The Disturbing Reason Tripods Were Buried Under The Earth (War Of The Worlds 2005) is a video by pupbenny taking a look at the reasons the Aliens from Steven Spielberg's War Of The Worlds 2005 film starring Tom Cruise didn't come down in a spaceship or UFO or flying machine and instead created a storm and arrived through the lightning and thunder. They had their Tripod fighting machines buried under the planet all along and finally came to fulfill their alien invasion. This is said by some people to be a plothole and actually this is not the only plot hole and as a result, in this video, I take a look at some theories that may resolve these plotholes and actually reveal the terrifying reason the tripods were buried here by the Martians that, in this film, aren't actually from Mars supposedly. This theory has terrifying implications for humans and humanity and all of human history that weren't prevalent in the original H.G. Wells The War Of The Worlds story.
War Of The Worlds Playlist: • War of the Worlds Expl...
2005 Tripod Model Made By PixlTripod.
HG Wells The War Of The Worlds has inspired many adaptions including The War Of The Worlds 1953 film, The Great Martian War 1913-1917, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds and even Steven Spielberg's 2005 War Of The Worlds starring Tom Cruise. I found this War Of The Worlds game to be a nice adaption and it certainly makes a nice change from FOX's War Of The Worlds and the BBC's War Of The Worlds that we've gotten lately. The War Of The Worlds Multiplayer survival horror game is a worthwhile, fun and nicely stylised adaption of H G Wells The War Of The Worlds.
13:08 19/08/2023 14,249
The reason the Tripods were buried adds such a disturbing dynamic to human history in what is already quite a grim film. It's quite a fantastic idea!
I agree. And even if the Martians almost dominated the human race, their defeat by bacteria symbolizes they’re not at war with humans, but with Mother Nature who is clever enough to know their advanced technology makes them arrogant as they thought it makes them invisible that leads to their downfall of the invasion. When H.G. Wells wrote the book, he compared the Martians to the British Empire that colonized Tasmania, meaning the invaders aren’t gods, they’re people, just like humans.
No, it make them the dumbest aliens on science fiction history. Even dumber than the orks from warhammer 40k. Are you expecting me to believe that advance aliens came to earth to bury machines and study the enviroment but they never noticed this micro creatures crawling all over their skin?
I personally hated this change. Call me a purist but it left me really disappointed when the cylinders are such a creepy concept- they're obviously alien but are impregnable and we have no idea what they are or their intent is until the Martians decide to exit, and by that point it's too late. I adore the idea of Earth being a human farm that gets harvested millennia apart with the farming equipment being left deep deep underground for next time but I feel WotW wasn't the film to explore it.
@@DrBagPhD The point of that change is it only brings the unknowable and paranoia, while I do agree about your idea from the book, but if it happens in the modern-era, that would’ve been predictable and defy the unknowable. However, I personally have the Martians arrived when all electronics, including cars and cellphones, suddenly shut down, follow by a massive pulse that devastated an entire city in the middle of the night, and then from out of nowhere, ghostly machines that employ a cloaking device appear and hunt down survivors during nighttime, what do you think?
I did hear the author said that the aliens were watching humanity with envious eyes which means the aliens were jelous of humanity which means humans had something the aliens possibly didnt have. That's just a theory.
I think it’s pretty cool to think that the tripods might be super outdated technology to the martians, because if they planted the tripods here long ago, they must have invented new technologies. It’s as if we went to mars and fought tribes of a lower intelligence species with catapults and trebuchets, and absolutely demolished them.
Yeah it's a really interesting idea, I plan to look into doing a video about that eventually, talking about how advanced the aliens must be at this point. It's so fascinating that these tripods are so old to them.
Yes but time isn't linear. These beings are traveling faster than the speed of light presumably. This means very little time would have passed from the perspective of the Aliens, even though the machines were planted in our time frame for thousands of years. Sounds Sci-Fi eh? But it's not. This comes from the mind of Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity. Science is fun :)
@@cmac3446 Oops I forgot that the aliens in the movie aren’t from mars like in the book lol
Your entire comment is based on a presumption therefore we cannot speculate about your point @@cmac3446
@@GenericOceanLinerHistorian No problems you can call them martian even if they are not from Mars. Even if the fact that they set foot on Mars as a colony or even if they left tripods on Mars back a long time ago when Mars still got oceans. Well we left that to the future archaeologist.
