War Of The Worlds - BBCTV series

[Mi-Amigo]

H G Well`s "War Of The Worlds" is coming to BBC One in a brand new TV series - starting Sun 17 Nov at 9pm [see BBC series home page ] - starring Eleanor Tomlinson [Amy]; Rafe Spall [George]; Robert Carlyle [Ogilvy]; and Rupert Graves [Frederick].

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Are any of you science fiction fans and will you be watching this?

[Mi-Amigo]

Watch Mojo TV have produced a 10min 30sec feature on "Everything We Know So Far About War Of The Worlds BBC"

 

[Cleoriff]

@Mi-Amigo 

Yes this is definitely on my to watch list. (I see it stars the lass who played Demelza in Poldark)

HOWEVER, at the risk of sounding boring, , I am away this weekend and I have set to much stuff to record. (Seven Worlds One Planet, His Dark Materials, F1 in Brazil, SCD and I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here, et al) I will have to get it on Catch up.

I have NO idea when that will happen though, as we get back Monday about 2pm and I have so much to do ie unpacking, as well as playing catch up with recordings, it will probably be midweek when I geet round to watching it

[gmarkj]

Will be recorded to watch to see how it is.

[jonsie]

The story itself was very weak and I doubt this will be any better. 

[sheepdog]

Can't say I'm impressed though I will eventually see a bit on iPlayer. Problem is that I have this suspicion that it will be agenda-ised to cater to the social justice warrior mob rather than stay truthful to the book. Right on cue, the character description for the obvious female lead is this:

"Amy is fierce, intelligent and ahead of her time, aiming to study natural sciences at college. With the coming of the Martian invasion, she may be mankind’s last hope."

whereas the nerd who should really be saving the day but doesn't fit the "woke" script gets this:

"Ogilvy is a good friend of Amy and George and an outcast himself. He’s an astronomer and scientist who’s kind and good-humoured. His tireless experiments could be the key to driving back the Martian invasion."

Or it turns out to be another period drama with a bit of token sci-fi. Do I get a prize for predicting at least one needless sex scene as its going out after 9pm?

Still, it might slightly bearable than listening to Dakota Fanning continuosly scream in the Tom Cruise version. Maybe. 

[Anonymous]

Was it any good?

[Cleoriff]

Must say I didn't enjoy it much at all.

[Mi-Amigo]

To be honest, it has not been as good as I had hoped.   

[Cleoriff]

I think they tried to cram too much into each episode.. It was nowhere near as good as the film.