Day of the Triffids vs. The Tripods

(I kinda want to post your triffids on my flowers thread! They're so pretty!)

http://www.tvclassic.net/programs/tripods/tripods_3.jpg

Now why do I think that Adric was in it? Is that my fevered teenage imagination?

http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/Tripods.html

I remember "Children of the stones" being really scary, but I saw a vid of it a few years ago, and it was pretty boring actually.

i suspect that The Changes might creep me out a bit now, but be largely VERY boring

if you follow kate's links you get http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/tripage/chron.html which is marvellous

I never saw this, but I was gonna get it off UKN0V@, but didn't. Is it really that good, or will it bore me these days?

they're back!

Bugger, I was really hoping that would be the final series of Tripods. With the original actor who played Fritz reprising the role, because of the ageing effects of the City.

I guess that the BBC thought "we've already made a crappy remake of one post apocalyptic TV series, why not do another?"

Triffods, not Tripods dude

I know! When I clicked the link I was hoping it was going to be series 3 of Tripods! But the page loaded and it turns out to be a totally unnecessary remake of Triffids. When all they have to do is show the original series!

ahh, sorry i read your post as "i thought that the last series of Tripods was going to be the last" and that you thought etc etc.

is the original triffids series out on dvd?

Series 1 was available briefly, series 2 got delayed due to some copyright issue.
But Amazon says beginning of 2009...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tripods-Complete-1-John-Shackley/dp/B000R21294/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228315361&sr=1-1

And "Day of the Triffids" is available as well (doh! another Tripods/Triffids mix up)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Day-Triffids-John-Duttine/dp/B0006GVKE8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228315472&sr=1-1

...bloody cheap as well

Anyone watch the BBC remake of Day Of The Triffids? All a bit silly I thought, the Eddie Izzard character particularly. Not a patch on the original TV series, which at least attempted to present a believable story and was all the scarier for it. On the plus side, the triffids themselves were (unsurprisingly) much better, and though it was a blindingly obvious thing to do, the way they wove the global warming and GMO stuff in was still quite neat.

Oh yeah, the dad in the house in the country was all a bit Children of Men eh?

didn't think it worked & haven't seen the tv show.

even though it was three hours it didn't really bring out the vcarious philosophies of izzard, redgrave, the government folks, etc; they just rushed past all that.

not terrible, just not very memorable.

Not an original thought, but...

28 Triffids Later

Joely Richardson kept me going, she was a very solid plus point.

I thought it was okay, the second episode anyway. The only major problem for me was the drag factor caused by Dougray Scott. He appears to have gone to the Douglas Henshall school of none-acting, specialising in responding to what would be Earth-shattering events with a kind of dour indifference.
The second series of Survivors is starting soon on the BBC. Kinda odd they are doing these two remakes of '70s cataclysm sci-fi, which are very similar, back-to-back

Joely Richardson kept me going, she was a very solid plus point.

yes indeed.

surprised they're doing a second survivors series. i only saw the first ep of series one -- just utterly inferior to the original.

we watched it on the interweb. Bits of it were very good I though, the cgi-rendered chaos overtaking London was well-done, and Joely Richardsone was good too. Eddie Izzard was a bit hammy though, and it had one of those stupid pull a rabbit out of a hat endings, HOLE SHIT MAN I just remembered those wise african guys shoed me when i was a kid thatif you drip triffid juice into your eyes they wont attack you! WTF, so unbelievably dumb & lame! This kind of nonsense seems to be a common trope of recent sci-fi TV I think? It's lazy and very annoying.

Actually liked this quite a bit despite ending and overall "28 Plants Later" vibe. Better than most other lame remakes out there.

Couldn't get the Beeb's website to show it to me here in soCal. So I was little bummed but went off to see the 1981 serial on YouTube. Pleasantly wasted three hours running through it.

Thought it had a low budget old Dr. Who-ish vibe.

The new one has a high budget Doctor Who/Torchwood feel.

RIP Tripods-trilogy author John Christopher

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YGVLM2i9n6o/S7UvRH4YVRI/AAAAAAAAFJY/3bZ-cyo5J2A/s400/z_detail.jpg

Tripods

Surprised I never posted on this thread before -- that comic adaptation of the Tripods that am0n just posted a panel from ran in Boys Life magazine for some years, which is how I 'read' the original three books over time. I remember being surprised to learn about the TV series as well, though I never saw an episode. Some elements now really make the series a literal midway point between War of the Worlds and The Hunger Games.

http://10minuteramble.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/bond_1back071.jpg

Hahah oh dear.

; )

Triffids.

For a very short series (I can't remember anything much from the book) it has a few things it wants to say about they way societies break down, survival and morality, unchecked exploitation of nature (?), reliance on hazardous energy sources? The cold war seems like it's going to be the ostensible subject and lens but actually recedes from view very quickly.

Not sure if this is an hot take but in DotT the humans are the machines in The Matrix exploiting intelligent organisms as nothing more than an energy source. Not to mention genetically engineering them in the first place like the Tyrell Corp. So basically there needs to be a vegetable revenge remake from the triffids' perspective.

Also was the author / screenwriter a Tottenham supporter? It seems to take a very dim view of Arsenal fans.