FOX, StudioCanal and Epix's War Of The Worlds Is Terrible But Could've Been Bolder
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- FOX, Epix and StudioCanal's War Of The Worlds is terrible. I remember reading the original book version of H.G. Wells The War Of The Worlds and reviewing BBC's The War Of The Worlds and being very disappointed with the adaption by the BBC. Then I found out that FOX and Studio Canal had created an adaption as well, simply called War Of The Worlds. This latest screen adaption of HG Wells The War Of The Worlds was, unlike the Victorian setting of the BBC War Of The Worlds, set in the modern day, much like Steven Spielberg's 2005 War Of The Worlds which shares a title with this 2019 War Of The Worlds. It's amazing that, with all these adaption of HG Wells' War Of The Worlds people still consider Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds to be the greatest adaption of The War Of The Worlds so far. FOX's War Of The Worlds didn't even have the Martian Tripod Fighting Machines that are synonymous with The War Of The Worlds. It's ashame that we've gotten yet another boring adaption, that can hardly be called an adaption of The War Of The Worlds due to how loose an adaption it is, of one of the greatest stories ever written. It's a shame that this Epic War Of The Worlds is just yet another attempt to get viewers by making out it's the story of The War Of The Worlds.
21:15 29-05-2020 1247
This isn't even war of the worlds, it is just Boston Dynamics Turns Against Us
Lol, exactly. It has nothing to do with war of the worlds.
Robots nail gun dogs 😂
Legit
@@pupbenny Thats right. Thats why u need to look at it from diferent prespective and not compare it to war of the worlds. I like this TV show a i think its rly good. But in many ways ppl doesnt find the props of it.
Twilight+Boston dynamics unite
Why is it so hard to get a decent War of the Worlds adaptation? The musical and 1953 film rank best for me, but it's irritating the original book has yet to receive a well made and faithful screen adaptation.
Agreed, the original book is such a brilliant story, I find it surprising no one seems to ever try to make a screen adaption faithful to it. Even though they're not trying to do that, it's still amazing they find it so hard to create an adaption that's decent from such a great and iconic story. Hopefully in the future someone will make one that's actually good.
That being said, the only adaption worth watching would be one starring Jennifer Connelly.
What about the 2005 Spielberg version?
I actually feel like the spielberg one is an acceptable adaption as well, they really kept most of the elements from the original book but moved things around which i feel like some people dont notice or forget, it was modernized and yes elements of 9/11 were used even if a bit weirdly but it kept the emotional tone, the kids are annoying at times but its like showing different reactions of people in the modern era its not perfect but imo outside of the jeff wayne album its the best 'adaption'
No , The Jeff Wayne album version you can smell it you can taste it and you live it ! they've got to put that across to do a good job . There needs to be a no shield gloves off approach close quarters ugly balls out Brussel sprout then will get a good movie
@@captaintrips6780 you okay, buddy?
Even if it’s a good series, it does not have the right to call itself “war of the worlds” unless it has a tripod
Yeah, exactly, that's pretty much how I see it!
A noise tripod 🤪
The Semi-Tripod from 1953: "Am I a joke to you?"
@@jacktimson2401 the psychotic antagonisticboy in this film
War of the Worlds was never about the tripods per se, it was about an invading enemy with technology far beyond our own. If you keep that concept and themes, I would argue that it absolutely stays true to the spirit of the original work. Having modern technology and the brains of the majority of the world's population EMP'd out of nowhere is just as terrifying to us as giant walking machines would be to 1800's tech level people.
Why can't we get a truly book-accurate portrayal of the story?
Technically, if you ignore the bad romance plot, BBC's adaptation is the most accurate to the book only because it took place during the time of the book and it even had characters from the book like Ogilvy
@@ellisvives : I will have to watch that version now. Thanks.
@@Alexi7666it was awful, woke bbc garbage.
If you want a 'to the book' adaption you can watch the 2005 Pendragon adaptation, which despite having pretty bad animation, I think has some of the best looking tripods
I think everyone who died in this show (beside those who were killed by those robot dogs) actually died of boredom. Anyway, i can't wait for the eventual WOTW Cooking show, followed by the WOTW F1 racing game for PS5/Xbox X. In the meantime, i can watch my copy of WOTW The True Story on DVD, which is still the best direct adaptation of the original story.
I can definitely see where you’re coming from. I honestly enjoyed this show. It was a bit of a slow burn, kinda boring, and as you mentioned it kept bringing up more questions than it answered, but I did like how different it was in terms of the genre. I think that if it didn’t have the name The War of the Worlds it would’ve been better received. But perhaps the next season/ series will have some of the more familiar elements of the story? Idk. I’m still curious about it.
I despised the BBC version. It was a real shame because they went out of their way to present it as the new faithful adaptation that everyone wanted, and then it just deviated in horrible ways and undermined itself.
This... wasn’t really War of the Worlds but I think it was good in its own right.
Yeah, I agree, I quite enjoyed it on it's own. I think it was just the expectation from the name that caused it to be a let down in some ways. xD
@@pupbenny I expected it to be like the book or other movies but it wasn't and became it's own story and I absolutely love this show
4:52 to be fair, I thought they were only able to kill the robot because it had been worn down by the other soldiers in the bunker before. When they enter the base we see evidence of a gun battle
If something doesn't die from a bullet, try shooting again.
