Talk:Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds)

message: Needs to be removed, it as zero to do with tripods.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.152.62.14 (talk) 18:04, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crysis Exo-suit? 

message: I think, like Wells, that the first picture on this page stinks. I can't even make it out! There needs to be a better tripod picture in place of this one. Scorpionman 01:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  bad picture 

message: I think we need a new picture of the 2005 tripods. I do like that image (it gives a feeling that the tripods are there and you can't do anything), but you can barely see them.- JustPhil 20:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: The article is missing the most pertinent reference of all: to Wells' original novel. I suggest the inclusion of quotes from the narrator about the tripods from Wells' War of the Worlds. For example, as the narrator first sees a tripod, on Maybury Hill:
"And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees and smashing them aside in its career— a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather, articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder." [45, WOTW, Modern Library, Random House, 2002]
Also perhaps a note on the reason Wells gave for the unusual method of walking transport: 
"And of their appliances, perhaps nothing is more wonderful to Man than the curious fact that what is the dominant feature of almost all human devices in mechanism is absent— the wheel is absent; among all the things they brought to earth there is no trace or suggestion of their use of wheels. One would have at least have expected it in locomotion. And in this connection it is curious to remark that even on this earth Nature has never hit upon the wheel, or has preferred other expedients to its innovation." [129, WOTW, Modern Library, Random House, 2002]
The tripods in the novel are, in fact, an ingenious metaphorical shorthand for the intellectual remoteness of the Martians from man. It is ironic therefore that the demands of an ill-thought out contemporary 'realism' has debarred the tripods from appearing in science fiction adaptations of Wells' book-- until Spielberg's movie. The alien tripods have been considered too alien, and at the same time too uncannily naturalistic, to be employed by filmmakers as a fantastic method of transport for contemporary film audiences. 
--Gareth Griffiths, 1st March 2006
:Wikiquote is for quotes, not Wikipedia. Thunderbrand 20:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference to the original novel

message: Would it be possible to use a different picture next to the lead? The current one (:Image:War of the worlds illustration pearson.jpg) does not seem appropriate. Wells himself stated he hated Goble's tripods, so why is it that that picture is the first one seen? Andy120290 04:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could use different picture 

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message: I think that the title of the article should be "Fighting-machine" instead of "Tripod (The War of the Worlds)
--¡Brandon was here! 20:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think the title is wrong 

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message: The usage of  and flying machine is under discussion, see talk:flying-machine. "flying machine" is currently used for a real world aeronautical topic. "Flying-machine" is a science fiction topic. -- 65.94.78.70 (talk) 07:14, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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message: The usage of  and handling machine is under discussion, see talk:handling-machine. "handling-machine" is currently a science fiction topic. -- 65.94.78.70 (talk) 07:27, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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message: I think this sentence is confusing: "Creatures and machines similar to the fighting machines are featured in many video games, such as the Striders from Half-Life 2[17] and their companions, the Hunters from Crysis and its sequels and spin-offs"
There is a three legged Hunter in both Crysis and Half-life 2 Episode Two, the latter is a companion of the Striders in the final battle (nowhere else actually, AFAIK). So, it's a bit confusing, because when I read "and their companions, the Hunters", I assume it's talking about the companions of the Striders called Hunters. 80.98.184.139 (talk) 17:55, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing Hunters with Hunters 

message: Which should be the lead image?
File:Correa-Martians vs. Thunder Child.jpg|A (current)
File:The War of the Worlds by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, original graphic 15.jpg|B
File:The War of the Worlds by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, orginal graphic 14.jpg|C
File:The War of the Worlds by Henrique Alvim Corrêa 12.jpg|D
File:The War of the Worlds by Henrique Alvim Corrêa 17.jpg|E
File:Gas Cannon martian Henrique alvim correa.jpg|F
File:Woking tripod.JPG|F
My personal preference is B, but more than happy to let others have a vote. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 13:43, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image 

message: This article claimed in an image caption that Warwick Goble's illustrations were "personally criticized and disowned by H.G. Wells" and a recent edit added similar claims to the body of the article. The recent edit summary quotes a section of the novel which appears to be frequently referred to as a reflection of Wells' opinion of these illustrations. Several previous comments on this talk page reference Wells supposedly hating these illustrations. 
The article provides no source Wells' opinion of the illustrations. In trying to find one, I came across this book, which appears to describe part of the novel as a critique of the illustrations, but also quotes Wells later describing them as "done very well by Mr Warwick Goble" and says he agreed to their use in a new edition of the book.
The claim that Wells disliked the illustrations and the claim that the section of the novel is a reference to that dislike both appear to be quite widespread, but they need a suitable source, and if he later called them "done very well" that would also need to be reflected. AKiwiDeerPin (talk) 01:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wells' opinion of Warwick Goble illustrations?