# War of the Worlds speculation (potential open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842 "2005-05-28T01:20:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/1 "2005-05-28T01:20:07Z")
While waiting for Star Wars to start, I saw the newest trailer for Speilberg’s War of the Worlds. It has already been stated that whoever we’re at war with will not be Martians or even aliens. They supposedly have been here for some time. My guess? Some sort of ocean-living creature bent on revenge against humankind for crapping in their home for thousands of years. Just a seriously huge WAG. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/2 "2005-05-28T01:22:58Z")
I personally think it’s the Tree Crushing Monsters from Lost. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/3 "2005-05-28T01:42:19Z")
“revenge against humankind for crapping in their home for thousands of years.” Wait. Do hummingbirds crap? They fly so fast. Might be some kind of supersocic dump? Never had the experience that I know of… ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/4 "2005-05-28T16:06:51Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > While waiting for Star Wars to start, I saw the newest trailer for Speilberg’s War of the Worlds. > > It has already been stated that whoever we’re at war with will not be Martians or even aliens. They supposedly have been here for some time. But in that case the title would be the decidedly less interesting War of the World. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/5 "2005-05-28T17:43:46Z")
The trailer I first saw begins with the HGW prologue about us being watched by “intelligences cool and calculating across the reaches of space”, so there will be something alien about them. Seeing the previews with the lightnight strikes, the EMP effect knocking out the power grid, & the underground upheavals- I am guessing that something alien seeded “the invaders” and the lightning strikes somehow activated them to emerge from underground. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/6 "2005-05-28T20:37:12Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > My guess? Some sort of ocean-living creature bent on revenge against humankind for crapping in their home for thousands of years. > > Just a seriously huge WAG. On the bright side, water wouldn’t kill them. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/7 "2005-05-28T22:03:39Z")
I vote we throw Tom Cruise to the aliens and perhaps they’ll leave the rest of us alone. It’s a win-win solution. ---
**Author:** ![Zoinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zoinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoinks)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/8 "2005-05-28T22:16:02Z")
For me, the rock opera with Richard Burton as the narrator was the definitive translation of the story into another medium. If they can get even half as good as that, then they’re solid. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/9 "2005-05-28T22:25:10Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > I vote we throw Tom Cruise to the aliens and perhaps they’ll leave the rest of us alone. > > It’s a win-win solution. Nah, we gotta make 'em take Paris Hilton, the Baldwin brothers, and Celine Dion as well, or it just ain’t worth it, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/10 "2005-05-29T00:10:16Z")
Attacking lemurs!!! :eek: “Don’t look in their eyes!” Mirror helmets will back them off temporarily. Hey that’s kinda like tinfoi… ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/11 "2005-05-30T04:37:50Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Nah, we gotta make 'em take Paris Hilton, the Baldwin brothers, and Celine Dion as well, or it just ain’t worth it, IMHO. They’d probably consider Paris Hilton to be an Insult. As for the Baldwins… Billy Baldwin: Hey Alec, you know what sucks about being a Baldwin? Alec Baldwin: No, what? Billy Baldwin: Nothing! ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/12 "2005-05-30T12:51:58Z")
I predict that they will modernize how the aliens are defeated - instead of being done in by biological diseases, they will be taken down by a computer virus, delivered from a Mac into their mothership. 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/13 "2005-05-30T13:35:01Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > “intelligences cool and calculating across the reaches of space” Space doesn’t have to be _outer_ space. A rodent’s burrow’s got space in it too, you know: [The Mole people](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049516/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8c291cmNlaWQ9bW96aWxsYS1zZWFyY2h8cT1tb2xlIHBlb3BsZXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/14 "2005-05-30T20:14:28Z")
> [@Zoinks](#): > > For me, the rock opera with Richard Burton as the narrator was the definitive translation of the story into another medium. If they can get even half as good as that, then they’re solid. Are you serious? I have never heard of such a thing, but it sounds awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/15 "2005-05-30T20:16:31Z")
> [@Sam Lowry](#): > > Are you serious? I have never heard of such a thing, but it sounds awesome. You can buy the soundtrack to it (or at least you could), so it’s legit. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/16 "2005-05-30T22:40:07Z")
> [@Sam Lowry](#): > > Are you serious? I have never heard of such a thing, but it sounds awesome. Jeff Wayne’s “War Of The Worlds” . A 1970s rock classic. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/17 "2005-05-30T23:01:17Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > Jeff Wayne’s “War Of The Worlds” . A 1970s rock classic. [Website](http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war%20of%20the%20worlds%20jeff%20wayne%202006.htm) ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/18 "2005-05-31T02:26:13Z")
> [@](#): > > You can buy the soundtrack to it (or at least you could), so it’s legit. Just to clarify, it was not a soundtrack but a stand alone album. Really kicks too! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/19 "2005-05-31T04:00:05Z")
> [@jimpatro](#): > > Just to clarify, it was not a soundtrack but a stand alone album. > Really kicks too! “So Long, Thundercccccchhhhhiiiiiilllllllddddddddd!” ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842/20 "2005-05-31T11:16:12Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > Jeff Wayne’s “War Of The Worlds” . A 1970s rock classic. UUUULLLLLAAAA! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-the-worlds-speculation-potential-open-spoilers/305842.md?page=2)