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Thursday's Sketchbook - This is what yesterday's character is supposed to look like.

Watched War of the Worlds last night ... Most of it went like this:

ME: But dude, what about _____?
SPIELBERG: Hey, man, I have totally got that covered.

I would have liked to know more about the blood root things, which as far as I could tell were creepy but pointless. And ... were the tripod thingies alive, or machines? 'Cause if they were machines, how would they be affected by pathogens? Also: crows rule.

Comments

[simibee.livejournal.com]

Hi... random lurker...

I think that the aliens were alive inside the tripod thingies- at the end i think it show one kind of falling out? I 'm not sure though- i've only seen it once and it was awhile ago...

[timba.livejournal.com]

Yup.

Alien were alive inside the tripod thingies. What happened was the aliens died, and the machines fell over and...rusted, or something.

yay rapid oxidation?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

But why would their shields go down? 'Ooh, I'm feeling a little woozy, I'm going to shut down the shields'? Surely the mechanics would still be working no matter how sick the operators were. And also, the machines seemed to be full of some sort of fluid – when Ray hacks at that one snakey arm video thing, it ... splashes. The alien at the end comes out in a big diarrhea flow of the same sort of fluid. Maybe it's some sort of freaky alien biomechanical device...

[verselus.livejournal.com]

Maybe the mechanic aliens didn't have a union. :P

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Heh, sorry, I should have said 'mechanisms.'

[timba.livejournal.com]

Hm. Possible. Movie aliens do seem to be fond of the bio-mechanical suits and stuff...

Or, maybe it's like a car, where the headlights (shields) will work if the car is turned off, but once the battery dies, you're SOL. Perhaps the 'pods have really (really) bad batteries? (They shoulda gone with energizer, obviously)

[verselus.livejournal.com]

I was asking myself that about the machines. But if one thing, they did creep the hell out of me. Very much like something out of my nightmares.

[jesterquin.livejournal.com]

In the original book, which was written in about 1898 I think, the aliens are martians and the blood roots (Red Weed) are either a side effect of them taking over Earth or something to make it resemble Mars closer, I can't remember which one is correct. I've only read a bit of the book, but I used to be really into the Jeff Wayne musical and the story itself, so I did a lot of fan research stuff.

The tripods are machines built by the aliens to be like extensions of them selves, because in the book they look really different, they're really slow and clumsy and so they built the tripods the be stronger, faster and pretty much invincible. I think in the story the aliens themselves fall victim to the common cold, and that causes them to die inside the tripods and crash, as they had been drinking our blood and thus caught it that way.

[jesterquin.livejournal.com]

Spielberg did a whole lot of changing to the story, so some of it I really don't know what's going on.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I was going to say this, being a major fan of the book, but somebody beat me to it.

Personally, I was happy to see the red weed in this movie, since it was cut out of the movie version that was made back in the fifties.

I think a lot of what was happening doesn't get entirely explained--in the book or the movie--because one of the points of the story is that the characters, and therefore the audience, never really know what's going on.

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

I only know the old black-and-white movie (which is cute) and in it the machines/tripods were some kind of space suits (cause they couldn't stand our atmosphere pressure or air or something) combined with being a vehicle for the martians to roam about in.

Haven't seen the new one, yet. Also, I don't think I'm all that interested. Is it worth a look?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It's pretty spectacular, visually, and the script is solid (if a little episodic) – that shouldn't make it 'special' but considering that there is an inverse relation between special effects and writing quality these days, and with how many effects it has, it was a pleasant surprise.

(Love the icon!)

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

I love your angry character. I love his pose. I love his feet. I love his floppy hair. I still want to know his backstory. His name would be nice too.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Hmm, he must be a good climber. I like his feet, for some reason. They look like feet, which is a surprisingly difficult thing to achieve.

I have long known that the only thing with aliens in it that I like is Doctor Who.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

|: D Yeessss ... Doctor Whoooo....

I have an alien phobia (even those 'documentaries' on the Discovery Channel creep me out) but this movie didn't get to me at all... Signs is still the best ever.

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

Dude, YES. Signs is possibly my favorite movie ever.

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

What a cute icon. *laughs*

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

You are speaking (well, writing) to someone who was, for most of her life, absolutely terrified of ET. It's only recently that I've been able to bring myself to look at a picture, and even so nothing will persuade me to watch the film.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Signs. Of course, I was raised on Star Trek and Star Wars and am, therefore, a total geek for most alien movies. Except for the actual Alien movies, which I refuse to watch.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm already in trouble with you, but being the fearless idiot I am, I gotta say it...your character - particularly this drawing of him - made me think of you right away! (I know you're not an angry person - I can't explain it - something about the hair and the face...they say an artist can't help drawing thmeselves every time, in some way) Ok, I'm braced for the indignant/scornful rhetorts...
Also, were there crows in War of the Worlds? It's been too long since I saw it. Maybe I will write more of my impressions of that movie later, here or elsewhere (but now I must move my car from last night before Disney security tickets it!)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

There were crows in the city at the end, just a couple shots of them, eating the red weed. They would so do that. If aliens invaded and started spraying large mammals across the countryside, crows would say 'WOOHOO!' (or caw the crow equivalent)

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

You are correct as usual, King Friday (or should I say S. Saturday?). BTW - as you probably already know - Burbank is THICK with crows. I see/hear them at work, at home throughout the day every day...crows...come for the crows...murders of glorious carrion-crunching cacaphonic croaking CROWS...!! You are getting very sleeeepyyyyy...caw...caw...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ah good, so if I ever move there, I won't have to miss out on the corvid action.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The resemblance to me is probably in the glowery eyebrows and sullen expression... ;)

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

I wasn't gonna say it...:)hee hee hee hee(runs away)