Survivors (UK TV)

Ophiel · #1 11-24-2008, 09:24 AM

Did anyone else watch this?

I was pretty impressed, they seemed to have really done a good job of updating the original (which for some reason I've seen, despite not being born when it was broadcast) without losing the spirit of it. I mean, fingers crossed, because it could just as easily go the way of Lost, but still, I'm happy that there's finally something new on TV that I give a shit about.

never was · #2 11-24-2008, 10:21 AM

do you remember the last train? because it really reminds me of that. Good quality cast using some underated actors, paterson joseph and max beesley in particular. too early to call but it looks like it could be good.

Ophiel · #3 11-24-2008, 10:27 AM

Well, The Last Train borrowed heavily from the original Survivors (for those who don't know, this is a remake of a 70s series). The main thing that worries me about this is kind of what happened with TLT - that they'll set up an interesting premise that could run for years, but then have some kind of resolution at the end of the series. TLT (and Lost) could've gone on a lot longer without having to really be about anything IMO.

never was · #4 11-24-2008, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Ophiel

Well, The Last Train borrowed heavily from the original Survivors (for those who don't know, this is a remake of a 70s series). The main thing that worries me about this is kind of what happened with TLT - that they'll set up an interesting premise that could run for years, but then have some kind of resolution at the end of the series. TLT (and Lost) could've gone on a lot longer without having to really be about anything IMO.

i've seen the original, but only after hearing this was coming out. the ending of the last train was my first ever big tv disappointment, it really was a pile of dogshit which retrospectively ruined the whole series for me, which is why I am witholding judgement on this. it certainly has the credentials to be excellent though, like i said good cast, good production, good writing. I like how they revealed a tiny bit at the end with SPOILER scientists.

Ophiel · #5 11-24-2008, 10:40 AM

Yeah, I dunno, the scientist thing is what I'm worried about. It's what made me worry that they were going to build up to something flashy and sexy and far less interesting than the actual premise of the show. But if nothing else, there seems to be a commitment to make it convincing and not to deviate too much from the original, and to update it subtly without changing the nature of the show.

anenome · #6 11-24-2008, 10:48 AM

is there a tom price character? <3

im normally suspect of remakes despite also not being alive for the original, but i do wonder is this new show a remake of the old show or is it going to follow the plot of the book?

there is this survivors website that used to (dont know if it still does) go on tours of the locations for all 3 series, i really wanted to go and be a mega geek but i never

im waiting for a day of the triffids remake ha ha

Ophiel · #7 11-24-2008, 10:53 AM

I have been thinking for a while that it's about time someone did some really classy adaptations of John Wyndham's books stuff.

Didn't know there was a book of Survivors. I'm guessing this thing's based on the TV series - from the nonononofuckofffuckofffuckoffturnitoffturnitoff!!! ! spoiler trailer at the end of the first installment, it looks like they're replicating a lot of the images from the original series.

anenome · #8 11-24-2008, 11:12 AM

the book is by terry nation, i seriously suggest hunting down a copy if yr a fan, because the ending is SO good it makes you chuck stuff at the telly when you see how series 2 and 3 fucked up big time back in the 70's (i think terry had some drama with the bbc so stopped helping after the first series)

im quite looking forward to watching the new show now

Ophiel · #9 11-24-2008, 01:48 PM

Hmmm, that's interesting. Not sure whether I want to know how it ends in advance (I don't remember much of the specifics of the 70s series, would only have been a sprog when I saw it).

bort · #10 11-25-2008, 03:37 AM

I desperately want to see this. I hope it doesn't suck, and it's not sounding like it will.

dirtyplotte · #11 11-25-2008, 09:23 AM

i just finished season one of the original survivors. my husband downloaded it a couple weeks ago, and we have been watching a couple episodes a night. i love it.

ive read what i can about it and terry did have a big row with the producers and he quit/was fired and i do want to read the book, but ill do that when i finish season two and three. then i plan on seeing the remake.

