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Lost all credibility Spoiler

posted 8 years ago by ivankafka
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I was just too young to see it the first time around, and it's a game effort after watching the 1st series. But it lost all credibility for me when... *SPOILER*

They killed the mentally handicapped chap. The kangaroo court with no evidence and unable to tell a knife wound from an arrow; nobody bothered to see if he had killed a rabbit before he was caught which would have explained the bloody arrow; the way many seemed content to kill him there and then (no different to other thug groups they had encountered) just seemed like unconvincing superficial and contrived screenwriting. It has put me off watching any further.

[–] Fillums21 (219) 3 years ago

I agree. I'm currently up to watching series 2 (early episodes - 1976) and I am not enjoying series 2 as I did with series 1.

You're right, killing the disabled man and then just putting it down as a 'mistake', and letting the real rapist/killer of the young woman REMAIN IN THE GROUP, I FOUND TOTALLY WEIRD.

As with another episode in which a child KILLER was urged to stay STAY IN THE GROUP, and they all sympathized with him that he was no longer a danger, and Jenny even said she would miss him if he left the group. I found these scenes bizarre and wonder what the hell the writers were thinking.

[–] PoolOfZenda (98) 9 months ago

There are a few poor episodes, but as a body of work it is great and I can forgive a few blips.

[–] DoctorThirteen (14658) 4 months ago

I was glued to Survivors as a kid. Absolutely loved it.

[–] Aylmer (539) 2 months ago

I really hated a few of the characters on the show, mainly the drifter guy who falsely accused the mentally ill guy and got him killed, along with Hubert in the last season. Dishonest, lazy characters always are hard to relate with but at least the guy in the first season got a great send-off eventually which kinda redeemed what happened up to that point.

As much as I would have liked the characters to all be likable and rational, I also recognize that after an apocalypse part of the challenge would be how to co-exist with unhelpful, lazy, immoral, and dishonest people. It's not like they'd all just be rounded up and shot, especially in a population crash such as this where you'd need every pair of hands you can get.