Or a bigger bullet.@@rapatacush3
I think it’s ok to do what the BBC did, take the setting and scenario and just tell another story that happens during those events but it should have been a “colon” title, like “War of the Worlds: Other Stuff That Happened”
Yeah, agreed, that would've been better I think.
It's kind of like James Cameron's Titanic in that regard: Following an original romance story while using a different, more popular story as a backdrop.
I think this method could've worked for a War Of The Worlds adaptation, it just didn't work for that series.
the difference with the one in the millitary base that a lot of people miss is that its already been through a battle, become damaged and run out of ammo. that doesn't clear up the other inconsistencies with these things bit that occasion is explainable
Yeah, that's a good point!
I was waiting for the tripods... When they never came, it was really dissapointing. There was nothing War of the Worlds about the Fox adaption.
The book: 100 ft tall Giga chad tripod
Series: robot puppys
You know, a family friendly version of War of the Worlds could have cute robot puppies as the main characters & defenders of Earth fighting the Tripods which would be more like the books.
This is a simple and consistent one to answer why they named it the way they did. MONEY. All media people (including journalists) have no ethics. They can't afford to have them. If they are to survive, then money is the bottom line. If naming it after a famous book despite no connection to it gets more readers/viewers, then they WILL DO IT. More money. Plain and simple.
I came here looking for answers about this show but now realise there aren't any 🤣😭
So season 2 is out on Disney+ now... I feel like I invested too much already to give up, so hopefully I'll finally get some answers.
For me the full season 2 is not out on Disney only 6 episodes
Me too. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what the invader's motive was.
@@jambec144 - spoiler: the motive was the prevention of the Martian's known future lack of genetic differentiation
@@db1958 So... they wanted to prevent themselves from coming into existence in the first place?
The show was just depressing. Both in story and in execution.
Came for the Tripods vs Mankind, only find find robot dogs chasing dimwits.
I wonder if the inspiration for "Robots overrunning the military" was gained from the Generation Zero video game which takes place in Sweden set in the alternate version of the 1980s where everyone was trained to fight off any other foreign invaders, only the population was ill-prepared for an attack from within as the nation's robotic war machines went on a rampage slaughtering anyone they could find within the country and one of these war machine were dog like machines called "Runners" that could come with machine guns, shotguns or RPGs.
The series from 1988 was excellent.
I've been looking forward to a good adaption of The War Of The Worlds for a long time, so it's a shame that we get two bad adaptions within the space of a few months. I was moreso looking forward to the BBC's version but, as that was terrible, I hoped FOX's one might be able to provide a decent adaption.... I didn't have much hope and once again it turned out to be rather disappointing. Hopefully The War Of The Worlds gets an adaption it deserves soon enough.
i dunno, this says it is a loose adaptation. i like this one way more than the original or any of the adaptations. I even like that they used the title and then didnt go with tripods or that kinda typical adaptation has. The cast is great, the dialog is also really good. The characters make poor choices but it almost always gets them killed. I dont feel like the robot dogs dont kill the main characters because there's only a few left now and they almost all got killed by the dogs and bill ward is going to use a virus to defeat the aliens, just like the original but this is a different take on it. i like the whole quantum angle as well, i just think you are being way too harsh on what i think is one of the better shows out right now
@@matthewfors114 F o x e m p l o y e e
@@matthewfors114 It absolutely keeps with the themes of the original work involving technology far beyond ours and the horror of being invaded by a species capable of that level of technology.
@@SavouryGalette Art Is subjective. If you can't deal with people enjoying something without calling them a paid shill, I think you need to learn to be more respectful of other peoples' tastes and opinions.
@@puzzlejinx wow, i watched the final of it after my original response to the og post. HOLY HELL, this is one of the best sci fi pieces EVER MADE. fuck what i said before, it got better and better and omg better. it was pretty damn good too the first season but they took it to another level on so many aspects. im glad someone else saw that it was in fact very close to the original while being original itself.
There was a BBC show in the 80s called Thr Tripods that was closer to the WOTW than this. Also, the ISS stuff was horrible. Their attempt at antigravity was hilarious.
Jeff Wayne is the only one who has done any justice to the War Of The Worlds...and that's a musical version.
One thing still needs to be answered. In the original Sacha and Emily timeline, how did they get off world? How did they become an alien race? How did this vendetta begin? Sure there's a time loop that was broken NOW but where did this originally begin? The show fails to answer that question.
Wondered this as well.
All of this eventually gets revealed. Season 2 finale shows how they board the ship to get off world. There invasion caused there species to exist. Season 3 ties it up nicely. Trust me I was ready to give up in the show it's a slow burn, but I was presently surprised how season 3 went and how they rapped up the show.
Your criticisms are valid and while I personally reached a different conclusion about the series (I adore the walking dead-esque slow burn), your humour is excellent and I enjoyed this video very much. Cheers!
I disagree so strongly, it is compelling and scary. An adaption doesn't have to be a carbon copy. This is an excellent modernization.
