War of the worlds season 2 opening

[emperorintellect]

Sorry meant 4th season

[emperorintellect]

Great show. It forecasts a future that is coming true today, using otherworldly themes. It was 2 seasons too early though. This should have happened in a third season. Still epic though.

[MasterJediDude]

Season 1 was bad enough, but Season 2 was just awful. There's a reason that season 1 got the reboot -- it basically sucked, ignored many elements from the movie on which is was based and the plots/effects were awful. They tried for a fresh start in Season 2, but it jumped into the apocalyptic setting too quickly. The extreme jump into Season 2 didn't sit well with many fans and they quickly abandoned the show. Adrian Paul is the only good thing that came out of this show.

[Elazam]

wouldn't the wiewers get quite angry with this season? I mean, They want to see what happened after the ciffhanger, and suddenly everythung's different? But this setting seems better though...

[kpowers]

If you like season 2 or not I think we all can agree that killing off Col. Ironhorse was a big mistake.

[alucard624]

@kpowers Yep, that was a HUGE mistake, considering how much more action took place in Season 2's episodes. Ironhorse would have fit in perfectly with the vibe Season 2 was going for. Has anyone ever asked Richard Chaves or Philip Akin as to why they were unceremoniously booted from the show? I would frankly love to hear them tell us.

And I did actually dig the apocalyptic feel that the second year had. Made for some interesting stories. But it felt tainted at the same time really.

[kpowers]

@alucard624 I just got the dvd and have been watching season 2. I think at the time season 2 seemed really dark, mostly for killing half of the cast off. At the time people were not use to seeing half the cast getting knocked off. I like season 1 and 2 but like anything you can point out some things you don't like. For season 2 it's gotta be killing off Norton and Ironhorse. Also (though I'm not done with season 2 yet) seems like most of the action seems to take place in that little neighborhood

[BrianSATX79]

Season two is finally being released on DVD on October 26!

[OminousLatinUsername]

The only reason I ever liked this second season was because of the decaying civilization they set it in. I really wish they had spent more time working on making it come to life.

[radix9523]

Man, I remember watching this as a kid! It scared the piss outta me...literally.

[PleaseGoAway1000]

Not sure about the content of this series but the opening is one of the best EVER to any sci fi EVER made, and thats what makes it captivating.

[fisk0]

@PleaseGoAway1000 Yeah, the opening theme is one of the best TV show themes I've heard in any genre. I'm rather sad that I don't have it in any kind of acceptable quality, otherwise I'd listen to it on my mp3 player all the time.

The footage for the opening is also awesome, with all the lightning and colours you love from cyberpunk films. Some of the episodes were fantastic as well, but over all the quality was a lot lower than the first season. I still love it, mainly because of the opening.

[PleaseGoAway1000]

Cool. Its a bit like tales from the crypt, another highly captivating opening but suspect on the main event.

[PleaseGoAway1000]

You should download the series using utorrent and convert from divx to mpg, the hiss goes and your fine despite the slight reduction in picture quality.

[Cherubicon]

@fisk0 In my opinion, the 2nd season was superior. In terms of atmosphere it was miles away. The first season was typical 80's cheesiness but the 2nd season was darker and nastier... I wonder if the show was made by rivetheads.

[TheNidus]

@fisk0 It's out on DVD now.

[KnightInExile7]

@fisk0 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :) 

[bloodandbones9]

@PleaseGoAway1000 This was a dead serious series. I am surprised it lasted 2 seasons, the other one I liked was "Werewolf". Serious stuff never lasts long on t.v.

[PleaseGoAway1000]

@bloodandbones9 ... I trust your a bit of a guru. In that case, which episode was it were the guys are chasing a sphere around about town in pure daylight? I downloaded and watched alot and scanned the rest and just could not find this?

[bloodandbones9]

@PleaseGoAway1000 unfortunately I haven't watched it for many years. I just searched for war of the worlds yesterday after being on the net for years. The guy who uploaded the werewolf series either got booted or closed his account before I got to the end of the series.

[PleaseGoAway1000]

@bloodandbones9 thanks

[PleaseGoAway1000]

@bloodandbones9 Ajarzian has it uploaded

[KnightInExile7]

@bloodandbones9 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :) 

[bloodandbones9]

@PleaseGoAway1000 sorry it took me so long. Its familiar, but not sure. someone commented on my comment. I hope it helps!

[KnightInExile7]

@PleaseGoAway1000 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :)

[thuncat1]

this season killed the show.

this season was good but, too brave new world, too fast.

