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The War of the Worlds (2019)
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You may be looking for War of the Worlds (1988) or War of the Worlds (2019), different television adaptations of The War of the Worlds (1898).A 2019 three-part British drama miniseries produced for The BBC. The series is an Edwardian period adaptation of the H. G. Wells' 1898 novel of the same name, and is the first British television adaptation of the Martian invasion novel. The series premiered on Canada on 6 October 2019, and on the BBC in November 2019. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The aliens have featureless but malleable faces. According to the DVD extras, they can mould their faces into virtually anything. We only see them mould them into a proboscis to drink blood with, so they could presumably mould them into arms as well. It's also likely that since they appear to be blind, they navigate via echolocation given the loud clicking sounds they make. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Frederick is told that the crowds of people on the beach are preparing to be evacuated to Dunkirk. | |
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The Mistress | |
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The Mistress: Amy starts out this way, as George is revealed to have a wife already. He never gets formally divorced, though he later says Amy is his wife. She later expresses guilt about their affair. His wife thinks he did this because she can't give him a child, and so he's moved on to a woman who can, though he insists it's because Amy is his soulmate. True of his motive or not, Amy does give birth to their baby later. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In Episode 2, Minister of War Chamberlain gives a propaganda heavy speech to the people of London about the Martian arrival, noting that the Martians are few in number and will be no match for Britain's military might, and there's no need to panic or worry about them. This speech is intercut with the soldiers being wiped out by a tripod at Byfleet, more tripods appearing on the horizon, and a shot of many more spheres approaching Earth from space. | |
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The Beforetimes | |
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The Beforetimes: Towards the end, Amy tells her son about these, and about what the world once looked like before the invasion and how beautiful it was. | |
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Cold Equation | |
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Cold Equation: This comes up several times with people faced with the choice between saving their lives at the expense of others. George eventually gives his own life so Amy and their child can live, letting the Martian feed on him so a pregnant Amy can escape. She lives with Survivor Guilt as a result. | |
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Propaganda Machine | |
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Propaganda Machine: The British people are told that the Martians were defeated by their Army and Navy, and that convoys of food are coming from the United States and the rest of the Empire. The truth is the devastation is worldwide. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: The Martians in the novel were at least assumed to have motivations similar to mankind, with the aim of a Vichy Earth rather than to Kill All Humans. Here, humanity and all terrestrial life are being eliminated altogether. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Oh very much so, see Would Hurt a Child below, with the death of a baby at Woking (via Censored Child Death) and the little girl Amy saved. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: As mentioned in From a Certain Point of View, at one point the original book's line about how mankind had earned its place on Earth by the grace of God allowing it to develop immunity to bacteria is mentioned In-Universe and dismissed by an actual priest as not only propaganda BS from the Government, but he also rages against the obviously Darwinistic bent of the line. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: In most adaptions, the Martians are defeated by Earth's bacteria and microbes, but here, the aliens have succeeded in destroying our world. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: The Martians look like three-legged spiders with virtually no facial features comparable to humans or animals. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: The series frequently jumps forward to "the Red World" several years after the Martian invasion. The Martians have won, with Earth's natural biosphere is all but gone due to the red weed choking the land and clogging the ocean, and the surviving humans in the apocalyptic ruins of London are farming only scraps of food, with the local preacher's Propaganda Machine keeping the village going. Oh, and Darwinism never took off as accepted fact because of the apocalypse's timing. | |
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Villainous Legacy | |
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Villainous Legacy: The Martians die off just like in the source material, but unlike in the source material, their Alien Kudzu still spreads and Hostilely Terraforms the Earth after their deaths, leaving an apocalyptic wasteland where the surviving humans are struggling to survive. | |
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Deadly Gas | |
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Deadly Gas: Unlike other adaptations (but like the book), this one has the "black smoke". | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As with basically every other adaptation, the Martians are defeated after succumbing to illness brought on by bacteria from which they have no defence. Unlike most adaptations (which end on a hopeful note that implies mankind manages to retake total control of the Earth), the planet is instead reduced to a hellish wasteland as would likely be the result of such a devastating global conflict, where the survivors are left to eek out a meager existence as Earth's biosphere is slowly eradicated by the red weed and mankind seems doomed to go extinct within the next few decades. | |
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Bad Black Barf | |
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Bad Black Barf: A symptom of anyone who is touched by the black smoke, notably Minister Chamberlain. | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: Due to the red weed's effects. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: Amy and Ogilvy's typhoid cultivation have successfully both killed off the surrounding red weed and enabled a green plant to sprout once more, but what next? The preacher was blatantly dismissive when they showed him the dead weed, and Amy furthermore destroyed the cloches protecting the cultivations. Will Amy, or Ogilvy, get word out of their discovery? Will they be believed? Will the life of Amy's son, who's growing sicker, be saved or is it too late for him? | |
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Someone to Remember Him By | |
