{"id":391,"date":"2009-05-05T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T02:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/review-of-the-bbc-series-survivors-2008\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T02:11:20","slug":"review-of-the-bbc-series-survivors-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/review-of-the-bbc-series-survivors-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the BBC Series Survivors (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched the BBC Series &#8220;Survivors&#8221;, which is apparently a remake of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Survivors\">1975 &#8211; 1978 British TV show<\/a>.  It came out in 2008 an concerns a virulent flu outbreak that kills off all but about 1% of the population.  Put this on the TV and see if you can convince people that it is a documentary on the current state of the H1N1 &#8220;Swine Flu&#8221; epidemic going on in Britain.  You probably won&#8217;t get too far with it, but it really is a pretty scary presage of what could happen. <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the series quite a bit.  It has a lot of the flavor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jericho_(TV_series)\">2006 TV Series Jericho<\/a>, itself an end-of-the-world descent into de-civilization via not disease but nuclear war.  Both deal with similar issues and are a lot of fun.  They also both remind me of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._Michael_Straczynski\">J. Michael Straczynski&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremiah_(TV_series)\">Jeremiah, a TV series about a post-nuclear world where<\/a> &#8230;  Hm, I get the feeling that this could go on a for a while.  So I&#8217;ll cut it out now.<\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I enjoyed Survivors a lot.  It has apparently been renewed for a 2009 season, so that is something to look forward to (along with the BBC standby of Doctor Who.) <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>I usually try to put in a few pictures because I know that people won&#8217;t read blog posts without them, but I didn&#8217;t manage to get any pictures this time.  Bummer.  Just imagine a very empty Britain, like something out of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Children_of_men\">Children of Men<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/28_days_later\">28 Days Later<\/a> or &#8230;  wait, I started doing it again.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched the BBC Series &#8220;Survivors&#8221;, which is apparently a remake of a 1975 &#8211; 1978 British TV show. It came out in 2008 an concerns a virulent flu outbreak that kills off all but about 1% of the population. Put this on the TV and see if you can convince people that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}