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This is the original alien invasion story. Staring Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall and Robert Carlyle, this tense and thrilling drama follows a young couple’s race for survival against escalating terror of an alien enemy beyond their comprehension.
The War of the Worlds is a major adaptation by Peter Harness of H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi title. This major new three-part drama is produced by Mammoth Screen for BBC One, and directed by award-winning director Craig Viveiros
Set in Edwardian England, this new adaptation of H.G. Wells' seminal tale - the first alien invasion story in literature - follows George (played by Rafe Spall) and his partner Amy (Eleanor Tomlinson) as they attempt to defy society and start a life together. Rupert Graves is Frederick, George's elder brother, and Robert Carlyle plays Ogilvy, an astronomer and scientist. The War of the Worlds tells their story as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.
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Martians: Travel 84000000km to invade Earth
Royal Navy: *Hippity hoppity no one violates the King's property*
God save the King and all that
Did you just copy someone
So the solution was the navy cool
Queen's*
Erika Pacheva um I believe that they’re referring to Queen Victoria not Elizabeth II
Martians: Our fighting machines are hundreds of meters high and are armed with high-energy infrared lasers.
British Navy: All I'm hearing is 'large combat profile' and 'abnormally hot searchlights'
g o l d e n
2 things you dont want in combat;
1/ Large combat profile
2/ an Infrared Profile rivalling the sun
3/ Pissed off Royal Navy
oh wait that's 3
xD
@@JetfireQuasar Your second point. That's not what the OP meant. He meant that the Heat Ray is essentially just a really powerful searchlight, and therefore not impressive. Furthermore the ships of this era certainly didn't have any modern technology like infrared vision, so the thermal signatures of the Tripods would have been quite irrelevant.
@@Beau74 If this was set in a more modern time period, the infrared and heat signature coming of of the tripods would make them hilariously vulnerable to any sort of infrared or heat guided munitions.
@@ATruckCampbell when set in a more modern setting you would write the tripods to be more advanced.
The fact that aliens capable of interplanetary travel get absolutely vibe checked by the Royal Navy in the 1890s is hilarious to me
You may rule the stars but Britannia rules the waves 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I'd say it makes sense if you really think about it, theres only so many naturally occuring elements that exist in our solar system, and while the martians have way more advanced technology, that doesnt mean they have new elements to work with, so as a result they are destructable, its like how you can still use WW1 weapons pretty effectively despite it being nearly 100 years old.
I think the 2005 movie taught us that the tripods are only scary with their shields and without them they're kind pathetic especially these ones. can you imagine if these ones invaded in modern day instead of the Victorian era they would be done for 🤣
I think H.G. Wells intended to show that, while the Martians and their Tripods are terrifying and would leave an ordinary civilian or foot soldier of the time period (1890s) wondering how they are supposed to fight against a monster like the Tripod with the weapons they've got (example; Lee-Enfield/Lee-Metford/Martini-Henry rifles, Webley/Enfield revolvers, Maxim guns, BL-5 inch Howitzers, etc.) while their opponent has heat rays, poison gas, a massive height advantage and the ability to wage psychological warfare with sirenlike howls... he also intended to show that these Martians are NOT invincible, and that they CAN be beaten back. Even if it's only shown in 2 small snippets in the novel (the narrator's retelling of the Weybridge and Shepperton battle where one of the Tripods gets taken out by field artillery, and the narrator's brother witnessing the HMS Thunderchild taking out 3 Tripods during the evacuation of London).
So with all that in mind, if these same Martians and their Tripods invaded our modern-day world where we have weapons and technology that's far more advanced than what the British military had in the late 1890s, we'd probably win the conflict without much of a fight. Sure, we'd still take some casualties, but I don't think it would be as bad as the book portrays it. And it would probably be long before the bacteria and viruses of earth start killing off the Martians (as per the novel's ending).
It's only with every film and TV adaptation of the novel since the first film in 1953 (with the exceptions being the Pendragon adaptation and this BBC adaptation), that the studios and screenwriters gave the Martians forcefields in an attempt to try and level the playing field for them.
@@huntermurphy2148 lol this is so damn true
My respect for gunner's aiming skill.
Gunners plural.
You know this is a fiction.
@all things gumball respect to the camera man that traveld back in time to bring us this incredible footage.
@@allthingsgumball respect to the school systems which has totally managed to leave out an alien invasion not hundred years ago
@@allthingsgumball There is a documentary about a newer incident called War of the Worlds from 2005.
This reminds me of an old military saying that has about a million variations: “There is no problem on Earth that cannot be solved with the proper application of high explosive.”
Normally, someone would retort “But the Martians aren’t from Earth”
To them I say the rule applied to them the second they entered the atmosphere.
Adultery! Oh no, wait a minute, yeah you can end adultery. Although blowing the guilty party to smitherines isn't really fixing.
Quake Cannon, most destructive non-radioactive weapon in mankind arsenal
Honestly that’s so true, the soviets extinguished an underground fire using a nuke
What about homework?