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Someone to Remember Him By: Sometime after the invasion, Amy gives birth to her and George's son, named George Jr, after George has been killed protecting them. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Frederick, a close-minded modernist imperialist political speaker who makes his family's survival a top priority during the crisis. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The tripod at Woking vaporizes a crying baby (offscreen, thankfully) before George can save it. Later on, the girl that Amy rescued is killed by a Martian. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: George, the narrator stand-in, and his brother are both killed by the Martians while they survive in the novel. In the book the Artilleryman survives his run-in with the tripods and later bumps into the Narrator in Martian-occupied London. In this series George leaves him to die during the battle at Byfleet. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: This is the adaptation where Martians successfully conquer Earth. | |
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Just Think of the Potential! | |
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Just Think of the Potential!: The Minister when he sees a Martian war machine up close. Until he starts coughing up black bile, that is. | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Frederick is an imperialist and modernist, described as having an orthodox Victorian mindset. | |
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Organic Technology | |
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Organic Technology: The tripods are made entirely of crystals, which are grown from the ground where their spheres land and are most likely made from the same crystals that grow on Mars and later post-invasion Earth. | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: The fate of anyone hit by the Martian heat rays, if they are not disintegrated outright. Notably, this is what happens to the Artilleryman. | |
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We Have Reserves | |
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We Have Reserves: Far from defeating the Martian invasion, it's implied that the Martians who died were an expendable advance guard whose job was to spread the Red Weed. Once all the humans have died of starvation and decomposed, the second wave can occupy the planet without resistance. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Martians may seem like aggressive expansionists hellbent on destroying human civilization, however in Episode 3 we see one of them standing over the corpse of another one of its kind, making mournful groaning noises and nuzzling the body. So perhaps while they have no regard for human life, they still genuinely seem to care about each other and do indeed get upset when one of them dies. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Frederick dies trying to help George and Amy escape one of the Martians. A delirious George effectively sacrifices himself by going outside to draw the Martian's attention in an attempt to reason with it, which enables Amy to escape while the Martian kills him. It's implied he knew he was dying and deliberately chose to die this way. | |
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Hostile Terraforming | |
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Hostile Terraforming: After the End, the red weed introduced by the Martians has turned Earth into a Mars-like world with an Alien Sky and Alien Landmass (called "the Red World" by Word of God), while completely choking the land and oceans' terrestrial ecosystems which has in turn put the resource-scarce survivors on the brink of extinction. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Herbert George Wells also married his cousin, then left her for a woman named Amy with whom he moved to Woking. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike the novel, Ogilvy and Henderson aren't killed by the Martians at Horsell Common. Ogilvy escapes offscreen and Henderson isn't present at the site. | |
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Eldritch Starship | |
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Eldritch Starship: The Martians arrive in these, instead of the mechanical cylinders in the novel. They look like featureless black spheres, covered in a tar-like liquid, and anyone who touches them has a reflection of themselves imprinted on its surface. The Martians are not shown exiting them, as when they activate, they rise into the air spinning rapidly, before exuding an intense heatwave that incinerates anyone in its vicinity. The sphere is destroyed in the process, and the Tripod rises from its impact crater once it finishes gestating. This must mean that the Martians burrow into the ground to grow their machines once they land, while the dismounted spacecraft acts as a defense mechanism to protect the occupants while they work. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: The Red Weed borders on this rather than the Botanical Abomination that it was in the book. Unlike the book, The Red Weed corrupts the atmosphere, turning the sky red, and kills people that come in contact with it. The landscape is also completely destroyed by the weed, turning the entire world into a barren, desert-like wasteland rather than simply getting covered in vines. The ocean is also clogged up and polluted by The Red Weed, depriving people of their water source. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang: George and Frederick. One is somewhat anti-imperialist and open-minded, whereas the other is the opposite, and they've grown somewhat distant at the series' start due to George's relationship with Amy. They tragically can't settle their differences with each other before Frederick's death. | |
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Battle Discretion Shot | |
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Battle Discretion Shot: A battle between a British battle fleet and Martian war machines is shown from the POV of fleeing survivors who are too busy running for their lives to take in much. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: After the End, the human race has suffered Planetary Societal Collapse, and the Earth's biosphere at large has seemingly suffered Species Extinction of most complex multi-cellular organisms bordering on extinction of all multicellular life. | |
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Monster Delay | |
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Monster Delay: At first, we barely see more than vague glimpses of the Martians which are outside of their tripods, but bit by bit more of what they look like is revealed to the viewer. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: George explicitly compares the Martians with the British spreading their empire across the world, though his brother (who earlier publicly supported imperialism) dismisses the idea. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
