SUCCESS!!! (But at what cost...?)

YAYZ! It took forever, but Hubs has finally slain the last Colossus. He is thinking of adding it to his CV.

Wicked ending, if The Longest Cut Scene Evar.

The Bobbo came back! Yes!

The trains that had loaded up in the goods yard there ploughed through shrieking people...

Bloody Hell. The War of the Worlds is just amazing. I'm currently with the protagonist's brother at Barnet, trying to avoid the crush of terrified Londoners emptying the city. The way that Wells has pre-empted the horror of 20th Century Warfare and applied it to the superficial gentry of Victorian London.. it's simply incredible. It's such a pity that there hasn't been a really good film version of this - why did Spielberg feel the need to modernise it? It's so much more potent and terrifying in its original setting, with the Martians inflicting elements of modern warfare - chemical weapons, radiation, attacking civilians instead of engaging on the battlefield and whatnot - upon an unprepared, slow-moving, slow-communicating 19th Century populace. Scenes of the Martians approaching a city in a world where news actually travels slower than they do, and where peoples' only means of escape are by foot, bicycle, horse & cart or rammed boats and steam trains is just so much more frightening than in a 21st Century setting.

Bloody brilliant book. I've missed reading for pleasure.

BTW

Due to baby stuff haven't seen Who yet, and probably won't til tomorrow now, so I have to request a big fat Ixnay on the Oilerspay for a lil bit.

I also forgot to mention the EPIC dream I had this morning that combined WotW, BSG, The Matrix and a bunch of other stuff. There was hiding out in the basement of a hospital, a barefoot flight away from alien 'Agents', the burning of all of our birth certificates, passports, etc, a really hairy bit when the Agents searched the home of people who we weren't quite sure were on our side or not while we hid in their toilet... my dream had Cut Scenes, for God's sake! It was brilliant.

The temptation to write a WotW/TNG crossover is immense right now, you realise, but I don't think it would work! 19th Century Technology might be a pushover for the Martians, but I don't think 24th Century technology would be quite so easy to crush with Heat Rays and Black Smoke.