Anyone else watching the crap that is Day of the Triffids?

[HellBent]

It is really rubbish the triffids are like the spooky trees from snow white! And how handy that the two people who could see were from the oil company who caused it and a radio presenter who could broadcast to everyone!

I can remember the original one, it was really creepy and scary because of the threatened danger.

This was a bit boring unfortunatley, the Triffids weren't particularly horrible looking. Even the 50s film trumped this one.

Missed a great opportunity with a brilliant cast and the new special effects.

Lol at us all going 'that would NEVAH happen' about two people of similar age etc being survivors. The great big, roaming, man eating plants however, TOTALLY believable.

I liked the fact that it was still in London and not remade and transported to America. Always good to see end of the world disaster scenarios at moorgate tube and westminster etc.

People do that with Doctor Who as well though. Highly amusing to see all the physics graduates foaming at the mouth at the "towing the Earth through space" moment last year ("but... but... splutter! there would be earthquakes! and floods!")...

...and yet the whole "alien who looks like a human and has two hearts and travels through time and space in a phone box which is bigger on the inside than on the outside" stuff is apparently perfectly in keeping with their rules of realistic gritty science-based drama.

Boco at the plants being totally believable! I will probably end up watching again tonight, I don't want to but I'm hoping it gets better? [never read the book emoticon]

I loled a lot at the plants shaking their leaves in a 'wooo' kind of way in the forest I quite liked it though I was feeling poorly and was half asleep.

And Jason Priestly as Major Coker
Good old Brendan from Beverly Hills 90210
He was looking slightly older than I remember him
Joely did look good but slightly American , is she the Redgrave who has been in Nip/Tuck?
I see Vanessa is wheeling out for this evening's episode
Roll on 9 o'clock.
May need to eat lots of christmas biscuits to go with it
Agree about surviving the plane crash, I've never read about that method in survival manuals

Was that Jason Priestley? Goodness. Didn't recognise him.

DS#1 was watching it with us. He was taken aback by the speed with which civilsation broke down. Which I thought was an interesting lesson.

Do you not think that they are waving their leaves in quite the same way as talking plant did in that game in the 80s - The Vortex

Or am I just old?

good point though Boco.

And not only was it "handy that the two people who could see were from the oil company who caused it and a radio presenter who could broadcast to everyone" but that they were also good looking so won't mind the inevitable shag they'll have to have to "console" each other.

I would be happy to "console" Eddie Izzard if he has domination in mind

I shall be watching it again tonight, just to see if I can get vaguely scared by the walking purple sprouting.

I keep wondering why all the streets seem so deserted? Do we all turn into hermits when struck blind and civilisation breaks down?

To be fair, the lead character in the book was a scientist who had been involved in farming the triffids and he hooked up with fit bird with whom he has consolation shag. The only difference is that she has been made into a journalist.

Maybe the lack of disorientated masses after the first 45 minutes is due to budget - too many extras needed.

i LOVED IT!

I'll have to watch tonight. But haven't any of the blind people ever seen any of these type of Survivor films/programmes before to not know how daft you look flailing around?

Morningpaper I got first dibs on Eddie.

And wasn't that 'EVIL sarah' from Spooks minus her really bad American accent as the in-charge of stuff woman?

But the blindness struck at night so wouldn't quite a few people be cowering in their homes rather than blundering about in the streets like extras from a bad zombie movie?

Yes all the teenagers/emos would have been in their bedrooms sulking.

Thing is, in the book t all took a bit longer thappen - most of the blind people stayed in their homes until starvation drove them out to find food & they then got caught by triffids - in the adaptation it all seemed to happen much more quickly.

Another example of the arbitrary suspension of disbelief by scientists was described by Gary Larsen who drew a cartoon of a male mosquito coming home & complaining to his wife about a hard day's bloodsucking - he got lots of letters pointing out that it's the female mosquito that sucks blood, but oddly none pointing out that they don't wear hats & suits, carry briefcases or open doors....

mrmellors- was it Clytassamine? DH would really have loved to have called DD Clytassamine, but he knew better than to suggest it seriously to me

RustyBear, it was Zephanie - though of course Clytassamine may have been her middle name

Oh yes, from The Trouble with Lichen - one of my favourites.

For reasons that he has never adequately explained, at least not to me, DH actually uses the name Clya Brown, short for Clytassamine, for his Gerry Anderson/Dr Who crossover fiction...

Oh yes, boco, evil CIA Sarah from Spooks
That is why I love BBC dramas, playing the game of 'where do i recognise you from?'