This film traumatized me when I was a little kid. LOL, but it was my first exposer to War of the Worlds. So I guess I can thank my dad for showing this film to me.
Haha, I remember watching it when I was a kid too. It really is quite a terrifying film!
Same for me, but it was my mother who showed it to me
Same here
My dad and mom showed it to me, this movie was a huge idea for my docs, no wonder this well written for me. It’s a huge influence
The disease plot hole can be filled by the fact germs and viruses mutate and evolve all the time. I doubt caveman had to worry about COVID 19.
That's a good point!
In that case they would have taken precautions, or sterilize the planet before coming in like those dumbasses in prometheus.
Our ancestors weren't aware of viruses or germs, much less their vulnerability.
@@godless-clump-of-cells Who cares? It isn't like the people in the movie knew aliens were susceptible either. That wasn't figured out until after the aliens died. My point is that germs and viruses aren't static over time, especially for long periods of time. The aliens could have seeded the planet with machines before whatever killed them existed.
That is an amazing point!
The "buried in the ground" thing reminds me of Playstation's _Resistance_ franchise, where the alien race known as the Chimera building/burying their superstructures deep beneath the earth, but their method of invasion is certainly unique: instead of coming to earth themselves, they designed a virus that infects humans to turn them into, well, Chimera.
Or the Ceph from Crysis.
As if the 05 Tripods weren't terrifying enough...
The horror of them just keeps increasing! xD
It is hinted at in the movie *billions* of years ago that they were here and burried their tanks last, not millions or even thousands of years ago in the storyline; so I guess they were planning on settling here all along, but wanted to terriform the planet, and likely they age at a different rate than we humans do.
the idea that every human in history has been bred as a livestock animal for aliens is honestly terrifying. good analysis!
I don't think they actually went to Earth and buried the Tripods. They used lightning to transport themselves through the ground, so they might be able to do the same for the Tripods as they are very advanced. Because of this they may not have ever stepped foot on Earth before and therefore had no idea about the harmful bacteria and never succumbed to it.
I really like the fanart; and I have read a tale along similiar lines; years ago; by the name of "Closer to Them" that appears to have disappeared from the website it was on in the intervening years... it was a good quality war-story about this conflict from an alien soldier's eyeview... but I really liked the idea of the alien biologist in the biology coat observing the microscope you've got in the pictures in this.
This is a good theory . May I add to this?? When they came they took the large dinosaurs ,that is why they became extinct at roughly the same time. They decided to come back later to harvest what evolved next
the tripod dancing at the end got me but also thanks for the explanation
I know not many think about how the aliens came down into the tripods, if they came down through lightning, we’re did the lightning come from, did they open up some portal, or was there really some sort of mothership disguised as a storm?
I'm not sure, I suppose by this point in time they have such advanced technology and abilities, but specifically how they were able to do this I'm not sure. Definitely interesting to think about though.
I believe the original book had the martians being shot through a cannon sort of machine from Mars. Perhaps something similar in this remake where they shoot out from their solar system, going faster than the speed of light and when it hits our atmosphere, it becomes an electromagnetic storm.
I wanna say mothership because the storm abruptly stops and the wind stops as well and then the lightning commences but also wormhole or some kind of portal as the storm creates intense updraft, storms can do this in the event of a tornado but obviously no tornado was present.
@@pupbennyhey people, you can come up with all kind of theories as to how the aliens do the things that they do just remember it's a story. 😮 If it is not explain in the movie 🎥 then you are not going to come up with any explanation that would be satisfying because it's just a made-up story. I say come up with any conclusion that satisfies you if you believe the Martians did it the way you think they would do it then I say go with it. 👍
@@alexcarter2461 Supercells are quite capable of doing so which is more typical of big and swirly cloud they can have lightning occur in them too as they are basically the swirly bit before it goes to ground and officially becomes a tornado. so yeah big mothership probably looking like a massive tripod but with no legs using a supercell as cover makes sense. Edit: didn't realise till posting that it read nig mothership instead of big mothership.
Fun fact: Steven Spielberg actually made his version of war of the worlds because he got the inspiration from the 1953 war of the worlds and he took some of the lines from it to.
There's a few little Easter eggs to the 1950s version one is a street sign that says Van Bruen which is the female characters last name and the grand parents at the end of the movie are the lead actors from the older version
@@trekkieraccoon3343 that's a good one too
I’ve always wondered did they ever return the machines to work on them or have they been there since the start. For all we know these could of been a prototype machines from prehistoric times. But that’s just my thoughts good video as always
a new theory on my favorite movie? hell yeah
I personally think the Martians came from the ground to surprise everyone because they would be visible if they came from the sky
Yeah, that makes sense, the ultimate surprise attack!
