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Study 094 - The War of the Worlds - Part 2 (Patreon)

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2024-06-13 15:50:11
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MARTIANS INVADE! Get all the news NOW on The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells!

Please support our excellent reader: Greig Johnson!

Learn more about Jetpack Man!

To be continued...

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Robert Curtin

Chris' reaction to that first joke was one of the most visceral "Oofs" I've ever heard. Love this story, love this episode!

Mandy Reznor (She/It)

On the manner in which the Martians observed our world, I direct you to a short story Wells wrote before this novel titled "The Crystal Egg." It revolves around the discovery of a curious object which, in time, is discovered to be a sort of long-range observation device used by curious cephalopod-like creatures on Mars—many of which are actually WINGED. Doubtless, they didn't send that portion of the population over because our gravity would stymie their ability to fly.

Kiubez

The way the Tripods wipe out the humans with ease reminds me of the final episode of new Doctor Who Season 2 when (spoiler warning) the Daleks and Cybermen first meet. The lead Dalek states “This is not war. This is pest control.” It’s an absolutely brutal line that illustrates how much more advanced their technology and how little they value the lives of other species.

KateSherrod

Find yourself something in life that delights you as much as Chad's "Wellescome" delighted him. Has there ever been an expression of joy so pure?

Jim Cannon

This week's fun fact: I was an MST3K superfan for literally decades before I finally watched the 1953 _War of the Worlds_. Had a very difficult time taking the movie seriously, despite all the excellent death ray action.

Jim Cannon

I do like that the Martians have vulnerabilities. If they just steamrolled over humanity it would be somehow less believable. We are just so good at killing stuff, we should be able to bloody a nose, at least. All for naught as it may be.

Andrew M. Reichart

At my high school they put up Our Town every few years, but the Stage Manager was almost always played by a teacher because of the sheer volume of monologue. Back in my day, when I did my heart-rending performance as Simon Stimpson the drunk choir director, my friend Chris played the Stage Manager (he went on to sing for the Spin Doctors & still does so to this day). Before him, the only other student who had played the role was a kid a couple decades earlier by the name of John Lithgow. Anyway the “my old age makeup was too good!” line effin’ killed me, thanks Chad LOL

Matt Baldwin

“Bonobo mating” was not on my bingo card

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

It is good to know that repeated calls by great writers to maybe stop killing other people and taking their stuff - that these calls have finally accomplished humanity's inhumanity coming to a middle.

Jason Thompson

Loving this! Hey, whenever you find time for a broader discussion, have you heard of the unauthorized sequel “Edison’s Conquest of Mars”? It’s amazing to me that between WotW and that book, the two basic styles of the alien invasion genre were immediately established in like 5 years!! Either humanity is doomed and we’re like insects (wotw) or we get to KICK ALIEN ASS (Edison)

It's a Ghost.

Regarding food in pockets, I once had a dream that the actor John Hurt asked me if I wanted to take a ride in his biplane, and I said yes. But then when we were flying I was concerned he would find out I had hard boiled eggs in my pockets.

Ben A

What a fun month revisiting WotW! Greig's narration is excellent. Way back in the pre-Witch House Media days of the show, you two used to run ransoms to get full readings of some of HPL's stories. I would pay another to have Greig narrate the whole story. As for whether animals (or aliens) would regard cars to be animal or something else in nature, I need only point to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Ford Prefect, who names himself after the Ford model, arrives on Earth and tries first to communicate with cars because he thinks they are the dominant form of life on the planet. I think Douglas Adams might be onto something. I don't know if you guys have planned or already recorded bonus material for this month, but I would encourage you to check out the prog rock-cum-musical of the WotW by Jeff Wayne. It's kinda insufferable, but still worth a listen. I could envision the ghost thespians putting on a rousing version of it.

chase hansel

I think I read this one in middle school, and decided a re-read was in order after listening to the 2nd episode. If I didn't know better, I'd say this was an allegory for the destructiveness and horror of industrialized war war 1. The way he describes citizens being either ignorant or positive on the ordeal before becoming refugees, the plucky soldiers that are quickly destroyed and the countryside being incinerated. Oh and the chemical warfare angle. I had to keep reminding myself this was written nearly two decades before the great war. Truly a futurist and visionary.

Apollo Sitting Up

Don’t worry, Chad. We all experience Bonobo guilt in it’s purest form from time to time 😃

Allison Albright

I can't speak to cars, but one of my cats has a long standing feud with the Roomba, so take that as you will. So far the Roomba has been pretty stoic about it.

Falconhoof

That discussion about jetpack man reminded me of an old XKCD webcomic I saw. It said you can make any news story seem more ominous by imagining it playing on tv in the background, just as the main character is leaving for work