All that highly paid 'talent' at the BBC (the people who would be instantly head-hunted away to other broadcasters)! Why couldn't some committee of them have got together and spotted that they were spending millions on trash? The story is reduced to the level of the Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC (which are good in their place). The goodies are very good, and the baddie is totally evil and comes to a really sticky end.
There is little logic to the whole thing. There are wild coincidences - everyone keeps meeting up - and ridiculous last-second escapes, sometimes after characters put themselves in the way of the Triffids for no compelling reason. These only eat easily disposable characters.
The characterisations are also weak. Dougray Scott gives one of those proverbial 'phoned in' performances. Any actor could have done it, most of them better. Joely Richardson tries her best, but even she is overfaced when the script suddenly demands that she become an instant step-mother.
See the old John Duttine version. Read the book.
There is little logic to the whole thing. There are wild coincidences - everyone keeps meeting up - and ridiculous last-second escapes, sometimes after characters put themselves in the way of the Triffids for no compelling reason. These only eat easily disposable characters.
The characterisations are also weak. Dougray Scott gives one of those proverbial 'phoned in' performances. Any actor could have done it, most of them better. Joely Richardson tries her best, but even she is overfaced when the script suddenly demands that she become an instant step-mother.
See the old John Duttine version. Read the book.