[bloodandbones9]

@thuncat1 yeah maybe, but adrian paul...he is good.

[Southblaine]

I liked this season. I wounder why it got canceled?? I would like to see another show like this one based on War of the Worlds movie( Not the one with Tom Cruz)

[MsXizan]

Volume level-wise, this video is better than the video for the opening titles of Season 1.

[goldsmith3rd]

raw gang war fare

[thesurpriseshow]

Looks & Sounds Like MA-MA-MA-MAX HEADROOM...

[LordNecron69]

This is the greatest cyber-punk opening of any TV Series ever! Humanity is clearly collapsing on itself and the aliens are just taking advantage of our disfunction.

[dragonknight1984]

The invading alien Martians :CHANGE" is happening! Barrack Obama the Martian peacemaker is making progress plus Iran's youth mega protests wrecking hakok in Itan.

Those young do or die martyrs are Martians ready to conquer Earth under the John Lennon doctrince.

Now they need a singer like Lynn Minmey to sing and win over the violent warmongers like Jim Il Jong,The Iranian Dictators,The Talbian,and all American & Mexican Street Gangs.

[Metrosplash]

Season 2 was a radical departure from the first season. But it was great that it changed, think of how Buffy changed from season to season. I also loved the advocacy, but they failed time after time, at least Manna and Malzor succeeded upon occassion, which made the second season so exciting. The Morthren attacked humanity through drugs, computer dependencies and viruses.

[albee1000]

All they had to do was create World of Warcraft. They would've peacefully brought humanity to it's knees.

[Back21987]

Catherine Disher was sexy as hell as Mana.

[superjoel01]

why do poeple not like this season.

it RULES

[fisk0]

I think the main issue was the lack of continuity with the first season.

If this had been released as an entirely different show it could probably have been one of the best dark sci-fi shows of the last century, but instead they launched it as the second season of WOTW, which it did not have a lot in common with.

[pitcalco]

@fisk0 To be honest, I liked the second season a lot. However, as you say, it was so much different from the first that I didn't realise it was a second season of the same series, rather I thought it was an entirely different series based on the original concept.

[BigSingh]

@fisk0 To me the first season was BORING. I loved this season, mainly because this opening ushered us into the future give or take two years. And with the second wave of aliens killing off the first wave made ithat much of a difference because the stories moved a little faster i.e. the Earth girl falling in love with the Alien boy, the Aliens trying harsher things to enslave the human race, etc. The second season had more over the first season.

[kpowers]

Wish they didn't killed off Col. Ironhorse. Is season 2 ever gonna come out on dvd??

[superjoel01]

dunno.

hopefully.

[chinito77]

I didn't like how it was about the same 3 hooded aliens in the cave failing each episode with their horrific plans. Yawn. I was glad that they got killed off towards the end.

[Medalion]

I hated season 2... it tries too had to be cyberpunk, distancing itself from the obvious 80's-ness of the first seasion... too dark and too different...everything... this might as well have been a completely different series separate from season 1!

[batvanio]

subtitle?

[Back21987]

I loved this time period when FOX affiliates had shows like War of the Worlds, Friday the 13th The Series, Freddy's Nightmares on Friday and Saturday nights!

[TheWraith]

yip they were great shows, i used to love how sci-fi in the uk used to show them from midnight to 4am before the channel went off air

now a days its 30min adverts for abb crunchers & crap :'(

[DoctorDreee]

i remember those!@Back21987 

[sagwajamesone]

@Back21987 I was glad to read someone else remembers this great time for television in the late 1980's. 20 years later season 1 looks very 1980's in several episodes.Season 2 holds up better years later,because the show was going for a different look,grittier and nastier,more today,or any future decade.Season 2 also had more action at times.Both seasons were good for different reasons.I was glad that they did not end the series with a clffhanger,and tied up the loose ends at the end of season2.

[darrenmajesty]

I hated this season, season 1 is the only season imo, they should reboot the show starting from scratch with the same characters and premise of season 1 with today's grittier and cohesive storytelling styles.

[fisk0]

I partly agree, they should keep the visual cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic style of the second season, but have the characters and most of the premise of the first season (that "in the 1950's aliens invaded but today NOBODY REMEMBERS IT HAPPENING" was just stupid). But, yes, this is a show that would be worthy of the Battlestar Galactica treatment (the original WOTW show was a lot better than the original BSG ever was).

[alagear]

Music's awesome!

[fisk0]

Oh yes, the intro and end credits music was reason enough to catch the show every week.

