Epilogue - Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

[sripathyakasrip]

New version out in June this year! I'm sure everyone who loved the 1978 record as a young child, who are young adults now, will buy it!

[puckering1]

and the coda to a great work, thx

[noligsky]

a proper adaptation sans hollywood and story based would be amazing. but, alas, there's no way anyone would pick it up. maybe it'd be a great miniseries but that still won't happen. truth is people are way too ignorant about real wars a century or so back let alone alien wars. spielberg had the ball and dropped it. still at least he made that crappy fourth indiana jones movie instead of doing a classic that people would've enjoyed and bought on the numerous formats we keep 'needing to'...

[marktherapper]

this was possibley the only part that scared me of this thats why i never used 2 like it but,now im abit older,its fuckin epic

[Carnage1235]

What I don't understand is why NOBODY has made a War of the Worlds movie that's based in how it is in the book.

It's always gotta be a sequel in the future, or a modern remake, or some 3rd party rubbish.

Just make a film where it's in 1895, with a man trying to find his loved one in the midst of the invasion.

[69davyd]

@Carnage1235 because no-one in hollywood has theballs to do it, in the book you get the small details of their machinery, their biology, they're food source, the birth of one on earth, remember this story was written at a time when Darwinian Theory was brand new, in a contemporary story the fantasy element of a "Martian Invasion" would fly in the face of current scientific knowledge, and may be too insulting to a "Modern" way of thinking.

[pytko3]

@69davyd And yet they're making a faithful adaptation of "John Carter of Mars."

[TheSteelKingdom]

@Carnage1235 I hear you man, don't know why that seems to be beyond the capability of modern cinema

[spacecoke]

i loved the WotW movies that i have watched, (1953 / spielberg / pendragon ) but i dont think any of them did the story as much justice as this album did, i would realy realy love to see a propper high budget movie closely based off the story like the pendragon movie did and i want peter jackson to do it.

[marktherapper]

@spacecoke in england there was live show,and it was so fuckin epic

[marktherapper]

@spacecoke in england there was live show,and it was so fuckin epic,am not sure if they did it in america,or any other country apart from germany

[JazzelJJ]

i like the scary spookymusic, it calms me

[TheCGIMaster]

this should have been in the newer film, it would have got a thumbs up for me!

[TimothyParadox1]

Well, what we should do is do extensive research on their war machines. Their biology. Then develop similar technologies or weapons that were made specifically to counter theirs. Biological weapons.

[MrMason109]

I love at the end how the narrator's voice is slowly being overtaken by the Martian music. Gives that sense of "They're back. And this time, we're fucked."

[BadGirlOfAutism]

I totally do not get what's happening in this section, I didn't understand it when I was 8 and first heard the album. It sounds as though some cities on earth have been wiped out (Madrid, Houston, Canberra), but the first speaker says he can see a green flare coming from Mars. As I understand it, that green flare happens when the martians TAKE OFF from Mars, so how could they already be on Earth destroying cities?

[GmodPlusWoW]

@BadGirlOfAutism Well, that would probably be some kinda EMP used to knock out Earth's electronics, if you remember the 2005 movie. Even though it wasn't what we truly expected, it did have a certain charm.

[Hawkeye52431]

@BadGirlOfAutism Ah, you're mixing up the 1st and 2nd epilogues. The 1st one is from the original HG Wells story (or thereabouts) where the narrator just gives a summary of events between his writing the story and the end of "Dead London" the previous song. The 2nd epilogue is a Jeff Wayne addition - it deals with a NASA mission to Mars in the then present-day; or at least it appears to. I'm not entirely certain, but I think the idea is that the Martians are blocking communications to reinvade.

[Sonnabend00]

@BadGirlOfAutism Communications are gone, and he can't hear them. Prelude to invasion.

[GmodPlusWoW]

Come in Bermuda!

[robota833]

theyre back

[FinalFantasyLov3r124]

I know this is meant to be based in England (and that's why I'm not too fond of the films) but I'm sort of thinking that they could be sequels to this. As he said: "Is our planet safe?"

[TehComs]

@FinalFantasyLov3r124 Personally, I'd like to see a sequel where us humans get a shot at Mars.

Sure a story of that general type has been done before, (Battle for Terra comes to mind.) It'd be neat to see the Martians back in action with their tripods.

[lordflashburn]

@TehComs Aye, the Empire revitalising itself with martian technology and a martian expeditionary force being formed would kick-ass: steampunk vs tripods! ^^ I'd pay to see/read/listen to that :D

[Sindri44]

@FinalFantasyLov3r124 ahem the time it was set england owned the world we was in controll of every port and every major country america, austraila, france, india is the one's a know we deffo controlled and i don't want you aermicans saying we was owned by nobody ...well how come you speak english then it's beacuse the first people to settle on them lands was british :)

[FinalFantasyLov3r124]

@Sindri44 Very true England was once a very powerful country. I didn't realise it was set during that time so that's why I put my comment up in the first place. And I'm British so I won't be complaining about America lol.

[fatfoxclown]

@Sindri44

uh Wells wasn't a war fan and was hoping this would scare people away from it or at least make them think about it before it's declared

[Sindri44]

@fatfoxclown i don't understand where your comment fits into one of mine please explain what comment i made that you are replying to please mate

[IIILeoIII]

@Sindri44 I realise this was 10 months ago, but did you say France? We had an empire that spanned every continent sure, but be aware there were still other powerful nations with empires of their own, France being included in this - we've never owned France :P

[loquatiousbadger]

@FinalFantasyLov3r124

HG Wells only wrote one book. Why make a sequel just because most films have them these days? I prefer the book for the singular masterpiece that it is, and the Jeff Wayne album because it scared the living daylights out of me when I was a kid!

