Yes, I still remember. And on top of faded memories, evenings spent in front of a television in black and white, after a morning and an afternoon at school spent playing ball. Another episode to try to explain the passion for science fiction and fantasy that I carry inside, forever written in my genes. I go back to 1979, and an article in TV Smiles and Songs "found on the net (http://digilander.iol.it/isopravvissuti/art_testo_tvsc_11_79.htm), which shows the exact date when it was airing the first episode, by Rai. Tuesday, March 20, 1979. Twelve years and a lot more willingness now to believe certain stories. Stories that, over time, however, remain current and reflect and echo the fears nor too dormant.
What usually happens to the deadly virus and no vaccine that are produced by humans in his insane attempts to stand out on other people losing sight of any possible problem? What are "accidentally" missing. And already by the initials of the show we are made aware of this "unfortunate" incident. Close up on a doctor: white mask, sunglasses blacks view the 70's, scary music ... then the view of the slide that contains the virus ... zoom to fill the screen and the slide becomes the earth ... all overlaid with the words "SURVIVORS ". Then we see how widespread the infection has run: one guy, dark coat and sunglasses blacks view the 70s (the same as before?), At the airport for a flight takes off in that picture ... slip in order to be a graphical representation of the United States ... and then a series of stamps on his passport: MOCKBA (the guy touches his temple and then we are shown an outstretched arm ...), back the plane, Berlin, Singapore , New York, Montreal, Rome, Athens, Madrid, Orly, London.
I remember the anxiety that sent me, without having to use special effects so elaborate or without the need for special surprises. Simply putting the center of the narrative a theme as old and well known to all, I think, at least once in a lifetime we thought: what if no one on Earth would not remain? So that is all too estrematizzata. If anyone does not remain just know how boring. Let's say the virus is off 98% of the human population. A lot of money, but 2% is not anyone. Set in London, the show goes right to the heart (so to say, in the first episode die almost all the inhabitants of the earth ...) and shows us scenes of panic and destruction caused by the virus: the trains stop, the traffic blocks intractable gridlock, mutes the radio and television, hospitals collapse. Soon the death toll surpasses that of the living, and a strange silence spreads over the Earth. Strange then, in subsequent episodes, with dead bodies around if they see very few.
What would a normal person in this condition? Without electricity (and how many things we take for granted use electricity? Washing machine and refrigerator, for example ...), without gas, with gasoline stocks destined to run out quickly, with the need to change their lifestyle radically and rapidly. The food in supermarkets is so, but it will spoil quickly, the city does not provide the ability to adapt to a less technological and more rural ... so there is a return, little by little, with the primitive economy. But the other basic need, and that's what the show shows most clearly is that of socialization. Despite the desperate situation, the men and women survivors of the virus stop trying at all costs to create, in the absence of everything, empty and pathetic skeletons of hierarchies, with old and newly gurus selfish to seek in every way to impose one's own ideas and visions to those of others. To the point that the fighting (more or less violent and physical) follow each other in all the episodes broadcast in Italy. Offering to the "Survivors" a series of additional setbacks (the initial one already sufficiently serious), just to add a little 'life.
Consider that case, at times, be harsh with the ideas of men. In our "Survivors" arrives in the spring of '79. But in England had been transmitted by '75, the year construction, and in Italian Switzerland from '76. And what happens to you? Seveso. Tons of dioxin in the air, land, water, food, in people. Other than a fictional virus. There was to be fought with real shit, what makes you out in earnest. And then as you back the urge to speculate about a tragedy that the facts have shown that it can occur at any time? Do not come back, and after a year and thirteen episodes "Survivors" is suspended. England have been going on for three seasons, then get bored with them too. After all you have to start thinking about the risks of nuclear power, and it seems that the show could become a reality overnight.
the Ce We pulled on their own, it must be said. Among the "Towering Inferno", "earthquakes", and disasters of all kinds, in the 70s we (in fiction and often in real life ...) tried to destroy the Earth in every way and to exterminate the human race in every way . But in the long run this series of deaths and destruction tired. In addition the show, the brainchild if not original at least little used, contains the possibility of expanding the discourse, making a search, besides the food, the true soul of man. But the many petty little things, for real charity, they have made close and convoluted narrative, only to show more and more less uplifting side of man.
Although this is noted in the Terry Nation (writer already British creator of "Dr. Who" ...) that it has created a television series (so called because the show at the time) certainly emotional impact, with stories written and well-focused on a topic that still has not lost its charm. A few "survivors", ordinary people, ordinary lives, shattered from having lost any reference point and every comfort technology, which must start from scratch, discovering day by day all the things you normally take for granted: food, water, shelter . With a veiled (but then not too) critical to our models life.
Like many of the most interesting television, "Survivors" has fallen into oblivion, only one season and no reply. Poor chances of finding something on video or VideoCD (no dvd): The little existing material in original language without subtitles, and time is not reprinted.
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