It didn't hurt that it had an occasional good episode with plenty of post-apocalyptic and/or cyberpunk visuals at times either.

I would never say the second season was good in any way - but I'd watch anything if it had this music, even Friends or V.I.P.

[avantibarbari]

I think the people that took over the show were some goths or rivetheads because it became ALOT darker.

[alucard624]

Also, this was the season that I caught first, and then went back and watched the better first season in reruns.

[alucard624]

For some reason, I like this seasons theme song better than the first season. Don't get me wrong, I love the first season more for the better stories, but the second season had a better theme song IMO. Still, the second year was all over the place with the storytelling. One day, Paramount may release it but I seriously doubt it at this point.

[fisk0]

oh yes, the opening theme is fantastic, it's one of my favourite TV show themes ever. Sure, the episodes where mostly pretty bad, but the music and the whole theme sequence had great music and wonderful cyberpunky visuals.

I'm a bit sad about the fact that the sound quality is so bad in my video, you can barely hear the fantastic music. I hope there will be a DVD release just so I can listen to the full quality music again. :)

[Roujin120]

I think season 2 should've been season 1. If you really think about the 1953 film being linked to the show then the environment for the show should've been post apocalyptic. The martians destroyed our world in six days in the film. We would probably have been in recovery still in the 80's

[fisk0]

yeah, the plot device in the first season about no one remembering the 1953 invasion was really stupid. The kind of damage the martians inflicted in the movie certainly would have taken decades to repair.

But since season 1 established that no one remembered the invasion and that their world looked like ours, it got strange when we got to season 2 and suddenly we were in a mad max style enviroment.

[NightVoxx]

I used watch this show all the time back in the day. It was always on at 11:30pm just before I went out to the Qe2 to party!

[KaliopeMoonSong]

where can i get season 2!!!!!!

[WAROFTHEWORLDSfan]

were did you get/find this and were can i get/watch the full season?

[fisk0]

I think I got them on Demonoid a couple of years ago, I lost my copies of the files in an hard drive crash last year, but there should be vhs rips available on some of the more obscure torrent sites.

[PoPoNellie]

I liked this season so much better than one. They seemed a little to gore effects focused on season one. That I tired quickly of the new aginess of the first season.

[ALEXWROCKS]

I loved this series. They released season 1 on DVD but I've heard nothing about season 2 being released. Season 2 may have been dark but it was ok. I wish they hadn't killed Norton or the Colonel.

[Rothirsch]

Season 1 was very well made, especially with the original martinan machines of the 1953 movie (still the best film-version of the story). But the second season was only crap :-(

[ganthonyvr]

this series were awsome!!! are they on dvd? are the series here on youtube?

[80rockforever]

yes im putting them up

[TvGyrl]

I hated season 2!

Frank Mancuso Jr. took over and COMPLETELY RUINED the show...jerkoff!

[captaintripps6969]

at least Friday the 13th: the series didn't suck so much

[TvGyrl]

when they got rid of Ryan Dallion, the show did fall off a bit.

the dude that replaced him STUNK.

[captaintripps6969]

Oh you evil munchkin!! I had forgotten (THANKFULLY) about that!! I remember thinking later on he looked like a poor mans McGuyver. I also recall thinking that red head was the sexiest woman alive, oh the agony..... er 80's..... :-D

[orondeamir]

My God, I used to love this show back in the day. It came on before Munsters, and Then Tales from the Dark Side. Word up.

[Behinder77]

I am still waiting for 3rd season. There are some unrevealed mysteries from the First Series like Quinn and synths from Quar'To. This plots was abandoned before 2nd season and in the result we have brand new series, but i dont think the new is better.

Is it possible to get this on torrent or emule? Dont see this at all nowhere.

[fisk0]

I doubt a third season will ever happen, and I agree it was a strange choise to abandon the whole season 1 story in favor of a new for season 2. I saw season 2 at the Demonoid torrent tracker a few months ago, might still be there.

[Behinder77]

Who is in charge of production? Maybe i will send them scenario for 3rd season :)

[fisk0]

Well, the show was cancelled 17 years ago, and seeing that the show is almost forgotten by now, I don't think they'll ever do another season (if they're not doing a total remake like Battlestar Galactica).

[fisk0]

Can't you spammers just go hang yourselves.

[999pingu111]

i only saw the 1st season

[Blackroo1967]

I'll go on the comment that Kwizard said. It has a more darker, more eerie setting.

