Survivors !
Tue, 12/01/2010 - 22:54 — CmdrGravy
I quite enjoyed the first series, it was nice and straightforward; deadly virus kills most of the people, those that are left do their best to survive.
The second series has started this evening and I'm a little worried it's going to turn into Lost all of a sudden. Hope Never Dies ? Strings of random numbers, increasingly shadowy para military pharmaceutical organisations. I really hope it just doesn't get really really silly but already in this, the first episode, there have been 3 near miraculous recoveries from almost certain death so the sword of stupidity is definitely on the hover.
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'Ee's On The Plane Innit !
I think that must have been the series finale, so many loose ends tied up, so many vistas opening and a bodycount of, literally, billions.
So, with Bird flu dawning perhaps the "family" will have the country to themselves once all the un-vaccinated die off again, or perhaps they will commence another chapter of aimless wanderings and bumpings into people who want to kill or imprison them.
Will Greg ever find his family and mete out his vengance on his wife ? Will the Dirty Doctor ever see her sweet heart Tom again ?
As Tom broods, bloodspattered and determined in the back of the plane I suspect the next series will be very short. The plane, carrying it's vengeful cargo, will land in paradise. The doors will fly open and Tom will kill everyone in sight and then go on to infect and kill everyone else leaving him alone and brooding on a tropical paradise island.
The End.
Close up of Max Beesley.
Duh duh.
Closer close up of Max Beesley.
Duh duh.
Even closer close up of Max Beesley.
Duh duh duh.
The end.
I don't think I'd sit through a third series....
Quivery Lips
They killed off the quivery lips lady, her lips quiver no more.
Boring ! Boring ! Dull !
Disappointment ! The body count this week was only 5 and Tom didn't get to kill anyone at all. What is the point ?
Excitement ! Next week on Survivors . . . ! Features lots of automatic weaponry, evac teams, gun shots, shootouts, tense stand offs and rolling on the floor spraying unseen victims with hot lead. Maybe we'll find out why certain people were warned before the outbreak and offered an escape, just who is controlling those so called scientists playing with people's lives, do members of the family other than Tom have it in them to waste someone in cold blood, will Abigail ever find her son, who will be the first to use more than one facial expression, Greg or Tom ?
Personally I don't care, I just want to rack that body count up a notch. I'm fairly convinced now that the final twist to this saga is that they are in fact all estate agents in a giant estate agent corporate team building exercise ran by sadistic catholic priests. All I need is some evidence, no matter how slight, to back this assertion up.
The Peacock Slave Pit & Coal Mine
The body count is rising and it looks as though there's more killings on the cards next week, can TV get any better ? I am convinced that within the next few episodes my fantasy will be realised and the "family" will simply move through the streets of Birmingham, and surrounding countryside, propelled by a wave of blood slaughtering all they come across. There is even a possibility, no matter how faint, that they will live out my ultimate fantasy and actually drive around the Number 11 Bus Route laying waste to everyone and everything they see with high calibre machine guns and flame throwers.
I hadn't realised The Peacock was so close to a coal mine before, I think this weekend I'm certainly going to be heading off with my spade and doing a spot of digging in the recreation area opposite it. I'd also like a closer look at that the fucking enormous mansion and extensive grounds including a church which I've never noticed before in all the years I've been cycling my bike around the area.
Mad.
I haven't watched it yet but it was entertainingly silly last week.
I've decided, should I find myself waking up in a post-apocalyptic enviroment, the first thing I will do is find some kind of heavy vehicle, go to the WMP armoury museum and get myself one of the rocket launchers and some of the hand grenades they have there, I will then go to the firearms department and get myself a vast array of handguns, automatic rifles and ammuniton.
Then I will become a cartoon baddie.
Silly
I just watched this weeks episode. Its a bit silly.
Geomorphing
Some impressive geo-morphing this week on Survivors !
I think they have definitely taken a plot mis direction though. It would have been much more entertaining if quivery lip girl took the shotgun and meted out Vengance ! on Mr Johnson. Basically I'd like to them to rework it into a sort of modern Clint Eastwoodesque Western ( probably you'd to have name this new, exciting, genre the Midland ) by killing off all the extraneous characters apart from quivery lip girl and follow her saga of Vengance ! and Mayhem ! as she systematically executes every other living Survivor ! finishing with the series finale where she infiltrates the top secret mega high security pharma silo and moves from room to room executing everyone she comes across, evil scientist or innocent prisoner regardless. I wouldn't want too much dialogue to drown out the relentless blatting of the shotgun and pained screams of it's victims but I guess you couldn't cut it out altogether so she would speak in completely random one line sentances as she gunned people down and continue a pointless circular monologue as she moved from one killing ground to the next.
Hmmm
Actually re-reading that I think I've accidentally written Die Hard ! 5.2
Hmmmm....
