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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Laurent_Weppe and
IIRC that was a minor plot point in XCOM Enemy Unknown. Shen Sr straight up says "they have the capacity to bomb us into the dirt, so why are they engaging in abduction and invasion missions?" which is outright stated in XCOM 2: Because of the Avatar project
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Replying to @TheP912 @arthur_affect and
Ironically Avatar the film seems to run headlong into this problem - if you're sociopathically after mineral resources and the native life is just getting in the way, politics is the only thing stopping you just carpet bombing everything
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I can understand how the humans as a whole might not be on board with nuking the Na'vi into oblivion but I'm not clear on how they would even find out about it, given how big space is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
Especially with all the stuff they say about how desperate and starving people on Earth are and how without the unobtanium eventual extinction is certain
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
I think the disconnect is IRL colonial powers often give up against natives with less tech and wealth cos you inflict enough casualties that occupation isn't worth it, but in action films the Big Bad deciding to go home cos he's not bothered with all the hassle is anti-climatic
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