Lamest/Worst way to beat the bad guys.

[DefunctTheory]

That makes sense, though, jumping from one biosphere to another like that an running around in the open air is going to lead to problems.

Independence Day...using a laptop to download a virus into an alien ship which transmits to all other ships to turn their shields off (and only their shields off) so that the US president can lead the world's defenses from his fighter plane (co-ordinates worldwide by Morse code) to attack mile wide ships with standard AAMs...fuck that.

Seriously, fuck that.

Actually, its just as likely, if not more so, that the aliens would be completely immune to Earth contagions, rather then spewing chunks and dieing.

People forget that infections work both ways. Yes, if your civilization has never been exposed to small pox, its going to get completely screwed when someone gives you a nasty, germy blanket. But viruses aren't some super classification of organism that can species hop at the drop of a hat.

Lamest way to beat a villain? Pretty much any way Clark Kent beats somebody in the first 5 seasons of Smallville. No matter how cool it may be to bash someones head in with a 150 year old tree, it's completely rendered lame by Clark's insistence on how lame it is that he has to do it in the first place.

 

[Oracle144]

OT: I thought the end of War of the Worlds (the book anyway... I don't remember the movie very well) really said something about humanity, and how small we are compared to the rest of the universe.

I mean... These giant alien things come down, and humanity tries to fight them... we give it our all. And the aliens are going to win anyway.

And what saves us? Bacteria. Humanity achieves no victory against the aliens, and in the end, everyone is just lucky to be alive. It implies that our actions have little to no bearing on the universe at large. That there's so much else going on that we ignore, or underestimate.

Lol, sorry. I did an essay on this book a couple years ago, and now I'm just reminiscing. But anyway, I thought the way the baddies went down in WoTW was really insightful.

 

[Queen Michael]

To all of the Bleach people: That's just another reason that I don't like Bleach.

 

[Mr.Incognitus]

Any movie where the main good character is about to be killed and the bad guy gets blindsided at the last second, The Power of One is a good example of this

 

[Thaluikhain]

Actually, its just as likely, if not more so, that the aliens would be completely immune to Earth contagions, rather then spewing chunks and dieing.

People forget that infections work both ways. Yes, if your civilization has never been exposed to small pox, its going to get completely screwed when someone gives you a nasty, germy blanket. But viruses aren't some super classification of organism that can species hop at the drop of a hat.

Though that's true, I didn't specifically mean diseases. I could have been clearer in my previous post, though.

They've presumably evolved on Mars, which has a very different atmospheric composition, pressure, gravity and temperature range to the Earth. Running around unprotected on the Earth...um...

Also, IIRC, the Martians started eating people or drinking their blood or something. Which is rather unwise until you know exactly what people are made of, and might also imply that their biochemistry was in some ways similar to that of terrestrial organisms, which might make them vulnerable. Also, as well as viruses and bacteria, the aliens would also be exposed to various other things. An Earth fungus which happened to thrive in places the Martians don't want fungi to grow could be just as deadly as a virus, and wouldn't require the aliens to be similar to Earth creatures.

To be fair, though, this sort of thing wasn't known in Wells' days, and the recent Tom Cruise movie seemed to be built on the assumption that only complete idiots would want to watch it anyway.