Comments by "remliqa" (@remliqa) on "BBC" channel.

  1. Just like in the original novel.
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  2. So many people( like the OP) commented without reading or knowing anything about the book at all. HINT: humanity did manage to take down a few of those Tripods in battle. Apart from one missing ship, this battle scene was directly lifted from the book.
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  3.  @Halo4Lyf  Only a moron or somebody complete detached from reality (a.k.a insane) would make a claim such as yours. What's next in your ridiculous claims? The Earth is flat?
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  4. To be fair that leaf is pretty large.
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  5. King Penguins? Those are Emperor Penguin chicks that the Adelie saved.
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  6. In what way was it fake?
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  7. It's set in the original book timeline 1890s to early 20th century).
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  8.  @sarez1559  Yes , warships and heavy artillery pieces were effective against the tripods in the original book (the source material) to the point they mange to bring down multiple Tripods with them. It's only in the Hollywood production do they turn the alien warmachines into this invulnerable things that can't be harmed even by nukes( 1953 version).
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  9. Why?
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  10. Well. they're are from different species.
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  11. Those leave are huge. We have their species (or least the same genus ) here as well .They're bigger than your hand (including your fingers).
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  12. They use tax money ?
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  13. They miss plenty of time in the beginning. One they score a hit (accidentally or not) it's just a matter of following the previous firing solution to zero in on those guys.
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  14. Nope,humpback.
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  15.  @Tootingbarbs  I hop you and the OP were trolling. None of these are CGI.
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  16. Possibly because you misspelled it as Nematodes instead of Nemertea.
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  17. Those so called "comparatively ancient" technology still are bigger and more powerful than any modern battle tanks around today. Those old warship packs at least 10-12 inch guns.
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  18.  @ethanvallance3437  The term "advanced civilisation capable of invading earth" is too broad of a term . Even a space faring species that is only a couple of decades more advance than we are right now (circa 2019) can easily subjugate an early 20th century Earth thus fulfilling the requirement for " an advanced civilisation capable of invading earth. Heck, 2019 human militarily would easily count as "an advanced civilisation capable of invading earth" if we go by early 20th century standards. You must account for the fact that the alien in War Of The World aren't even an interstellar species. They are at best an interplanetary species (they are from Mars , after all) hence not really that much more advanced than we are right now.
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  19.  @ethanvallance3437  " I disagree on a civilisation like us being able to invade another planet successfully, we just don’t have the resources or man power to invade a planet at the moment but we can invade countries" That mainly hinges on two factor : A) what is the comparative tech gap between our victim target to our own and B) our political will (which affect how much resource we are willing to allocate into any project). I'm pretty sure that if the survival of our species is at stake (something they suggested about why the Martians invaded in the original book), we can easily muster the political will to launch an invasion of a Mars distance planet with our current space tech. " What would you rate this? And is it worth watching?" I haven't even watched a single episode of this so I can't rate it at all . In fact until today I never even knew there is a BBC WoTW adaptation. It is currently on my "to watch list" .
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  20.  @MushroomFleet  Stop pretending you have ever read the books. If you have you would've known that the human did manage to bring down multiple tripods in battle (HINT: google Thunder Child ) in the original book.
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  21.  @bobbywog  MusroomFleet repeatedly claimed that the Martians were invincible to human tech in the novel despite the human manage to take them down on a couple of occasion (Thunderchild eg).
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  22.  @bobbywog  "where did he claim that?" Look at the date in which I responded to his post and then search the comment section here for his post on that day (and possibly the day before). You'll find that the guy repeatedly claims (in multiple thread s by different posters) that this clip is bullhsit because the Martians were completely invulnerable to human weapons (which is a movie adaptation element) in the book (which is completely false). Several people (including myself) called him out for his claim that he have read the book and we (human) couldn't harm the tripods in the book. The fact that he never came back here again after we shot down his lies underlines the context of his post even further.
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  23. The species name for the chicks are Emperor Penguin. The adults are around 1.5 meters tall .
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  24. To be fair, the Tripods being downed by the Roya navy actually happened in the original book, ergo they're being kinda faithful to the source material there.
