Puzzled.

[erastes]

What I don't understand about this remake of Survivors is:

Why the blinkerty blink don't they have guns?  It would be the first thing I'd get. Perhaps they've never seen a survival film.

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[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

and bows and swords...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Exactly! There must be loads of gun shops lurking around!

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Heh. I keep thinking that too. Maybe it's the British mindset - only baddies have guns. But didn't Greg have a gun when we first met him in episode 1? I can't remember now.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

He'd have been mad if he didn't and he certainly came over as the survivalist type. I'm sure the original version was more sensible.

But then again, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be putting full slap on every morning if the world had gone to pieces.

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

I haven't been watching it, but maybe they are speculating that it is almost impossible to get guns in the UK now (unless of course you are a 14 year old in a gang).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes- but as 99 percent of the population has been killed off - it wouldn't be difficult at all.

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

I must admit to having played a fair few post-apocalyptic rpgs in the past, and the game group generally sorted out a pretty tight plan for supplies - what we generally ended up doing was going for guns that you could easily make your own bullets for and using bows as well...
Though come to think of it - why not just raid the armoury in an army base?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Everyone they encounter on this programme has guns and yet they just don't arm themselves. It's barmy. As far as I remember from the original 70's version they were far more sensible.

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

In general I tend to prefer a lot of the tv shows made in the 70s to now-they tended to be a bit more 'honest', less derivative and hadn't a care in the world for the US market...