Triffids

I recorded the Triffids thing on BBC1. Then I read the forteana list ripping it to pieces, so my expectations in terms of plot and matching the source text were very low.

So far I have noticed:

everyone is white. I think I saw a dead black man in the rubble.

There's more men than women.

and

Even though 99% of the world is now blind, the story is only following the sighted people.

Where are the blind people? The ones who were already blind and have got the hang of it?
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Now I'm wondering if they hired any blind actors to play blind people. I should look that up. ... nope, can't find it mentioned anywhere, cannot look up quickly.
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Is the point of this story the triffids? really? Where did all the blind people go! Well they just disappeared, leaving the country empty, because... they want to tell a different story.

Seriously, 99% of the country is blind and only the sighted have stories?
How utterly annoying is that?

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I want to write a recentered version with *actual blind people*.

It's creepy now they've all vanished. And they have. There's not been a blind person for at least a quarter hour.

really, would it have killed the story to have one competent blind person? people getting on with their lives? arrangements that involved survival of blind people?

Oh hell, additional feminist fail. Girl goes "Don't worry, I can take care of myself!" Man goes "yeah, I noticed" and then of course the story demonstrates that only silly girls think they can take care of themselves and she has to get rescued right away.

I really don't like this story at all.

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Thus far they've taken a story about the whole world having a massive disaster and made it about One White Man Angsts About His Father (and mother a bit).

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Race, feminism, and ablism fail. What a surprise.
That's a few hours of my life I won't get back.

And it made the story so much more *boring*. The bits that were predictable plus the bits where there's only really the one character, Angsty White Male, and everyone else just sort of exists.

I want to write a recentered version involving blind people and women.

I don't know if the source text is this much faily but this version was rubbish.