Comments on: Non-Thriller For Kids: The Tripods, Series One https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one Lollards in the high church of low culture Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-77410 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:36:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-77410 WHO STAYS?

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By: Doctor Casino https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-77293 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:04:02 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-77293 I loved the books too. You may be interested to know there was also a prequel, When the Tripods Came.

Oh yeah! That was pretty good. Not a bad plot for a martian takeover, either – they make tripods popular through subliminal advertising and a TV show, gradually as the tripods show up they just become more and more ubiquitous and society starts going to hell.

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By: Rufus T. Roofdog https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-77118 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:02:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-77118 In true Wells-style The Tripods predicts the rise of DVD special features by being the first “alternate ending”, ie. didn’t Christopher out-and-out admit that the premise was the future predicted by David Essex Tim Robbins the artilleryman ?

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76900 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:05:59 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76900 There’s something else as well – I think it might be…BOOZE!

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76806 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:39:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76806 = OXYGEN! they breathe chlorine and their safety dome is cracked by the rebels

yes, a.follows from martians not getting colds — nothing mankind could do defeated them it was up to the GERMS

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76793 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:35:49 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76793 erm YES. Except

a) the Martians have already won.
b) the Martians want to enslave not annihilate (can’t remember if the books ever really explain why – the Tripod-building aliums are complex and melancholic coves though)

I think in the end they are killed by a similar rubbish weakness to something everyday Earthly.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76757 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:16:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76757 YES to sci-fi for kids then i can lose myself in my LOVELY ANDRE NORTON all over again!

i still have “the stainless steel rat ewants you”, tho haf not read it since c.12

also by harry harrison: “A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!” (which is a what-if the victorian era reached into the 1970s kinda deal)

i read the tripods books and remember the titles fondly — not much left of what happened (35 years is a long time), and also i wz always v.puzzled by relationship of tripod aliens to the WAR OF THE WORLDS aliens (which i knew from look and learn and world of wonder comic-strip versions)

ie IS THIS THE SAME STORY (except the martians didn’t catch colds)?

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76688 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:39:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76688 I think SCI-FI FOR KIDS (booXoR division) would be an interesting project. I had pretty much zero interest in sci-fi until I hit puberty, though.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76686 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:36:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76686 Only read the middle book (series 2 of the show) and i never felt the need to read the other two. only mildly interested to read the 3rd one.

i have a suggested thrillers for kids subject: THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT. After the appearances in 2000ad and recommendations from an annoying obsessed friend i went through these from our local library. they were all for laffs, but still very much thrills based

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By: Chap https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76685 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:32:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76685 I loved the books too. You may be interested to know there was also a prequel, When the Tripods Came.

I’d be really interested to watch the series again.

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By: Doctor Casino https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76684 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:21:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76684 LOVED LOVED LOVED these books as a kid. Was dimly aware that there was a TV show but was somehow never interested enough to try and track it down. Strongly recommend the books for anyone who likes this type of thing though – if I remember right, the things Tom points up here are the strongest elements in the books too – the bucolic medievalism has its appeal even to our resistance-movement heroes, and the effortless power of the Tripods really does ratchet up the sense of menace and suspense more than any “You’ve got to hunt down those resistance fighters at ALL COSTS!” type scenario. Great stuff. For interested parties, the books are, in order, The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead and The Pool of Fire.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76575 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:04:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76575 re Matrix note i am talking mainly from a cosmetic point of view (but also an idea that ‘they’ don’t want too many films about ‘machines enslaving humanity’ on the market/holding pop cultural court at any one time). i AM quite a Matrix apologist tho (the only thing i really hate is the final fight at the end of the third film)…

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76506 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:30:30 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76506 LOWEST BAR EVAH!

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76446 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:09:02 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76446 “or at least as good The Matrix” — what does this mean? in the list of all films ever in order of how good they are, the three matrix films occupy the BOTTOM THREE SPACES and ALWAYS WILL

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76441 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:07:30 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76441 Yes they do! (trip one up) – in general though the sense of individual Tripods as pretty much indestructable without a huge amount of luck and effort is well conveyed. What the Ts gain in invulnerability though they lose in effectiveness – their physical remoteness translates to a lack of direct control.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76430 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:01:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76430 according to wikipedia: ‘Disney have held the rights to The Tripods since 1997. There is speculation that a film version is in pre-production with Australian-born director Gregor Jordan signed on to rewrite and direct for Walt Disney’s Touchstone Pictures label’

but presumably they have held off partly because The Matrix has made it difficult for films about ‘machines enslaving humanity’ to look good (or at least as good The Matrix). plus there hae been Terminator 4 since then and proposed Terminator TV series (i would actually like maybe even prefer a Matrix one personally – animated perhaps – but never mind).

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/comment-page-1#comment-76414 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:56:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/non-thriller-for-kids-the-tripods-series-one/#comment-76414 did they ever manage to trip one up, like in the Empire Strikes Back? still least they could get up the stairs lol amirite

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