Agreed 100%
Couldn’t agree more
The first episode illustrated it best. [SPOILERS] It wouldn't be "Independence Day", they'd wipe us out without a shot.
But it would have been much better if it didn't include war of the worlds as the title.
Maybe you could explain to me why the invaders felt it necessary to kill everyone on Earth. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what their motive was.
I watched this have some of my own questions, is about doors. Two soldiers walks out of military bunker in full biological/radiation suit, one of them gets shot so the other guy runs back bangs on the door too let him in but didn't shut the first metal door behind him so all but one woman got exterminated possibly only by one enemy.
At a hospital doors are unlocked 24/7 and no barricades set up 3 alien dogs walks in kills most of the people inside.
At science building where some of the main characters are hiding, a door is left open for long hours with no explanation and alien dog strolls in kills one person then leaves without checking the entire building!? 🤦🏻♂️🤔🤷♂️🤣😂🙈
It be better if they given a different name and add some common sense and general knowledge like "what would I do in that situation?"
Like nobody knows how to sweep and secure....
@@SumBrennus Lol very true.
I do understand why you feel that way. I've always wanted to see a fully authentic film/tv adaptation of the book produced, but nearly twenty minutes to say you didn't like it was rather labouring the point.
That said I actually don't mind this production, yes it's a very slow burn and it's certainly more about the characters than the alien invasion aspect. Each to their own in the end, I mean regards you liking the French kid I was hoping to girl's dad was going to double tap him with that G36 he was so bloody annoying. 🙂
I watched this weekly as it came out under the belief there would be some kind of payoff, I enjoyed the slow burn first episode but we would eventually see the tripods, with the robot dogs being scouts. Eventually I hoped they were saving it for a big finale to hook you into watching the next season. I hate this series.
It's technically the monsters from metalhead, black mirror
Both bbc and fox should be ashamed at their shambollocks
Yeah I totally agree, thought by episode 7 things might really start to develop. Agonisingly slow, and to have real suspense you need more plausibility. It's like they want to sabotage this production.
I love the pacing
I had far too many question that weren't answered: Only ONE scientist was dissecting the bio-mechanical dogs? The world's military had NOTHING but small arms left to fight the bio-mechanicals? The EMP-ish meteoroids impacted Earth at, what, 30K miles per hour and left only tiny gouges, NOT Barringer Crater-size holes in the Earth? Why was poor Gabriel Byrne was given the most trite and cliche lines ever written? If I had to hear "Drink some water" or "Get some sleep", one more time as a cure-all to the invasion...
Yes. Just too many scifi series where aliens are played by humans.
Unfortunately the aliens are generic humanoids, i just want a new faithful war of the worlds series and or movie with the classic cephalopod like creatures, emotionless looking beings
War of the worlds❌️
Attack of robot dogs✅️
Litteraly foxes mind making this horrible hot piece of trash
At least it was better than the BBC's adaptation
That's true!
I think the BBC one had the upper hand only slightly
@@Fearyourown But that was only by the design of the Tripods
@@toainsully absolutely it was the only thing that resembled the original
The BBC version is automatically better as an adaptation. The fox version isn't even based on the novel.
I liked it & found it worked pretty well for me but your criticisms are pretty reasonable too. It is subjective. No, it ain't HG Wells 1898 novel and really NOT his story at all. Yeah the lack of resolution was absolutely hair-tearing-out frustrating & last episode non-ending here sucked but it also had its moments of powerful creepiness, horror and awe so.. yeah.
As an adaptation - no. As its own thing? It was kinda awesome at times if patchy and flawed. Good that they didn't come from Mars but from an actual, nearby very little known but real star and exoplanet (Ross 128 b) given what we know today. Nicely alien and mysterious and at times brutally shocking. Great scenes and moments of horror SF & tension and intrigue albeit no ending that works at all. Until the second season maybe .. hopefully .. please?
it did get me sucked in and I didn't find it at all boring personally so it has that going for it. Still kinda undecided rly.
Maybe you could explain to me why the invaders felt it necessary to kill everyone on Earth. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what their motive was.
Well at least now we know that if that if ailens attack they will buy a bunch of robot, dogs from Boston dynamics
I like the artistic pacing and calm production but your right, its all over the place, the army people seem to walk way down into the woods then just return to the base if they need to...effortlessly. I think this one has some good intrigue but the complete lack of interest in the robots-dogs is hilarious, the guy brings it in the house and the rest of the people make tea next to it and talk about their lives...WTF? You would be tearing that thing apart and checking it out. And some major strange plot stuff, the lady comes to find her kid who said he hated her last time he saw her, then suddenly they are tight as ticks and he lets his actual dad die cause he's a bad guy?
I have only seen the 1953 version and it strays away heavily, there is no giant spider legged robots and it is very condensed.
I reemember we read the book in primary school when I was 6 and the story was so visual that I could see it in my mind, and it was so bleak and depressing for us 6 year olds to read! very dark. I'll always remember the part in the book where a guy is hiding in a lake and gets cooked when the alien ray fires into the water and boils it!
Just finished burrowing my way thru all three seasons, and I STILL don't know why the invaders felt in necessary to kill everyone on Earth. Can anyone here explain it to me?
