Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Week 7 Mars: War of the Worlds

I feel like "War of the Worlds" is more known for its radio dramatization than for its actual story.  There isn't much to it outside of "Martians come to Earth and fuck shit up."  There was no reason given as to why.  They just land on a farm, don't even attempt to communicate, and *FWASH*.

A little praise I can give is the fact that these Martians die to a common human illness, that's a nice oversight on their part.  I'd be curious to see this from the Martian's perspective; maybe have the Martians believe they're so evolved that human disease can't hurt them.  They believe this so much that they don't even bother testing it.

"Hey, Space Tom."
"Yeah, Space Jim?"
"You think human disease will affect our biology?"
"Lol, nope.  We're so advanced and evolved, there is no way their illnesses could harm us!"
"Sounds like a solid theory, Space Tom."

Another bit I especially enjoyed was a line from the radio dramatization, where I believe the other human Pearson meets says something like, "You call this a war?  The Martians are at war with us as much as humans are at war with ants!"  That one line really stands out to me.  It puts the entire scenario into perspective.  If we were to have a planet-wide invasion against our technology at the time, we'd be properly screwed.

Its something about being completely unprepared for such an occasion.  It reminds me of one game I play, Elite: Dangerous.  The game takes place in a 1:1 scale map of our galaxy, yet there were no aliens to be seen.  It took a whole two years before a player discovered an alien, or rather, the alien discovered the player.  The developers of the game later said that these aliens have been in the game since day 1, it just took a while for someone to stumble across them.

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