07 January 2005 @ 04:34 pm
The train now boarding on platform 130...  
The Last Train is coming to Sci Fi (UK)!!!!!

*bouces excitedly*

I loved this programme, it was a mini-series - six or eight episodes, I can't quite remember - first aired on the BBC in the mid 90s. Kind of a 28 Days Later vibe to it without the Rage infected victims, except... Nah, I won't spoil!

It starts on the 14th of January on Sci Fi channel and the only thing that could make that better would be if it's followed by Neverwhere.
 
 
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[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 08:39 am (UTC)
Might have known that you'd watched it. It was very good, though I cottoned on to one of the major early plot points very quickly.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 08:42 am (UTC)
yeah, it wasn't much for unpredictable twists but it was damn good!

And of course I watched it, it was quirky and experimental for the time - I was bound to love it! )hides behind hands and admits she watched Wild Palms and enjoyed it as well...)

Watched "Whatever the Case May Be" (Lost 12) yet?
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 08:45 am (UTC)
I only just got home from work. Some of us do work full days y'know.

*grins*

I've never heard of Wild Palms so don't know if missing it was a good thing or not.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 08:49 am (UTC)
*grin*

Yeah, well some of us work flexi time so we can take Friday afternoons off now and then.

Wild Palms was Oliver Stone's attempt at making TV. I think David Lynch was involved as well, it definitely had a Twin Peaks vibe to it.

It kind of linked into a lot of the things I was studying at the time - that the image has overtaken the reality to the extent that the 'real' no longer exists. Big tagline on the show was "Is it real, or is it MimiCon?"

I don't really remember much more about it apart from there was a rhino involved somewhere, and empty swimming pools, and tattoos of palm trees on that fleshy bit of your hand between the thumb and forefinger - where my Grandpa had his naval anchor tat.

Maybe I should try to watch that again, see if I can remember anything more about it.
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 08:55 am (UTC)
Sounds like I didn't miss much then.

[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 09:00 am (UTC)
it was incredibly surreal.

There was also something about the "House of the Rising Sun" song, and am underground anarchist movement - might have been them that met at the empty swimming pools.

Can you tell I really don't remember much about it?

What I can remember is that there was a perfect match cut from a business exec table to a kitchen table, and one particular character (might be Kim Cattrel's character) changed clothes every time she walked into a room. That sounds weird, and it was. You weren't aware she changed clothes, apart from the fact that whatever colour she was wearing seemed to fit perfectly with the room she was in. It was a directorial mise-en-scene plot point to show that she was completely at home in every situation within her own suburban world.

Y'know the more I think about it, the more I want to see it again!
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 09:30 am (UTC)
Ummm, Yeah. Sounds really, uhhh, good.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 09:33 am (UTC)
most people hate it, or laugh at it.

*shug*

I'm odd, but then you knew that anyway. *g*
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 09:37 am (UTC)
It'd be no fun if you weren't odd.
[identity profile] keith5by5.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 11:16 am (UTC)
I'm in the hate camp.

And I knew you were odd Sho.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 11:53 am (UTC)
Hey! I resemble that remark!

*grin*
[identity profile] keith5by5.livejournal.com on January 7th, 2005 11:57 am (UTC)
The Last Train, though that was defnitely odd. Seemed pretty aimless to moi....