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👻🎥 MARS MADNESS POLL 🎥👻 Which movie has the LEAST 'Dungeons and Dragons' energy?

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Also, for those interested, Valentina Tereshkova is still alive. She's 88.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

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@Lazarou @bstacey @Louisa Wow!

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@diazona I would take her invasion any day over the moon creatures.

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@blogdiva It is an allegory, but as I've said, we know what Wells wanted us to believe (in my opinion), and it's not good.

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@strangefour Technically, yes. And then, they swam to shore.

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@Louisa I was wondering this, too. It looked very much like a Grey, which Wells wouldn't have had any knowledge of, so I suppose that was artistic license of the film producers/director.

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@diazona I missed having a lot of the squares you have, or they weren't arranged well, when I did have them, so I didn't get a bingo this week.

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@Zerofactorial Narrator: "They are humans, and therefore, they never learn."

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Wells may have been on to something about a relationship between colonialism and spreading disease.

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@moira I didn't hate the moon creatures.

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Lots of Victorian-era fiction was man vs. nature / the wild / the unknown, with strong focus on man being the overcomer and victorious, destroying the other in the process.

Wells is no exception.

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So, I think Wells would have us side with Bedford on this, but I'm siding with Cavor.

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OMG. Bedford is almost giddy when he says, "He did have such a terrible cold."

You just genocided an entire civilization, just like the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and you don't even care.

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"They're being hauled up on nylon ropes!"

I'm so glad they were nylon. If they were hemp, I would have been worried.

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Tell me of the wars of your homeworld, Usul.

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Haha! One day he'll explain.

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Cavor is too British, for his own good.

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"Oh, all right. I suppose I'll help you escape, even though you're the absolute worst." —Cavor

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I just want to reiterate this: https://don.monster/@ramsey/114373602701208070

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"Tell me of war."

The alien sounds rather eager to learn of war.

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Bedford is the absolute worst person to take exploring new worlds and discovering new civilizations.

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Cavor, you explain helium by describing its atomic make-up, not by saying "it's a gas found in the atmosphere on Earth."

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At least Cavor has the decency to be horrified by what Bedford did to the Selenites.

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"It's absolutely imperial" is their version of "wicked awesome."

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