BBC War of the Worlds

[Digger]

Following His Dark Materials . . . wonder which will get more of a PH drubbing.

[Zirconia]

Recording. Sommit else needs sorting tonight. Catch it tomorrow.

[i4got]

Apologies if already answered but does anyone know if the full series set will be loaded to iPlayer tonight or just week by week?

[Halb]

I saw an interview with the female lead, saying it was important that more female leads be inserted into more old adaptations or something.
I think I may not bother with this one.

[Digger]

i4got said:

Apologies if already answered but does anyone know if the full series set will be loaded to iPlayer tonight or just week by week?

Shouldn’t it be available later tonight?

[Johnnytheboy]

I don't give two sts about this couple... WHEN ARE THE MARTIANS LANDING?

Ooh, something is happening lol.

[anonymous-user]

Lots of ancillary storylines, half an hour in and it is taking a while to get going.

[Rick_1138]

30 mins in and not a jot of aliens, army or any feel of the original book.

it's a romantic period drama with a big stone ball in the forest.....so dissapointed this has turned out like this.

[Rick_1138]

Jesus the heat ray effect in this is rubbish. it should be a gun or nozzle with a jet. it works much better as a narrative thing to create fear than random combustion

[Eric Mc]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

the trail looks good

never read the book
reading books is so 19th century
for nerds and virgins

Please read the book. The English used in it is exquisite.

[MiniMan64]

Well the future looks bright doesn’t it...

Bright red.

[SCEtoAUX]

That was woeful.

[anonymous-user]

It didn't need all the back stories and additional family relationship storylines.

The "flashforwards" seem a bit odd, I can't see what they are supposed to be adding.

[Rick_1138]

the flash forward Britain all red and fked is stupid, in the book it was a matter of days/weeks till the aliens keeled over.

also it's so bloody slow already and I believe the second half is even worse.

however I think the BBC have split this into 3 hour long shows whereas the places it was shown first had it as 2 ,1.5 hour shows.

the fact this was advertised as a faithful recreation of the book when in actuality it's a,story someone wanted to tell about a romantic drama in the early 20th century and aliens happened to be involved...briefly.

[Speed1283]

Yes, it wasn't really what I hoped for, doesn't seem to capture much from the book.. the alien craft and war machines don't really look like I imagined either.

I only recently read the book, the book is a masterpiece and frankly terrifying, this episode didn't really capture any of that...

I'll stick with it as even if it is only loosely based on the book, it's still better than most other tv. Hopefully it gets better.

[Doofus]

I'm pretty sure an Edwardian lady wouldn't smoke a fag in the street, let alone drop it on the cobbles and stub it out with her shoe.

Mary got killed by a pile of pristine bricks; no mortar in sight.

Likewise, George got buried in a pile of beautifully clean, quite short timber beams. And none of the buildings nearby were damaged, so where did the timber come from?

[anonymous-user]

i liked it, the story is pretty good.

[redrabbit]

Really, really poor. Slow, awful irrelevant invented subplot, no tension, ponderous soundtrack, cheap cgi. Lazy rubbish.

[The Hypno-Toad]

ash73 said:

Having lived there briefly about 20 years ago I enjoyed watching Woking being destroyed.

I think you might be doing Woking down. The Pizza Express is meant to be excellent.

[Narcisus]

I thought it was ok.