I hate the fact that in both BBC version and Epix version the aliens killed children in the movie. WTF? Children? Simply should have not been allowed
2005 Timothy Hines version was probably the best in terms of adapting the book but god it’s a terribly put together movie
I still need to see that one! :)
This was bad, should have been called something else... Explain to me how the human aliens Emily and Sacha got to whatever planet they were on in the first place without the invasion? Make it make sense?
I actually loved the series, though I think it should NOT of been called War of the Worlds. Great series, but horrible adaption.
Maybe you could explain to me why the invaders felt it necessary to kill everyone on Earth. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what their motive was.
I have no problem with this series isn't an actual adaptation, but this show had it's own problem with bad writings.
1. The main characters didn't really have distinct characteristic from each other. They seemed like the same characters only covered in different gender, nationality, and age. Other than that, there were literally nothing that made the audience care about the characters. THEY ARE BORING and BEYOND FRUSTRATING. It's as simple as that...
2. The plot itself seemed stagnant and barely moving forward in each episode. The writer and director wanted us to feel like the he was so smart, but truth be told, if you're a writer or screenwriter /movie reviewers/and sci-fi lovers, the main plot was already obvious since the beginning.
3. The storytelling was bad. It used way too long unnecessary built-up. The secrets revealing were stupid, too long, and too plain.
4. The sci-fi part include the magnificent QUANTUM Theory, but the writer himself was failing to even grasp how big this theory is.... The application was stupidly beyond too simple...
5. Honestly, I thought the first season and the second season had different idea of what the main plot and the concept was... They started off as A thing, it ended up as B thing.... It's not even have to be an adaptation to see this coming.....
6. This show tried so hard to make the viewers cared about the characters, but honestly, in comparison with other post-apocalyptic world shows like The 100, TWD and FTWD characters which mastered this greatly, War of the Worlds had bad built-up on characters' development and bonding.
7. There were barely any mystery in this show, all of their stupid questions could be answer within 1 seconds of easy observation... Why did they attack? (Well, it's kind off obvious alien invasion, isn't it?)
8. Naivety of everyone in this show was plain annoying... It's a war... What did you expect happen in war? Why people fought in wars? Did they seriously think just because they're different species, the other side has no feelings? What did they call WW1, WW2, and War in Ukraine (I'm praying it'll be over soon) then???
Oh, I agree. I'm a huge fan of HG Wells' story, and being a film journalist, I make a point of watching every adaptation I can get my hands on. But this could hardly be called an adaptation. The use of Wells' title just irritates me. I've seen Asylum adaptations better than this attempt.
When when the characters were talking about picking up the signal, it seemed like they were talking more like actual astronomers. You want them to talk like movie actors. Hey here's a signal, aliens
If It was edited down, refined and distilled; the skeletal script has strengths... The episode lengths diluted what was a reasonable story with serviceable performances..
The elongated moments of extended silence, unrewarded, mystifying side stories with boring, puzzling unnecessary scenes & questionable convulted characters; all that should've been unincluded; ruined this for me...
And 8 episodes in I was still waiting for the tripods, to come and clean up the survivors but ultimately this felt like an under-budgeted cash-grab that was diluted to the point where you could barely taste the story anymore. Soo boring.
You should look at the Jeff wayne album war of the worlds if you havent already.
Could you just fucking ignore the name? IT'S A FUCKING GOOD SHOW, FINALLY.
But it would have been much better if it didn't include war of the worlds as the title.
Like, where TF is the tripods?
I absolutly am obsessed with this show its amazing.
Maybe you could explain to me why the invaders felt it necessary to kill everyone on Earth. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what their motive was.
@@jambec144 Emily and Sacha were the Adam and Eve of the "aliens". Sacha was a psycho and hated everyone, especially Bill the scientist guy. The aliens' disease come from the deceases that Sacha and Emily had, but Sacha blamed that on Bill and his experiments on Emily when he tried to develop the virus. Sacha teaches his kids that humans are evil, and that gets passed down through the generations, so that's why the "aliens" develop a deep hatred for humans, especially Bill is seen as a sort of Hitler to them, from some lines that one of the "aliens" say. The "aliens" say at some point that they didn't even think humans had feelings and emotions.
@@jambec144 I really love the show too its honestly so unique and the quality is great the story is great but I agree with you I wanna know why that women hated the humans so much you could tell most of the people have just been brain washed to hate the humans all their life what I think happened is the psycho boy who has the baby with Emily created a narrative about hating humans because they hurt Emily and he's obsessed with her so I think throughout all that time they were conditioned by a false narrative
@@goestheboom5211 Not able to parse this. Try using punctuation.
Day of The Triffids without the Triffids
That's a great way of putting it!
0/10, not enough flesh-burning lasers
They had absolutely no budget except to buy 2-3 SPOT robots from Boston Dynamics and painted them black. The "aliens" are just these couple of robots running around the entire season..... looked like something you can produce in an A/V club...
Wait till you find out that the aliens in Fox version are the descendants of the Blind girl and the nutty French boy.
