Looks watchable.
New 'War of the Worlds' TV miniseries
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So, this is definitely airing in Canada on the 6th:
Retcons like that are not uncommon when a movie ends with a sense of finality but later on somebody decides they want to cash in on the concept some more.
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There's also a spanish teaser:
Also, New Zealand is starting to air it on the 13th:
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/...42-2019.html#new-series-the-war-of-the-worlds
Also, New Zealand is starting to air it on the 13th:
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/...42-2019.html#new-series-the-war-of-the-worlds
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Heck, most TV series adaptations of movies have been straight-up reboots, like M*A*S*H or Logan's Run or Planet of the Apes, or have altered key details to make the movie premise work as a series, like Starman (which pushed the movie's timeframe back about a dozen years so the title character could have a teenage son in the present) or Men in Black: The Series (which ignored K's retirement at the end of the movie). War of the Worlds: The Series actually fit better with its source movie than most TV adaptations. It retconned a lot of the movie's assumptions, but in a way that fit surprisingly well with the movie, not so much changing what happened in the movie as reinterpreting what it meant. We only thought they died, they were actually dormant. We only thought they were from Mars (something that was never actually stated as a fact in the film outside of the prologue narration), they were actually from the planet Mor-Tax around a star 40 light-years away in Taurus. They have the power to hide inside human bodies now, but the movie never said they couldn't. And so on.
The hardest thing to reconcile was that the world had largely forgotten that the invasion had ever happened. This was rationalized in the show as some sort of mass amnesia resulting from some alien influence on the human mind, as well as people just not wanting to face the reality of it; but it still pretty much requires the invasion to have been less destructive than the movie showed, since the near-total demolition of all major cities would've been pretty hard to forget.
if you have T+E (I had to look it up).
Would have thought CTV-SiFi would have been a more obvious choice.
I'm not even sure what T+E is or if I have it (looked it up and no I don't have it), but I agree that it would have been more at home on a more widespread channel like CTV's channel. Btw, I still think that's an awfully generic name. Well, so was Space, but at least they'd made a name for themselves with it.
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Does look interesting. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that we hear about a US air date at some point. Now that I've seen some footage I do think this looks like a good fit for Masterpiece. They don't usually go for sci-fi, but the source material could be enough to get them to air it.
I just hope it doesn't show up on BBC America, I don't get it.
I just hope it doesn't show up on BBC America, I don't get it.
Wow... OK, I had no idea what you two were talking about, and had to take to Google. TBH I haven't watched anything on an actual TV channel since Discovery S2 ended, and it was still called "Space" then... I had no idea it had rebranded!
"Space" was short, catchy, and to the point. "CTV Sci-Fi Channel" is just... clunky. Marketing didn't bring their "A" game this time around. Oh well.
Oh, and no, I don't have T+E either.
It had only been done recently too. I'd heard of them planning to do it for months, but whether they were going to actually settle on that name or if it was a placeholder remained to be seen until recently. They've done it to realign their channels to all have similar branding. Yeah, it's definitely clunky. It actually reminds me of the time I was playing first 'The Sims' where all TV channels would be classified by generic categories. That's what this feels like. They've abandoned a well established brand with decades of cred for it.
Toe Doh Naka-Tay!If it doesn't have melting bodies, creatures saying "To Life Immortal" and Lt. Col. Paul Ironhorse....I'm probably going to pass.
I watched the first episode last night and it certainly takes its time telling the story, which is told from several perspectives and periods. It's not just an invasion tale, but deals with the aftermath as well, and also involves the conflicts faced by an adulterous couple living in late nineteenth century England. Hardly an edge-of-the-seat adventure, the first episode progresses with slow deliberation and manages to draw the viewer in with interesting characters facing dire circumstances.
The War Machines exhibited a few surprising characteristics and visually appear most like those in Stephen Spielberg's adaptation. The heat ray is clever and understated. The gas attacks convincingly malevolent and smothering. At the moment, I think this is my favorite interpretation of the alien tripods. They're huge and fast and usually silent, or at least purring quietly, stepping past in the background as vaguely seen shadows in thick, English fog as they gather their numbers and press their attacks.
I'll stick with it for now; telling War of the Worlds as a series presents quite a few challenges -- especially after so many other adaptations, and so far they look to be meeting those challenges head on.
The War Machines exhibited a few surprising characteristics and visually appear most like those in Stephen Spielberg's adaptation. The heat ray is clever and understated. The gas attacks convincingly malevolent and smothering. At the moment, I think this is my favorite interpretation of the alien tripods. They're huge and fast and usually silent, or at least purring quietly, stepping past in the background as vaguely seen shadows in thick, English fog as they gather their numbers and press their attacks.
I'll stick with it for now; telling War of the Worlds as a series presents quite a few challenges -- especially after so many other adaptations, and so far they look to be meeting those challenges head on.
Not a heat-beam?
The spinning ball seems like a magnetron? So that means that we are talking about microwaves? It's a wall of death moving in every direction, igniting anything flammable, like people and clothing?
That seems to be phase 1 of the attack. Phase 2 is a traditional heat beam
I'm an episode behind, ain't I?
I don't know - it's 2 hour episodes in England, and 1 hour in Spain, and who knows how long elsewhere... Very confusing and hard to discuss. And it will be even harder soon when yet another show with exactly the same name comes out.
There's no advertising in England. 2 hours without adds, can be close to 3 hours with adds. Does Spain have advertising? I saw an Hour and a half version with no ads, then shrunk the picture down to finger print size becuase most of my attention was diverted to a game of scrabble I was playing with myself, which is probably why I didn't notice a change in the alien's weapons systems.
My bad.
My bad.
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