I don't think you have.
Ridiculousness
It's ridiculous, they drove down Newhall Street at high speed in their indestructable Range Rover turned around the corner onto Edmund Street into some strange timewarp which sent them first back to the top of Newhall Steet and then instantly to the front of Baskerville House.
Also I'm pretty sure that the last series ended with them in Bradford so why are they now in Birmingham?
Enjoyable as it was I think it already was very very very silly and the acting dreadful but now it looks like it's going to have lots and lots of stupid coincidences as well.
And...
How come Alan Johnson from Peep Show didn't have half of his stomach blown away when he was shot with a shotgun?
Well
Apparently, if you want to kill someone with a shotgun you need to get up close and personal.
What amazed me was the escape of the guy crushed beneath the hospital. Not only did he survive thousands of tons of concrete and metal falling on his head without a single injury ( he does occasionally have a slight limp later on ) but when he decides he's going to die and dies it's quite a long time until he is dug out and resussitated which happens more or less instantly and leaves him feeling pretty much perfectly OK.
Dead
I think Al was dead for at least twenty minutes before being resucitated, amazing.
Have you noticed that all the white blokes are BAAAAAAAD, you have evil BAAAAAAD white scientist, BAAAAAAAAD hard man who forces himself on defenseless heroine, the BAAAAAAD fagin type who kills children, BAAAAAAAAD hard man who shot the hero. Even the ex-con anti-hero is BAAAAAAD and will probably kill everyone in the end.
Not that anyone else comes off being particularly good, you've got Alan Johnson from Peep Show who has been revealed as having and anger problem, Al the playboy who is a bit useless, the pakistani kid who is just annoying, the blonde girl who has the most quivery lip in the world and keeps repeating the line "I can't do that". The ex-cabinet minister who is meglomaniac but has probably been written out of the show.
The worst is that Julie Graham woman.
Still it's not as bad as The Day of the Triffids what was on the other day, Eddie Izzard the worst baddie ever.
I was thinking, whilst it might not be very pleasant to survive a horrible end of civilization type scenario, it would be rather exciting.
Exciting
Yes, I think so too. Once you'd got over the fact everyone you knew was most likely dead ( which seems to take around half an hour judging by survivors ) you could really indulge your more sociopathic tendancies without any restraint. I don't think there's any reason why you just wouldn't head off to the nearest gun shop, tool yourself up and then set about shooting anyone who didn't do exactly what you told them to. Pretty soon you'd have enough weaponary and followers to begin an Alexander the Great style conquest of the country, Europe, Asia and then the world.
It's a mistake that quivery lipped woman made last night, she should have taken the shotgun driven the land rover over the blokes hanging about outside the building, through the wall and shot everyone in sight.
Bullitt
I seem to remember a scene in Bullitt where somebody gets shot with a shotgun, stomach all over the wall....
The Metro
The reviewer in the Metro this morning is quite pleased it's come over all lost.
Uni.
They were filming that at the Uni.
I'd never heard of it and the director was telling me that it had already done one series and was quite successful. I think he was quite annoyed when I said that I had never heard of it. He was explaining the idea behind it and I thought it sounded a bit shit.
I think he could tell by my face.
TV Critics
It's actually reasonably entertaining and if means less money for the BBC to spend on programmes about Traffic Policemen, Detectives, Lawyers, Pathologists and Judges then I'm all for it.
Obviously I am still waiting for a gritty drama starring a maverick IT consultant and his daily battles with dependency hell, missed deadlines, inadequate requirements and the departments woman but I'm sure that as the BBC are taking such a long time to write it it will be fucking amazing once they get it on the TV.
You Forget.
I think you've forgotten the hard hitting drama that is the IT Crowd and that comedy Attachments.
Good?
Is it any good? I haven't heard of it before.. and I am a little cautious about home-grown dramas sometimes....Should I invest my time in catching up with series 1?
First and Last
Nah, not unless you got some time to kill, it is entertaining enough but I wouldn't say it's unmissible.
It's okay
I think you can probably spot the "home grown" hallmarks and none of the characters are really that charismatic and fulfil fairly obvious stereotypes but as I've said it is fairly entertaining. I just liked the idea of what people would actually do faced with that kind of disaster and for the most part the first series does just deal with that. However it is beginning to look as though a whole other outer wheel of machinations that have previously only been very vaguely hinted at may begin to derail the basic story of survival and enmesh them all in some sort of ridiculous quest for the truth and justice.
If you've seen 28 days later think of that, without the flesh eating zombies crossed with Torchwood without the fucking irritating Capt Jack and pointless childish monster related storylines.
28 Days Later
Its more 28 Weeks Later than 28 Days Later. Be honest Joe it is pretty rubbish regardless of how entertaining it is.