Characters: Survivors

This post is just a basic rundown of all of the characters in Survivors, so I don't have to elaborate when reviewing them. Note that these descriptions examine their roles throughout the whole two series.

"Heroes"

Abby - Mother of the Group/Screeching Protagonist

Abby Grant is the only person to survive the virus by fighting it off naturally, and this makes her hopeful towards finding her son, Peter. If you didn't know that her primary objective was to find her son, you'd just have to wait five minutes, for her to either brood or scream his name loudly. The plot is often moved in the wrong direction because she thinks she saw her son, or thinks she saw someone that knew her son, or is looking for her son etc. . She's supposed to fill the "normal woman" role, but it rarely works as she's always swanning off to look for her boy, or being abducted by scientists, or having sex with strange men. Her background is revealed as the main plot of the first episode.

Greg - Survivalist/Only Sane Man

Greg has a very lax character, but he's basically the straight man to Abby and Tom's madness. He appears at first as a survivalist, and often talks about how his wife left with his two children, and thus his objective is to find them. Unlike Abby, he doesn't really make use of this objective, instead just acting like a househusband and, occasionally, a rational thinker. His stereotype is "modern black man," very P.C. . His background is only revealed in Series Two.

Tom - Hard Man/ Ex-Con Nutjob

Tom Price has been in prison and the army, and acts as the more gun-happy member of the group. He's the "right-wing white man" but he's Ok. He doesn't have much to say, and the acting is a little stiff; very little voice inclanation or tone is used to try and create an ex-con out of charmer Max Beezely, but it doesn't work well. Regardless, he seems to have the most common sense, and tensions with Abby and Greg just make the group stronger. Somehow. Background is revealed in Series Two.

Al - Playboy/ Whiny Arsewipe

Al, short for Ali, is used to a life of luxury - fast cars, booze breakfasts and deep-seated loneliness. His attitude to the world in general is less annyoing thn Sarah's but still manages to be annyoing whenever someone damages his pride. Acts like a father to Naj, even though most of the time he fails quite considerably.

Najid - Whining Muslim Boy/ Whining Muslim Boy

Take all of the muslim zealots of the world and condense them into one little boy, and you have Najid, whose actions are nonsensical, illogical and unrealistic. He is also extremely annoying and upon occasion makes the show unwatchable. Serves as the series' only main child.

Anya - Deppressed Doctor/ Lesbian Deppressed Doctor

Anya is bearable to say the least, ignoring the obvious issues regarding her having had to watch people die consistently throughout the epidemic, scaring her mental state. Despite being a lesbian, most of the boys don't catch on, and so early on she serves as Al and Tom's main love interest. 

Sarah - Pretty Girl/ Shallow, Manipulative Bitch

Sarah Boyer is empty-hearted, callous, stupid, lazy, ignorant, annoying, manipulative, and dowright useless. Why she exists as a character at all is beyond me.

"Villians"

Samantha - MP for Flydale North

Sam Willis is the last MP, and she's trying wholeheartedly to create her little commune in the North, and eventually tke over the whole country. And to be honest she's only presented as a villan because she does morally ambigious things and isn't part of the group; murdering Tom on the other hand, is loveble. Sam's my favourite character mainly because she does things that make sense. It's bovious that this series views sense as a threat.

Dexter - Rampaging Gunman / Spindly Idiot

My main problem with Dexter is that he's never actually shown trying to kill anyone until the last few minutes of Series One, by which point we're supposed to already think he's badass. But he's not. He practices kung fu, and drives around with his gang, but they only hold guns to peoples' heads in their main performance. Once he joins up with Samantha, he provides a good foil for Tom. Which is odd, seeing as out next villian serves the same purpose...

Gavin - Government Gunman

So the Commune's security needed a toughman. Here comes Gavin, who has the same ideals as Samantha but likes to kill people anyway, just to make sure other people agree with him as well. Despite him being in three episodes, he's killed off by Tom.

The Scientists

They're not really revealed until Series Two, but in Series One we get small tastes of what's going on, and how they're cooped up to make sure that the virus they accidentally released early doesn't infect them.

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