Creeper
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The final episode of War of the Worlds aired last night on Epix. That would be Season 2 Episode 8. The show moved at a snails pace for 13 episodes but hit light speed last night, and not in a good way. S1E1 had a lot going on. It was the beginning of the war so a lot had to be done to catch the viewers interest. S2E1 also made a big leap quickly because it was the open of season 2 which began 5 months after the end of season 1. Again, there was a lot to catch up on. Then the finale basically ended the story in a sudden burst of information and everything else necessary to end the show. In between there was tension by not much else going on.
As expected the story is about people from the future coming back in time to carry out a grudge against the people of the 21st century. I am still not sure why they killed 4 billion people when it seems they had a bone to pick with one scientist who they say created a virus to kill them all, even though it's obvious he created the virus to kill them after they almost wiped out humans on earth. Big paradox here and it makes no sense. Then there is the "Adam and Eve" storyline. This is where 2 young humans are supposed to be the parents of the future generation of "aliens" who come back to wipe out earthlings. I don't know exactly how this works since the inbreeding would result in the end of mankind but maybe that's why the leader of the "aliens" is such a psychopath herself.
Back to the story. The humans concoct a new strategy, in one of the biggest leaps in all 16 episodes, to work with one of the aliens to go back in time to fix it so the future humans don't exist. Say what? Yup, they have the coordinates of place and time to go back they just don't know exactly what to do when they get there. The sympathetic aliens helps them and the main character played by Gabriel Byrne is the one who will go back in time to fix it so the future invasion never occurs. And of course, when he gets there he realizes the answer is to kill "Eve", or Emily which is the character's name. The simple minded thinking is if he kills Eve, then she cannot be the mother of the future humans determined to kill past humans. There is some suspense created when the aliens follow him back in time and chase him or try to find him at least. But he winds up pushing Eve/Emily off the roof of a building and she dies. At that point the aliens chasing him could not be born but somehow they are still there looking at Emily's body lying on the ground dead. How can that be? Why didn't they fade away like in back to the future? But then show continues showing us all the main characters or survivors of the attack oblivious to what was supposed to happen in the future they would never see because the future had been changed. There would be no invasion. Unless of course Epix does renew the series, for another season then I suppose we would see some contrived storyline about how changing the future did not work.
There are too many time paradoxes in this ending. I won't list them all. But it looked to me like the creators/writers had to rush this ending maybe knowing it would not be renewed for a 3rd season. And why call it "War of the Worlds", after the HG Wells story? It was an "alien" invasion story but bore little resemblance to the original.
The show really lost its way in season 2. Then imploded in the final episode. I was happy that earth was saved at the end and everything went back to normal, but how we go to that point in 1 episode after 15 other episodes trudged along seemed forced and contrived.
Any why didn't the aliens use the weapon they used to killed 4 billion people in the first episode again and again until all humans on earth were dead if killing all of them was their goal?
I am pretty sure I would not watch this show again, although I may watch episode 1 again because there are some things I forgot about the initial invasion that I think will make this story even more confusing.
I give the series a 3 out of 10. The weekly tension was worth a couple of points.
Back to the story. The humans concoct a new strategy, in one of the biggest leaps in all 16 episodes, to work with one of the aliens to go back in time to fix it so the future humans don't exist. Say what? Yup, they have the coordinates of place and time to go back they just don't know exactly what to do when they get there. The sympathetic aliens helps them and the main character played by Gabriel Byrne is the one who will go back in time to fix it so the future invasion never occurs. And of course, when he gets there he realizes the answer is to kill "Eve", or Emily which is the character's name. The simple minded thinking is if he kills Eve, then she cannot be the mother of the future humans determined to kill past humans. There is some suspense created when the aliens follow him back in time and chase him or try to find him at least. But he winds up pushing Eve/Emily off the roof of a building and she dies. At that point the aliens chasing him could not be born but somehow they are still there looking at Emily's body lying on the ground dead. How can that be? Why didn't they fade away like in back to the future? But then show continues showing us all the main characters or survivors of the attack oblivious to what was supposed to happen in the future they would never see because the future had been changed. There would be no invasion. Unless of course Epix does renew the series, for another season then I suppose we would see some contrived storyline about how changing the future did not work.
There are too many time paradoxes in this ending. I won't list them all. But it looked to me like the creators/writers had to rush this ending maybe knowing it would not be renewed for a 3rd season. And why call it "War of the Worlds", after the HG Wells story? It was an "alien" invasion story but bore little resemblance to the original.
The show really lost its way in season 2. Then imploded in the final episode. I was happy that earth was saved at the end and everything went back to normal, but how we go to that point in 1 episode after 15 other episodes trudged along seemed forced and contrived.
Any why didn't the aliens use the weapon they used to killed 4 billion people in the first episode again and again until all humans on earth were dead if killing all of them was their goal?
I am pretty sure I would not watch this show again, although I may watch episode 1 again because there are some things I forgot about the initial invasion that I think will make this story even more confusing.
I give the series a 3 out of 10. The weekly tension was worth a couple of points.
