War of the worlds season 2 opening

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  • @johnathanlewis2049
    @johnathanlewis2049 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When Season 2 debuted I was in college. It came on Saturday night. I’d watch it on a tv in the basement of the dorm where I stayed. It was a nice escape from the stupid stuff going on upstairs.

  • @Soytugitana
    @Soytugitana 17 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh my god! My mind broke just now! I can't believe I never realized that Adrian Paul from the Highlander (another GREAT tv series) was in WotW:The Series!!! WOW!

  • @fateswarning26
    @fateswarning26 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The best theme to any sci fi series !!

  • @TheWg2100s
    @TheWg2100s 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    ah,the good old days of late night Sat tv.

  • @alucard624
    @alucard624 16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Also, this was the season that I caught first, and then went back and watched the better first season in reruns.

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  15 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think the main issue was the lack of continuity with the first season.
    If this had been released as an entirely different show it could probably have been one of the best dark sci-fi shows of the last century, but instead they launched it as the second season of WOTW, which it did not have a lot in common with.

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    yeah, the plot device in the first season about no one remembering the 1953 invasion was really stupid. The kind of damage the martians inflicted in the movie certainly would have taken decades to repair.
    But since season 1 established that no one remembered the invasion and that their world looked like ours, it got strange when we got to season 2 and suddenly we were in a mad max style enviroment.

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @PleaseGoAway1000 Yeah, the opening theme is one of the best TV show themes I've heard in any genre. I'm rather sad that I don't have it in any kind of acceptable quality, otherwise I'd listen to it on my mp3 player all the time.
    The footage for the opening is also awesome, with all the lightning and colours you love from cyberpunk films. Some of the episodes were fantastic as well, but over all the quality was a lot lower than the first season. I still love it, mainly because of the opening.

  • @zemxxi2765
    @zemxxi2765 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm one of those who prefer the second season, although it did come around at a time where I loved all things cyberpunk (this is before cyberpunk became too trendy), so I am a little biased. The first season was OK but it had that feel good/buddy adventure show/everyone laughs at the end of the episode type of atmosphere that has been around for most of the 80s and 70s. It was getting old and I think what they did here had balls. I like the darker more serious Blackwood better than the hippy dippy granola guy pacifist manchild from the first season. And the first season had cheesy moments like Norton's endless wisecracking (he was the Black best friend to Harrison, after all) and that wheelchair bo-jitsu. There were too many things that were typical of gimmicky family friendly action shows where the heroes avoid using guns (Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, ect). The second season was where they started to shake off all of that 80s-ness.

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's really cool. I love the look of those miniatures. The camera movement makes it a little too apparent that they are indeed miniatures, but they are beautiful, and combined with the music and lightning they really set up an amazing atmosphere for the show, an atmosphere the content of the episodes didn't always manage to hold up though.

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  16 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh yes, the intro and end credits music was reason enough to catch the show every week.
    It didn't hurt that it had an occasional good episode with plenty of post-apocalyptic and/or cyberpunk visuals at times either.
    I would never say the second season was good in any way - but I'd watch anything if it had this music, even Friends or V.I.P.

  • @mainstreetsaint36
    @mainstreetsaint36 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I always thought that the "Nobody remembers" bit was a bit silly; yeah because it's really easy to forget an invasion that nearly wiped out mankind. Pretty similar to everyone just forgetting WW2.

  • @felicity4711
    @felicity4711 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I find this theme addictive. I can’t stop humming it.

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, the show was cancelled 17 years ago, and seeing that the show is almost forgotten by now, I don't think they'll ever do another season (if they're not doing a total remake like Battlestar Galactica).

  • @alucard624
    @alucard624 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @kpowers Yep, that was a HUGE mistake, considering how much more action took place in Season 2's episodes. Ironhorse would have fit in perfectly with the vibe Season 2 was going for. Has anyone ever asked Richard Chaves or Philip Akin as to why they were unceremoniously booted from the show? I would frankly love to hear them tell us.
    And I did actually dig the apocalyptic feel that the second year had. Made for some interesting stories. But it felt tainted at the same time really.

