Any War of the Worlds fans...

[Allyn Gibson]

I loved the first season. The second season? Not so much. I treasure my copy of J.M. Dillard's novelization of the pilot, and I wish that Pocket had done original War of the Worlds novels.

At the time, I wished for some sort of War of the Worlds/Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover. Either a time travel episode so the crew of the Enterprise-D visited Earth during the present day (shades of the original series, really), or an episode where Quinn came aboard the Enterprise-D in the 24th century (since his symbiosis had made him immortal or something) and Picard had to deal with an invasion by the aliens on another planet, like a Federation colony or something. That would have been Teh Rulz!

Sorry, fanboyism there. Sorry.

 

[DanTheGrey]

I liked both seasons, though I liked the second season a bit more when the second wave shows up and tries to right the 'incompetence' of the first.

Both had their strengths and weaknesses and I still remember the episode with the pregnant woman who was taken over and then giving birth to a hybrid being a decent epi in season 1...

 

[Mysterion]

iAs for "forgetting" the '53 war. Well, in 1938 , a whole country was made to believe in a war that did NOT exist, so it's conceivable that the opposite could be true. TV was still in its infancy back then, and no internet. So it it could still be relatively well hid.

Huh? Been awhile since I've seen the movie, but didn't the Martians blow up LA City Hall and such? How do you make people "forget" that a fleet of flying saucers (or manta-rays, or whatever you want to call them) showed in the 1950's and blew up large chunks of downtown LA?

 

[Dayton Ward]

I loved the first season. The second season? Not so much. I treasure my copy of J.M. Dillard's novelization of the pilot, and I wish that Pocket had done original War of the Worlds novels.

Me, too!

Sorry, fanboyism there. Sorry.

Fanboy confession time: Years ago, I wrote a WotW fanfic, based on the series. I submitted it to a fanzine, but the zine for which it was intended never materialized. I have no idea where the story ended up, and I'm sure if I were to unearth the thing, it would -- as KRAD might put it -- "suck wet farts out of dead pigeons."

 

[DonIago]

God willing I will never actually read a quote like that in a ST novel...(shudder)