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War Of The Worlds:The Resurrection novel (spoilers from the novel)

posted 19 years ago by nealhd
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There was a novel by J.M. Dillard based upon the first 2 hour episode. It went into a bit more detail about the social political and military structure of the Mor-Taxens.

It even went into details about the aliens ,they have three sexes.(male, female and carrier. (Carrier actually carried the young to term with the male and female only took part in conception.)

It would have been cool to see if any of these ideas from the novel had been developed further. Assumming it was not the writer adding more detail then the show writers originally intended.

It did explain the reason why did people not remember the original invasion (it may have been covered in the series if i remember correctly , a different explanation than the novel).

There was alos alot more detail too i have not explained from the novel. If you are into reading ,i think you will be interested in learning something different about the aliens.

It is an adaption of the first episode so do not expect anything except some elaboration on the story and the characters.

[–] the thorn of Thurisaz 19 years ago

I do like how there is more character background, especially of the character of Urick. There is even some information concerning their homeworld that doesn't get introduced until later in the season, which makes me think that Dillard had some level of access to the writers.

However I don't think all of it is canon. Note that there are a few blatant contradictions with the actual first season: the name of Suzanne's ex-husband, the integration of Dr. Forrester into the plot (dialogue in "Thy Kingdom Come" insinuates that he had been dead for years), Urick's body shed off for use in the climax. I'm not even sure the three genders element is correct because the novelisation seems to suggest a conflict with the external eggs in "My Soul to Keep". There are other things that while not contradictary, they don't necessarily mesh either. Some of it might be due to creative license or the fault of what I think may have been the early shaping of the Writer's Bible (note the minor mythology bumps of "The Walls of Jericho").

My real beef is with the aliens having names. Many fans who have read it use the names of the Advocacy in reference, but this is a total contradiction of their collective nature. They either assume names for the sake blending into their environment to accomplish missions, or have generic titles that grants them a position, but not an individual identity. The Supreme Commander took the name of Quinn, but this is obviously because his situation has made him a bit human. The fact that there is a subplot concerning a willing dissention in the ranks is out-of-character for them (though it mirrors the later introduction of Quinn, but without the complex insight into the collective alien mind).

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