Martians: -Invade-
British Dreadnoughts: *No*
NICE
Having said that. If you watch the background action closely in this scene, you'll notice that most of the ships were blown-up before the tripod was brought down.
Which is so amiss cause
Royal Navy: "OPEN FIRE"
Tripod: takes 4 steps, shooting at civilians
Royal Navy: "WERE ON FIRE!"
Oliver Moore actually it doesn’t appear that’s the case, the flames and explosions were a mixture of misses and a few hits along with the intense muzzle flashes, or what may more appropriately be called explosions. There does appear to be one burning husk but the the others that have some smoke coming from them are doing just fine. Steel ships, and especially the old broadsiding battleships, can take an absolute pounding and keep going. Fires are practically expected to occur when you have a wooden deck, several magazines, and a big fuel container inside so they were really well versed in the art of fire control and flood prevention. And let’s be honest, it’s the Royal Navy so they definitely don’t give a damn that two of their turrets are completely destroyed and half their ship is on fire, “Tis but a scratch” and a very small price to pay for the humiliation of two tripods in only a few hits.
@@olivermoore7020 Not really. You will notice that most of the fire is coming from the blown up lifeboats that were evacuating civilians (you even see a few survivors trying to swim away). Looks more like bad focus on the main characters makes it hard to tell how the battle is going without really focusing. Which is really messed up on the side of the martians if you think aboout it, prioritizing the death of civilians over the literal giant masses of artillery shooting at you. Maybe the heat ray didnt have the range to hit the pre-dreadnoughts, but still.
I like how the ships were shelling the first tripod with no effect but brought it down when they went for it's legs, then when the second tripod appears the ships go for the legs straight away and bring it down almost immediately, a little detail to show they learned the weak point.
you say that, but they only fell when the "heads" get smacked.
So you genuinely mean you like that or is this supposed to be sarcastic criticism towards it? I genuinely can’t tell on what exactly you’re trying to say here. I hope you genuinely liked it and thought it was great!
@@Gadget-Walkmen pay attention to when both tripods finally start falling. the first tripod is the only one that reacts to leg shots. the second one just brushes them off until the head shot. neither of them went down for good from leg shots
These things look like a trebuchet could knock them over
- The problem is. at that distance you can't zero in big guns on your target that accurately. So, it's kind of bogus wishful thinking. Lucky to get one skinny leg.
- That's why the shells are pact with explosives to get a wide area of coladeral damage if you don't get direct impact damage. But it don't work on heavy armor. And with an unstable gun platform on water, your lucky to hit somewhere on a big battle ship, and not a repeat on another skinny tripod leg.
I love how the aliens saw the warship already take down one tripod but decided to continue war-criming civilians instead of returning fire on the one thing that was evidently capable of opposing them.
They must be serbian aliens
Israeli Occupation Forces moment
@@ToHellOrUtopiano
@@ToHellOrUtopia no just no
@@ToHellOrUtopiayeah im not taking that at all
Bacteria: "I'm the only thing on Earth that can stop the tripods"
Royal Navy Dreadnoughts: "Hold my rum ration"
@@danielprado3611 but better german firing system didn't win the war😎
Laughs in coronavirus
one problem, that was an armored cruiser we saw firing at the tripod...
*cries in sanitation*
@@patricklenigan4309 maybe it was thunderchild?
Martians: We are bringing massive death walkers made from technology you can barely comprehend with your puny human minds. What do you have to say about that?
Royal Navy: *Laughs in heavy ordinance*
Hehahahehhah
The tripod took out a few ships before being brought down tho.
Aleem Baksh But dude, advanced alien tech was still brought down by late 1800’s dreadnoughts. Rule Britannia you germaphobic xenos
@@hansstrudel9614
Is that how you talk to a superior species? Know your place ape, we are advancing, we return again and again, wreaking havoc in our wake, if one of us can take down several of your primitive sea craft, that took you several cycles around your sun to construct, we can eliminate your "Royal Navy" before our armies can be dealt a serious blow, so be warned.
Aleem Baksh Actually having rewatched the scene I don’t see a single ship except for the civilian transports being destroyed. If anything it appears that the dreadnoughts were tanking those hits like absolute beasts.
Imagine being asked to create the tripod/ship battle for WotW, then realising it's only going to be used as background noise for this love drama dross
Oh dear, women exist. Must be such an inconvenience for you.
@@matjamesmusic you're the kind of person to think that everything being remade into a love drama is good
@@matjamesmusic go back to watching your twilight and hunger games or what have you
@@matjamesmusic You are stating a fact. It is a masterpiece.
@@jazzyzjas9701 Mainly the first few but not the last few haha
The dreadnaught's using their horn after destroying the tripod gave me goosebumps
oh you have a horn
hear chap we....we have many horns
its like bf1
*takes enemy's taunt
Pre-dreadnoughts, actually; HMS _Dreadnought_ was launched in 1906, this takes place prior to the dreadnought era.
@@PhoenixT70 Some late pre-dreadnought era battleships aren't too far removed in terms of appearance to the dreadnought era battleships, since by that point naval planners were starting to really figure things out.
