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Blackout TV show

  • 12-09-2013 1:44pm
    #1
    ScumLord
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    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/blackout/4od

    Did anyone see this? It's a TV show done in the style of a documentary or found tapes thing (not blair witch style). Basically the entirety of the UK loses electricity for a week, there's a cyber attack that does major damage to the nations infrastructure and the show is the videos taken by the people surviving the blackout with a few fun factoids thrown in along the way.

    It's well done, at times the people filming themselves is a bit forced and nonsensical but that's always a problem with these shows.

    There is a survivalist in it. He's pretty proud of himself at the start and he's story would be a warning to us all.


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  • #2
    Kess73
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/blackout/4od

    Did anyone see this? It's a TV show done in the style of a documentary or found tapes thing (not blair witch style). Basically the entirety of the UK loses electricity for a week, there's a cyber attack that does major damage to the nations infrastructure and the show is the videos taken by the people surviving the blackout with a few fun factoids thrown in along the way.

    It's well done, at times the people filming themselves is a bit forced and nonsensical but that's always a problem with these shows.

    There is a survivalist in it. He's pretty proud of himself at the start and he's story would be a warning to us all.


    Yep don't have kids that blab to strangers about having a generator and don't have a barbeque wafting the scent of cooked meat when there is all sorts of stuff kicking off nearby. :)


    Another bit of advice would be not to try and have a pleading chat with hostiles, especially if they are unaware for some seconds that you have entered the same room as them. Cap the feckers and keep yourself alive. ;)


  • #3
    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    I didn't believe that character. Any survivalist knows basics about urban survival in a apocalyptic situation. He didn't board up the doors and windows, batton down the hatches as it were. He took absolutely no precautions against the human and urban element of survival.


  • #4
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Wabbit Ears wrote: »
    I didn't believe that character. Any survivalist knows basics about urban survival in a apocalyptic situation. He didn't board up the doors and windows, batton down the hatches as it were. He took absolutely no precautions against the human and urban element of survival.
    I could see plenty of idiots thinking that they've bought all the right products so that means they're going to be safe. They're simply consumers.

    I knew as soon as I saw him with all his gear lined up that he'd be the most screwed the most. He wasn't a very deep character, none of them were really but overall I think the mob reacted as expected and some of the facts thrown out were interesting.


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