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Originally Posted by jimbuna
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Although both pictures have a little pet peeve of mine, they both portray the Thunder Child as a full 'dreadnought' style warship, when in fact she was a small Torpedo Ram.
Compare those pics, to this:
One tiny little Torpedo ram, by guile and luck, managed to destroy two Fighting Machines whilst the Royal Navy could do little but stand by and watch. Wells, purposefully, has the war landlocked, and when it does cross the sea it does so by air, and supposedly attacks the Royal Navy through means that they cannot retaliate against. Our biggest and most powerful forces are useless against the conquering Martians, just as the biggest armies of the Zulu nation could not stop the Martini Henries of the British army. Our victories, fleeting as they are, are only minor set-backs for the Martians to overcome, and our salvation comes through chance, not design.
Sorry, rambling, I could talk all day about The War of the Worlds...it's my favourite novel of all time.
I've had a bit of an obsession with it since I was eleven or twelve.