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Post by bobble on Nov 1, 2006 11:57:13 GMT
Was in the car yesterday and listenend to the WOTW all the way through...
...great way to make a journey more interesting i can tell you!!! ;D
the one thing that struck me is the epilogue at the end of the album, to me is dosn't really fit in and kind of spoils the feel....
...it leaves me guessing to much, what happens to the other tracking stations? did the martains get down to earth again that quick or am i missing something???
so what are your ideas\opinions on this??
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Post by Marcus on Nov 1, 2006 19:37:00 GMT
I hate the Epilogue and I always skip it...
It made no sense, ruined the uplifting end of the story, and totally missed the point of the ending. I always skip it... awful.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Nov 1, 2006 19:58:12 GMT
THE EPILOGUE fits in perfectly with the album, but for the wrong reasons.
H.Gs novel drops a hint that maybe one day the martians will try again, and so in musical form Jeff Wayne does what H.G did. Also you have to take into account that at the time of the album was being put together, the VIKING Mars mission was happy snapping away images of Mars, and so the album bought the past and the future together in musical harmoney.
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Post by bobble on Nov 1, 2006 22:36:57 GMT
Yeah, but why does he loose contact with the other stations based on earth?? I can understand him loosing contact with the craft but why the other earth based stations?  |
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Nov 1, 2006 23:23:57 GMT
Yeah, but why does he loose contact with the other stations based on earth?? I can understand him loosing contact with the craft but why the other earth based stations? I would guess this is the start of the 2nd 'war' |
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Post by bobble on Nov 1, 2006 23:47:39 GMT
erm, i did kinda guess that! But why would he loose contact with the other earth stations when the martians have only just 'blasted off' from Mars??? I'm not knocking the album in any way, to me it's a musical masterpeice but the epilouge just kinda puts a blotch, all be it a very small one, on what would be a perfect composition... ...all imo of course !!  |
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Post by Rob on Nov 2, 2006 8:35:25 GMT
Maybe they used an EMP, quick reverse the solonoid!!!
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Nov 2, 2006 10:35:46 GMT
erm, i did kinda guess that! But why would he loose contact with the other earth stations when the martians have only just 'blasted off' from Mars??? I'm not knocking the album in any way, to me it's a musical masterpeice but the epilouge just kinda puts a blotch, all be it a very small one, on what would be a perfect composition... ...all imo of course !! Artistic licence to get the listener thinking - which its already has done "What's that flare, do you see it?, a green flare spurting out from Mars with kind of a green mist behind!." - then silence The silence works and makes the final result haunting, but with urgency. "What's that flare, do you see it?, a green flare spurting out from Mars with kind of a green mist behind!. Its another alien invasion. Were safe as they will not be here until another year or so. Emergancy over, back to bed boys." |
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Post by bobble on Nov 2, 2006 13:01:56 GMT
Still not convinced!!!  still doesn't explain why he lost contact with the other earth stations.. EMP? eh, what...all the way from Mars??? |
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Post by Rob on Nov 2, 2006 16:19:28 GMT
Still not convinced!!! still doesn't explain why he lost contact with the other earth stations.. EMP? eh, what...all the way from Mars??? Maybe, they were fairly advanced in 1898, maybe by the 70's they'd come up with something like an EMP gun. Boom! |
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Post by bobble on Nov 2, 2006 16:44:16 GMT
Now that IS advanced !! |
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Post by Rob on Nov 3, 2006 8:28:42 GMT
Well I don't know! Maybe they sent out static on every frequency to disrupt communications. ;D
I also thought that the guy talking was maybe orbiting mars in some kind of base ship and it was another craft that had tooched down on the surface.
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Post by bobble on Nov 3, 2006 10:08:42 GMT
Now that would explain it !!!
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Nov 3, 2006 10:23:18 GMT
LOL ;D, just by listening to the epilogue would have given the game away.
"The landing-craft touched down on Mars, 28 kilometers from the aim-point. We're looking at a remarkble landscape, littered with differant kind of rocks-red, purple. . . . How'bout that, Bermuda?"
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Post by Killraven on Nov 3, 2006 14:54:54 GMT
Actually the line "...here at NASA Control, Pasadena..." should give a good clue to the narrator's location   Jerry Wayne, RIP  |
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Post by Ashe Raven on Nov 4, 2006 21:32:14 GMT
Maybe yhry got Russel T Davis to plan the second invasion. This time with a shockign script to silence the critics, or in this case the stations on Earth and in return he was allowed to throw in a few polysexual martians to spice things up a little...
Or maybe that random bit of rambaling has nothing to do with this entire thread and I'd better shutup before someone things I'm barking
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still doesn't explain why he lost contact with the other earth stations..
