Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

[chomalungma]

Anyone else watching War of the Worlds and comparing it to the soundtrack?

Disappointed that Thunderchild wasn't in it.
And the Martians don't go "Oooooo Laaaaaaaa"

Love the album. The TV series is ok...

The book is better.

I've seen the live staged concert version a couple of times. If you like the album it's worth doing!

I haven't actually read the book - but think I should.

I am disappointed with the tv series. It feels very amateurish.

I agree Fabulously Fab. There was a review that said it just feels like an episode of Dr Who with the props Dept plonking a period lampost here and there.

Have recently listened to the audiobook and soundtrack.

There's also a US series just aired with Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth? (The mother out of Downtown) which I might try.

Why on earth did they feel the need to remake it?

I’m enjoying it personally

I love the Jeff Wayne version

Most ready the book.

I think DH will try it, he hated the Tom Cruise film.

We saw the live version with Russell Watson as Nathaniel! Incredible.

I'm enjoying the series though I am finding the hero and heroine particularly annoying. Really don't care if they make it or not, that includes the curly haired tot.

I keep wanting to sing the Jeff Wayne songs too as we're watching it. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...but still they come.

I think DH will try it, he hated the Tom Cruise film.

We saw the live version with Russell Watson as Nathaniel! Incredible.

Im liking it

I absolutely love TWOTW, bit of a super fan.
It's always been and will continue to be a massive part of my life.
I relate most with the music, having been introduced to it by my parents at 4/5. I've seen the stage show twice, read the book and obviously listen to it. Hate the Tom Cruise film.
I was so excited when I read a long time ago about the tv series being made and have waited for it to be aired ever since.
I am yet to watch the second episode, however I actually fell asleep during the first.. I didn't hold my attention very well. I compare it to the musical. I want to watch the first episode again before I watch the second one.

TV series is crap. It should not say "Based on the novel by H G Wells" but "Suggested by the novel by H G Wells".

Why do the BBC keep doing this? Years ago, their adaptations were lauded around the world and held up as brilliant TV drama because they were well made, with great actors, but generally fairly faithful to their original novels - the Joan Hickson Miss Marple series being a case in point.

Yes, you have to condense a bit, you can't fit everything in, but the last couple of Christies (and ITV have been guilty here too) have veered incredibly away from the source, as did the BBC's last version of Day of the Triffids (their early 80s one stuck closely to the book). The current War of the Worlds has gone so far as to pretty much create a new female lead character that barely registers in the book, let alone other issues.

The book is still a good, gripping and exciting one - it doesn't need a reinvention, particularly when there has yet to be one that HAS done it faithfully.

i loved JW war of the worlds and saw the new generation one.
the series is good. but i miss the music. glad to hear its not the same as the book(have not read it) I am sure living in sin and being pregnant was not the done thing in victorian England(when he wrote the book) so that threw me.

Samcro Actually, it did - in effect, they are shoehorning in some biographical stuff about Wells into the lead characters' lives.

It's not working for me. Some of the acting is pretty dodgy