carolyn seymour who played abby has an interview up on the survivors website and she was booted, too when terry was. i dont know how this was fixe3d because she was the damned lynchpin of the show.

so the remake is good yeah? how big is this in the UK? no one here has ever heard of it.

dirtyplotte · #12 11-25-2008, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by anenome

is there a tom price character? <3

im normally suspect of remakes despite also not being alive for the original, but i do wonder is this new show a remake of the old show or is it going to follow the plot of the book?

there is this survivors website that used to (dont know if it still does) go on tours of the locations for all 3 series, i really wanted to go and be a mega geek but i never

im waiting for a day of the triffids remake ha ha

anenome,

do you think that greg made some horrendously stupid mistakes? i mean, so stupid that they seemed like plot drivers rather than things people would do? like the tom thing, for one, and also when the scout comes looking for their petrol, he's just invited in and told everything about the place basically.greg irritates me.

and bless tom price.

steven king has a character in The Stand named Tom, too. Tom Collins. M-O-O-N that spells Tom! I'm sure he lifted that character from this series. Steven is geek enough to have seen this show despite being american.

anenome · #13 11-25-2008, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by dirtyplotte

anenome,

do you think that greg made some horrendously stupid mistakes? i mean, so stupid that they seemed like plot drivers rather than things people would do? like the tom thing, for one, and also when the scout comes looking for their petrol, he's just invited in and told everything about the place basically.greg irritates me.

and bless tom price.

steven king has a character in The Stand named Tom, too. Tom Collins. M-O-O-N that spells Tom! I'm sure he lifted that character from this series. Steven is geek enough to have seen this show despite being american.

hahaha you wait. If greg irritates you now i wouldnt watch the other series, as without abby its all greg being stupid and greggy and MEAN to jenny

The only redeeming episode is when they go back to visit london. I felt hurt that i put so much love (

)into this show and it turned so rubbish when it had the potential to do so well.

such is life!

tom is my favourite character!

(apart from that barney episode)

its really refreshing to talk about survivors with people who arent my dad haha

dirtyplotte · #14 11-25-2008, 10:39 AM

omg omg omg omg

omg

NO. just say NO to tom price. i haaaaaaate that guy. he drives me mad. i want to throw things at thim. i meant BARNEY!

when greg made the decision about barney. that episoide was where it turned for me and greg, and also cinched it for tom price. he never deserved to live one month with that group. he was manhandling that poor girl and trying to get sexual favors even before they started the group and he betrayed abby before that even. thats one of the things that made me so mad, why in the world would people have him as part of the community? he was lazy shiftless and aggressive when he felt he could get away with it.

how can you say <3 tom price?

anenome · #15 11-25-2008, 10:46 AM

!!! he makes me laugh with his welsh accent "av you gotten da virus?"

and his nature, when he gets that new car and new suit and he is all simple and happy. bless.

but yes he is a horrible cretin! i think thats why i liked him so much.

and anne, i loved anne.

i always like the nasty horrible people

pls dont judge me

Ophiel · #16 11-25-2008, 10:57 AM

This conversation has become deeply confusing to me as I never bothered to pay attention to what people's names were during the show. Can anyone halp?

anenome · #17 11-25-2008, 11:38 AM

abby, main bird, looking for her son peter.

greg, main bloke, likes guns and petrol

jenny, from london, is sweet and cute gets it on with greg

tom, welsh rogue

anne, had a really posh voice and was a proper rich princess brat, was also really out of order to the guy in the wheelchair (vic)

barney! had a stutter, was a simple soul, got dead

Ophiel · #18 11-25-2008, 11:49 AM

It's not until you see a 70s show remade in the 00s that you notice that actually yeah, holy shit, TV used to basically be really fucking Caucasian, didn't it.

anenome · #19 11-25-2008, 11:57 AM

i cant believe i have never picked up on that before!!! But yr right it does seem that the whole cast were caucasian, even the bad guys!