What doesn't make sense to me is that in the movie the aliens vaporized vast amounts of people in some scenes and in other scenes they were harvesting them for consumption. Why kill off your source of food? They are going to need all the humans they can get if they are using the byproducts for terra-forming (or alien equivalent) the earth. They didn't seem to have a criteria of who to eat and who to vaporize.
The idea that the aliens were here all along, lurking just beneath the surface, brings up some very important questions that were not addressed in the movie: Why did the aliens pick "now" to begin their invasion? What triggered their appearance? How did they go unnoticed by construction crews and diggers? Why were they vulnerable to microbes when they had already been living here for such a long time?
In the book, the martians already had livestock that were described as being humanoid in nature. These livestock were basically dried rations from mars like mres. So maybe when martians came the first time they took some humans back to mars but decided to plant the tripods in the earth like you said as a contingency. Its like how europeans would take fruit from colonies and bring it back to europe but also made farms in those colonies. Maybe the martians have been abducting people for thousands of years but eventually the livestock on mars dried up so the martians resorted go full blown invasion.
This the best vr of the design 👌
I have to say this rq, I find it pretty interesting how all this morbid stuff is caused by aliens who, for some reason (referring to the spielberg aliens) look kinda cute xddd idk im probably the only person in the world who thinks these invaders look pretty adorable, but they use probably one of the most terrifying tripods
The scary part is, earth wasn’t even the first planet they invaded
That was never even remotely suggested in the 2005 movie
Yeah, the Fighting Machines being left underground for thousands to millions of years was always a dumb creative choice for that film next to making the aliens themselves bio-tripods instead of the book's space octopus design. A point that no one brings up when talking about the 2005 Paramount film is that Fighting Machine tripods that invaders are riding in are very outdated, retro tech that realistically would be very inefficient and harder to operate/maintain for newer generations like modern humans going to wage war with musket rifles and swords against 21st-century guns & nukes. In the span of 60 years, after H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds was published, humans went from steam engines to atomic bombs, cars, tanks, submarines, airplanes, supercomputers, and spaceships. The only time in sci-fi when ancient but advanced alien tech that lay domain behind humanity's feet on Earth works is when said tech belongs to an extinct alien race who die off or disappear in the distant past like the Prothean in Mass Effect or an advanced civilization purposely left said tech for humans to discover and reclaim like the Forerunners in Halo. Now the idea you presented of the aliens purposely waiting and monitoring humanity before harvesting was actually done far better with the Reapers from the Mass Effect video games, which the game devs at Bioware said were inspired by the Martians from The War of the Worlds. In Mass Effect, the Reapers wait in dark space outside of the Milky Way Galaxy monitoring species that advance enough to make galactic empires, space travel, dark matter tech, and self-aware AIs only for the Reapers to return, wipe them out, and all traces/evidence of the Reapers involvement every 50,000 years.
Yeah, it's definitely a bizarre concept. I hadn't considered till making this video about how outdated the tripods must be to them, it's really odd. I haven't played Mass Effect, I should probably try it, I've heard a lot about it and it sounds really good.
@@pupbenny Here's another thing to consider that filmmakers maybe didn't think of. The deeper underground you go, the hotter the temperature gets. The world's deepest manmade hole, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, reaches 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) underground which they had to stop digging in 1989 due to the metal drill melting from Earth's natural temperatures. For example, the temperature at 3218 meters (2 miles) underground reaches 40 to 60 Celsius (104 to 140 degrees) which is considered too dangerous/deathly for most Earth life & humans. So those Fighting Machines from the 2005 Paramount film have really good air conditioners or be buried at least between 110 to 1609 meters (0.1 to 1 mile) underground to prevent the alien invaders from being cooked alive inside of their own machines and remaining undiscovered by humans either by seismic surveys or building an underground subway tunnel.
@@s452_Gojisaurus not so there are area's made by the mantling of oceanic crusts that you could feasibly park a tripods in or even hide whole ass staging areas between the crust and the mantle and contain really old hot water so i would be more concerned with rust than anything.