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yep, thats where he started in sindication, after that it was in Dark Shadows and finally Highlander.

  • @pitcalco
    @pitcalco 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @fisk0 To be honest, I liked the second season a lot. However, as you say, it was so much different from the first that I didn't realise it was a second season of the same series, rather I thought it was an entirely different series based on the original concept.

  • @thewraithORIGINALCHANNEL
    @thewraithORIGINALCHANNEL 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yip they were great shows, i used to love how sci-fi in the uk used to show them from midnight to 4am before the channel went off air
    now a days its 30min adverts for abb crunchers & crap :'(

  • @samael1981
    @samael1981 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This show was unbelievably violent for prime time TV. Oh the nostalgia!

    • @danielappleton153
      @danielappleton153 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Season 2 didn't give much rationale for the worldwide descent into chaos. Maybe the 2nd group of aliens did something that facilitated it, maybe not.

    • @gammaechofoundationproductions
      @gammaechofoundationproductions 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed, Sam! This show was groundbreaking for it's time! :)

    • @CompactRisk
      @CompactRisk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Appleton Yes it did

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think I got them on Demonoid a couple of years ago, I lost my copies of the files in an hard drive crash last year, but there should be vhs rips available on some of the more obscure torrent sites.

  • @kpowers
    @kpowers 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @alucard624 I just got the dvd and have been watching season 2. I think at the time season 2 seemed really dark, mostly for killing half of the cast off. At the time people were not use to seeing half the cast getting knocked off. I like season 1 and 2 but like anything you can point out some things you don't like. For season 2 it's gotta be killing off Norton and Ironhorse. Also (though I'm not done with season 2 yet) seems like most of the action seems to take place in that little neighborhood

  • @bloodandbones9
    @bloodandbones9 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @PleaseGoAway1000 unfortunately I haven't watched it for many years. I just searched for war of the worlds yesterday after being on the net for years. The guy who uploaded the werewolf series either got booted or closed his account before I got to the end of the series.

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    oh yes, the opening theme is fantastic, it's one of my favourite TV show themes ever. Sure, the episodes where mostly pretty bad, but the music and the whole theme sequence had great music and wonderful cyberpunky visuals.
    I'm a bit sad about the fact that the sound quality is so bad in my video, you can barely hear the fantastic music. I hope there will be a DVD release just so I can listen to the full quality music again. :)

  • @emperorintellect
    @emperorintellect 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great show. It forecasts a future that is coming true today, using otherworldly themes. It was 2 seasons too early though. This should have happened in a third season. Still epic though.

  • @NOTTOPMODEL
    @NOTTOPMODEL 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved this series. They released season 1 on DVD but I've heard nothing about season 2 being released. Season 2 may have been dark but it was ok. I wish they hadn't killed Norton or the Colonel.

  • @MsXizan
    @MsXizan 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Volume level-wise, this video is better than the video for the opening titles of Season 1.

  • @radix9523
    @radix9523 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man, I remember watching this as a kid! It scared the piss outta me...literally.

  • @BrianSATX79
    @BrianSATX79 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Season two is finally being released on DVD on October 26!

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  17 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I doubt a third season will ever happen, and I agree it was a strange choise to abandon the whole season 1 story in favor of a new for season 2. I saw season 2 at the Demonoid torrent tracker a few months ago, might still be there.

  • @Metrosplash
    @Metrosplash 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Season 2 was a radical departure from the first season. But it was great that it changed, think of how Buffy changed from season to season. I also loved the advocacy, but they failed time after time, at least Manna and Malzor succeeded upon occassion, which made the second season so exciting. The Morthren attacked humanity through drugs, computer dependencies and viruses.

  • @TheNidus
    @TheNidus 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @fisk0 It's out on DVD now.

  • @BlimBlam1977
    @BlimBlam1977 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I much preferred the premise of Season 2. I wish they had explored how it got so much darker in the 6 month gap but overall it was much stronger. The "no one remembers the invasion and the world is exactly like ours is depsite a global invasion" premise of S1 was stupid. THIS version of the world made much more sense. I also much prefer our 2 lead alien baddies here than the trio from S1.

