[kj] OT : The Day Of The Triffids (Syfy/UK)

[Paul Wady]

Yep, on the BBC at Xmas.  I KNOW WHAT WE WILL DO!  USE SMALL CALIBRE RIFLES ON THE GREAT BIG PLANTS!!
The original 70's BBC adaptation had them use these specialist Triffid guns that fired decapitating disks.  We've gone backwards?  
See?  Good piece of kit.

 
 
 
 
 
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From: gasw30 at hotmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:28:36 +0000
Subject: Re: [kj] OT : The Day Of The Triffids  (Syfy/UK)





Twas on the BBC at Christmastide, no?

Trivia: The pub used in the story (internal and external shots) is the 'The Cockpit' close to Blackfriars train station in London, where One used to drink.



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From: antoni at clara.net
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:11:36 +0100
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] OT : The Day Of The Triffids  (Syfy/UK)

Ending ? Has it been on before as part 2 is on Monday night ? 

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On 13 Jul 2012, at 11:09, Paul Wady <paulwady at hotmail.com> wrote:





Flamethrowers....flamethrowers...weedkiller and motorbike suits n' helmets n' big Japanese swords...

 

Amazing plants though.  Didn't they form a band?  (Robert Plant was not involved...)

 

Did not like the ending of the Izzard version.  Sorry.  Of course he walks away from a plane crash.  He's Eddie Izzard?

 

 





 
 
  





From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:10:33 +1200
Subject: Re: [kj] OT : The Day Of The Triffids (Syfy/UK)







“Say it with flowers: give her a Triffid”
 


From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of pssyche23
Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012 5:20 a.m.
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: [kj] OT : The Day Of The Triffids (Syfy/UK)
 
http://www.syfy.co.uk/triffids
 
Part One of a great remake was aired on the Syfy channel on Monday night.
 
Whereas the original film had people blinded watching an intense meteor shower (rather implausible) this version centres on a much anticipated  solar storm during which the sun suddenly spews out an intense burst of energy, brighter than a thousand suns no less (again, a bit far-fetched but slightly more plausible than the original considering all the hype over solar cycles and the whole “2012” industry).   As for the triffids, rather than a few examples in Kew Gardens they had been identified as a great renewable energy source and  farms had sprung up on a industrial scale generating fuel, Triffoil !!! 
 
Anyway, if you have access to the Syfy channel, part 1 is being shown again on Sunday 8pm BST with part 2 on Monday night at 9pm.  Part one was entertaining stuff if nothing else. 
 
Of course, we were saying “hang on, there would be far more people who’d have not witnessed it” and “even if it was worldwide, wouldn’t the impact be staggered so others would get an advance warning”, that sort of thing but part 1 was still good though quite how Eddie Izzard walked out a crash landed jumbo jet with just a few scratches (after some quick thinking) was maybe meant to be a slightly comical moment. 
 
Regards, Antoni 
 



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