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 Expect the fact that the underground does change over time due to the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates, which was a point that even the excellent Spacedock KZhead channel points out when talking about the Spielberg tripods in his "Top 10 Sci-Fi Walkers" video. Even if you build a structure underground, it has to be maintained, like how subway tunnels have regular maintenance to prevent them from collapsing into themselves due to the forces of nature. So even if the Invaders set up underground hangers/armories for the tripods, they could be either damaged or inaccessible just due to the Earth itself without any human involvement, depending on how long they are down there. Also storing the tripods in the Oceanic Curst is a very bad idea as the invaders and/or the Fighting Machines would be crushed into a paste or a tin can by the high pressures alone. I just still find the alien invaders hiding and invading Earth with outdated Fighting Machines & tech underground a dumb creative choice for Speilberg's War of the Worlds remake as I did when I 1st saw it back in 2005 (which I find sad because Gears of War did that concept of underground alien invaders better with the Locust Horde just a year after the Speilberg film) and is full of many plotholes, unlike the space explanation. The aliens and their machines coming from space instead of underground is still the most realistic explanation and fairly easy to modernize like giving the Martian cylinders cloaking devices, radar/camera jammers, or faster-than-light/wormhole travel to avoid detection by modern humans.
@@s452_Gojisaurus not so for these really old (some are as old if not older than pangea and exist precisely because of tectonic shifting specifically at the ocean on ocean tectonic movements where one continent slides down and the other rises over (mantles) the other continental plate slightly or did you miss that particular class. Admittedly they are somewhat stuck between solid rock and mud in terms of movement but they don't get replaced very often.
2:57 - FWIW, I'm Australian, and in every Chemistry and Biology class I was in, "Pipette" was pronounced "PIP-pet" by every teacher or lecturer.
Hello. Was looking into this movie again, and your video came up. Gave it a look and made the same conclusion when I watched it in theaters back in 2005. As far as your question at 4:52, I didn't have an answer at the time but I have learned a lot about diseases and where they came from, and I think I have a good answer for you: The commonality and severity of diseases that humans interact with has exploded since humans developed animal husbandry. If we assume they had been here and left before 9000BC, humans would have been far less disease infested than they are today. I know a lot of folks ask why they wouldn't know about our diseases or simply ignored them (to which there is a number of possible answers) but I will simply state that most people don't realize that most of our diseases are jumps from cows, pigs, birds, ect. And if the average Human doesn't realize where our diseases come from when we live with disease as something normal, then I can very much believe the Martians made a oversight out of sheer ignorance. It has happened many, many times in our own history.
Well... I was thinking about it and I think a very simple way to avoid the trope and still make it feel unique is to exclude the comment that the tripods were buried all this time. One suggestion I have is that, since storms and thunder seem to come from nowhere, it seems more like a wormhole than anything else, while we think about how to get from point A to point B, the Martians thought about how to do it. that point B reached them. The reporter's dialogue could change to: "Those machines come up from under the ground, but there was nothing there years ago... Who the hell put them there?" The video would show how what look like pieces, capsules, and sometimes you can even see only silhouettes, come down from the beam. "That's them. They go down in capsules, they use the rays to transport themselves to their assembly area." Then you just have to select the martian pilot concept art and run with it!
For the tripods not dying to bacteria there is a possible reason! The reason they didn't die is because they didn't stay long, let me explain, in the 2005 film the tripods don't die immediately, the bacteria actually starts to kick in more a week later, maybe they had buried those tripods within a week? These tripods don't die immediately, yet the tripods at the end don't really die immediately. Now the reason why is because, well when you have a fever, does it get to its worst point? Nope, same case goes with the tripods vs bacteria! This is the tripods getting sickness!
That is not how it works. Once you are exposed to bacterias and virus they latch into you. They would have got sick eventually.
This movie needs a sequel
My only major criticism is the design of the Martians! But I loved the technological reinterpretation! As for your review, Personally, maybe something similar to Pacific Rift happened. About how the conditions of the Planet were different in Prehistory and Maybe they simply left because they had other issues to resolve (Like Civil Wars on Mars or The Silurians and Cosmic Events) but not before leaving it as a backup plan...Aside from the plot hole I am also more intrigued about the Martian civilization and other cosmic historical events!
Kinda cool how the plotholes have sum decent explanation that expands the lore more
When I first watched the film I felt that the reporter saying they must have been buried for a long time was her making an assumption in the wake of the attack. I always felt the aliens rode the lighting and assembled their machines underground, similar to them building their tripods in the book.
