by canofhumdingers » Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:09 pm
Wow, neat! WotW is one of my all time favorite books. It’s neat to finally see an adaptation set in Victorian England! I think the tripods look pretty good. I would have liked for them to have the tentacles and the heat ray emitting camera shaped box thing and the black smoke cannon shells like in the book*, but they still look pretty good as is. Definitely looking forward to this!
*ideally, I’d love to see super accurate representations of the tripods as described in the book. They sound so wild and fearsome it would be really cool to see realized:
“And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder. A flash, and it came out vividly, heeling over one way with two feet in the air, to vanish and reappear almost instantly as it seemed, with the next flash, a hundred yards nearer. Can you imagine a milking stool tilted and bowled violently along the ground? That was the impression those instant flashes gave. But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand... Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles (one of which gripped a young pine tree) swinging and rattling about its strange body. It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints of the limbs as the monster swept by me.”