“These aliens are so inept, nearly takes the honour out of victory.”
“Nearly.”
“Mehahahaha…”
*laughs in british*
Colonization intensifies
hahahahaha
The patriot i believe
This production was the very definition of "not everything needs to be remade as a love story". It suffers massively for it. It had such potential
Yeah, it focused on an insignificant family, while the naval ships back there were in blurry 🤦♂️.
We are just not very interested in watching two strangers kissing and hugging in the middle of a war on aliens 💁♂️
Stupid BBC writing. What is it with British and crap drama?
No thunderchild ram?, love story drama, and some obligatory things that can't mention, i'll stick to the book.
@@CactusCowboyDan yeah we british either do crap drama or great drama
@@coleslaw4736 Its mostly crap
Tripod: I see no god up there... *other than me.*
HMS Thunderchild: Ayo mate you should check it out down here too.
something about WW1 era dreadnoughts fighting alien machines is such an awesome setting. Wish we could have seen more of it
factual statement. these are actually late 19th century pre dreadnoughts tho
@@lol-un6nl ah cool, didn't know that!
There's a fake documentary about the war of the worlds it's an 1h 20 by the history channel about how ww1 was against aliens and it's great.
They interview old people like their veterans.
So if you want ww1 era tech fighting aliens search that up.
we need a modern video game of it.
Pre-Dreadnoughts, which is even more impressive as they had far fewer "battleship" caliber guns, being designed more around their secondary/ tertiary batteries for close in engagements. Not to mention the range finding equipment was.... Lack luster compared to even what was available to what HMS Dreadnought came with when she was completed, which is completely eclipsed by the Queen Elizabeth class Super Dreadnoughts of commissioned during WW I, ie Warspite.
No matter what generation, the noises the tripods make are horrifying.
I find this version rather underwhelming sadly. Spielberg's Tripods were rather thunderous, the Musical's 'Uuuuullaaaa!' is creepy, 1953's Martians were sinister but these ones just don't do anything for me.
They do sound a bit like the Striders from Half-Life 2 though...
Uuuuuuullaaaaaaa!!
@@DomWeasel completely agree. Spielberg's you could feel in your chest
Well other then Spielbergerg’s.
A fog horn lol
Martians:I thought you were dead
HMS Thunder child:My death was greatly exaggerated
" . . . Me and Fresno Bob. . ."
HMS Thunderchild is now immortal. It will live in the collective memory of Humanity forever!
@@Grubnar like the queen BRITTANNIA SHALL RULE THE WAVES
Now Imagine if the royal sovereign was there lol
Alternatively....
HMS Thunderchild: Yes...but I got better.
love the detail of the ships blasting their horns in celebration. You can imagine the elation on board
When characters you don't care about (and most of whom weren't in the novel) get in the way of what you actually want to see.
The thunderchild behind them
GET OUT OF THE DAMN WAY! I'M TRYING TO SEE THE THUNDERCHILD!
Alien Tripod: *hello there*
British dreadnoughts: *YOU PICKED THE WRONG FIGHT FOOL*
Daxton WoTB YOU PICKED THE WRONG PLANET FOOL
Coronavirus: it’s show time
YOU PICKED THE WRONG OCEAN FOOL
*YOU PICKED THE WRONG MACHINE FOOL*
*YOU PICKED THE WRONG ISLAND FOOL*
Every adaptation gets closer to having the Thunderchild.
1953 version: No scene at the beach.
2005 version: The aliens attack a ferry but there are no warships.
This version: Martians are stopped at the beach by the Navy.
Maybe in the next WOTW adaptation, we will finally get to see the iconic sacrifice of the Thunderchild that is in the original book and Jeff Wayne version.
The actual version 1896
According to the script, the huge battle on the hill in the 2005 film is called "Operation Thunderchild."
PLEASE
To be honest, I'd love a version that has uses the Jeff Wayne tripods in it
Timothy Hines version: What am I chopped liver?
Moving swiftly through the waters
Cannons blazing as she came
Brought a mighty metal warlord
Crashing down in sheets of flame
Sensing victory was nearing
Thinking fortune must have smiled
People started cheering
COME ON THUUUUUUUNDERCHIIIIIIIIIIIILD
One day, one day, we will get an adaption of that beautiful scene
I read that pointlessly passionately loudly
Such an excellent album.
Are you TS Eliot or is this from something
@@angryaugust36 The War Of the Worlds Musical
Love this. Harry Turtledove wrote the Worldwar series. Invading aliens had intended to arrive in the middle ages and just brush humanity away. Instead they arrived in 1942. No on that brushing away part.
I distinctly recall a scene where the Germans fire the "Schwere Gustav" railway cannon at one of the landing sites, and the shell flies so far the aliens think its some form of cruise missile and try to shoot it down 😂
that was a good series, I must dig them out and have another read through!
@@BaronVonMott wait whaa
I read that series a long time ago, it was a cool take on all this. No tripods, they were lizards with pretty much conventional tech just more advanced
@@BaronVonMott And the anti-air missiles essentially bounce right off the 7-ton shell. Brilliant writing.