My problem with the "humans are cattle for the aliens" is that why haven't the alien just implemented industrial farming? If they are so advanced that even their obsolete and primitive (by their standards) walkers are more advanced than anything humanity has produced at the moment. Why haven't they just industrialy farmed the humans like how we do with cows, chickens,etc.?
1:49 actually they say they been here *millions* of years ago, before possibly the first human ancestors split off from apes 6 million years ago
or 2 millon years ago with homo habilis
If they did not came in ships, what transported them trough the lightning into the machines then? In the end there have to be a mohtership or more to transport them. And this would be spottable.
I have a fan theory. The tripods are buried in strong cylinders. When the first tripod emerges, we see the ground unscrew. The reason why humans never dug up Tripods, is because by 2005, we would not have had technology to dig up something that big if it's buried that deep. Most likely they hit a cylinder, saw that it's impassable, and dug elsewhere. But what if in that universe, Area 51 is america digging up a Tripod and being confused by it for years? Also, that cloud thing up there, that sent the lightning down? Most mysterious thing in the movie. It shows up twice (at the start, and after the ferry scene), and never again. Is it still in orbit? Did it go away? And finally, Ray did say that wind was blowing towards the storm. I think that was a portal opening, hence the vacuum of space sucking air towards the portal.
Maybe they killed the dinosaurs then waited for the ecosystem to recover to do so again
Why didn't the aliens just use animals all those millions of years ago?
Maybe they need Human blood or certain blood types for some reason, or maybe they’re just dumb
0:22 What video game is this?
It is utterly ludicrous.
Whilst I like the idea of cattle (reminds me of Jupiter Ascending), I lean towards the idea of von Neumann probe-esque approach. They send the cylinders to many planets across the galaxy, sitting dormant until a time the aliens need them. They come at some unspecified time later, without needing to bring invasion vehicles with them, just the crew.
I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAAT!!!
I love the war of the worlds most tripod
Notwithstanding that every WOTW interpretation essentially ends with the aliens dying from exposure to Earth's various bacteria, per the original source material, I always thought the reason the aliens died because the bacteria, germs, and viruses on Earth are perhaps different from what would be known on their native planet, or whatever planet they called home prior to, in the case of Spielberg's version, coming to Earth; that's assuming, of course, that every potentially habitable planet might have such things similar to what we have on Earth. Another thing to consider is that, when Europeans came to the Americas, they brought with them diseases that were common to Europe, such as the bubonic plague, of which the natives of the Americas had no immunity defense against. Another consideration is that the little micro killers evolve, both over time and as they move from one host to another in transmission, so whatever the aliens might have been immune to before, they'd have no immunity to in years and centuries after. And then there's the worst of the worst, human-made biological weapons, which we know that scientists have this bad habit of enhancing germs, viruses, and bacteria to make them more effective, thereby overriding our normal immune responses and capabilities. One other thing, it's known that prolonged containment within a sterile environment can result in a weakened immune system due to the body's evolution, or in this case, devolution, which would effectively make the common cold a killer. Just some theories to throw out there.
bro, when i thought why they would leave and come back, seriously my first thought was: population
I want to know how the aliens knew where to bury their tripods? I mean, when cities were being built over time, how would humans not find the buried tripods? its not like they were buried that deep.
You also have to remember that this movie was released in the aftermath of 9/11. Much of the imagery in the movie (missing persons posters, etc.) had 9/11 in mind. One of the reasons of the buried machines was the sense of "they were here under our feet the whole time" that terroism provoked.
i think the best scenario to avoid the whole infected by germs thing, is that maby the searched planets from their spaceships that ''could potentialy'' harbor life'' planted the pods using their spacecraft, not needing to exited the vehicles to do so , and then just left, found out earth has organic life (maby even relize that earth has more value then they though and then came back only thing i am confused about is their harvesting operations, if harvesting is their main objestive, then why did the spend so mutch time basicly zapping people to death if they see them as a resource that is importent? i always thought up my own theory to make sense of it and that is, they want to wipe out all life on earth and harvest the humans to terraform earth to their own liking
My solution to the "why bury the machines" issue is that the machines were drones sent ahead of time. Their motive for colonizing earth was to solve a future problem (overpopulation/resource scarcity) and they wanted the planet prepped for their arrival.
