Survivors

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Summary

The original 1975 version is much better than the 2008 remake. The culture is just so interesting... I mean, in the 2008 the only way you knew the show was about Britains was there very slight accents and all the cars had the steering wheel on the other side. If it weren't for that, the show could have been set in modern day US.

Details and Notes

There's this one scene when they run into the architect guy and a kid he'd found. The kid starts crying when he thinks about going round to his friends' houses to find them all dead. The architect says, "Come on boy" and kind of chucks him out of the little camper. Everyone at the table just kind of sits there a little awkwardly and the architect says something along the lines of, "He'll just have his little cry now. He'll come back. He needs us." I mean WOW. I guess that's the root of that phlegmatic nature I was talking about before.

Interesting: in the original Connections James Burke has this little speech about how we can't make anything and we're so dependent on this interconnected technology. The main character makes a little speech to the union kingpin. (TODO: I need to see when that pencil essay was written and if that guy wasn't British.) Was this some kind of fetish in 70's Britain?

Overall, the show does a great job of depicting a realistic post-die off future. One problem... which would be impossible to correct... is when we see long shots of the country, even into the second season, fields and things are still well kept.

Spoiler alert.

The swap of Hubert for Tom Price was a bit too simplistic.

In the third season, the "packs of wild dogs" trope is undercut by the fact that everyone still leaves their horses tethered outside. The dogs only attack when people are around, but they would go after the tethered horses, wouldn't they? I guess it's a question of the availability of prey.

Is 'Brod' (no idea how it's spelled) played by the father of the dick boss from The IT Crowd?