Martians: we rule space, a incomprehensible area with unending resources, you can't resist us.
Royal navy: You rule space. But *Britannia rules the waves.*
@Romans 12 If that's literally all you can see out of the British Empire, I pity you. I don't defend imperialism, but I try to understand it.
@Romans 12 Ah yes the enlightened view point 100 years after the fact...
@Romans 12 if a country has to admit to everything they did wrong, every country in the world would waste years listing things that people shouldn't care about anymore
Plot armor rules the waves :p
@Romans 12 Yes because the current government should apologize for past events that they had no control over or part in, like it would mean anything.
Martians: H-
Royal Navy: Die.
Best version of this meme
😂😂😂
They make take our crumpets, they may take our tea, but nobody can ever take the brits sea
THEN PERISH
*C E A S E D I R T Y I N G T H E Q U E N 'S A I R*
0:22 the firing barrage start...
There were ships of shapes and sizes
Scattered out along the bay
And I thought I heard her calling
As the steamer pulled away
The Invaders must have seen them
As across the coast they filed
Standing firm between them
There lay Thunder Child
Moving swiftly through the waters
Cannons blazing as she came
Brought a mighty metal War-Lord
Crashing down in sheets of flame
Sensing victory was nearing
Thinking fortune must have smiled
The people started cheering
COME ON THUNDER CHILD!
*The Empire strikes back*
Oof good one
Nice
Best comment on this video
Severely underrated comment
"Commander, you may fire when ready. Now witness the firepower of fully armed and *Operational* Battle Fleet!"
The British Navy knows how to take care of unwanted guests.
That's my navy for ya
"There is no problem that cannot be solved with the proper application of high explosives" - the Royal Navy, probably
@@bananaw2269 Why?
Lmao yep the royal navy did so great in ww2
@@joecobb5520The British where partly responsible for ending the u-boat threat. They had the schematics for a lot of the technology used to beat the u-boats they just lacked the manufacturing power and resources to mass produce the tech that's why they gifted the US the schematics in exchange for mass producing the technology.
Seeing how fast the tripod was moving on the beach really shows you that even if you run, you'll still die.
It's all about scale. If you're tiny, you better move fast or the bigger one's gonna get you.
"You can run. You'll only die tired."
By that point it's all about luck when it comes to surviving. As long as you're not the first to get probed, zapped or crushed. You may have a chance to run away since the machines will be focusing on other targets before spotting you.. Scary thought still either way.
God bless you, HMS Thunderchild. It's practically criminal that the HMS Thunderchild never got it's moment of fame in this show.
It was there... The stupid characters were in the way
Martians: *exists*
Thunder Child:
"And I took that personally."
What I like with this scene:
- all those dreadnoughts opening fire when the tripods appears gives me goosebumps everytime
- The Tripod's sounds are great, maybe a bit less terrifying than in the old versions but still! And the "sounds of pain" when they get hit by those 850lb shells... so nice
-the ships blasting their foghorns in victory and, I like to think, as an answer to the tripod's sound kind of gives the impression they are sending a message: "we can fight you"
- A nice tribute to the HMS Thunder Child, A ram ironclad that sacrifices himself to destroy 3 tripods to save refugee's ships in the original story.
- Overall, The fact that they show mankind able to fight back! Usually you always see that our weapons are useless, armies getting crushed without being able to do any damage... I kind of get bored of that.
The only medium I can remember doing the same are the book "The Salvation War", this serie, the movie "Dragon war" and the anime "Gate".
If someone knows others medium of this type, feel free to writte it down here⬇️
Rightt, this makes you appreciate how humans will put up a fight even if the odds aren’t in our favor
I don't know if this passes but Battle LA is also one under appreciated film. It shows another perception of what and how aliens would operate in terms of practical fighting.
@@jetrickgordo4026 yess
It is stupid though, would have been cooler if those tripods which are many magnitudes more advance then humans with shields like the 2005 adaptation.
@@marcelrodriguez2067 The Martian "shields" were just metal plates in the novel, IIRC. That was why i was so excited to see the 2005 adaptation, cause tanks and modern weapons will rip that shit to pieces. They copped out and added energy shields lmfao
Everything about this tripod is really good: the sound it makes, the design itself, the book-accurate heat ray... If just it was more important to the plot
That moment of realisation that there's a tripod coming followed by distant opening fire from the Royal navy is really well done.
1:28 one of the most realistic falls I've seen in movie. Damn. Feels good.
Too bad the entire show isn’t as good as those couple of seconds
Just a Random astromech yeah also the tripods in the movie are kinda weak you would just have to shoot it’s firing chamber with a heavy weapon
But the tripods in this movie a great none the less
That’s how The Martian Tripods are in the novel.
@@_TaxCollector holy shit I like your videos
True
This scene is by far the best in the series.
Yeah. Overall this miniseries was awful. But this was one of the few good things about it.
