Re: Survivors or should that be Stupids!


Agamemnon <agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yer, right, so 90% of the population is down with uberflu and not one
soldier on the streets to maintain vital public services. Yer, like
when the firemen went on strike the millitary were manning their own
fire engines and coming to the rescue but nothing when the entire
country is at risk of coming to an end,

There was lots of dialogue establishing that the army were going to
maintain essential services. However the time they were actually on the
streets was covered by the final 'Three days later' caption, so we
didn't get to see it. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

and the government... What
government? The portrayal of the government was a complete and utter
joke. Who was the office bird that was always on the telepone
supposed to be?

The Health Secretary.

Where were the government ministers and deputy
ministers and backbench MPs?

The "bird on the phone" was one of them.

There's supposed to be over 600 of them
so the 10% who were immune would amount to 60 of them at least. More
than enough to form an emergency all party cabinet. But sod all,
except the bird on the phone.

You're assuming that the politicians are organised and practical enough
to think of something like that. This is not necessarily the case.

How come there were no cars stopped in the middle of the road? If 90%
of the people were all supposed to have suddenly died in just one
night, you would have expected some to drop dead in front of the
steering wheel while driving and cause a pile up, but every single
street and motorway was clear as far as the eye can see. Yer,
right... and that's meant to be realistic.

They didn't all suddenly drop dead in one night. Didn't you see that
final 'Three days later' caption at all?

The disease had slowly-building symptoms like headache, dizziness,
weariness, fever, etc. before killing people. Obviously, most people
with those symptoms wouldn't decide to go for a drive. And most of
those who were already driving when the symptoms struck would've got off
the road as soon as possible.

The real error isn't why the motorways were empty, it's why that car
park was empty!

How come all the night
time workers died off too? The milkmen, the post office workers, the
print workers, the chefs, lorryists, power station workers, water
engineers, gas workers, and so on. Did they all just drop dead where
they were standing? Well 9 out of 10 of them anyway. Where's the
credibility in that.

Because it wasn't overnight. You really didn't see that final 'Three
days later' caption, did you?


Yer, and 90% of the population have died off and who do you do.... oh
right, why don't we go and start a farm. This was stupid enough in
the 1970s and why I thought the original series was actually a soap
opera, in fact I might have even got it mixed up with Emerdale Farm.
When did that start?

Like it or not, since this _is_ a remake of the original 1970s series
about setting up a farm, obviously they have to set up a farm. It
wouldn't be a faithful remake if they didn't.

Yer, that's it, take the convicted murder out of his cell and try to
lock him up in the stock cupboard. No, don't bother to try to contact
your superiors or the emergency services and military who in a
situation like this would be patrolling the streets and calling up
all reserves. Oh no, just behave like an immature school kid that
doesn't have a clue about society or government.

You saw what a stubborn git that prison officer was. Of course he'd be
too proud to ask for help and admit he couldn't do the job on his own.
In real life, people don't always make the perfect decisions.


10% of the population is still 6 million. If the Republic of Ireland
can function with a population of about 6 million then why can't the
UK?

Because it's not the total numbers that matter, it's the relative drop.

For example, the number of people needed to run Britain's power stations
will remain the same. But if 90% of the people who already know how to
run power stations are dead, it makes it that much harder to find or
train replacements.

Same for all the other services. And each one on its own might not seem
like much of a problem, but put them all together, and the problems soon
mount up.

How many troops did it take to occupy Iraq, um.... 200,000 or is
it now 80,000?

It's debatable whether the troops are doing a good job at keeping law
and order in Iraq.

And would you really want to see Britain under martial law? People do
have their pride, you know.

There would have been more than enough survivors to
keep the country running even if 99% of the population had died off. A
few JCB diggers would have dug all the mass graves they needed in
only a matter of days. It's not like the whole of the country was
flooded and sewerage was spilling over onto the streets so it was all
bull*** about a cholera epidemic. Two days and everyone would have
been buried in every town just like in WW1 and WW2. And then after
that the country would have been able to all get back to work.

You have a very, very optmistic view of human nature. Somehow I don't
think people would be able to accept it and put it all behind them that
easily, even if someone did have the foresight to organise things.

For example, would you - the man who believes in worshipping and
respecting ancestors above all else - be happy to see your parents and
grandparents shoved into a mass grave by a JCB?

The programme should not have been called Survivors, it should have
been called Stupids!

And any way the whole thing is a rip-off of Day of the Triffids.

BTW 'The Day of the Triffids' also had a subplot about a cholera
epidemic, even though the whole country wasn't flooded and sewage wasn't
spilling into the streets. I guess that's stupid too?


When is Freema going to get her kit off?

Not in Survivors. Her character died from the plague. It looks like
that final 'Three days later' caption wasn't the only thing you missed.
How much of the episode did you actually watch?


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