't see why the mad scientists would do this? Most neferious plots are to kill your enemies, take their land, be King, etc. not to ruin any kind of infrastructure. Unless they have their own special way of repopulating the planet

has it only affected britain, or the whole world?

It's the whole world.

Breeding a super-race?...

I like it too
I'd raid the gun shop first, then the shoe shop, then I'd go to Tesco. Sod manky netto! I'd find an underground house

Well I am enjoying it!

I don't want to know all those mundane (or realistic) things like where are the raving dogs etc, I just want to be entertained. I loved the 70s show and this is not too far removed from it.

Cheesy entertainment - can't beat it

I was wondering about the timescale UQD

And if Abby is getting saucy in the lake next week that seems a little SOON hmm? Surely her husband's body is barely cold?

thats the bit I don't get. surely in the big house there would be a gun

I always imagine myself like ARnie, with a semi automatic shotgun, holding it by the slidy bit and shaking it to reload, rahter than doing it properly.

I'd be thin as well, becuase I'd have HAD teh flu but survived and lost my excess weight