Seeing them basically having to Dunkirk civilians OUT of Britain while warships bombard, and successfully I might add, take down multiple Tripods
Bro please make a video of war of the worlds vs Pacific rim jagears please bro
one of the best parts of the book as well. Reading it as a kid i put the book down and cheered
Oh wow, the 3 minutes trailer showing the aliens to pose no threat at all, and making it really easy to not be able to watch this series...is even the BEST about it?
Thanks for the info.
It had its moments, for sure better than the 2019 FOX attempt with no tripods or aliens.
Mad respect for the cameraman, must have been tough swimming and recording at the same time!
Probably rode the boat
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I've never seen this one before. What an absolute knee slapper!
Cameraman gotta do what a cameraman gotta do
It's about time we stopped with this shit, its not even funny here
People are just picking up and copying Dad joked that have existed for years
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would love to see a good close-up battle between the martians and the Royal Navy!
"HMS Thunder Child." The most badass name you could have for a dreadnought that stands against the Martian war machines.
Personally, I'm a fan of HMS Victory, HMS Valiant and HMS Defiant
@@weldonwin HMS Warspite was always a fave of mine too
@@eboy3627 Also, Warspite had a very cute ship's cat named Stripey
HMS Thunderchild was described as an "Ironclad Torpedo Ram," torpedo rams being a smaller, low-silhouette cousin of cruisers with reinforced bows and foward facing torpedo tubes. Sooo... Less Dreadnought battleship and more uparmored destroyer with no shits to give XD
@@ronaldthompson4989 not quite, the author got his naval terminology a bit wrong. What he describes in the books is basically a pre-dreadnought battleship, there was no such thing as an "ironclad torpedo ram" . The best fit would probably be a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship, maybe a Canopus.
The Royal Navy only had one torpedo ram in service and it was puny, with only 25 mm guns. That kind of armament wouldn't even scratch a tripod.
However, the 305mm guns of a Majestic.. whole different story.
Why did nobody tell me that this was a thing?
Same, but I'm glad it came up in my recommended.
Don't worry your not missing out on anything, apart from this scene the shows really bad.
When i first saw the tripod i wad like HOLY SHIT. The design of the tripod is amazing
And i gotta say the CGI is awsome as well i wonder what the aliens look like?
I watched it last night. Its shit.
I love how everyone is just making Royal Navy jokes
Me just laughing since the video started: *MY GOALS ARE BEYOND YOUR UNDERSTANDING*
Ah, those old pre-dreadnoughts were gorgeous... too bad we didnt get more scenes like these.
Absolutely!! These WWI dreadnoughts, with their heavy, 12 to 15in guns, firing heavy shells at these ugly tripods... We don't get enough of these scenes, but those that have been made are well worth watching. It might be one of the very few instances in the history of cinema where we actually see these behemoths in war action. That in itself is priceless.
I actually find the astheatic of Warships peaked during WWII and the 18th century.
I mean look at modern warships (except the Carriers) and tell me that thoose things are anything but hideos.
@@abrahamwilberforce9824 Well, here in the US at least, we still have the Iowas (they can be thrust back into service should the need arise and have had AA and missiles added on over their time in service), and I think some of the Arkeugh Burke class destroyers dont look too bad, but those are destroyers...
I am surprised, however, that the UK didnt keep any of its old warships as museum peices *especially* after their services in hunting down the Bismarck and securing the Atlantic during World War 2.
Scrapping them is one of the sadder moments in military history if you ask me...
@@fr-tigerfangs7039 Huh... now that you mention it, I dont think there are any films that actually show the old dreadnoughts in action...
@@dfmrcv862 Yeah, I am not a big fan of militaristism but I love Engineering and History.
It would be cool if the royal navy have kept the Vanguard.
I think the Bismarck, Vanguard, Yamato and Iowa are one of the coolest Battleships ever build.
They are the peak of Battleship design and the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Yamato and Musashi are obviously sank during war, which is the tragic fate of a Warship, but it is sad that the Vanguard was scrapped.
I was in London two years ago with friends and we visited ths Golden Hinge, a replique of Francis Drakes pirate ship, which was cool, exept for the fact that I am almost two meters tall, and had to crawl through the small decks.
I live in Heidelberg, which is close to the city of Speyer, which has an awesome tech museum.
They have extraordinary exhibits, planes, ships, a decomissioned Bundeswehr UBoat, an Buran, crazy shit.
Martian’s: we have the technology to travel between planets, we are superior
Royal Navy: hehe big boat with big guns go boom
a fellow man of culture, GUP rules, and go Saunders,and here's my own meme
Tripod: By, they only have those tiny little peewee cannons that they tried to hit us with, funny funny!
Royal Navy: U wot m8?
hahaha loading ram go vrrrrrrr
The howling sound of the tripods is so badass
Aliens: we have come to take your planet
British Navy: I certainly hope you have a license for that acquisition sir!!