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Kill It with Fire: The Martian spheres and tripod walkers have the ability to make people burst into flame from a distance via rays, similar to the original incarnation. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: The narrator's wife (here named Amy) and Ogilvy both play a much larger role in the story than they did in the novel. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: Earth is invaded by Martians in the first decade of the 20th century, and the red weed afterwards has choked the planet's biosphere to near-extinction and devastated human civilization. | |
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Sole Survivor | |
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Sole Survivor: Amy alone escapes the mansion while the rest of the group are killed by the Martians one-by-one. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: In order to make its point about the evil of imperialism, the series shows just how widely popular this was, with British government officials publicly touting it early on. The way George and Amy are treated for "living in sin". The couple are shunned by the locals, George is disowned by his own brother, and Amy is regarded as little better than a whore. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: Humanity may have inherited the Earth whilst the Martian invasion force died off, but with the red weed still choking away the planet's biosphere, humanity looks doomed to go extinct within a generation (until the miniseries' final scene). Ultimately Played With, as the Propaganda Machine is telling survivors After the End that the Martians were defeated by military might, when it was actually Earth's microbes which killed them off. | |
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Molotov Cocktail | |
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Molotov Cocktail: Frederick makes up some with lamp oil, but he's only got two matches to light them. It makes no difference as while he scores a direct hit on a Martian, the flames have little immediate effect. The Martian succumbs from its wounds, but only later. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The soldier who attempts to chastise a tripod for standing on British soil. The Martians themselves keep trying to chase down and eat as many humans as they can even when they're growing increasingly sick from it. | |
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Hope Sprouts Eternal | |
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Hope Sprouts Eternal: In an act of despair, Amy smashes the cloches protecting the typhoid cultivation that kills off the red weed, only to find a green Earth plant growing there. Cue the Sun. | |
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Cool Boat | |
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Cool Boat: Whilst the valiant HMS Thunder Child doesn't make an official appearance, the British Navy, gathered off-shore, do use their huge cannons to blast the legs and ultimately collapse several tripods attacking fleeing refugees on the beach in a nice Homage of Thunder Child's role in the novel and other adaptations. | |
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Cyber Cyclops | |
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Cyber Cyclops: This version of the Martian fighting-machine has a single glowing blue eye in the middle of its' body, implied to be the projector for the heat-ray. | |
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Childless Dystopia | |
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Childless Dystopia: No new children are being born in a devastated Britain. For all anyone knows, George Jr. may be the last child of the human race. | |
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Alien Kudzu | |
| The War of the Worlds (2019) / int_c37a9e13 | comment |
Alien Kudzu: The red weed, as in most iterations. Unlike in most iterations however, the weed successfully overwhelms the planet's natural biosphere after the Martians have died off. Like in the original story, it's only suggested rather than outright confirmed that the Martians brought the weed to Earth deliberately for Hostile Terraforming, with Word of God further supporting this. | |
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FromACertainPointOfView | |
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From a Certain Point of View: This is rejected by the priest who resists the idea that faith in God and Country didn't defeat the Martians, but "decay and rot". When this is pitched as humanity building up a resistance to disease through the sacrifice of generations, he just dismisses this as spouting Darwinism. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: The little girl that Amy rescues is so traumatized that she can't even tell the adults her name. She's killed before anyone ever finds out. | |
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Failure-to-Save Murder | |
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Failure-to-Save Murder: Subverted with Frederick, who is clearly getting ready to pin all the blame for George's seeming death on Amy after she escapes Woking without him, until she reveals that she's pregnant with George's child and Frederick's nephling. | |
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Hollywood Atheist | |
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Hollywood Atheist: Ogilvy firmly replies that he doesn't believe in God when Amy asks him. She doesn't appear to be entirely comfortable with this, but it's overall averted. Ogilvy is not only a kind man and brilliant scientist, he likely saved humanity through figuring out how to kill the red weed. | |
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No Endor Holocaust | |
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No Endor Holocaust: Averted; a major part of the series depicts what happens after the Martian invaders have died off. | |
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Period Piece | |
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Period Piece: The first major production of the work to be set in its original era. Close to it, at least. The action is moved from "the last years of the 19th century" to "the first years of the 20th century". George refers to 1906 as in the past at one point. The 1904 Dogger Bank Incident is explicitly mentioned in the first episode. | |
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Single Mom Stripper | |
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Single Mom Stripper: Amy is caught stealing a tin of beans by a soldier, and it's implied that she had sex with him in exchange for letting her take the food so she could feed her son. | |
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Alien Invasion | |
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Alien Invasion: The original All-Out Attack. | |
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Love Makes You Dumb | |
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Love Makes You Dumb: Amy when she pulls a Titanic move in the beach scene. Zig-Zagged, as that ultimately saved her from going up in flames. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: In Episode 3, we see a Martian standing over the corpse of another one of its kind, making mournful groaning noises and nuzzling the body. So perhaps while they have no regard for human life, they still genuinely seem to care about each other and do indeed get upset when one of them dies. | |
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