Survivors

[lesbiassparrow]

HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO STUPID. SERIOUSLY, EVEN I WOULD BE BETTER IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD. AND STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE ME THAT WITH 99% OF THE WORLD DEAD THE REMAINING 1% OF THE UK WOULD HAVE TO FIGHT OVER FOOD. FOR THE FIRST FEW YEARS THEY'D BE ROLLING IN TINNED GOODS.

And you know what would be gold? Not food, not booze. HAVING A DOCTOR, THAT'S WHAT. This is barely acknowledged and it drives me up the wall that no one thinks this is a useful thing to be able to spring on people. THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL STUPID.

ETA: Um, I do not think a houseful of men would be sending any attractive women down the mines. I think they'd find other uses for them.

ETA 2: OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE HOW CAN YOU GET CAPTURED EVERY FUCKING EPISODE. THEY'VE HAD MORE GUNS POINTED AT THEM THAN I'VE HAD HOT DINNERS AND IT IS ALWAYS THEIR DUMBNESS THAT CAUSES IT.

ETA 3: THERE THEY GO SPLITTING UP AGAIN. WHAT IS IT WITH THESE PEOPLE AND SPLITTING UP FOR DANGEROUS SIDE JOURNEYS THAT HAVE NO POINT??????

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Heh heh heh...seriously, I couldn't keep watching that show. It just made me headdesk to infinity (and beyond *g*).

Not only are they stupid, they're just not very nice. Gah.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

If there were TV where I am housesitting there is no way I would be watching this show still. They all make my head hurt.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

That's from all the headdesking they produce. And what's with staying in a city after the end of the world. I would hightail it out to the country. Or farther out into the country because chances are I wouldn't be in or near a city anyway.

PS. I should add that I have a notorious happy ending kink. So end of the world scenarios make me sad.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I like happy endings too, but I can deal with the end of the world (almost) as long as I only learn about the characters after everything has gone boom. That way I don't have to mourn all their families. And this lot bounce back from horrific loss rather impressively.

(I'd camp out in a Walmart. You'd have pretty much everything you needed for the next 10 years. And lots of potting compost and soil for growing things.)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Well put...one would hardly know they'd gone through the trauma at it all.

And now I'm imagining the carnage in the Walmart parking lot as people tried to get a parking space. ;)

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

I remember being mesmerized by the original series but I think that American TV never picked it up after the first season. Or I lost track of it - whatever. I remember that Brian Blessed played a rough and rugged type (what else) but I can't remember that much of the cast. Terry Nation was a good writer so I imagine it was better than what you describe. But I'm a sucker for end-of-the-world stories but they have to be cheezy.

As in Zardoz which was on TV this weekend. Think Sean Connery in a red loincloth playing the ultimate barbarian. Lots and lots of very thin stylish young women wearing skimpy tops or none at all. Lots and lots of pseudo-philosophical dialogue. Totally incomprehensible ending. Interesting visual effects including a giant flying head.

It's the cheeze - but not a happy ending. In fact I am not sure what you'd call the ending.
A mess?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Zardioz and his red knickers are AMAZING. It blows your mind that someone thought that this would make money, even with all the nubile females.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Some people think it's a cult classic. I rather like it because it hearkens back to a far more idealistic time in Hollywood when movies like this could get made. It had a cast of all the hot young twinkies of the time - Charlotte Rampling included! As for me, I am immune to skinny women with the prerequisite fashionable tiny boobs but I rather enjoyed the Paradise inside the bubble and the flying head. I'll bet the movie is a favorite among pot heads because you really have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it.

But then, they never made my favorite movie title of all time "Space Sluts in the Slammer" which was written by Greg Kinnear (prior to his fame as an actor). I saw the ad in Variety a bazillon years ago but it never (alas) got made. Now, that tops Sean in red speedo and pony tail.