Watching the Martians getting shot and hit was amazing
i thought they are supposed to have shields
@@Dnbray no that's the American version, this one is mainly based off of the H.G Wells version of the story made over 100 years ago
@@RackHasAttacked so is this pretty true to that book
@@Dnbray yes
@@Dnbray that one aspect may be true to the book, but overall no, story has been 'improved' in the usual way to match someone's conception of how to entertain.
Best scene of the serie. Seeing old pre-WWI warships firing on alien tripods was amazing.
I wish movie and show producers would take note: this is what audiences want to see more of; we don't need so many personal survival or romance stories inserted into science fiction as the focal point. We want to see interesting and dynamic engagements between military hardware and alien technology, and how world leaders, military, scientists or whatever try to respond to the threat.
@@Battlecry17 agreed. Like Independence Day.
@@trainenthusiast5199 Yes, but perhaps trying to be a bit more sensible and "realistic" with the scenario and response.
Seeing old pre-ww1 warships failing and only destroying 2 Tripods by ramming and destroying itself in the process is what you mean you want 🤣
@@Battlecry17 like how? 🤔
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds remains definitive.
Almost 2 years on and I still come to watch this scene
This is a good scene, but the thunder child should have had centre stage.
True, but she still gets to kick arse lol
Alan Aspinall true she did.
The shot emphasis (camera shots) and organization of the editorial cuts obscure the Thunder Child's heroics. (Also, I feel seeing 2 machines wiped out in one sequence weakens the nightmarish danger of the invaders, and is not fathfull to the novel. The most frightening depictions of alien power appear in the Pal and Spielberg movies (which are barely faithful to Wells in any but a general way) where the invaders are god-like, indestructible and all powerful. True nightmare. This version here is more realistic in a sense, but not as overwhelming as the prior versions I am citing. But, this is the best thing I've seen so far of the BBC series.
@@RSEFX
You fail to remember then that the Thunderchild in the novel rams one Tripod to destruction and when it turns on another, the Heat-Ray detonates its magazines and the ship explodes in the face of the second Tripod; destroying it as well. And the Thunderchild isn't a battleship in the novel; it's a torpedo-ram. We never find out if the long-range guns of a Dreadnaught-class battleship would have been effective against the Martians. We can assume they would have been; naval guns fire over the horizon.
Also, when the Martians attack Shepperton, one of them is brought down by a common artillery piece. It's noted with this evidence that humanity's weapons can hurt them, the Martians turn to their rocket-deployed Black Smoke, dousing any suspected artillery positions from long range. That's the true power of the Martians in the novel; they adapt. Just when it seems like humanity might have a chance, they brutally disabuse that notion by adjusting their tactics. If battleship guns might be able to take on the Tripods, the Martians Flying Machine and its ability to rain Black Smoke on the land nullifies that advantage too.
And as is said in the book, only about 20 Martians land in England. 20 of them and they destroy London; the seat of the British Empire, in a matter of days. That's their overwhelming power.
@@DomWeasel but if the time set is pre-1906, there would have been no Dreadnoughts, 5,000 yards might have been their engagement range then, before Fisher came on as CIC Med Fleet, the range was as little as 3,000 yards. Mind you the British could have called upon dozens of Pre-Dreadnought Battleships and probably the finest Naval Officers in history. Seeing what happened in the story, the Martian craft couldn't have went near any major port of the Royal Navy, that means, Dover, the Nore, Portsmouth, Plymouth, all would have been out of bounds. Mind you the gun caliber most common in the RN at that time was 12 inch guns firing a 750 to 850 pound shell, with 4 guns per battleship.
Martians: *exist*
Churchill : *"We don't do that here."*
Yeah we don’t exist on earth
Churchil wasn't prime minister in 1905 when this is set
@@harrisonkey698 But he was First lord of Admiralty around that time (1911), and in 1905 was Home Secretary if I remember rightly. He would have had political authority in 1905 regardless
@@lotusluminance5872 touché
Hitler probably came on the dark side of the moon and mars
Classic case for "Dude, hold my tea"!
Martians: Finally we can take over Earth!
HMS Thunderchild: IM BACK FOR ROUND TWO BLOODSUCKERS!
Someone FINALLY got the Heat-Ray right. It's a ray of HEAT - there's no glowing beam or anything, just the light refraction caused by the heat.
X2
There's a SLIGHT glow so the viewer can see where the beam is. But it's probably an Infrared Laser in any case.
I still like the other version better imo
But it's all explodey. I want to see swathes of flame suddenly appear.
I know it’s not true to the book, but I liked Steven Spielberg’s take on it in that their “heat rays” are like bug zappers.
These are probably the largest versions of the Tripods that I've ever seen. They're absolutely gigantic.
Yes completly out of proprtion
@METEOR STORM the 2005 ver will win for sure
METEOR STORM The 2005 tripods would win for sure, not sure if you remember fully but they are extremely flexible and quite fast as well.
Chronas and they had energy shields
@Orca God wait really? what is their height? cause they look like just a few storeys tall
Best part of the whole mini series. I crap you not.
In my opinion this tripod looks cooler compared to the 2005 tripod
Movies in America: America saves the world
Movies in the Uk: For the Queen
Both countries are historical aggressors.
