Very true, but I still don't think they're in Yorkshire.
Survivors Sunday 23rd 9pm BBC One
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Not I.But...but all British post apocolyptic TV has to be set in Yorkshire!
Well Threads and the Last Train...who'd live in sheffield eh!
Maybe that's what they're going for with all those aerial shots of hilly vistas, post apocalyptic Yorshire, while they wander around the south east.
D'oh, here's the Survivors thread 
Might have mistaped the first episode, didn't realise the second was on Tuesday
Missed the first episode having to leave my ex's after dropping my daughter off. Not only that but I missed the Bugatti Veyron power lap only minutes before
Might have mistaped the first episode, didn't realise the second was on Tuesday
Missed the first episode having to leave my ex's after dropping my daughter off. Not only that but I missed the Bugatti Veyron power lap only minutes before
Didn't miss much.
On the Yorkshire thing - there is nothing about the landscape we've seen which suggests or is unique to Yorkshire. It could be Hertfordshire, it could even be Devon...
But, given that we've followed most of the principal characters from London, that all the characters we KNOW were London based (including that MP from the pilot and next week's trailer) have all bumped into each other pretty quickly, and that they as a group don't seem to have traveled any huge distance, it seems pretty obvious to me that they're most likely to still be in the south east.
Blackburn is about 250 miles or so away from London. In the dangerous and unpredictable world they find themselves in it might as well be 10,000 miles away. Food and resources are scarce, they might find themselves in the middle of nowhere with no fuel and they don't even know if any of the kid's family have survived.
Would YOU risk a jaunt to the other side of the country against those odds, when you can't even go to a local supermarket without someone waving a shotgun in your face?
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Still, the locations are suitably generic. I guess it explains where there are so many northern accents in an apparently London-centric setting.
But my point was if they're gonna drive all the way up to Yorkshire from London they might as well go to the other side of the country, it's not like it's going to be any more dagerous to go to the west instead of the eat.
Not disagreeing with you on that, just the idea that they could easily fire over to Blackburn no matter where they are.
But yeah, if it's actually set up north, then the Blackburn trip is a lot less insurmountable.
But yeah, if it's actually set up north, then the Blackburn trip is a lot less insurmountable.
Just watched the first two episodes... didn't know the Bonekickers lady was basically the star. But man, I have no idea if it's the writing or if it's her, but she's pretty bad.
While I guess the show isn't good or bad (although it's done much better elsewhere, including "Y: The Last Man"), the worst aspect is the forced conspiracy bullshit that they tag on to the end of each episode (I'm assuming a trend). Assuming that this is going to last several series, that's the kind of shit you expect to be pulled at the end of a season ala Lost, not at the end of every episode. All that does it make you less invested in your main characters because all you're really interested in is the laboratory.
Oh well... off to watch "The Devil's Whore". Yay British TV and your weird airing schedules!
While I guess the show isn't good or bad (although it's done much better elsewhere, including "Y: The Last Man"), the worst aspect is the forced conspiracy bullshit that they tag on to the end of each episode (I'm assuming a trend). Assuming that this is going to last several series, that's the kind of shit you expect to be pulled at the end of a season ala Lost, not at the end of every episode. All that does it make you less invested in your main characters because all you're really interested in is the laboratory.
Oh well... off to watch "The Devil's Whore". Yay British TV and your weird airing schedules!
There's absolutely no reason to build in a second hook to the show. If the fact that the show itself is about survivors of an apocalypse is not enough, they maybe they should get out of the TV business.
Maybe they've watched too many episodes of Lost and feel like they need their own Dharma Initiative.
Maybe they've watched too many episodes of Lost and feel like they need their own Dharma Initiative.
So far the original seemed to do the idea better, but I'm kinda enjoying the new one, and I'm convinced it could be a worthwhile show, if they just tweak it a bit. I'm willing to see where they go with the government conspiracy. And yeah, I'm not sure whether it's the actor or the character, but Abbey has her head up her own arse.Just watched the first two episodes... didn't know the Bonekickers lady was basically the star. But man, I have no idea if it's the writing or if it's her, but she's pretty bad.
While I guess the show isn't good or bad (although it's done much better elsewhere, including "Y: The Last Man"), the worst aspect is the forced conspiracy bullshit that they tag on to the end of each episode (I'm assuming a trend). Assuming that this is going to last several series, that's the kind of shit you expect to be pulled at the end of a season ala Lost, not at the end of every episode. All that does it make you less invested in your main characters because all you're really interested in is the laboratory.
Oh well... off to watch "The Devil's Whore". Yay British TV and your weird airing schedules!
I haven't watched any of The Devil's Whore yet, I've got it recorded though, let us know what you think.
Every time I see that word on the telly or on messageboards, all I can hear is David Bowie, singing Time.
With every minute of Paterson Joseph's screen time, he gets more appealing as a choice for Doctor 11 - and he was pretty high up to begin with.
Will you look at the state of that floor...Time's been round again, has he?
This I agree with.
^ the problem I have with him being on Survivors, is that I want him to stay on survivors, obviously he can film a 2nd series in the new year before he moves on to Doctor Who (could this be part of the reason for the specials? ) but I dont think he could do both Doctor Who & Survivors S3?
I guess that would depend on a few things, whether he wants his entire schedule taken up by 2 shows, whether they keep Survivors 6 eps per series or extend it, whether it continues beyond this series, and whether he is actually cast as the Doctor.
