Day of the Triffids....BBC Four

[BeestonBoy]

Hey!!

Any one else watching? Its fantastic!!

Can remember it being re-run when I was a kid,but not being alllowed to watch it. Can sort of see why now....it would have scared the bollox off me then. Im a bit weary of the pot plant me Mum bought me,even now!!

Cheers

BB

[Bob Singleton]

Bought the DVD box set a while back and watched it all in one session (about 3 hours all told).

Much closer to the book than that dreadful early 60s film with Howard Keel!

[BeestonBoy]

Hey Bob

Might have to treat my self to the box set some time soon. Im really hooked!! Its has gotta be one of the most enjoyable things I have watched on the Beeb for a very very long time. All ready looking forward to next week!!

Cheers

BB

[BeestonBoy]

Evening Wazza

Ahhhh "Tripods"!! Another distant memory from my childhood. Never seen the series,but I did once catch the radio play on Radio Four when I was about 12 or 13......bloody great stuff it was too!!

Hussars to the Beeb!! lol


Cheers

BB

[laralatex]

i watched it when i was young and it frightend me to death. I've recorded it and will keep cushion and fingers in close proximity to eyes when i do watch it

[BeestonBoy]

You would be wise to do so!!

I started watching it thinking it would just be like re watching "Jaws" or some thing else that scared me half to death as a kid. I soon realised that this is in fact a very very dark production of a dark and bleak story.

Every thing it losses through dodgy special effects,it more than regains in the pure brilliance of the acting and the screenplay.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!!

Cheers

BB

[Pervert]

Never did see the TV series, but always meant to.

John Duttine, yeah?

I was pretty much into the "cosy catastrophe" school of writing (and TV---anyone recall Survivors?) when I was a kid. The first few chapters of Triffids are brilliant----so much so that Danny Boyle borrowed some aspects of them for 28 Days Later.

Wyndham was a fairly good writer, although his characters do tend to sound like they belong in a Noel Coward play. Check out The Chrysalids (his best, I think), and The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village Of The Damned).

And after all you guys have said about the TV version, time to do some DVD shopping, I think. Thanks.

[Bob Singleton]

Caractacus wrote:

> Never did see the TV series, but always meant to.
>
> John Duttine, yeah?
>
> I was pretty much into the "cosy catastrophe" school of writing
> (and TV---anyone recall Survivors?) when I was a kid. The first
> few chapters of Triffids are brilliant----so much so that Danny
> Boyle borrowed some aspects of them for 28 Days Later.
>
> Wyndham was a fairly good writer, although his characters do
> tend to sound like they belong in a Noel Coward play. Check out
> The Chrysalids (his best, I think), and The Midwich Cuckoos
> (filmed as Village Of The Damned).
>
> And after all you guys have said about the TV version, time to
> do some DVD shopping, I think. Thanks.


Wyndham was a product of his time, so yes I suppose many of his characters seem as if they would be at home in a Noel Coward play. Unlike Coward, though, and indeed unlike many of his generation, Wyndham was very pro-feminist. The main female characters in his books are often as intelligent and mentally strong as the main male character... if not more so.

While obviously deeply based in science FICTION (aliens invading the earth in "The Kraken Wakes" or a post apocalyptic society in "The Chrysalids") many of the issues raised are even more valid today then ever (for example most of the world is flooded in "The Kraken Wakes" and the socio-economic problems of people living longer in "The Trouble With Lichen")

For those who havn't read his stuff, it's about time you did!!!

[steve56]

i have the dvd can t seem to get into it,Sorry it seemed better 1st time round.