TIL Wells apparently really liked ironclads
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Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl
I mean, they're tanks, but the word "tank" was a decade in the future
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I mean, both because he's using it as a metaphor for tanks, and because IIRC Thunderchild is a literal one
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Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl
Oh yeah, from War of the Worlds Well, ironclads were pretty much the state of the art in cool military shit at the time It's also because that scene is supposed to be a pyrrhic victory for the humans and the Thunder Child beats the Martians by suicidally ramming them
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The Martians fail to deploy a weapon that can stop it in time partly because it's a badass ship but also partly because they don't fully realize what it's doing until it's too late Classic "evil cannot comprehend true courage" moment
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When I read that passage as a kid, I interpretated it as "The Martians overestimate the power of their technology and overlook blatant weaknesses" Then again, I did read the Tripod trilogy before War of the World, and this was a recuring theme of THAT story.
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It's weird to think that technically the Tripod books were mecha
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Keep in mind that the mecha lose in these ones.
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The thing is in The Day the Tripods Came, the Tripods were ALREADY weaker than the human military, in a head to head contest between a Tripod and a human fighter jet the Tripod loses Which is the whole reason they go the mind control route
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and
The Tripod books also lampshade that in any interplanetary war the conventional war should be pointless - if they have spaceships they could've just killed us all from orbit but for whatever reason they didn't
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It even says after the Masters' domes are destroyed, a ship arrives and bombs the ruins to keep the humans from reclaiming their tech, but it doesn't just carpet bomb the planet and kill us all even though they obviously could They could've done that in the first place
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and
Alien psychology, or whatever - the Masters are monstrously cruel in some ways and yet seem to lack human viciousness in others, they actually don't have our overwhelming sense of self-preservation and just passively die when defeated
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and
The whole Tripod plan seems to have happened because on some level they wanted to assimilate humanity and not destroy it
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