BBC War of the Worlds
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te tonight! wtaf were they thinking! I'm all for trying new ways of telling a well known story but this just didn't work. I could go on and on but best just to move on and try to forget it :/
The arrogance of assuming they could write a 'better' version than the original is infuriating. I would rather have re-watched the Cruise version.I can honestly say the page after page of negative, scathing reviews on IMDB simply don't reflect what a complete stinker that this is. I mean during last weeks we had a poster saying they were enjoying it FLOL. I suppose Mrs Brown's Boys is liked by some though...
Agree with another poster when they say that is the worst TV show that has been on in a very long time. Laughably bad if I hadn't really actually been looking forward to it. Oh dear. How can you mess up, a story that Aliens coming to Earth, smashing it up and then them dying.
The last time I was this annoyed, I was watching the Hitch-Hikers film...shudder.
Agree with another poster when they say that is the worst TV show that has been on in a very long time. Laughably bad if I hadn't really actually been looking forward to it. Oh dear. How can you mess up, a story that Aliens coming to Earth, smashing it up and then them dying.
The last time I was this annoyed, I was watching the Hitch-Hikers film...shudder.
I mean, i wanted to enjoy it but i'm with most other people here wondering WTAF.
I get the reasons behind giving the writing a modern twist by relating it to things that are currently happening in the world, having stronger female characters, etc, but the latter parts of EP3 seemed as though it was just a case of every writer being given a segment to chuck something in hoping it would be a catch all to sell it to various world markets & cover all bases. I think we had yes to God / no to God / maybe to God, science is good / science is bad / maybe science is 50-50, climate change, human war & conflict being similar to the invasion, etc.
Although i think we surely had all guessed what would happen with the final build up to the end credits scene?
Then there's the stretching of reality.
Episode 1 - Woking / Weybridge. Episode 2 - On the coast (Kent i think wasn't it). Episode 3 - suggested it's now back inland at the hostel after the escape from the beach. But after George's sacrifice & the escape scene, we're clearly still right next to the beach. But even so, the next scene has us right back at the original house in Woking where George left a note and there'd been no looting / house still standing, etc?
How exactly did she get back there so easily, quickly and without getting caught out by more Martians on the way? Also, again given the time period it's set in, i would have thought her pregnancy would have far more likely ended badly (such as a miscarriage) - given all the Martian shizz going on and the stress, etc.
Yes i know it's not real, but the writing towards the end of EP3 is a real WTF
I get the reasons behind giving the writing a modern twist by relating it to things that are currently happening in the world, having stronger female characters, etc, but the latter parts of EP3 seemed as though it was just a case of every writer being given a segment to chuck something in hoping it would be a catch all to sell it to various world markets & cover all bases. I think we had yes to God / no to God / maybe to God, science is good / science is bad / maybe science is 50-50, climate change, human war & conflict being similar to the invasion, etc.
Although i think we surely had all guessed what would happen with the final build up to the end credits scene?
Then there's the stretching of reality.
Episode 1 - Woking / Weybridge. Episode 2 - On the coast (Kent i think wasn't it). Episode 3 - suggested it's now back inland at the hostel after the escape from the beach. But after George's sacrifice & the escape scene, we're clearly still right next to the beach. But even so, the next scene has us right back at the original house in Woking where George left a note and there'd been no looting / house still standing, etc?
How exactly did she get back there so easily, quickly and without getting caught out by more Martians on the way? Also, again given the time period it's set in, i would have thought her pregnancy would have far more likely ended badly (such as a miscarriage) - given all the Martian shizz going on and the stress, etc.
Yes i know it's not real, but the writing towards the end of EP3 is a real WTF
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Monday 2nd December 22:11
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