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# I recently (on a whim) just re-read The Rats by James Herbert (no idea why to be honest)
it would make a great 2-3 part BBC Series
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# cor
I haven't read that for years, but yes, with the kind of budget that they chucked at triffids, it could work really well.
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# aye. it's got some nice set-pieces, and they 'could' do a decent job of rendering the Rats too.
the triffids was a big ol' letdown :(
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# They killed it for me early on
With the change on the cause of the blindness. It runined any chance of suspense of disbelief. Trying to peddle the idea that virtually every man, woman and child on earth, regardles of location, was looking at the sky at the exact moment of the flash... pft.

At least in the orignal it was plausable that people would have at least had a quick look at the meteor shower.
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