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# Was it any good?
I've just started reading the book, so will aim to get it finished soon, before Triffids vanishes from the iplayer. But if it's shite, I'll not push myself...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:22, archived)
# I love the book.
In fact, nearly all of Wyndham's stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:23, archived)
# I'm quite enjoying it - though I do keep falling asleep
and that's why it's taking me ages to read it. Still, I'd want to finish it before I watch it - I don't want my mental picture contaminated.

EDIT: There was a really good adaptation of Cuckoos on R4 in about 2004...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:25, archived)
# Sounds alright.
Read The Chrysalids yet? One of the best.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:48, archived)
# I think it's enjoyable enough to catch it on iPlayer
the Triffids themselves aren't particularly scary... at all really... but it's a bit like the current Doctor Who 2-parter: entertaining yet don't expect it to be anywhere near as good as the book.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:26, archived)
# Very well!
I know know what I'll be doing on NY Day. Bugger going for a walk; I'll curl up with tea, the cat, and some triffids.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:28, archived)
# That sounds like a good plan
it was commented on saying that it's a bit like Doctor Who meets 28 Days Later - effectively 28 Days Later is Day of Triffids updated to a more sensible modern concept and much more believable - But if you can suspend your disbelief in walking carnivorous plants then it's good tea and biccy fodder :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:33, archived)
#
tea and biccy christmas cake and mince pies. With, perhaps, turkey and stuffing toasties, if there's any turkey left.

Oh, yes. The more I think about it, the better this idea gets.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:36, archived)
# don't expect anything approaching the book
it's enjoyable hokum, with a stellar cast,
/although the main stellar cast (Redgrave & Cox) don't turn up until the second part this evening.
I hope the second part builds up a bit more momentum, even though the Xmas Radio Times rather spoilt the whole thing by giving away how they 'defeat' them in its synopsis of the programme
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:28, archived)
# It goes without saying that the book is better.
There's two orders in which these things could go: book-radio-TV or - very occasionally (as with Hitchhiker's Guide) radio-book-TV. TV is always last, though.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:34, archived)
# I don't have The Radio Times
but if it's anything like the film it's *** ***** that kills them.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:34, archived)
# *abandons finishing book*
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:37, archived)
# Arggh so sorry
but I don't know if the original film is the same as the book
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:41, archived)
# *resumes abandoned project*
;)
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:44, archived)
# nope, no fear of sea water in tonight's episode
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:39, archived)
# Ah cool because I always thought that was a rather fishy ending :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:41, archived)
# It'd generate a tide of hostility
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:46, archived)
# Waves of people would phone in to complain
a baying mob if you will :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:48, archived)
# They'll be calling the Daily Mael...
...strom.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:52, archived)
# Well the program does contain Eddies Izzard
:D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:56, archived)
# I like Izzard for the way his brine works.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 13:01, archived)
# i liked it
It's one of the better things to come out of the BBC this year.
(I helped save b3ta! Scrambled Edd www.eddsworld.co.uk, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:40, archived)
# Along with the Eastenders Christmas special?
That was brilliant!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:47, archived)