My question is, if they were able to not be detected by using the storms, what were they? Were they actually ships or were they able to use portals to seed the grounded Tripods in preparation for their exit of their homeworld planet, the storms were the most mysterious enigma of them all, and it shows how much more advanced they were in comparison to their ancient mechanized Tripods.
They where transportet trough the lighning in capsules. You can see it in the movie, when the reporter stopped the frame. Thats why the lightning hits the same area again and again to bring enough pilots for one tripod. But yeah, what transported the capsules? There have to be a mohtership. Or it is really some kind of wormhole/portal thing...
I have a theory that at least answers my questions as to the germ issue and why the buried machines were never found. Put simply, it could be the same thing we’re doing right now. We’re sending probes out through space to explore and photograph planets. They possibly did the same thing with drones looking for a planet that was in its infancy and could be conquered relatively easily should the need ever arise. Once they discovered earth, possibly during the time of cavemen or even before, they sent their machines in cylinder-like devices that would easily drill themselves deep into the ground and mark their location somehow for the aliens should they ever arrive to use them. The aliens themselves would never actually set foot on earth until the day of the invasion. Once they arrived safely to their destination, they powered down aside from defensive capabilities to prevent them from being destroyed or tampered with if they were discovered. So how did we not find them? The simple answer is we did. No one survived to report it though as they were killed in cave ins, toxic fumes, etc. whatever would keep anyone else from going down there and trying to investigate, collect the bodies, or continue digging. These cave ins and toxic gases would be thought of by any rational person as an accident. The ground wasn’t stable, or they ran into some pocket of toxic gases, but in reality it was the defensive systems of the machines activating to kill anything unauthorized to get that close to them.
I personally disliked the 'the tripods being underground all along' premise, however if reworked naratively (like the aliens and tripods are teleported in, disrupting the infrastructure of the city) I think it was an interesting take.
I think it's just supposed to be nightmare logic. It's a bit hokey, but one of the movie's first scenes is Cruise's character coming home and going to bed after work; in my opinion, the rest of the movie is his post-9/11 tinged bad dream.
i like to think that they aren't from mars in this film, but they did conquer mars and that's why mars is red
They are holding the throwing spears from Vegas in the thumb now
I feel like there could be a solutioin where the aliens do come down from space without the humans knowing about it. After all, in the book astronomers did observer explosions on mars 11 months earlier but wrote it off as a natural phenomenon. So, what if they do approach earth in a spaceship that is tracked but believed to be an interstellar meteorite passing through the solar system until it's too late.
It is explained by Tim Robbins' character in the film.
This movie had some good ideas but it really lost me with the Martians design. Their culture was supposed to be base three and the number three was central to them. They had three arms with three fingers and they had three eyes. Their ships had three legs and they attacked on groups of three.
There were four aliens in the basement iirc. You can see in the shot when they retreat back through the hole in the ceiling.
Good video. There were so many plotholes in the movie it wasn't funny. But here's a likely reasoning based on the video, they buried there equipment at least before humans evolved with the likelyhood of Earth being a planet slated for teraforming then seeded a species DNA having both the necessary teraforming elements as well as served as a food source while teraforming is completed as well as after. They may have done this multiple times on different planets and had expected resistance from humans, which is why they had multipurpose walkers herders with with shields and heat rays was well as just teraforming equipment that harvest humans. What they didn't expect was the planet environment to change the DNA so much as well as humans changing their own DNA to adapt to the environment. You take a look at the last hundred years humans have created multiple vacancies to diseases. So even if the aliens had planned for certain evolutions of the humans they forgot to factor in the environment, which is something we as a species are starting to do because of climate changes. With the aliens, their hubris of repeating process continually made them forget about events happening outside of the norm.
I think with the diseases it was a change in what we had infecting us and developed immunities and infection mutation as well
The burried war machine is quite possible the worst idea ever.
If this was a harvest, why shoot their guns? The army was helpless and the cattle were plentiful. Why shoot at your food?
In the story, weren’t the invaders also harvesters of humans? Still, I’m trying to reconcile with how they would’ve endured the micro organisms then, only to die from them when they would invade later.
