Day of The Triffids part two. (spoilers)

This should have been the climax of my festive viewing...and ended up being a bit of a non-event.

There was no tension, no sense of danger. Even the creepy stuff like the Nun feeding the triffids didn't feel creepy, just predictable. It should have been an unpleasant realisation not signposted so obviously.

I was hoping that the slow pace of the first episode was leading to a gripping finale.

In the end it was guilty of being bland. Which was a shame.

I think I'll splash out a few quid on this instead

or even this!

Day of The Triffids part one. (mild spoilers)

I was probably looking forward to this more than the Doctor Who specials. A strong and terrifying TV related childhood memory was the sight of a Triffid. I know that looking back at the 80s series now the effects aren't that great, but I didn't think that look of the triffids in this version was any better, in fact possibly slightly more silly.

At the end of the first part I feel undecided. There were some great moments, the aeroplane crashing and finally a reasonably scary Triffid attack towards the very end of it. And I do like the fact that it was a good half an hour before you saw a triffid properly. But the lead actor is so bland and monotonous that I didn't feel able to get involved. Eddie Izzard and Jason Priestley stood out though.

Perhaps it would have been better paced had it been an hour long, or even 45 minutes. Not that I have a lousy attention span, just that shorter episodes with reasonable cliff hangers always seem more exciting to me. Maybe they should have taken a leaf out of Torchwood's book and run it over five nights.

I will tune in tomorrow, and maybe it will grip me in the way I felt I should have been from the start.

Verdict so far: It doesn't suck, but it's not a classic either.