Britain - we will create colonies wherever we can, turning the local population into drug addicts, we will start a bunch of wars.
America - stick our nose wherever possible, buy slaves and unleash a bunch of wars.
I think the alien invasion is what you deserve.
Or for the king in this sense
get over yourself lmao
@@alexcake1966 remember when George says this is punishment
For the acts of colonialism and slavery what if this is God’s angels
@@alexcake1966 ah yes 13yr me sat playing COD is evil and should be killed by aliens
Martians: *Eradicating Humans in an early offensive*
Humans: *Bring their ships*
Martians: *Have not researched Airships yet...* 'FUUUUUU!'
Great Britain has entered the modern era.
zefferss dang right we did
Tungsten Wall airships? I think you mean ships right?
@@Justarandomdragon6971 Its a reference to an old RTS.
When in early game as Martians; the Humans (AI) could bring their warships to coastal battles. They have stupidly long ranges, and can sit at the edge of the map where water is too deep to reach them with your fighting machines.
Only about mid game will Martians unlock Air-ships, and Hydrogen Cannons to counter them.
EDIT: Keep in mind this version; there are no space ships or stations. The invaders literally shot themselves out of a massive cannon to reach Earth.
The aliens couldn't be allowed to Kirov reporting.
Officer: Invaders in coming sir !
Captain: well its time to salute our guests, FIRE !
Martians: We've come to take over.
Royal Navy: So you have chosen death.
I wish there were more scenes with the dreadnaughts, those ships opening up was awesome.
I agree
A scene of the Thunderchild's captain and crew making their final stand to protect the fleeing ships from the invaders.
If there's one thing that will never fail to horrify me about the Tripods, it's the sheer amount of ground they cover in just a few steps.
just picture yourself and compare the ground you cover in one step, to the ground covered in one step by an Ant. :)
They were discribed as moving as fast as a flying bird.
It's the same in the books, I honestly think HG Wells was a bit crazy that he was able to write something so scary back then, like I wonder if he hallucinated.
1:15 I love the sounds it makes
The horns from the Navy ships really give you goosebumps innit?
Martians: We're here to take your planet
Royal Navy: *Arrives*
Martians: Why do I hear boss music?
intense yeeting boiling tea at the martians skin giving them like 50th degree burns due to the absolute boiling temperature
Wrong. "Why do I hear DOOM music?"
one final effort starts playing as multiple dreadnoughts take up firing solutions and begin a steady and constant barrage
Sky starts singing Latin
Tripods: “BEHOLD MY BOSS MUSIC!!”
Battleships: “I reject your boss music…. *AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN!!!”*
“Parry this you filthy Martian.”
I remember playing a war of the world's RTS as a kid. The solution was always the Royal Navy ... where they could reach. Everywhere else you built a solid wall of high caliber autoloading "anti-aircraft" artillery and dared the Martians to make a move.
The AI knew that too so Martians were actually the harder of the two campaigns. Everything was so expensive and you had no practical way to really secure your holdings outside of reassigning machines that you needed to fight on the front line. To round it out if you waited too long the humans became able to kill your expensive machines ever more efficiently.
1:16 those tripods be standing tall af.
Martians: We’re here to conquer all of Earth.
British Empire: You are not permitted to touch my current and future properties.
Martians: Travel 84000000km to invade Earth
World of warship players. Free exp lets go boys!!
You know that might be a fun game mode.
@@hycron1234 I still waiting for the subs
Needs to be an event
like u know how far it is pshh...
@@koskutis Yes, I do. Benefits from working in NASA in my early days
When she stopped at 2:58, I would have scooped up the ground briefly before saying, “I’m gonna put some dirt in your eye!” 😂
0:30 boat at shore, jumps into shallow water | next scene 100 meteres from shore 😂
"Mess with the tea, take a shell to the knee."
I'm stealing this
It rhymes
Underrated
I have to say, the gunnery on those warships was certainly spot on, considering it was a small, moving target at some range.
Gunners. The backbone of any naval firepower.
I'll say. Considering naval gunnery of this era was barely able to hit a stationery warship, it was basically just rain a bunch of shells in the vicinity and hope one hits.
@@1597B ...2nd russian Pacific-Squadron...! 🤪
2:36 Rafe Spall has such a funny run 😂
Those Brit dreadnoughts are amazing shots, they are nailing the legs of these moving, scrawny tripod legs from out at sea.
Young Winston was still in South Africa covering the Boer War at this time or else he would have been on the beach actually SAYING "We shall fight on the beaches!" 40 years earlier ha ha.
Did he cover the british concentration camps of that war as well?
@@van-sx1332 Nah. Germans had that covered with the tribes they were fighting at the time . What they did they applied to the holocaust in ww2.
@@lulzalfest I doubt that my man, the germans had their colonies for a short period of time, barely did anything there. The british concentration camps though are very well documented, like the sterilization of blacks by the US government in the early 1900's.
@@van-sx1332 you need to pick up a book sometime. The German Empire committed some horrible genocides in the relatively short time they had their German colonies.
