The War of the Worlds

Very faithful to the novel.

Really aggravated me. Changes for the worse, some really flat acting and staging. It's a story that could use a female presence, but not like this, as hard as Eleanor Tomlinson tried.

Well acted, nicely Victorian set, but Jesus, how slow it was! I slept during the first half! Eleanor Tomlinson was perfect lead.

Passes the time.

The Bore of the Worlds

This incarnation of HG Wells' classic is a tiresome retread that delivers on the late-Victorian period drama elements but unfortunately nothing else. The 1st episode is slow build that only sets up character relationships. The 2nd a failed attempt at action. And the 3rd, an unsubtle exposition-dump of the novel's commentary on British expansionism at the time. Clunky, irrelevant, and worse boring. Probably best to just listen to Jeff Wayne's War of the World instead.