Honestly I dont really see how the scientist woman looking for her sister is the idiot here? She is obviously going to want to try and find her sister and does not at any time try to get them to come with her but the guy seems to always want to chase her and bring her back, so really he is the one that keeps getting people killed by not just letting her go herself like she wants. She also had no idea those dog things even existed when she goes out the first time so realistically she would have no way of knowing taking the girl there was so dangerous. Had a lot of issues with this show but I think its a bit far fetched to paint her out to be the one messing up and not the guy who keeps chasing after her.
What do you think of the early 2000s war of the worlds with Tom cruise? I remember seeing it in the cinema with my dad when it first came out.
Also this is an interesting video considering it’s not about oddworld. I wouldn’t mind more content about things other than oddworld.
I've listened to the jeff wayne album, I really like it I think it's really iconic and well done. :) It's probably the most faithful adaption to the book I know of. The 2005 film gets a lot of negativity but, personally, I quite like it. I think it certainly had flaws, as nything does, but overall I don't have a massive problem with it. it's possible I'm influenced by nostalgia maybe, I also remember seeing it when it first came out, but I actually watched it again only about two months ago and compared to versions we've gotten lately I don't think it's particularly bad. I really like the tripods in it. :)
The tripods were good...but the children annoyed me intensely
cain marsh that movie is one of my favorites in general. It definitely gives you that menacing feel.
Spielberg's decision to have the tripods pre-buried on Earth didn't make a lick of sense.
war of the worlds isnt war of the worlds without tripods
The 2005 film adaptation by Steven Spielberg is one of the best in my opinion. They skimped out on the Black Smoke, but I can understand that because the heat ray is the weapon everyone remembers. Plus this adaptation had plenty of other things to offer, like the badass tripod design that most people in my generation remember the most and that bass-y horn! I love it.
Jeff Wayne's musical is also a personal favourite of mine and the only one I'm willing to sit through. The designs for the Martian's tripods have been my favourite retro designs for a while now, along with their extended arsenal in the strategy game based on the musical. The fighting machine's bug-eyed windows, sleek exterior and the proboscis-like heat ray make it look almost like an entirely different creature, not a vehicle that the Martians ride around in.
This "adaptation" by Fox doesn't deserve to be called that. It is just a disservice and a disgrace.
Spielberg's decision to have the tripods pre-buried on Earth didn't make a lick of sense.
@@jambec144spielberg's reason for burying the tripod was that he believed if an alien ship was coming to earth in the modern world like meteorites we would of saw it before hand. also he wanted to separated his film from many alien invasion films that always have the aliens landing on earth with ships.
@@accountreality1988 Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense at all. A bit like the Germans burying their tanks all over Russia in preparation for their invasion. Absolutely nonsensical.
@@accountreality1988 Yes, but there's a reason the 'aliens landing on earth with ships' became a trope. That said, the pre-buried fighting machines is the only aspect of Spielberg's film, aside from Robbie's inexplicable survival, that doesn't really work.
@@accountreality1988 " we would of saw it before hand. " So what?
Oh stop it wasn’t that bad I thought it was all right it wasn’t all it could’ve been but it wasn’t that bad
Punctuation.
2005s war of the worlds is my fav simply because of the tripods.
They gave you a feeling of hopelessness and that you were cornered no matter where you were.
Also war of the worlds game looks sick much love tp the dev
If the solution to the mystery of the invasion is time-travel of future humans descended from Magic Girl & Magic Boy then it has officially Jumped The Shark and I'll be out.
What
@@TheKna978 I think this guys is a time traveler
And it wasn’t until S2 Ep6 before someone finally asked an “alien”: why are you here? What do you want?
oh...this is awkward.🤦♀️
Exactly. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what the invader's motive was.
The opening was good and then it turns to shit. I thought the robo dogs looked stupid. I only watched half of it and now I don’t need to waste 3 hours more to finish it, so thanks
You're welcome, I completely agree. :)
You just helped me find a name for a wotw inspired comic I'm making.
"The Conflict of the Cosmos"
I'm glad I helped you! :D
Nice, I have my own version (not making it), that is set in the Maritime provinces of Canada (P.E.I.-Nova Scotia). All about the main character trying to make his way to Halifax from Charlottetown to his wife and newly born child.
It would include the scouting and digging machine. The flying machine would not be included.
It wouldn't be a adaptation, more of a side story.
@@Hankbot That sounds really interesting. :)
Hi Pupbenny! Did you watch the show Falling Skies, and if so, what did you think?
When I watch it I fall to sleep.
This adaption of war of the worlds was absolute rubbish,Storyline was pathetic,The acting was terrible the cast were boring and annoying the only thing that i didn't mind that was different were the killer robot dogs.I was hoping they would wipeout more of the annoying cast members and no tripods!!!! Don't get me started on that. I think they just used title War of the worlds to suck us into watching it
I thought this was different and pretty good. The reason that the woman was able to shoot the dog with one bullet was because I'll be asleep the dog had already taken bullet fire previously.