@@stevenobrien557 ''A book''? Would Peter Pan do? Also, genocide is not the same as occasional massacre. You can't possibly compare the german colonial empire to the british one. The boer concentration camps stand as a fact.
Alien: *step the water*
British navy: oi sir, you dont have focking fishing loicence
funny because it actually makes sense
that noise is chilling. love it
Bacteria: Imma end these aliens' whole career
5/10 needs more Thunderchild. I want to see some ramming damnit.
whats ramming?
@@harrisonkey698 in the book, the Thunder Child was a Torpedo Ram boat.
The battle was between it, and three Tripods.
It took one Tripod out by ramming one of the legs.
Straight away the remaining tripods responded by firing their heatrays at the ship, which detonated all of it's onboard munitions.
Unfortunately for an additional tripod, it was practically underneath it when it went off, so another tripod went down.
(* I haven't read the book in an eternity so I could be partly wrong)
@@harrisonkey698 ramming, it's a naval action usually when a extreme close range a ship would run straight into another with its sharp front (the bow) ships such as destroyers found it to be very effective against submarines.
@@rayjaymor8754 when I first read the book in the school library, it was like my first sci-fi book that I ever read in my life but I didn't know that Thunderchild is a torpedo ram boat and the author draw her in the book like as if she is a pre-dreadnought battleship. I must had forgot to read the part but the part where she rammed a Tripod and exploded is way cool and epic. Yes, I did some checking in the book I read and the book was published under Great Illustrated Classics.
Imperial Officer I remember that! A friend had a copy and I read it at his house. The martians scared the snot out of me.
That beach is at the bottom of my road...we watched them film it.
@S C CGI dude lol
@@dawidpotega882 it was a joke my guy.
@@yeagerist897 Sorry it's hard to a distinct joke from mere stupidity of people nowadays I'm still not convinced just because you're
@@dawidpotega882 I got that it was a joke, it seems you tend to be exposed around stupidity all day.
@@yeagerist897 no it wasnt a joke "my guy."
He asked a stupid question and is too ashamed to admit it.
Ain't no Alien tech that is going to stop a direct hit from a 16inch shell.
The tripod sound like this:aaahhhhoooomwwmmwmwmmmm
Martians: Exists
British Home Fleet: *"Observe"*
Damn fine gunnery by the RN! I love how that cruiser near the end of clip comes so close to shore she is risking running aground but is just firing hell on that tripod! Fantastic!
Tripod: hah hah u puny
Royal Navy: *18 Inch Shell Noises Intensifies*
The ships triumphantly sounding their horns just makes these scene better.
Thunderchild: “I got a shell with your name on it”
I've seen many defending this show claiming it is "unoriginal" , to make a film or show based as close to the original work as possible and that the directors wanted to improve upon the original with new ideas; but I believe recreating the original or at least faithfully following it's plot would be honoring and respecting Well's legacy.
He deserves that much.
British Broadcast Communists like to propagate woke bullshit and they cant do that without wrecking everything.
Weird, this seems a lot more faithful looking compared to the other adaptations. It even seems to take place in the right era. It's terrifying seeing these machines in Victorian England and interesting to see both sides have more of a fighting chance like in the book. Plus, more accurate heat rays, invisible. Not to mention the black smoke.
@@TayoEXE While this was closer to the original Victorian era (1832-1901) setting, this was set sometime after 1901 which is considered the Edwardian era (1901-1914).
@@TayoEXE That's three things they get right. Unfortunately, they changed the rest.
Your absolutly right not much respect to great writer from that period
Dreadnought Captain: Gunnery Chief?
Gunnery Chief: Yes Sir?
Dreadnought Captain: You see that tripod on the beach?
Gunnery Chief: Yes Sir?
Dreadnought Captain: I don't want to see it anymore.
Gunnery Chief (smirks): Very Good Sir!
Gunnery Chief: All batteries, fire! Fire!
@@CaptainM792 it would be more like "All batteries fire target Bering 275°, full salvo, fire at will." & "god save the king" just because Britain.
@@ripofftechtips5918 no it wouldn't.
Everybody seems to think these are dreadnoughts despite it being set before hms dreadnought. These are pre dreadnoughts
@@sithdoestat4432 Hmm, good point but those don't look like IronClads
* Tripods appear on English coast"
Tripods: Why do I hear boss music?
i love how the martians made a sound when Amy and the kid and the dad are on the water
Martians: Time to invade the Earth, lets start with the British Empire.
Royal Navy:....So you chosen death!
The moment you realize this is the closest thing to a faithful Thunder Child moment.
The story background is unique and somewhat perfect and the visual effects is also perfect.
Remind me of Cowboys & Aliens (Daniel Craig).
I know there are no correlation between the two but it's the only film about alien invasion take place in Wild West America where humans fight back using firearms on horses, while this one is take place during the height of industrial revolution where humans can fight back using battleships.
Mars: We will invade the Earth and plunder its resources.
The British: Hold my tea, good sir.