Well as yah all cant be trusted talk about the event here …talk about anything really (but keep it clean and fourm rules) most important dont mess up the other thread …
It’s a British thing apparently. Still happening today, I just don’t pay attention to Xmas day TV these days but Watership Down is still there and by all accounts it’s some sort of right of passage to trauma your children…
I’m lucky I only saw it when I was like, 8. old enough to have been through enough trauma, to prepare me for seeing vicious bunnies doing vicious bunny things
Haha @Cheds yeah recall watership down always on at Christmas haha @Sarah2 yeah this in a thing in England . No idea why just is.
Can be a bit Morbid but i do like the animation on cartoons like that. A art that is lost now
The H G Wells book, then a radio drama (which caused wide-spread panic), multiple films (watch the 1950’s version not the Tom Cruise one), A TV series (set years after the invasion in the film), a BBC 3 part mini-series and Jeff Wayne’s 1978 musical epic.
(In May 2019, Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience opened in London combining music from the album, immersive theatre, virtual reality, holograms and other techniques.)
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.