History YMMV / TheDayOfTheTriffids

** In a functioning society with intact civil institutions, sudden blindness could be dealt with; in a post-apocalyptic society with marauding criminals, blindness would be an insurmountable handicap.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The absence of submarine crews, who would likely avoid the blinding meteorites because they were underwater and could act as a remnant of civil and military authority, was a minor source of criticism toward the book. Here, such characters do appear.

!!The 1981 miniseries
* OneSceneWonder:
** Wally only appears in one scene before a triffid kills him, but makes a strong impression for how ProperlyParanoid he is about the monsters.
** The blind man with a sighted daughter who talks to Bill on the first day. He provides a strong performance in his one scene, trying to keep his family from despairing, struggling to grasp the extent of the catastrophe, and pleading with Bill to stay and help his family and their neighbors.
** The blind couple who are attacked by a triffid while the husband is scavenging in their garden with a rope tied around his waist so he can get back to the house.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Conversely, especially considering the limited budget, the Triffids in this one look pretty darn good. On the other hand, the less said about the Triffid-decapitation gun, the better.

** Dennis only appears in the last quarter of the book, but has lots of fans for being a HandicappedBadass who manages to find his way to fly own and survive multiple triffid attacks after losing his sight, when most blind characters need a sighted guide to do that well.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The radioman only appears for a brief section of the book and doesn't even get a name, but is one of the more popular characters due to his ButIReadABookAboutIt skills in flying a helicopter.