Now then...what's so wrong with my lovely England? :P

:)

[FinalFantasyLov3r124]

@loquatiousbadger True. And there are many things wrong with England xD

[TheSquallAce]

@loquatiousbadger He wrote other books, like the time machine

[loquatiousbadger]

@TheSquallAce

Why are you telling me? I've read The Time Machine and The Shape of Things to Come. There was another poster who didn't know that, but it wasn't me!

[loquatiousbadger]

@TheSquallAce I've read The Time Machine and The Shape of Things to Come, equally good. I did know about his other works,There was another poster who wanted a sequel to WOTW, I meant he only wrote One "War of the Worlds", so you can't make a sequel to it!

[Hooverblox]

@loquatiousbadger Weren't there two books? I mean I don't know that much but I thought, that the Earth Under the Matrians was the second book, but I must have got confused since there are two discs in the CD collection and one has that name.

[poopskinTheLiar]

I'd like to see how the second war would play out - An encounter between the tripods and a Aircraft Carrier with a full compliment of aircraft would be interesting, no doubt.

[richiemayne]

the ending of this really shits me up.

[UKMikey]

@richiemayne Imagine how I felt hearing the ending as a kid in 1978 :O ;)

[TheAPPC]

Wow that bit scared the living hell outta me.

Earth prepare yourselves for Martian MK II

[neil73]

The percussion at the start used to remind me of the little dog we used to have sniffing at stuff.

[JimmyColls]

I love all of the territory left unexplored. What was going on outside of the UK? Did the Martians only employ tripods? Or were other machines employed by them for different terrain (in the novel they attempt to build a flying machine later on + Tripods would suck in Russia's tundra)? What happened to those still on Mars after their campaign failed? Did every Martian die of illness, or were there any with the foresight to immunise themselves (again, they had the technology to do so in the book)?

[JimmyColls]

Also, don't the Invaders take days to land after they've initally been launched from Mars (ie the green puff of mist seen on the surface)? Why would 'Pasadena' lose contact with 'Bermuda' so quickly then?

[JimmyColls]

I love the flaw in the Martian plan. If they really just started shooting troop transport capsules to our planet at random locations, there's a 7/10 chance that they would just end up at the bottom of the sea hehe.

[SirDanTheFirst]

You'd have thought that a century or so later, that an invasion from mars that nearly destroyed England would have been well documented, and mabey they would have thought twice before going there.

[ssdght]

@SirDanTheFirst Or gone with an army, and/or sterilized the world using Orion-drive battleships.

[JimmyColls]

I love the downbeat ending to the Jeff Wayne version - so creepy.

[Envergure]

Thanks for the upload!

[scottlong09]

The Americans wouldnt be able to fight off the martians 2 people they cant beat vientnam and the martians "Guns Tanks Boombs there like toys against them"

[osemaj1]

please don't post childish anti-american sentiments on a video of the war of the worlds, it's far to awesome to sully with insults and pettiness.

[scottlong09]

@osemaj1 sorry but its true guns tanks boombs there like toys against them the us, england, ussr, china and france cant stop the martians the world cant except for japan they got MEGAMAN and PROTOMAN

[jpanda1342]

@scottlong09 i dunno, the martian war machines seemed to go down pretty easily to 1910 artillary. just that half the time the troops didn't get a second shot.

Megaman can't shoot up, how is he gunna help..

[scottlong09]

@jpanda1342 he can shoot the legs and they can fall over

[jpanda1342]

@osemaj1 amen..

[Sindri44]

@osemaj1 aye but american's ask for it TBH however War of the worlds is a classic and should be honored as one .....jeff wanyes and H.G wells ....and orsan wells version :)

[TheRabcnesbit]

@osemaj1 shosh +behave yourself you impudent young pup

[lbaynes88]

This is the best thing in the world. I wanna read the book now. Who wrote the book? when is the attack actually set? was it a thng that was gonna happen soon, to when it was written or a few hundred years in the future? I still cant believe how rubbish the film was though. They take something amazing and then set it in America and its rubbish. lol x

[venera13studios]

it was written by H.G. Wells in the 1800s, it was set in the same time this version is, there are some things in the book that are different thene this version but for the most part it's close. jeff wayne did a good job but the book is and always will be the best.

[lbaynes88]

so it was based then then?

[scottlong09]

the book is by H.G wells it was set in 1898 in woking and the martians go from woking north east towards london and the narrator stagers acrros london all the way back to his home in woking where he finds his wife and cousen who he left in leatherhead and the places are all real its a good book

[kyon813]

At the very end I expected to hear a final "UUUUUULLLAAAAAAA!" That would've been cool.

[tomwmloppe]

I think look for this album cover to get the rest of the set...

Superior Sound comparativly...

[jmzimmerman1984]

So the Americans had no idea what was happening in the UK?

[CylonAndrew]

I think the idea was what if it were to happen tomorow rather than in 1900.

[KevServo]

That's never really gone into in the book. I assume that America had its own problems dealing with the martians at the time, since it was a global invasion and everything. The book just covers the events in the UK.

[Steebod]

@jmzimmerman1984 most americans probably think the UK is a state somewhere in the US lolz

[ferahgo90]

@jmzimmerman1984 it can be assumed that it's a global occupation as they 'regarded the earth with envious eyes' and in the live version they move from Mars to our planet because their planet can no longer support them.

[VFReundlich]

oh, baby, das ist nun über 30jahre her...

verdamp lang her...

[kyon813]

What does that mean?

[Steebod]

Jeff Wayne is the man

[nonohino]

Yes, just how i remember it