Had you not said it was based on "The Road", I would have thought the song referred to the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee did literally "carry the fire", it was their sacred fire that could never be allowed to go out.Just had a major flashback to the Threads theme tune discussion : - why on earth didn't I think of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXUCFk8VJFY - it's based on The Road anyway, and it's fucking sick.
Oh, thank the good Lord you spared Hong Kong (mostly, at any rate - it's easier to survive the fallout than a direct hit, right?), or else I'll never be born...
Might it be more of a good thing to not be born into this world?
Fantastic TL anyway. The best I've read on this site.
Can I just ask how Wales is doing? I notice Swansea wasn't struck - that surprised me. Particularly how is rural mid-Wales and (I'm a sucker for this stuff) are the art and artefacts safe in that disused mine?
I was going to ask, given Threads, whether the British public were reacting better (or worse) as a result of it. But I see it wasn't released until AFTER the POD (August 1984) so is unlikely to even have got to the edit room yet, let alone left it.
I trust most of the cast of Threads have been blown to smithereens in the opening round?
Unless I've missed them it looks like Aberdeen and Inverness have survived. Looking at the rest of the list I'm somewhere in the upper atmosphere, or buried under a pile of rubble.
Since John Peel has survived, I wonder if Terry Wogan made it to Wood Norton? Listen carefully and he's in Threads.
Yeah, Threads didn't even get off the ground here - the messiness in Russia that forms the POD was sometime in mid-1983. The BBC was reluctant to comission a show that, given the worsening situation, would not just unsettle the public, but downright panic them.
Most of the actors are dead. Mick Jackson (the director) has managed, by virtue of his 'expertise' (he already produced a documentary precursor to Threads in 1981) to bluff his way into the Wood Norton bunker as some sort of 'technical advisor'.
Wow - that's the most meta answer I've had to come up with yet - thanks for asking it!
Aberdeen and Inverness were only alloted one bomb each, and they both got lucky - Inverness especially has a problem now, as large amounts of refugees (despite the best efforts of the pre-war authorities) considered it 'highlands' enough - there simply isn't enough food or space for them
Well, as a Whovian, I'd like Tom Baker to be kept alive. Mary Tamm too. (Perhaps she can play an important RL role, if they need someone speaking Estonian...)
question on a far different topic...what has happened to the Cadet forces? Would the survivors find themselves effectively drafted?
Anyone got any mid-80's celebrites they'd like not to die? (wow, this is entering borderline Viz territory )
Ladies and Gentlemen please. If you hadn't noticed the world has come to a shuddering end accompanied by a generous helping of thermonuclear hades for pretty much every man woman and child in existence. There is no hope that a cheery voice will 'keep up our spirits' especially the band of establishment no-hopers that have been listed so far! I doubt Peel would have gone to the bunker, Wogan would have probably had sufficient common sense and resources to have his own bunker available well in advance and the only real joy in this scenario is that Carrot would probably have been shot early on in the proceedings for spreading doom and gloom (I heard his act back in the 80's). This is a fabulously evocative TL and irrelevant talk of our favourite voice can only detract from the atmosphere that has been created.
JasperCarrot said:in the event of an attack, most prison inmates would be released on parole... Except those whose immediate release would be likely to put the public at serious risk