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  25. Nemertean.Please spell their name correctly, lest you want to offend our monstrous sea worm overlords.
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  26. No.
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  27. Based on the smoke plumes in the background, quite a number of ships were at least hit (or destroyed ) by the tripod's return fire.
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  28.  @everythingsfine7399  Cats are usually that light footed. The sounds in this type of documentaries are usually fake, the videos are not.
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  29.  @everythingsfine7399  Really? A Flat Earther video is your proof? " looks fake compared to other videos of this cat, at 1:43 the when it puts its foot down doesn't look quiet right, " Doesn't' seem anything wrong at all . " and it doesn't seem to be breathing.. if it's been running around all day, should see it.. plus bbc earth, is known for legit cgi, like walking with dinosaurs.. and that was awhile ago, so they are probably really good at it now, plus there is another video some guy made about it" You do know that these type of documentaries are always edited together from multiple take (gaps between shot can span days ) instead of one long shot of following the creatures in question (HINT: the cat probably didn't' run all day as you suggested) ? It doesn't seem breathing? Have you looked at any other cat or animal in real life? Most of them shared the "breathing problem you mentioned. It would literally cost them millions more to CGI this whole thin than just putting out a camera crew to film the creature. They have nothing to gain from doing so.
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  30.  @everythingsfine7399  Again, it doesn't look CGI at all. I think the problem is that you have been so used to lower quality picture that you found one shot with ultra HD camera looks so surreal.
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  31. We can clearly see that not all the shells initially hit the tripod in this scene (hence why it take them so long to take out the first tripod despite having more ships firing at that time. Once they manage to work out the kinks and score a hit , it is quite simple to follow the same firing solution and score hits after hits
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  32.  @MushroomFleet  This scene is more faithful to the source material (they Royal Navy did manage to destroy several tripod in battle in the book) than any scene from the 1953 and 2005 Hollywood movies.
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  33. We did see multiple huge plumes and explosion in the sea here which indicate some of the ships were hit (or even destroyed) by return fire from the Tripods.
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  34.  @sorcererberoll4641  Doubtful for a few reasons: 1) we didn't saw those plumes at the beginning of the scene. They only appear after the battle starts. In fact one (directly behind the swimming lady) appeared immediately behind her after we heard a loud explosion(not from the guns firing) and as she turns around toward that direction. 2) the size of those plumes. Unless the ship that release them have smokestack s a big as the ships themselves, they can came only come from a burning wreckage of ships.
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  35. Huh?
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  36. He did a video on this?
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  37. To be fair even a 10inch gun is far bigger than anything a modern main battle tanks (M1A2 , Challenger 2 etc) can field let alone what ever they have on land at that point in time . Not counting for ammunition type that is.
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  38.  @fairwinds610  Yes, I remember that... And The HMS Thunder Child too.
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  39.  @ethanvallance3437  I would call anything that can take multiple pounding from 10-12 inch guns as "going down easy" .
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  40.  @timaustin2000  I think most people confuse the movie adaptations with the book, in the movies they are truly invincible .
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  41. High quality camera and HD image.
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  42. It's not fake.Time-lapse photography, google it.
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  43. I already did. They really are this small. Either this guy or the black-footed cats are considered the smallest wild cat in the world.
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  44. Antarctic
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  45. Pretty sure you can't tell the difference between CGI and real footage.
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  46.  @parmesankilla690  Two reason why it looks surreal : A) This is shot HD and ultra HD camera which add to an otherworldly effect. B)Thy are filming a cat. I don't know if you're familiar with felines but they do sometime display this surreal grace in their movement (especially when jumping or landing).
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  47. He was guarding the rear just in case the Petrel tried to swing back and attack from that direction.
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  48. No, you would be wrong on the CGI. While BBC documentary do sometime used staged shots and splicing/edited footage to make a narrative flow, they don't use CGI.
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  49. Antarctic Proboscis Worms (Nemertean Worms).
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  50. Curious, spiders are a few bugs that I wouldn't harm.Mosquitoes on the other hand deserve extermination.
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