I absolutely hated the woman scientist and the blind girl omg so annoying
Just sat through the second series. Which brought the story to a conclusion, BUT as always left enough loose ends that they could come back and do a third series. Good luck with that, as I won't watching a third series. The show is just too slow and takes forever to get anywhere. SPOILERS: Emily disappears for 6 months between series 1 & 2 and then reappears in an alien spacecraft landed in the Thames. (She may have been on the "alien" homeworld, it's all a bit vague). I'll save you eight episodes of walking around empty streets. The "aliens" finally appear and they are us. They have come back in time a few hundred thousand years from their home-world because they can no longer reproduce or a disease or something for which they blame David Ward. In an attempt to kill the aliens David Ward gives Emily a virus; but being pregnant she starts to die. (To Kariem?). Emily is taken to an alien ship by her Mother and Sasha, Sasha kills Emilys Mother, an alien then helps them onboard a ship which sets out for the aliens home planet with Emily & Sasha onboard. Emily & Sasha become the ancestors of the aliens who came back in time from 100,00 years in the future. David Ward uses an alien ship to travel back in time to before the invasion; and kills Emily, stopping the "aliens" from coming into existence. He is arrested for murder and the invasion does not happen. HOWEVER, a handful of "aliens" who were on the ship came back in time with David Ward; and after they see Emily dead, we don't see them again, so who knows what happened to them. The End. Maybe. The book with the time travel instructions is found with a dead alien and locked away.
For me, it failed right away when the first attack was some kind of brain EMP that just kills everyone in the first episode in an obvious attempt to not blow too much money on any alien destruction. You don’t even get to see everyone die, the entire event is only experienced with some guy bumping around the back of a fuel truck because cars are crashing into each other outside.
I'm on the 3rd season right now, and about to watch the final episode. And, OMG this show causes, a great amount of anxiety, and anger in me because the characters, and their choices are so unrealistically bad. I'm actually glad I heard it got cancelled, because I could not bare the stress that the stupid characters caused me to have. Every character on this show deserves to die, apparently this show takes place in a reality where people have no common sense at all. The only reason I was able to make it through this series is because i'm a major Sci-fi fan especially when the main subject line is war, and aliens. But, the average person who watches this show procced with caution. I'm surprised this show made it to a 3rd season. I wish the people who wrote the script for the first, "Game of thrones," worked on this series." So, when someone who was utterly stupid would need to die, they would actually die. If the Game of thrones writers actually wrote for this show. none of the main characters would have made it past the 1st season alive. They would have all died horrible agonizing deaths, and rightfully so. The Sci-fi aspect of this show was decent, but the execution of the show had me thinking it was written by middle school drop outs. If some how they come out with a 4th season, i'll watch it if I feel like being pissed off, and yelling at the screen for hours, wondering why I was subjecting myself so much agonizing emotional pain.
I was with you, by season two it kinda jumped the shark. I've never seen a better redeeming season better that season 3 and show finale though.
The whole alternate realty shift was really clever. That is what I was waiting to see. I would love your thoughts on the series as a whole now that it's over.
man I wanted to see the tripods so badly I watched the first episode and it was garbage 😫
Will you do a review of Spielberg's version?
I'm planning to eventually! :)
@@pupbenny epic
That one and the 1953 version are the two best in my opinion. I have a model of the 1953 fighting machine in my room.
Such a trash show lmfao entire first season was just goofy Boston dynamic robot dogs that aren’t scary one bit and a bunch of morons running around. Gotta love how they make the whole show about a blind girl who’s a terrible person and an incest baby who’s also a piece of trash person. gotta love how the robot dogs projectiles can pierce body armor in one scene but can’t shoot through a thin metal door or card board boxes in the next.
The soldiers continuously stand in the open not moving even after seeing multiple of their group die from a ranged enemy. You’d think that they would stay behind cover as much as possible. Finally on the last episode we get to see the aliens and guess what it’s some bald guy LMFAO. Also interesting how in one scene that chick kills the dog with couple bullets but a bunch of elite soldiers can’t kill any even after shooting hundreds of bullets at them.
The first two episodes were good and showed potential but unfortunately it went into the trash can after that. I had no suspense after that because the only thing to be suspenseful about is some lame robot dog that every time I see it the video of someone poking the Boston dynamics dog with a stick and it falling over unable to get up is all that I can see😂.
Sorry,... Don't agree,... Slagging off a perfectly good Science Fiction series based on "It wasn't what I expected", is both short sighted and tremendously anal...
MOVE ON.
The use of the Boston Dynamic dogs was bold and inventive,... All too often good SciFi is spoiled by oceans of watery out of focus CGI,...
Re-visiting the same level of threat as in "The Terminator",.. these robots are relentless and scary.
The mountain photography is stunning,.. the characters are believable and flawed,... as you would expect in a global catastrophe,.. and the pacing provides quiet moments to counter-point the high action sections.
Don't screw this up by creating an under-current of "It's not what I expected" because you'll end up with more American, oorah!, Bombs and Guns to solve the problem rather than using intellect.
None of the previous WOTW versionas re exactly perfect... and some of them are just weak....
Personally, I'll buy the DVD and can't wait for the 2nd series,.... Exceptional work from the Canal5 Team
Bot employee detected! This abd the BBC one sucked! WHERE ARE THE BLOODY TRIPODS? If you want to create your own history, dont name it War of the Worlds!
@@spartan9963 - Really??? Why don't you just shout "fake news",... and then we can identify you as a drive by troll with little intellect or developed analysis skills.
