Beautiful!
- Episode aired Dec 1, 2019
- 54m
After the 'victory', the true story of what happened is revealed.After the 'victory', the true story of what happened is revealed.After the 'victory', the true story of what happened is revealed.
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- TriviaAlthough this is the last episode and the main antagonists are the huge war machines. The tripods are not seen once (not including the crashed one or the beam of light)
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George Junior: Tell me about things.
Amy: Things?
George Junior: In the World.
Amy: Things?
[Amy gets into bed beside George]
Amy: Now move up then, come here.
Amy: [pause and reflects]
Amy: You know George, there's lots of marvellous things. Where I grew up, people didn't look like us, they had brown skin and often they were very poor and didn't always have enough to eat. You know what? They were so cheerful and so happy and they wore really bright colours
[pause and sighs]
Amy: and the sun, and the sun shone there, it was, so warm, so bright and the sky wasn't grey and pink, it was blue,
[pause]
Amy: clear blue. There were lots of animals, all sorts of birds of different colours, tigers, mongooses, snakes.
[pause and sighs]
Amy: Then there were the mountains, the mountains were,
[sighs]
Amy: they were bigger than you could even dream George, they were, gosh, purple, black, grey, some of them were even white with snow,
[pause]
Amy: cold white snow. I use to go visit my father up there, he'd be drawing maps. Then one day, when I was a little bit older, I got on a ship and I sailed across the oceans and I came here. I got off the ship and I thought, it's a little bit rainy,
[pause]
Amy: but I thought it was pretty, with its countryside and its cities,
[pause]
Amy: people, millions of people
[pause]
Amy: and children, thousands of children, children everywhere, they were playing and laughing, singing and eventually going to sleep.
George Junior: One day can we go there?
Amy: [long pause]
Amy: I will start packing our bags.
Even the famous Orson Welles radio play deviated from the novel and Wells was happy with that. He even told Orson about it when they met.
The trouble with this adaptation, it was underwhelming and poorly realised. Just how these spider limbed Martians even managed to develop technology given that they have no dexterity?
Writer Peter Harness crowbarred in an ecological message and the perils of colonialism. What we wanted to was some action, instead we got little of that. It might have helped if Robert Carlyle had played the Rafe Spall part of George, who by the end of it was like a limp lettuce.
- Prismark10
- Dec 2, 2019
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- Runtime54 minutes
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