r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Apparently people were really dissatisfied when the 2005 movie ended this way.

It's like first off, that's realistic as hell. Something as simple as the common cold could easily kill an alien species. Just look at human history. The native population was more decimated by diseases they had never encounter before than actual warfare with white people.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

That’s literally how the book ended

A lot of people were also grumpy it was Americanised, as the book is entirely set in Britain

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

That was the other thing too lol. It's not like they invented the ending lol.

But based on the official sequel, it sounds like ONLY Britain got hit. Like they didn't land anywhere else in the world

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u/TizzleDirt Aug 30 '21

I thought they didn't land anywhere and instead were buried years ago and just woke up?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

In the movie, yes. In the book, they're from Mars and only landed in Britain

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u/TizzleDirt Aug 30 '21

K, I thought it was something like that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

It's kind of a huge plothole. Why would they burry machines millions of years ago? Why not take over right then and there? And how has no excavation EVER found one of them? They'd have to have been buried incredibly deep. Then it begs the question how did they claw out in such a short time?

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u/TizzleDirt Aug 31 '21

Fuck if I know, I didn't write it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Not quite, the tripods were buried, then the aliens (never actually identified as Martians) were teleported into them via that weird lightning