night_son
Diamond Member
War of the Worlds (TV Series 2019– ) - IMDb
This is not going to be a rant about how the show has very little to do with the timeless H.G. Wells novel. Suffice it to say the book and the series share titles only. What does piss me off about the show is how on one hand the writers came up with an original and quite terrifying extraterrestrial attack on planet Earth. And a cerebral one at that. I'm an avid sci-fi reader going back to the seventies and I've never come across this particular means of aliens attacking our world in hundreds of novels read in the sub-genre.
Which makes it all the more painful to report that the show is permeated front to back with "woke" radical leftist ideology; a checklist of insane political philosophy. Spoilers Follow . . .
The show praises homosexual relationships (not uncommon these days), but goes farther than most "woke" television programs with painting a mother who refuses to help a dying man as heroic, and a soldier who is sitting guard over a hospital neonatal care ward also as a hero when he allows the alien drones to pass him by and get at the babies even though he's well armed, all the while spouting to other characters how noble and "right" it is to save themselves and let the babies die.
The show also glorifies a mother whose children were killed when she decides to commit suicide (she's some kind of high ranking government minister who the survivors of the alien attack need to lead them), and it explores the incestuous relationship between a brother and sister—in a much darker light than Game of Thrones ever did. And the hits keep coming. A sexual relationship between an adult and a minor. How hating the human race is a noble endeavor, and how murder and dishonesty is justified in order to get your spouse to love you again.
And I'm only up to episode 4 . . .
Is it possible for any major television series creator to make a show without ideological bullshit lacing the entire narrative?
Oh yeah. Almost forgot. About a third of the show's dialogue is spoken in French and there does not seem to be readily available English subtitles. While I am fairly fluent in that language (French), I'd rather not have to stop to think and translate what the characters are saying in every other scene.
What a shame
I rate it a 3/10
This is not going to be a rant about how the show has very little to do with the timeless H.G. Wells novel. Suffice it to say the book and the series share titles only. What does piss me off about the show is how on one hand the writers came up with an original and quite terrifying extraterrestrial attack on planet Earth. And a cerebral one at that. I'm an avid sci-fi reader going back to the seventies and I've never come across this particular means of aliens attacking our world in hundreds of novels read in the sub-genre.
Which makes it all the more painful to report that the show is permeated front to back with "woke" radical leftist ideology; a checklist of insane political philosophy. Spoilers Follow . . .
The show praises homosexual relationships (not uncommon these days), but goes farther than most "woke" television programs with painting a mother who refuses to help a dying man as heroic, and a soldier who is sitting guard over a hospital neonatal care ward also as a hero when he allows the alien drones to pass him by and get at the babies even though he's well armed, all the while spouting to other characters how noble and "right" it is to save themselves and let the babies die.
The show also glorifies a mother whose children were killed when she decides to commit suicide (she's some kind of high ranking government minister who the survivors of the alien attack need to lead them), and it explores the incestuous relationship between a brother and sister—in a much darker light than Game of Thrones ever did. And the hits keep coming. A sexual relationship between an adult and a minor. How hating the human race is a noble endeavor, and how murder and dishonesty is justified in order to get your spouse to love you again.
And I'm only up to episode 4 . . .
Is it possible for any major television series creator to make a show without ideological bullshit lacing the entire narrative?
Oh yeah. Almost forgot. About a third of the show's dialogue is spoken in French and there does not seem to be readily available English subtitles. While I am fairly fluent in that language (French), I'd rather not have to stop to think and translate what the characters are saying in every other scene.
What a shame
I rate it a 3/10