[Soytugitana]

Oh my god! My mind broke just now! I can't believe I never realized that Adrian Paul from the Highlander (another GREAT tv series) was in WotW:The Series!!! WOW!

[digipeeper]

Yep, thats where he started in sindication, after that it was in Dark Shadows and finally Highlander.

[digipeeper]

The 2nd season was total bullshit. The post dystopic atmosphere was lamer then a broken leg. The so called Morthrens were as stupider then roaches going to the Raid Motel. The original Martian invaders from the 1st season, George Pal production was more eerie and formidable and their evil plans work. Why they change the whole format killed the legacy.

[DarkMaelstrom]

"The post dystopic atmosphere was lamer then a broken leg."

Hehe. Nope.

[digipeeper]

So what was so great of the lame ass second season?

[DarkMaelstrom]

I could list, but that would just surpass the word limit on youtube. So in a simple nut-shell: Everything that you seem to consider 'lame ass', is pretty much 'great' (If you insist on using that word).

Continuity is an issue, no doubt. Season one had more consistency - no doubt again. But that's not a reason that I'll be using to deem something this decent as being lame. That's all.

[digipeeper]

Being a open minded person I do respect your personal reasons why you may enjoy the 2nd season. My reasons why 2nd season was weak was.

1. The big jump with time line and new and uninteresting invaders.

2. The change of cast, all the cool character such as Ironhorse and Drake was wiped out. And leaving the team with only 3 characters to fight the alien threat(not believable)

[digipeeper]

3. The most important reason why the series was even weaker. The villains' purpose are not believable and their reasons sound sooo cliche'. Malzor, Mana, and Artix are so idiotic every thing they say and do make them look like jack-asses which shows you all their plan in every episode always fail to work.

I prefer the Martians over the Morthrens!

[DarkMaelstrom]

Retrospectively, I saw certain qualities in the second season. Of course the execution had substantial flaws. Season One was nigh perfect, in my opinion. Season two explored turfs that had potential, but the finer plot executions left a lot of be desired. Your reasons are blunt criticism, which I accept; I saw them as unrealised merits that could've achieved some good. Really, they are flaws, but usually to have a flaw, you have to mess up something that could be good.

[DarkMaelstrom]

I hope you understand my position on the subject/topic.

[digipeeper]

Whatever

[DarkMaelstrom]

Heh. Right. Whatever.

[digipeeper]

Heh, heh, heh, yeah right Whatever, heh heh heh.

[DarkMaelstrom]

Ah, another example of your fine maturity. [EndSarcasm] Please, troll on someone else's time.

[digipeeper]

Yeah like o.k. fragile.

[DarkMaelstrom]

*Laughs.*

[digipeeper]

Maybe there is one sci-f series we can both agree with, Doctor Who!!!!!

[TvGyrl]

NOTHING!

[Kwizard]

This is a classic intro.. dark... I like all the blue in it too.. looks eery as fukk

[nortofacto]

Oh yeah I'd completely forgotten about this! Very different to the 1st series - if it wasn't for the remaining leading cast members I'd have thought it was a completely different show!

[AdamSonOfJohn]

It's funny. I bought the Season One DVD pack when it came out. I thought it would've been as great as it was when I was 12. I watched it and couldn't believe i ever liked it. Funny how that works....funny that TV was ever that bad.

[captaintripps6969]

lol I did the same thing with He-Man and Thundercats.  Sitting there thinking "I liked THIS?"

[AdamSonOfJohn]

I know.  And those were cartoons for kids so it's at least vaguely understandable. War of the Worlds season one actually sucked for adults. They had no excuse.

I haven't been through all of the YouTube WOTW season 2 episodes, but if they chose to remake it under that format, but modernize the quality it might work.

[captaintripps6969]

Hey man we're the same age, sweet! I'm 12/23/77. I watched this show @ 12 as well. it was Freddy's Nightmares (you can catch that on Chiller sat. channel) followed by Friday 13th: the series and WoTW at nine o'clock central time.  this is a bit goofy to mention but I went out and bought a tuning fork so I could use it to relax like the guy in the show..... God I was impressionable..

[AdamSonOfJohn]

You bought a tuning fork? hahahaha. Funny you mention that. I used to make those alien lasers from season 2 for fun using tin foil.

I hope I'm more attractive to women then I was 17 years ago. Shit.....it's been 17 years.

[plaidknight]

I was but a young lad of 8 turning in and then the opening credits were so different ... and then I realized that the humans had _lost_. It still gives me chills even now.

[Viriatus]

this was awesome