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Originally Posted by nyrath
And not just recent. There was the 1988 TV show based on "War of the Worlds."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...28TV_series%29
"According to the series, rather than being killed outright by germs at the end of the 1953 film, the aliens had all slipped into a state of suspended animation. Their bodies were stored away in toxic waste drums and shipped to various disposal sites within the United States (ten such sites are known to exist in the country), and a widespread government cover-up combined with a condition dubbed 'selective amnesia' has convinced most people that the invasion had never happened." |
I recall that one. It attempted to be dark, but wound up simply muddled, as though the creators hadn't fully thought through their premise and didn't know how to execute it.
I'm fonder of a British BBC series called Tripods, based on a YA trilogy by John Christopher. Christopher's books look at what might have occurred had the Martians won and conquered Earth. Christopher's invaders aren't from Mars, but the rest neatly aligns with Wells' original.
Look for _The White Mountains_, _The Pools of Fire_, and _The City of Gold and Lead_.
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Dennis