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 Day Of The Triffids rewatch: episodes 1 and 2
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 26-02-2023 21:31
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The episodes: Episodes 1 and 2 (1981 version) The date: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 The time: 7.45pm and 8.15pm UK time respectively I've decided to go for this next, and then we'll follow it with Children Of The Stones. Neither are on YouTube or Daily Motion as far as I can see. I do have Day Of The Triffids on DVD, but don't have Children Of The Stones, which I won't be getting, since it costs around £50 for just seven episodes  I'm around for the next three weeks, but then not available on Wednesdays, so it makes sense to do it this way around.
Edited by trevor travis on 01-03-2023 20:11 Vote Og.
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 27-02-2023 11:09
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CotS is available on YouTube as individual episodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSIpk...SIpkxMkT0M etc) or as a job lot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwT0w...amp;t=333s) |
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 27-02-2023 18:25
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CotS is available on YouTube as individual episodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSIpk...SIpkxMkT0M etc) or as a job lot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwT0w...amp;t=333s) Thanks CB. Will post those links once we reach Children Of The Stones. Vote Og.
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 28-02-2023 10:46
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Is this the right Triffids? https://archive.org/details/robertkiy...ode+01.avi "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 28-02-2023 15:38
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Is this the right Triffids? https://archive.org/details/robertkiy...ode+01.avi It is! Thank you for finding it! First saw the first episode in our final year at Primary School in 1984. The teacher considered it educational. It would have been on way past my bedtime in 1981. Vote Og.
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| OracVZen |
Posted on 01-03-2023 08:51
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 17:38
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Looking forward to this. I did see this Day of the Triffids when it came out, but don't remember much about it. |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:02
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Love a bit of Wyndham. This is an excellent version. The film was a bit daft.
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:36
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Hi! If I remember rightly, there's a lot more talking than action, especially in the earlier episodes, to set the scene. Wyndham manages it better in the book!. Looking forward to seeing it again, though. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:39
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Love a bit of Wyndham. This is an excellent version. The film was a bit daft. This is definitely the best TV/film adaption of Day Of The Triffids! Vote Og.
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:39
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Howdy Doodily Do!
Vote Og.
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:41
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Howdy Doodily Do! How you diddlin' do! Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:43
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Just to make sure that we are all watching the same version - it's the 1981 version starring John Duttine, Emma Replh and Maurice "Howard from Howard's Way" Colbourne and produced by a fella called David Maloney!
Vote Og.
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:45
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STARTED! Soolin is looking lovely this week! Vote Og.
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:45
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STARTED!
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:45
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Scary feem toon
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:47
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. |
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:47
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We've rewatched Survivors post-Covid, so I thought we should cover the other doom-laden post-apocalyptic show!
Vote Og.
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:48
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Cassettes!!!
"You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:48
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Very clever hints that something has gone wrong! Where's the traffic and where's his nurses? Vote Og.
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:48
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. You have to read them as a period piece, unless you want to 'do a Dahl' on the text. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:50
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Very clever hints that something has gone wrong! Where's the traffic and where's his nurses? I'm already thinking I will have nightmares tonight! Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:50
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. This is an adaptation, so hopefully those attitudes are less obvious - I can't imagine David Maloney liked those bits much! Vote Og.
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:50
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. You have to read them as a period piece, unless you want to 'do a Dahl' on the text. I do, but I still find him (slightly) creepily fifties, rather than sweetly fifties like Asimov. |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:51
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. This is an adaptation, so hopefully those attitudes are less obvious - I can't imagine David Maloney liked those bits much! The heroine is very much her own person. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:51
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Very clever storytelling though flashback - how did the book cover it?
Vote Og.
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:51
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Seven! What slow nurses. When I was in hospital they came round long before that. |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:54
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. You have to read them as a period piece, unless you want to 'do a Dahl' on the text. I do, but I still find him (slightly) creepily fifties, rather than sweetly fifties like Asimov. (I don't think Azimov would have expected anyone to describe him as 'sweet'!) Just focus on the storyline, then. That's what really matters. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:56
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Trffids not exterminated due to their commercial value!
Vote Og.
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:56
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The flashbacks alternating with the suspense of what is happening in the hospital are very well done. |
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:57
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Nasty-looking thing, that triffid. |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:58
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Trffids not exterminated due to their commercial value! That rings true! Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:59
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I wonder if the Triffids' rattling is them communicating "Kill The Humans, End Their Culture."
Vote Og.
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 19:59
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. You have to read them as a period piece, unless you want to 'do a Dahl' on the text. I do, but I still find him (slightly) creepily fifties, rather than sweetly fifties like Asimov. (I don't think Azimov would have expected anyone to describe him as 'sweet'!) Just focus on the storyline, then. That's what really matters. I think the 'woman as breeding stock' thing will be very much toned down here. |
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-03-2023 20:00
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I wonder if the Triffids' rattling is them communicating "Kill The Humans, End Their Culture." Almost certainly, I should think. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 01-03-2023 20:00
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Trffids not exterminated due to their commercial value! That rings true! Doesn't it. |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 20:01
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I wonder if the Triffids' rattling is them communicating "Kill The Humans, End Their Culture." More like " did you see Correr last night. Ken Barlow's an idiot!" Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 01-03-2023 20:02
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I'm a bit ambivalent about John Wyndham. The stories are great, but he has some very fifties attitudes, especially about women. You have to read them as a period piece, unless you want to 'do a Dahl' on the text. I do, but I still find him (slightly) creepily fifties, rather than sweetly fifties like Asimov. (I don't think Azimov would have expected anyone to describe him as 'sweet'!) Just focus on the storyline, then. That's what really matters. I think the 'woman as breeding stock' thing will be very much toned down here. Well they make a logical argument of it. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 01-03-2023 20:02
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It was a very 1981 sci-fi thing to have the hero in his PJs. First Arthur Dent, now him...
Vote Og.
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 01-03-2023 20:04
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Anne said I think the 'woman as breeding stock' thing will be very much toned down here. One only has to look at the Handmaid's Tale to see that it's a continuing theme. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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