The Mad American Wrote:I watch the Big Bang Theory like many on the board but my new favorite TV show is a British show currently playing on BBCAmerica. It's called "Survivors". It is a post-apocalyptic series after a virus has wiped 99% of the population out.

They are doing some interesting things with characters I think, there are a couple characters in particular that they have gotten my attention with, one is a sociopath who is now working with people, but they still find that he has his uses in the new world, things that most people don't want to do or frown upon, they use him when it benefits them and it makes for an interesting story. The other is a politician from the pre-virus days who is trying to establish some sort of order and society. She seems like she is doing things for the good of humanity but when you see how she does a lot of stuff you see her as a much more dynamic (and sinister) character than she at first seems.

This show has its hooks in my like no show since "Battlestar Galactica" did. (not saying it is as good as BG but it is the first since the end of BG to have me watching every week).

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:MadAm, I do not know what I would do if 99% if Humanity were laid waste, but I suspect I'd try to make friends with a woman =very= fast. Make any sense?

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:MadAm, I do not know what I would do if 99% if Humanity were laid waste, but I suspect I'd try to make friends with a woman =very= fast. Make any sense?

Scott Miller Wrote:"Try" being the key word.

Scott Miller Wrote:"Try" being the key word.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Touche!

But it would depend upon the nature of the catastrophe. Who are the 99%? Where? How? You know and I know, Scott, in an utter collapse of civilization, a woman with kids would do =anything= to protect them.

Anything at all.

The Mad American Wrote:No rhyme or reason to who survived on the surface, just those who had an immunity to the killer virus. Your point on what a woman would do to protect themselves (or their children, or a man even ) is explored in this series. It also shows the darker side, what men will do to take advantage of supposed vulnerabilty.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Touche!

But it would depend upon the nature of the catastrophe. Who are the 99%? Where? How? You know and I know, Scott, in an utter collapse of civilization, a woman with kids would do =anything= to protect them.

Anything at all.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I'd like to think the good-and-true men would band together and slaughter the predator-men without mercy. And that would only be helping the surviving women, who would be utterly ferocious.

The Mad American Wrote:It is in this type of thinking that the character I called the sociopath becomes so interesting. He is a super violent man with a criminal and violent past who hasn't really changed who he is but the circumstances have changed so he is defined by those around him differently. Yeah he is a sociopath, but he is our sociopath and he helps us survive.