BBC War of the Worlds

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CrutyRammers

13,735 posts

197 months

Thursday 5th December 2019
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Crock of ste. Can't even be bothered to explain.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Thursday 5th December 2019
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CrutyRammers said:
Crock of ste. Can't even be bothered to explain.
Oh please do. We all loved it. I'm sure we'd be fascinated to know why you didn't.

zarjaz1991

3,471 posts

122 months

Thursday 5th December 2019
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I really don't know what to make of this.

Episodes one and two were fine if a bit slow.

Episode three was just...risible. Less said the better.

Robert Carlyle was great as Ogilvy though.

james_TW

16,287 posts

196 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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I've given this far too much thought... While they were waiting in that cellar or room or whatever - what were they surviving on? And could they have not just waited the thing out? It was clearly dying or something...

And just why was the creature just hanging around?

And if the spores or whatever made the land fertile, why wasn't it apparent in other places other than graveyards?

And am I the only one that thinks "why it's it one creature, one human?". If they're feeding and hungry, they should just all go after the body? (Might be a "feature" of the Martian I guess though)

And what was the reference to the ants? I thought it was how the Martians evolved, but now I have no idea

And many questions besides...

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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It's not isolated to this particular show, but I'm generally bothered by the fact that people don't lose weight when they've spent several years battling for survival. See also The Walking Dead.

Clockwork Cupcake

74,393 posts

271 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Doofus said:
It's not isolated to this particular show, but I'm generally bothered by the fact that people don't lose weight when they've spent several years battling for survival. See also The Walking Dead.
Because, aside from method acting gone mad cases like Christian Bale in The Machinist, they are actors and it's not real. smile

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Because, aside from method acting gone mad cases like Christian Bale in The Machinist, they are actors and it's not real. smile
I know. I didn't say I didn't understand why they weren't thin, I just said it bothers me. It's difficult enough to suspend my disbelief for a lot of the dross that's on telly these days, without prisoners in hard labour being all tubby (f'rinstance). smile

clonmult

10,529 posts

208 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Doofus said:
It's not isolated to this particular show, but I'm generally bothered by the fact that people don't lose weight when they've spent several years battling for survival. See also The Walking Dead.
Because, aside from method acting gone mad cases like Christian Bale in The Machinist, they are actors and it's not real. smile
Worst case of that is Hurley in Lost .....

Clockwork Cupcake

74,393 posts

271 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Doofus said:
I know. I didn't say I didn't understand why they weren't thin, I just said it bothers me. It's difficult enough to suspend my disbelief for a lot of the dross that's on telly these days, without prisoners in hard labour being all tubby (f'rinstance). smile
True. yes

Halmyre

11,147 posts

138 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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clonmult said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Doofus said:
It's not isolated to this particular show, but I'm generally bothered by the fact that people don't lose weight when they've spent several years battling for survival. See also The Walking Dead.
Because, aside from method acting gone mad cases like Christian Bale in The Machinist, they are actors and it's not real. smile
Worst case of that is Hurley in Lost .....
Hurley had found the stash of Dharma provisions though.

tvrolet

4,251 posts

281 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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...and...and...

In the earlier films we barely got a glimpse of the martians, and even the Jeff Wayne artwork doesn't reveal their form. And in the first movie they chopped the 'head' off a camera thingy so in terms of suspension of belief it was possible they had minds immeasurably superior to ours. But by showing 3 legged crab/ant/spider things they looks about the same intelligence level as any other carnivorous wild animal. And with just pointy/stabby things for limbs how in the hell did they construct anything? Not saying opposable thumbs are the only answer, but try doing any sort of construction when all you can use is 3 chopsticks. I can suspend belief and accept we can beam folks down from a starship, travel at warp speed, all alien life forms speak English and a flux capacitor enables time travel...but I can't believe that 3-legged crab/ant/spiders can even fashion stone tools. let alone master space travel. Better just not to show them and do shadows/fleeting glimpses like the earlier movies.

But a small gripe compared to the total crapness of the whole thing.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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tvrolet said:
...even the Jeff Wayne artwork doesn't reveal their form.

Teppic

7,317 posts

256 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Doofus said:
tvrolet said:
...even the Jeff Wayne artwork doesn't reveal their form.
That's the fighting machine, not the martian.

KrazyIvan

4,341 posts

174 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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So were all agreed, it failed to deliver on its promise quicker than a labour politician in power.

tvrolet

4,251 posts

281 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Doofus said:
tvrolet said:
...even the Jeff Wayne artwork doesn't reveal their form.
Nope, that’s their machines. The aliens themselves are never revealed. The closest you get is crows eating some flesh.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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tvrolet said:
Nope, that’s their machines. The aliens themselves are never revealed. The closest you get is crows eating some flesh.
Fair enough smile

dieselgrunt

684 posts

163 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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what the hell was that last shot of the actress about that seemed to last forever? Reminded me of Magnolia and was equally infuriating.

james_TW

16,287 posts

196 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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dieselgrunt said:
what the hell was that last shot of the actress about that seemed to last forever? Reminded me of Magnolia and was equally infuriating.
As in watching paint dry? I wonder which was preferable...

ReverendCounter

6,087 posts

175 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Jeff Wayne Trivia:

The ship is Thunderchild. Jeff Wayne set up a side company to make synthesizers which were used in the recording of his WOTW soundtrack, one of which was named after the ship.



https://www.matrixsynth.com/2006/01/jwm-electronic...

Evangelion

7,638 posts

177 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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ReverendCounter said:
[Jeff Wayne set up a side company to make synthesizers ...
Noticed the advert in the music mags at the time but never saw one in the flesh! Did they actually go on sale to the public?

In those days £550 wasn't a bad price for a 2-oscillator synth, although I'd have had to mortgage the house to get that sort of money. (And I didn't even have one.)