@@jimmurdoch7745 Woah, i didn't liked the show, i have an opinion and because of that i have no intellect.
Just shut up bot.
I agree man, i am keen for the second season and I am only up to episode 6
The issue is that the story is the furthest from the source material than any adaptation has ever been. If you showed me this without knowing what the title was, War of the Worlds would be one of the last things I'd guess it's an adaptation of. If you make an adaptation of something and are going to use its name as your title, at least stick to the source material to a degree that its recognizable.
As a Veteran I can't understand why they always leave the enemies weapons behind after killing them. Even civilians with any brains at all should have the sense to gather the fallen weapons enemy or friendly. This series didn't have much brain power behind it that's for sure. When Ash was fighting Sasha you try to disarm, you don't try to choke your enemy while they're stabbing the crap out you. This series was very lame and boring in parts.
Same I was blown away by how often people left their own weapons laying around. Makes me wish they did a series like this focusing on units within different nations militaries.
Yeah, this series wasn’t great. They ask the audience to go beyond suspending disbelief, they want us to flat out stop thinking LOL. That being said, this review may be worse than the series. It did not age well that’s for sure.
Ya think did he just copy and paste the "war of the worlds " audio part coz it sounds like he did
This story is a rip off of the Black Mirror episode Metalheads.
Same thoughts lol
Umm but HG Wells wrote the story many years ago, if anything don’t you think black mirror is a ripoff of hg wells story?
@@biorgoanylchem No, because the HG Wells story had a very different portrayal of the Martians and their tripods. Metalheads has absolutely nothing to do with War of the Worlds.
@@biorgoanylchem this series literally has nothing to do with The War Of The Worlds.
@@biorgoanylchem H.G Well book is not even remotely similar to this. This is far closer to the black mirror episode than H.G Wells book.
was the dude at the end human? That made no sense. As for the show being terrible, no way. Its actually really good - IN FAST FORWARD! After watching the first few eps you realize that a boring part is coming up and just fast forward. And yeah, that french scientist chick,, hella stupid beyond belief. That girl single handedly killed an entire army. and the army was stupid to not recon any movements. but yeah, fast forward is the key
Yeah, very good points! I think if the pacing was sped up it'd be really good.
Maybe you could explain to me why the invaders felt it necessary to kill everyone on Earth. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what their motive was.
Why can't someone just read the H.G. Wells book and make a movie or series that matches it??? We are still waiting for that to happen. They all think they know better than Wells.
The aliens from Epix war of the worlds, use technology that looks very similar to human technology. No creativity by the designers on this show.
The aliens from the other show and movie, at least you can tell it’s not human tech at all.
I can’t wait until one company gets this franchise right. It has so much potential
Huh? The "aliens" ARE humans...
They are NOT aliens. They are us.
Exactly: their robots look nearly identical to the sort that we're already capable of creating.
Love War of the worlds book, best adaptation being the musical version by Jeff Wayne. It’s crying out for a good quality, faithful adaptation. That would be good.
War of the Welds?
It certainly put people off from buying an AI / robotic dog.
The upgraded version of war of the worlds I believe is fantastic. The Aliens spaceship crash landed and the robotic Aliens were on the warpath of destruction. But I don't think they wanted to hurt anyone and only used there weapon when they were threatened and I don't think the human race understood. Because you see I believe the Aliens landed on Earth because of the contact made by the scientists and possibly wanted to communicate with the scientists and looking for their location when they crash landed everyone panicked and began shooting at them to protect themselves. But possibly that wasn't on the Aliens mind but the Aliens had to protect themselves too because of the violent behavior the humans had on the Aliens. And so I believe it started off with a huge misunderstanding between the human race and the Aliens. The Aliens may of wanted to come in peace and because of language barriers between the human race and Aliens they can never know why
That's a really good analysis. :)
So... the aliens came in peace and yet were equipped to exterminate everyone? And they then proceeded to do so despite having made no attempt at communicating?
The only thing that has to do with the war of the worlds is the name.
It’s war of the worlds but it’s not about the tripods it’s about the Martians which is the story.
VeglsGud *_* they aren’t even martians apparently. Your point is irrelevant.
@@harvestercommander3250 where did they come from then?
Joe Duffy never explained. Same thing with the Spielberg’s adaptation. At least that one had tripods.
@@harvestercommander3250 If it isn't explained (yet) how can you decidedly declare they're not Martians? lol Some of the stuff being complained about (the 4-legs instead of 3-legs for instance) are things that are not even set in stone. There is a S2 coming.
@@C.Church irrelevant. They even said they weren’t from mars. And this is not War Of The Worlds. It’s just some alien invasion series using the title. You’re an idiot if you think otherwise.
My question is why was this even called war of the worlds
Just to get people to watch it I suspect!
You should review a show for what it IS and not what it IS NOT.
I liked the series but it does not deserve the name "War of The Worlds"
Well there is a potential for all the Aliens dying from a virus in the second season so there's that i guess?
But honestly the second season is even worse.
