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  1. 02-Oct-2019 #1
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    War Of The Worlds (BBC TV series)

    Well well well... Only just spotted this...

    Let's just hope it's better than the Day Of The Triffids adaptation they did a few years back!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yas0yPbLU
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    Lovely. I'm in.

    Period setting is correct. Paddy Considine. Looks good.
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    I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed with this.
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    Initial reviews from a day or two on IMDB were not good
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    I've seen the first episode and it's very poor indeed and it's really nothing like the HG Wells book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    I've seen the first episode and it's very poor indeed and it's really nothing like the HG Wells book.
    So it's another Day Of The Triffids f*** up again?
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    I can't recall how bad 'Day of the Triffids' was, but remember not liking it. So, maybe yes?
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    Hey, kinda off topic, but did anyone catch the BBC Watership Down series? I love the film, is it worth a watch?
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    It's on BBC 1, Sunday 17th, 9pm. Really not expecting much other than some typical modern over glammed up w@nk TBH!

    This clip underlines that concern... Basically super wuper duper magic powers rather than simply grounded solid story telling...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biGff-vjppE
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    How do I put this politely?

    It was utter, utter, mind crippling, shite.
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    Well, that was all a bit needlessly shallow and mediocre wasn't it... Probably the second episode was the strongest.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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