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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-18 (Wednesday)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:28:32 -0800
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On 12/19/2024 1:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> Finished grading the final for the first of my two sections, and then
>> did a little bit of finish up work on the lab class... With that, I got
>> through:
>>
>>
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS on The Plex
> 
> Howard Keel plays one of the few sighted people in a world of the blind
> threatened by poison spitting mobile carnivorous plants. It held up a lot
> better than I thought it would.
> 
> They changed it a lot from the book which may have been for the better
> because there aren’t really many answers either way. A mysterious meteor
> shower leaves the world blind. Conspiracy theorists think it was some sort
> of Russian weapon that went wrong and got everybody.
> In the book, Triffids are known to the world and kept in pens for as I
> recall their oil.  And their poison sacks are kept clipped. With the world
> gone blind there’s nothing to keep them from escaping and wackiness
> ensuing.  In the movie, they just appear out of nowhere after the meteor
> shower. It’s hard to imagine these two events as being accidental and
> unconnected. But there are no answers to be had just efforts to survive.
> 
> Meanwhile, Janette Scott (yes, from Rocky Horror Picture Show) and her real
> life husband who starred in together in CRACK IN THE WORLD, are trapped in
> a lighthouse and besieged by the Triffids. At the end, he turns the fire
> hose on them because he’s run out of things to throw, and it turns out that
> seawater disintegrates them. Well, that was an easy fix!

Yay, you got to watch something!