So many deep cuts, so much lore. Thank you.

The Martians, while smart, don't seem to have fought a war in quite a long time. At least to me.

Loved the "everyone knows that" reference :D Amazing Video!

Its been a month but I want to ask a question if you have ever heard of the bbc’s tripods and will you be making a video about it? I love that show but never actually got the book after all this years since its hard to find on my country and I dont know any online sights that I can read for free. Ever since discovering war of the worlds as a kid I was craving for more content related or inspired by it so I watched all the movies (except those terrible B movies, BUT I loved that Faithful adaptation with the terrible cgi, the recent one) and I discovered the tripods and sad to say that it ended horribly because of budgets or somethingy, I cant remember or care to search right now but I guess its budget. Won’t spoil it though even the terrible ending thats super different from the source. Edit: just realize that after 17 years I never thought of just looking it up online so I can print it.

hmm this remind me there war of world minture game that got a booker sires what was it called The Great Martian War.

The tripods would just find hg wells and force him to continue the story with the martians winning

I wanna see British empire/ commonwealth of mankind invade mars but with a Martian perspective, Maybe even where the humans and Martians are in a agreement that one side cannot kill the other, we can’t invade them, they can’t invade us, eventually wiping us out in a Cold War with interplanetary atomic weapons or coming to become the Sol federation

This is such a fascinating video, and honestly explains a lot (if it was cannon). The notion of Martian society being split between tribes/warbands/nations that are constantly at conflict also in turn explains the limited amount of forces sent to earth. As maybe, the forces that were sent were an attempt made by one soul group trying to expand their influence beyond what would be noted as traditional. I honestly love this take and together with the other 2 videos on this topic are most fascinating. They portray a well painted depiction of the novel that seems extremely grounded and logical. Love your content and takes on sci-fi 😄

Thanks for this. I had to sleep on this vid to put my thoughts together. By the way, I'd love to know what to think about the following theory. I think the main reason why the Martians get sick and die, more than any other reason is due to your theory. When you really get down to it: the "livestock" is less naturally bred and and domesticated like cows and pigs or chickens and more like processed food. I have no doubt my mind that the Martians that you're describing in your theory would of course have made sure that there food supply was bacteria free and parasite free. Kind of like how canned food is more or less safer to eat now that we've gotten rid of the risk of botulism in a lot of canned food that used to exist in the past. Or better yet, it's more like bologna slices or heavily processed cheese and pasteurized milk. We as humans have gotten rid of a lot of the foodborne illnesses that plagued our ancestors due to our technology. The Martians did the same and even if we just stayed strictly for efficiency, becoming essentially vampires for the sake of not having to need to to and very little waste to get rid of after digestion...kinda works. Plus if we are honest, it's not like they need the calories when they plainly aren't doing a great deal of physical labor. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think there was a article that explained that we as human beings burned something around the lines of 30 calories maybe up to 100 just by chewing alone... The point I'm making here is that they were eating the blood equivalent of pasteurized, processed food for who knows how long... To the point where they don't even have to worry about the kinds of neurological consequences that come from cannibalism... Then they invade earth, a process that used up their entire food supply that they brought on the way there, and and then they jump to eating humans, cows, pigs and whatever else they can get their tentacles on? Think about the kinds of parasites you can get from just eating undercooked pork! There's trichinosis and parasites that can even eat into the brain. Which the Martians are pretty much 90% nervous system, talk about prime feeding material for the parasites alone. Get to humans and it's worse. The kinds of diseases that could be transmitted through blood are staggering. Hell, syphilis was the past's version of an AIDS and HIV. When you get down to it they were doomed from the start by food supply. That is my theory. It wasn't but common cold that killed them so much as a pure lack of common sense. To put it in human terms, there's a reason why pretty much every culture on the planet cooks its food. It's kind of like eating all your rations and trail mix on a massively long hike that takes you days maybe even weeks, with the promise that there's going to be plenty to forage from at your destination. Example: the lack of any of these other kinds of Martians when the invaders arrive. You get to your destination, probably with hunger setting in as you had to start rationing your meals or just go days without altogether so you don't starve, and there is so much to forage from. Berries, fruits, vegetables, and plenty of animals... You and your friends are going to town but you do things like... eating the seeds of an apple which contain cyanide. Eating berries that look like another kind thinking they are the same when one is poisonous and the other is not... Example: eating humans, cows, pigs, just about anything they can get their tentacles on. Of course, not cooking any of your food. Example: the aliens draining people alive instead of processing them in a sort of way... Ghoulish as it is to think about some Martian version of Louis Pasteur probably could could have saved their nonexistent butts. Finally, as you start to get sick and possibly realize you probably shouldn't have eaten the green part of the rhubarb plant (again: a real thing you should not do) You probably don't have the time to invent up with any safe methods of processing while you're vomiting, getting diarrhea, having parasites eat you... Etc. I know this still falls in line with Wells's intent as an author but I believe the implication that it was disease that killed them has always been just a little bit off. I'm curious to know what you think because an army no matter how loose marches on its stomach and if your stomach is cramping that Army ain't marching too well... Thoughts? Id love to hear them.