  • @KnightInExile7
    @KnightInExile7 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @bloodandbones9 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :)

  • @KnightInExile7
    @KnightInExile7 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @fisk0 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :)

  • @zeta1ret
    @zeta1ret 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    aw, man they did a good job despite having a $20 a week budget and a crate of lunchables(tm).....

  • @kurtsilvinohulsermann1337
    @kurtsilvinohulsermann1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can anyone tell me where I could assist the first season again ?

  • @KnightInExile7
    @KnightInExile7 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @PleaseGoAway1000 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :)

  • @beckderm
    @beckderm 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Strain !

  • @RicardoPestana
    @RicardoPestana 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    this was awesome

  • @DP-hy4vh
    @DP-hy4vh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The low budget actually made the second season better than the first. The darker, more paranoid atmosphere kept your attention.

    • @CompactRisk
      @CompactRisk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It had a higher budget actually.

  • @bloodandbones9
    @bloodandbones9 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @thuncat1 yeah maybe, but adrian paul...he is good.

  • @BlimBlam1977
    @BlimBlam1977 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Odd. I just noticed that the character names don't show in this verison but they're on my S2 DVDs. I wonde rif that was done for syndication vs 1st run?

  • @batvanio
    @batvanio 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    subtitle?

  • @kpowers
    @kpowers 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wish they didn't killed off Col. Ironhorse. Is season 2 ever gonna come out on dvd??

  • @AnthonyDayrrTV
    @AnthonyDayrrTV 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    this series were awsome!!! are they on dvd? are the series here on youtube?

  • @bloodandbones9
    @bloodandbones9 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @PleaseGoAway1000 This was a dead serious series. I am surprised it lasted 2 seasons, the other one I liked was "Werewolf". Serious stuff never lasts long on t.v.

  • @DestroyerGamingHD
    @DestroyerGamingHD 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where do I find/buy full episodes ?

    • @CompactRisk
      @CompactRisk 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      KingCamembert full episodes are on TH-cam and the complete series is on DVD. You didn't look hard enough.

  • @CentralRazorwing
    @CentralRazorwing 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    The only reason I ever liked this second season was because of the decaying civilization they set it in. I really wish they had spent more time working on making it come to life.

  • @alucard624
    @alucard624 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    For some reason, I like this seasons theme song better than the first season. Don't get me wrong, I love the first season more for the better stories, but the second season had a better theme song IMO. Still, the second year was all over the place with the storytelling. One day, Paramount may release it but I seriously doubt it at this point.

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Being a open minded person I do respect your personal reasons why you may enjoy the 2nd season. My reasons why 2nd season was weak was.
    1. The big jump with time line and new and uninteresting invaders.
    2. The change of cast, all the cool character such as Ironhorse and Drake was wiped out. And leaving the team with only 3 characters to fight the alien threat(not believable)

  • @mikethepcman
    @mikethepcman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for posting this. I loved the series growing up and still do. We have a fan club group on facebook about the series. If you care to join us and reminisce, the url is facebook.com/groups/waroftheworldstvseries

  • @Scifimaster92
    @Scifimaster92 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it true that one epsiode of the series featured a then-fourteen year old Mia Kirshner?
    (I'm probably only asking this because I had the idea of casting her in the lead female role in my proposal for a remake of the failed 1970s sci-fi series "The Starlost". Plus, I think she's really beautiful.)

    • @CompactRisk
      @CompactRisk 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Scifimaster92 yes

  • @rmjmoviereviews6876
    @rmjmoviereviews6876 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember watching this show on my black and white tv back when it originally aired and man I was watching this season wondering "What the hell is going on?!" But still weirdly cool. This show was creepy as hell.

  • @chrislockey7706
    @chrislockey7706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Went down hill in the second season, especially when the advocates were killed off

  • @BlimBlam1977
    @BlimBlam1977 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was a model?!
    Ha ha Great job!