I don’t think it’s entirely unrealistic to not find one of these things buried. The Earths crust is miles and miles deep, and we haven’t dug too far down to reach the mantle. Who’s to say they just didn’t go deeper? The criticism of “why come now when humans have all this technology?” Is a ridiculous one as you can see in the movie, human weapons were ineffective against the tripods until the very end so if disease was not a factor, our technology would be nothing. Honestly the ‘harvesting humans now that their numbers are bigger’ is a good argument to make, but there’s another thing to consider with how technology has affected us and society: As we have evolved, we have become much more dependent on our technology. We’re interconnected in such a deep way that a disruption to that would completely shatter the population. If they attacked at, say, the 1700s, they’d still be very dangerous but we’d still have some maneuverability since we had a much lower population and more endurance to the world around us, making the job harder. The aliens had to wait until we got large enough to where all they had to do was turn off the power, and we’d be thrown into chaos. Also as some have pointed out, viruses, bacteria, do evolve over time, and can become more or less dangerous as time goes on. That’s why we have to get annual vaccination for things like the flu, since it mutates and we have to adapt to that. I like to think it’s not that the aliens ‘forgot about germs” or anything like that, but because the viruses have evolved and mutated so much, any inoculation methods and their own immune system would just not endure. Also, they never say in the movie exactly what viruses killed them, just that they did. It could be something like the flu, or it could be the countless other viruses and diseases that humans are exposed to, especially considering in the scene where the tripod was taken down by the National Guard, they were practically swimming in it.
The reason why they didn't die before they came it's because of less oxygen
BRO LMFAO YOURE LITERALLY SAYING THE SAME THINGS I HAVE BEEN THINKING OF WITH THIS ADAPTATION LMAO
Where were the aliens watching us from though? How did they watch us? How did we not notice?
The reason of the aliens not dying back then of some virus, yet die in modern time, could tell that the virusses are man made.
H G Wells the time machine the eli were basically food for the under ground warlock
what if the aliens were actually from earth millions of years ago, maybe an earth civilization that lived here before the dinosaurs, and some sort of war or asteroid wiped them out and a group of survivors left for another galaxy in refuge, and now that the time is right they see fit to return to earth as the rightful owners.
ok so while they “wait for the harvest” what do they live on, martian rocks? This theory makes no sense
Why did they decide to invade 1 year after half life 2 got released I take ages to complete story games so they could have just given humanity a bit longer.
that's not what "begs the question" means
Another idea. They were us, built the pyramids, and left. Humans took over the pyramids and scratched on thier surfaces new markings.Humans evolved, but so did the aliens (us) and became adapted to space....hence the change in biology initatimg to weightless loving in spaceships that were substitutes for their onrigimal form. Us?
Time dilation. If they travel ver u fast the time on earth passes slower. If they move from world to world it could be millions of years in human time vs the alien time.
After watching some clips of Scary Movie 4, it completely ruined the terror of the tripods and theory’s because of how it parodies it. Spoilers! Inside the Tripod, the characters encounter Jigsaw.
Spielberg ruined it. The aliens should have arrived in the cylinders. In the novel, it was known in advance about the vehicles coming from Mara because astronomers were watching them. The idea that the aliens had been here long and come to harvest us is not an idea that works well. In fact, I think it's just a plot hole because Spielberg was being lazy and didn't want cylinders, which is a shame because the part of the story when the cylinders arrive is very tense and creepy. The 2005 version has some pretty good moments but the story felt rushed and incomplete
Clearly you haven’t seen whatever the British tried to do in 2019
@@Godzillafan78 Oh, I have seen it. And, yes, I do prefer the version with Tom Cruise
Nope. They don’t have an immune system. So they would have failed back then too.
Which makes their decision to brazenly expose themselves to an Alien biosphere even more perplexing.
To me, the planet was getting cooler and cooler, every year so when it got to cold in 2005 they finally launched their invasion
Wtf
Plate tectonics alone would destroy the vast majority of the fighting machines. Then they just start zapping humans by the thousands while only capturing hundreds for food/fertilizer. So much for the needing humans for food theory. This movie just sucked azz.
So they waited for the right moment when there were enough people to harvest
It would be a one of a twist, if we found out that, they ate some peoples blood who had AIDS, and that's why they immunity was wiped and died from germs 😂
I was laughing because you showed an image of scary movie 4 2:09
And when the time is right they used a machine to strike into the tripod powering up the tripod and teleporting the aliens inside of it
So they created the tripod and created a hole and burried the tripod a long time ago
So back then the aliens stole technology from the feature and I saw metal and used a machine to take the metal and bring it back
And they also saw the feature and they saw a lot of people
And just like that they stroked us then war begins….
screw bielburg . . .
This is my story
Wouldnt it be better to say they beamed the tripods into the ground as well?