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The Aliens are just horribly inbred people from the future. oh how utterly clever. It's just humans fighting each other because that's just how we humans are. Thus it became even more pretentious than the BBC show. Every twist is so obvious you see it coming for miles. And the worst of it all is there is literally no reason for the socalled "war" The Aliens want to live and stop being horribly ill due to their genetic malfunctions. Okay so maybe they need humans for that? Nope. At one point they have healed themselves just like that. No humans needed. So why exactly invade earth? And especially why a complete extinction of the human race? They have a perfectly good planet and there is never any resource shortage mentioned. It all boils down to "We hate them because we do." Every attempt to tell a good story takes a backseat to pushing a very weak commentary on human nature.
You see the very weak writing in every dialoge. Everything is just an exposition dump of characters emotions and reasons. "You are (insert emotion) because of (insert situation). Is a sentance i heard so often it became quite hilarious. And that's not simplified or paraphrased. It is literally just like that. E.G. "You are angry because Micah was killed." It has so little faith in it's audience everything is explained in such a dumb way it's almost like it's trying to insult me on purpose. That and every human somehow comes up with the same name for the "Aliens" completely independantly as there is no internet or any form of communication between the few remaining survivors. And everyone just calls them "The ones that look like us." If humanity is that isolated from each other have people come up with unique names. One group can call them "The ones that look like us." The next one can call them "The fakes" or "The pseudohumans."
And the very worst part is the Spacefuture people's warmashinery. They're just dudes in plain clothes with regular human guns. They didn't even care to give them laserguns or anything remotely alien. It's just regular guns they probably found lying around. And then there's the robodoggies.
There's a reason the wife could shoot it while military people were all murdered. She attacked it from the side. The army take the charge head on. And the front is heavily armored. Because there's joints or something to protect. Of course on the sides it's just tin or plastic or whatever. Not like there's anything important in that part of the body. Only it's brain. Oh and to bad our human armies never learned something like trying to FLANK enemies. Sure would have come in handy.
Oh and they can't penetrate anything armored. That's why they couldn't invade the bunker while the door was closed. Or why the trapped thing couldn't get out before the doctor let it out. So the entire weaponry is just salvaged guns and robots that can't penetrate anything reinforced and have very obvious weakspots. ONE SINGLE TANK could fight the whole Alien invasion off. You have to susbend your disbelief so hard, you basically have to put it in a rocket and send it to the heart of the sun.
By the end of the second series, it had more elements associated with the Terminator franchise
I learned one thing. Avoid fox series. AVOID.
Same episode where the French lady got the little girl killed, she took the little girl into the market where the robots were shooting the soldiers from. Just really stupid writing.
ummm...the dogs were on the roof. when someone's shooting from somewhere higher than you, the safest place to go is BELOW them, you dumb shit!
@@samworth9310 then you are a moron to run into a building they probably have control of.
@@RashaKahn once again, the dogs were on the roof...if they had run AWAY from the building, the dogs would only get a BETTER SHOT. if you go underneath them, the dogs will lose sight of you. it's going into an open field vs going into a jungle. also, do you really expect someone UNDER PRESSURE OF DYING to take out a fucking notebook and start calculating the probability of survival in different choices they could make? 🙄
@@samworth9310 it’s not rocket science to figure out that the shots the building it’s coming out of is dangerous and not to go near it. The entire series has shit writing, that’s why it’s rated so badly.
@@RashaKahn you seem to be reading over the part where i said the thing about the dogs getting a better shot at them. jesus christ! watch the episode again...they were in like a parking lot - it was an OPEN FIELD. the dogs were shootings FROM THE ROOF. the people were NEAR the doors. they could at least HIDE inside the BIG BUILDING. and why don't you point out instances of this "shit writing" you're talking about. it's rated badly because most people expected it to be War of the Worlds by Wells. who gives a shit or even trusts ratings anyways.
I feel like it started off okay, but it ended up just being 8 episodes of pointless shit. There was no meaning to anything, each episode left you with more questions than answers, there was absolutely zero development throughout the show. It just dragged on…. I honestly wish I could get that time back, what a fucking waste of 7-8 hours.
Could have been much better, if they laid off the personalities and drama among the galactic invasion. More science less drama.
But it WAS much better because of what you didn't like. What you guys seem to forget to acknowledge is "This WofW was terrible ... IN MY OPINION." Your hate assessment isn't a final grade for everyone who watches it. Many people seriously like this adaptation.
@@C.Church it has no trypods its not a war of the world adaptation without them. so fuck this series!!!
@@C.Church Maybe you could explain to me why the invaders felt it necessary to kill everyone on Earth. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what their motive was.
@@jambec144 I saw the latest episodes too long ago now. But it's a good idea to remember: While this is written by humans (obviously), the characters are aliens. Best to set human incredulity aside.
@@C.Church No, they were humans. And even if they were genuinely alien, nothing else about their behavior suggests unfathomable motives. Their psychology appears to be just like ours.
I just watched the show. I don't know wtf happened so that's why I searched fir this vid. Unfortunately, I still don't know what's going on in the show. The show's title is definitely a clickbait for sci-fi fans like me.
Same here. I sat thru all 3 seasons and I still don't know what the invader's motive was.
There's three WOTWs adaptations streaming and they're all HORRIBLE.
The soldiers were so incompetent. Taking unnecessary risks.