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My dinner was a large bowl of lamb scouse, originally cooked in late January - it was frozen on the 28th, if my hastily-scrawled label is to be trusted. Very nice, it was
I've been watching Flood, which was apparently a big special thing on ITV about ten years ago - a miniseries about London getting hit by a massive storm surge that overwhelms the Thames Barrier, starring Robert Carlisle among others. I'd never heard of it, but somehow found it via a chain of "also bought" links on Amazon, and as it was pretty cheap I got it on the off chance.
It's really rather good. There's a few bits involving people who are supposed to be scientists (or engineers or technologists) yet act towards clearly established facts and events in ways that no such person would be likely to; there's some nonsense with the hero and heroine being swept around in the Thames which is ludicrously impossible; and of course, as it was aimed at a mass audience, it's a bit heavy on the human interest stories. But most of the science and engineering is presented in reasonably convincing terms, and the special effects are quite excellent for their time, or even for now.
The Blu-ray has both the original miniseries and the feature film version cut from it. I've been watching the miniseries, as that's quite a bit longer than the film - 3¼ hours. I'm about halfway through, and I've just hit what was clearly the break between the two halves of the original broadcast, so I've stopped there as I need to drive to London first thing tomorrow. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it when I get back
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