Talk:The Day of the Triffids

message: Originally this article stated that the triffid was a genetically modified organism. There is nothing in the novel to suggest this at all, and, in fact, the real thrust of the novel is to firmly imply that the coincidence between the emergence of triffids and the galactic fireworks display which blinded 99.9% of the human race was no such thing. sjc
--  IIRC, the book starts off with an attempt to steal seed of the triffids from a research institute: the plane carrying a case of seed gets shot down, the case being disrupted and the thistledown-like seeds scattered on the jet stream to all corners of the earth.  The triffid farms are decades old by the time of the meteor shower. My memory could be faulty, I read the book 35 years ago, but I do remember that the plot of the film, when I saw it some years later, was significantly different from the book, with the triffid seeds arriving in the meteor shower.  Malcolm Farmer
-- Yes, that rings a bell, Malcolm. sjc
I'm curious about the film's "symplistic" solution? What is it? --Commander Keane 13:05, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for adding the answer to the article. --Commander Keane 06:24, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm not sure The Night of the Triffids, good though I thought it was, is really a notable enough book to have a page of its own. Surely the info we have here is more than sufficient, or could be if fleshed out a bit more? I'm considering putting Night up for deletion, but since I think more people would be looking here than there, I'd thought I'd mention it here first. Anyone have any thoughts? -- Guybrush 12:43, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added "unofficial" in brackets. That should suffice.--Planetary 01:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Night of the Triffids 

message: I've always undertood post-apocalyptic novels to be those set entirely after some catastophic event. In the case of Triffids, the whole lead-up to the apocalypse is described, as well as the event itself and its aftermath. Or am I just splitting hairs? Bluewave 14:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the action happens after the event. By that definition it's definently post-apocalyptic.--Planetary 00:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is it post-apocalyptic?

message: "elegant detail" please tidy this up and correct such PoV non encyclopedic style points, thanks--68.226.22.197 05:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that's very point of view. You can do it yourself if you belive it's necessary.--Planetary 07:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is POV, unless you can provide a critical source. I replaced it. Clarityfiend 04:27, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Critical superlatives would be unsuitable in the opening paragraph, even if sourced. I've gone through and removed some other bits of POV and general unencyclopaedic tone from the article. --McGeddon 05:06, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice job. The page looks much better. --Planetary 04:06, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: Day of the Tentacle is, I'm assuming, inspired -- at least in title (I have played the game but not read this book) -- by The Day of the Triffid. Should this be added as an allusion/reference from other works, or is it not relevant enough/am I mistake in assuming the connection? VZG 03:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Tri-feet ~ Tripod ~ War of the Worlds (1953 movie version) ~ octopus ~ optimized intelligence ( head ~ manipulators, no superfluous body ), it´s a science fiction writers´ running gag, who wants to spoil it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.35.60.148 (talk) 16:58, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Tentacles

message: I notice there's been no mention of 'The Puffball Menace' in any of the information relating to Day of the Triffids , which is almost a 'trial-run' of what's in DOTT.
193.243.227.1 11:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  - Influences - 

message: Anyone ever wonder how a plant, dependent on sunlight, is able to produce the energy needed to walk? There is a reason why plants never learned to do this. In the book, Wyndham doesn't explain this particular problem. Scott Adler (talk) 10:13, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the The Day of the Triffids article. It's not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject - unless someone's written about the science of walking plants in direct relation to triffids, it would be original research to include anything about it. --McGeddon (talk) 10:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

text: plants can move. The Venus Fly Trap, Honeydew and Mimosa Pudica (the sensitive plant) come to mind. So walking is not out of the question.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.186.32.255 (talk) 11:38, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-Scienctific

message: Should there be a spoiler warning at the start of the summary?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silvarbullet1 (talk • contribs) 00:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A reasonable question that deserves an answer. The English Wikipedia has a written style guideline against spoilers. -- Rydra Wong (talk) 15:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

text: As WP:SPOILER suggests, the section title of "Plot summary" is a sufficient warning to the reader that the text they are about to read will contain a full summary of the plot. There's no need for an explicit spoiler message on top of it. --McGeddon (talk) 15:27, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoilers? 

message: Triffids and Wikipedia mentioned specifically on Colbert just now.  207.38.173.173 (talk) 03:55, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Heads Up

message: On June 18, 2008, after a reference to "triffids" on his show The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert suggested that people would be rushing to Wikipedia to look up the reference.  (sorry - thought it was cool) -Exucmember (talk) 04:04, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ironically, I had to look him up in Wikipedia... SilentC (talk) 05:53, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

text: As interesting as all this probably is to fans of this Colbert Report show, I really don't think we need to note every reference made in the media to the book. There must be literally thousands of them, I don't see that any special importance should be attached to this one, despite whatever popularity the show has in the US. As the heading above says, this is trivia. In fact, even that title glorifies it beyond its merit. SilentC (talk) 04:34, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia: Stephen Colbert mentions looking up "triffids" on Wikipedia 

message: Does anybody have ANY information about the second (2001) TV adaptation of DotT that is mentioned on here? 
I get the feeling that it was in fact a radio broadcast, if it was for the World Service. I also have the sneaking suspicion that someone may have misread the BBC press release regarding the new series, (along with several national news papers who are stating that there have been between 2 and 5 previous TV adaptations!) I have spoken to someone at the BFI and they (and Imdb) only have records of one. 
Anybody know what's going on? Manicmarcus21 (talk) 13:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the sequel, by Simon Clark. Planetary (talk) 07:38, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV Adaptations 

message: I was reading through and noticed that nobody mentioned that the main character didn't think that it was a meteor shower that caused the blinding. 
I'm not sure if this is worth noting or something like that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.99.88 (talk) 08:21, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meteor Shower 

message: Just not enough information for it to be stand-alone. Rich Farmbrough, 04:38, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge rasio show page here

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Not moved (non-admin closure) ExtorcDev (talk) 15:34, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 May 2023