War of the Worlds

you would have thought that a super intelligent alien life form would have done its homework researching the environment of the planet it wants to conqueor before landing. but no... not those in the war of the worlds... smart enough to invent death rays, but not enough tactical sense to realise that little microbes in the Earth's atmosphere might actually KILL THEM!!!

i'm sure there were some other scientific inconsistencies in the show, but... i'm too tired to think about them. it was fun watching humans getting vaporised by those death rays. i want one of those death rays... *evil maniacal laughter*

one thing that struck my mind as i watched the show... civilisation as we know it is so dependent on electricity. lose control of our constant streams of electrons and we are useless. take out our power supply and civilisation collapses.

and what is our main source of electricity? oil. one day, that is going to run out (or so some people tell us...) and even if it doesn't, the effects of producing power using oil is going to kill us sooner or later. either that or the struggle for oil. or the struggle between the economic haves and have nots.

so the war of the worlds can actually be seen as a struggle between the world of the haves and the have nots. or the clash of civilisations, people existing on the same planet but living in different worlds, divided by their culture, race, language and religion. and the people who should win, who have the right to live are those who are most technologically advanced. and have the common sense to ensure that they are properly immunised against microbes. but of course, there are certain metaphorical microbes which are harder to immunise against.

enough of rambling. need sleep...