I just chopped it up as some sort of fuel like oil. Never really thought much on it

Okay. Now that I've thought about it... I would say the one thing that supports this theory is the fact that the tripods communicate to sound. Since you're using Alvim's version of the tripods, though I believe Gorey's is about even, get a sense of biological personality with them. For species so focused on efficiency and technological progress, they don't use radio or telepathy or anything. Even in the most recent interpretations, such as the ever hated 2005 movie, it has the tripods essentially howling at one another to communicate. Given the last video of yours I watched dealing with how the war would've gone if the Martians hadn't died from disease, then this would be like, at best, military professionals shouting at one another to communicate orders in hostile territory. Mind you, I'm not familiar with just how far or developed the sci-fi genre was when H. G. Wells wrote the war of the worlds so it's entirely possible that he never considered a silent form of communication or if he did, just want to use the sounds the tripods made for dramatic effect. That's neither here nor there. In regards to this theory, it acting as essentially an Iron Man suit for the aliens is quite fitting with the story. If anything, it would act like the opposite of a sensory depravation tank, allowing them to comfortably hover in fluid to relax from the gravity of Earth.

Are you sure you're not from some alternative timeline where the Martian's actually invaded...? I swear you soud like a professor hired by the government to create a psych profile for the heads of state after the war.

Okay. You earned my sub for the music alone. Had a whole damn flashback one i heard thise notes. Otherwise, i have to admit this is about the most realistic view of this ive seen (not that ive seen many). Like it treats the Martian's like the threat they are but humanity doesn't fold like an omelet. Great video. Great voice. Keep going.

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W Video, interesting, you earned a sub. 10/10.

i think they may have been a misunderstanding somewhere. the 1st 2 cylinders produced 1 fighting machine from my understanding, the crew of the 1st crawled over to the second cylinder under a hood (assuming to be the upper part of a machine) where the machine was completed. as for the amount of overall machines, i think they only sent 1 cylinder per night over about 10 nights. so 10 cylinders and possibly 1 machine per 2 cylinders, mebe with some extra parts to combine with others to squeeze out a few more, plus the earth movers and handling machines, depending on the crew amount and inventory of each cylinder. the London base being where they gather all their materials and equipment, plus what they managed to mine from earth (observed during the time under the collapsed house, some refining and forging of metals being done), this could also have increased or repaired some of the machines numbers, and also been used to build the flying machine. the item shot up into the air after the Thunderchild incident could very well have been a Black Smoke Mortar used as a 'Lets secure this entire area by killing everything in it', thus giving them time to secure their position and remove any more human guns, as opposed to being a Flying Machine. i believe the flying machine wasnt developed until the London Camp was established. this is some of what i gathered from the many readings of the book

W music at the end

Quite an interesting premise. You certainly bring up some values points about the lack of logistics on the Martians part, and the advantages humanity would have. The bit of the rapid deployment of gasmasks to fight the black smoke is especially interesting to realize.

Oh heres another theory maybe its dried blood? Like they did drink the blood in the story

I love the way these videos are presented. They have the feel of a casual conversation, yet full of interest for the subject. Fantastic job. :)

Would you believe it! another question!: I do wonder though, what do you think we would do with the left over martian technology? I;m not sure what it says in the book. Would we use it to fight each other? make deadlier weapons? or prepare for another invasion.

If the war of the worlds was real, and the martians had immunity, we'd be screwed.

Please do a part 2 to this where humans invade mars at some point

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