  • @philipchance5454
    @philipchance5454 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was the better season. The first season was okay, but the second season was way better. I don't know why everyone hates the second season.
    The first season was pretty good (the pilot episode with the old war machines was awesome) but it had campy moments and out-of-place black humor. And the big fat aliens looked nothing like the skinny, sickly aliens from the 1953 film. They only had the three-fingered hand in common. They didn't even have the multi-colored eyes, just a big yellow eye.

    • @CompactRisk
      @CompactRisk 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Philip Chance those aliens were in Season Two as well

    • @alucard624
      @alucard624 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The main reason many fans hate this season is due to the fact that they killed off both Norton and Ironhorse in the first episode and because of the complete shift in tone and everything from the first season. It was almost as if the first season was completely ignored in parts and they decided to do something completely different with season 2. I like both seasons personally and I've grown to enjoy season 2 a lot more the older I get due to it having better stories. I just wish Ironhorse had stuck around as the tone for season 2 would have fit his character a lot more than season 1.

  • @nerdicwarrior
    @nerdicwarrior 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very eriee opening.

  • @emperorintellect
    @emperorintellect 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry meant 4th season

  • @BlimBlam1977
    @BlimBlam1977 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Drake needed to go because they needed to be on the run and low tech. His whole cahracter was based in high tech and operating from 'home base'. Ironhorse was their tie to the goverment which now had abandoned them adding to their isolation. He wouldn't have fit in with the 'lawlessness' tone of the season.
    Obviously they weren't THAT upset or else they wouldn't have shown up to be killed off. Ironhorse got a pretty heroic send off too.

  • @Elazam
    @Elazam 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    wouldn't the wiewers get quite angry with this season? I mean, They want to see what happened after the ciffhanger, and suddenly everythung's different? But this setting seems better though...

  • @fisk0
    @fisk0  16 ปีที่แล้ว

    I partly agree, they should keep the visual cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic style of the second season, but have the characters and most of the premise of the first season (that "in the 1950's aliens invaded but today NOBODY REMEMBERS IT HAPPENING" was just stupid). But, yes, this is a show that would be worthy of the Battlestar Galactica treatment (the original WOTW show was a lot better than the original BSG ever was).

  • @Cherubicon
    @Cherubicon 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @fisk0 In my opinion, the 2nd season was superior. In terms of atmosphere it was miles away. The first season was typical 80's cheesiness but the 2nd season was darker and nastier... I wonder if the show was made by rivetheads.

  • @kpowers
    @kpowers 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you like season 2 or not I think we all can agree that killing off Col. Ironhorse was a big mistake.

  • @chinito77
    @chinito77 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't like how it was about the same 3 hooded aliens in the cave failing each episode with their horrific plans. Yawn. I was glad that they got killed off towards the end.

  • @albee1000
    @albee1000 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    All they had to do was create World of Warcraft. They would've peacefully brought humanity to it's knees.

    • @kurtdirt4182
      @kurtdirt4182 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      there was an episode where they tried to control humans via a video game! and one with a computer programme that is basically Facebook haha. years ahead of its time.

  • @bloodandbones9
    @bloodandbones9 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @PleaseGoAway1000 sorry it took me so long. Its familiar, but not sure. someone commented on my comment. I hope it helps!

  • @theespressokid1
    @theespressokid1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The toppling of the three soldiers at the beginning was significant, Frank Mancuso JR took over as producer and undid everything that was established in Season 1 for a more blade runner esque futuristic series. It didn't work, looked cheap and ultimately doomed the show. The whole S1 story was retconned and the original alien Triumvirate was killed in the first episode...much like the three soldiers crumbling in the opening sequence.

    • @zemxxi2765
      @zemxxi2765 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always thought that the three soldiers was a sculpture of Archibald Willard's "Spirit of '76". The imagery of it crumbling in front of a decayed building (which I always thought was a typical City Hall) is still very relevant even today.

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe there is one sci-f series we can both agree with, Doctor Who!!!!!

  • @TvGyrl
    @TvGyrl 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    when they got rid of Ryan Dallion, the show did fall off a bit.
    the dude that replaced him STUNK.

    • @louiehusted6173
      @louiehusted6173 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was actually Friday The 13th: The Series... and you're completely correct!

  • @BigSingh
    @BigSingh 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @fisk0 To me the first season was BORING. I loved this season, mainly because this opening ushered us into the future give or take two years. And with the second wave of aliens killing off the first wave made ithat much of a difference because the stories moved a little faster i.e. the Earth girl falling in love with the Alien boy, the Aliens trying harsher things to enslave the human race, etc. The second season had more over the first season.

  • @geoffreylane5606
    @geoffreylane5606 ปีที่แล้ว

    Coming in real life very soon very very soon.

  • @thuncat1
    @thuncat1 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this season killed the show.
    this season was good but, too brave new world, too fast.

  • @dragdragon23
    @dragdragon23 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved the opening theme too! Hate it when they bumped off iron horse. they should of made the new invaders another race like the ones introduced in the first season that eat humans and made it a three way war. Drake needed to be knocked off for since he was in a wheel chair though and can't run. I wished they killed blackwood never liked him!

    • @KnightInExile7
      @KnightInExile7 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Really? Blackwood was great. What didn't you like about him? Was it his character or the actor that played him?

    • @dragdragon23
      @dragdragon23 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      KnightInExile I really liked the actor, they had him as a non violant type who did not want to use a gun and always doing his yoga.

    • @danielappleton153
      @danielappleton153 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      " Drake needed to be knocked for since he was in a wheelchair " ?
      I'll bet you have LOTS of paraplegic friends, there.

    • @dragdragon23
      @dragdragon23 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Appleton drake was boring and need to be running around fighting the aliens.

  • @thesurpriseshow6573
    @thesurpriseshow6573 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks & Sounds Like MA-MA-MA-MAX HEADROOM...

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    3. The most important reason why the series was even weaker. The villains' purpose are not believable and their reasons sound sooo cliche'. Malzor, Mana, and Artix are so idiotic every thing they say and do make them look like jack-asses which shows you all their plan in every episode always fail to work.
    I prefer the Martians over the Morthrens!

  • @BlimBlam1977
    @BlimBlam1977 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I much preferred it when first saw it back then. I recongnized the ballsyness of what they were doing. Plus I honestly didn't care much for Ironhorse or Drake. I liked Drake enough but his tech stuff was too covenient. I liked that they kiled off half the cast from S1 in the opener here.

  • @MedalionDS9
    @MedalionDS9 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hated season 2... it tries too had to be cyberpunk, distancing itself from the obvious 80's-ness of the first seasion... too dark and too different...everything... this might as well have been a completely different series separate from season 1!

  • @MasterJediDude
    @MasterJediDude 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Season 1 was bad enough, but Season 2 was just awful. There's a reason that season 1 got the reboot -- it basically sucked, ignored many elements from the movie on which is was based and the plots/effects were awful. They tried for a fresh start in Season 2, but it jumped into the apocalyptic setting too quickly. The extreme jump into Season 2 didn't sit well with many fans and they quickly abandoned the show. Adrian Paul is the only good thing that came out of this show.

  • @TvGyrl
    @TvGyrl 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    NOTHING!

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Heh, heh, heh, yeah right Whatever, heh heh heh.

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whatever

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah like o.k. fragile.

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    So what was so great of the lame ass second season?

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    The 2nd season was total bullshit. The post dystopic atmosphere was lamer then a broken leg. The so called Morthrens were as stupider then roaches going to the Raid Motel. The original Martian invaders from the 1st season, George Pal production was more eerie and formidable and their evil plans work. Why they change the whole format killed the legacy.

  • @BlimBlam1977
    @BlimBlam1977 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    NOPE! He was an awful character. Cliched rigid military type who was the Skully to Blackwood's Mulder (even before that show). I MUCH prefered Kinkaid to Ironhorse. No contest.

    • @cindybrooks6370
      @cindybrooks6370 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      BlimBlam1977 your dreaming Ironhorse was a tough no nonsense lieutenant Colonel, he was better.