War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds is a television series based on the 1953 film, which in turn was based on a serialised novel by H.G. Wells (1895-1897).
== Overview ==
The series begins with the idea that the aliens defeated in the 1953 film of the same name have been hibernating, rather than dead. Harrison Blackwood (played by Jared Martin) leads a very small group in the fight to stop them and keep the larger population of the planet from knowing about the invasion. He is joined by the military leader of the group, Paul Ironhorse (Richard Chavez); the scientist, Dr. Suzanne McCullough (Lynda Mason Green), and her daughter Debi; and the computer tech, Norton Drake (Philip Akin).
From a fan in 1996: 
== Controversy ==
At the end of first season, control of the show was handed off to the son of Paramount's CEO, Frank Mancuso Jr., who decided to take the show in an entirely different direction. In the first episode of second season, we are shown that the invasion has gone from covert to overt; Ironhorse and Drake are killed; Blackwood and the rest go, literally, underground (they begin to live in the sewers); and a new character named John Kincaid (played by Adrian Paul) is introduced as the group's security/para-military defender. Many of the characters seemed changed radically from the first season, and the basic physiology and structure of the alien invaders was also changed.
Part of the controversy was Mancuso Jr.'s purported reasons for killing off Ironhorse (he saw him as having been painted into a corner, in terms of development, but was unaware that Ironhorse was the character most popular with fans) This would be news to fans as just about every fan who wrote LoCs to The Blackwood Project proclaiming him their favorite character. , and especially Norton: Mancuso said in an interview in Starlog that he felt no one wanted to see a disabled person on television Norton is in a wheelchair, though the actor was not there is much discussion of this topic in The Blackwood Project 
Some fans found the changes to be an improvement, but many more did not. Some unhappy fans refused to watch the second season, others watched but considered it an alternate universe, and still others ignored it all together in the same way Beauty and the Beast fans did when the popular character, Catherine, was killed off. 
The changes did, however, lead to an upswing in War of the Worlds zines; fans unhappy with canon tend to take things into their own hands. Many of the zines published were "first-season" only, or required contributors to figure out a satisfying and logical way for Ironhorse and Norton to return to the team. a similar theme is SND stories in Beauty and the Beast fandom 
===Some Specific Fan Comments Regarding the Second Season: The Mancuso Changes===
For other examples of fan reaction to the creative changes by Mancusu in the show, see the letterzine, The Blackwood Project.
 
 
===Anti-Second Season, Anti-Mancuso Cartoons===
 Image:blackwood8art.jpg| from The Blackwood Project #8, a fan mourns the end of the show, but refuses to acknowledge the second season 
 File:Blackwoodproject7cartoon.jpg| a cartoon by Colleen Winters in The Blackwood Project #7, one that illustrates fans' anger at the producer of the second season 
 Image:blackwoodfarside.jpg| a Far Side cartoon in The Blackwood Project #5 creatively altered by Jan Lindner to illustrate many fans' opinions about the second season and the changes made by the despised Frank Mancuso Jr. 
 Image:blackwood7cartoon.jpg| cartoon and list from "The Blackwood Project" #7 
 Image:wowchart.jpg| from The Blackwood Project #9
 
==Fan Art==
 File:Secondwave.jpg| cover of a rare second season zine, The Second Wave, artist is Heather Bruton
Image:Conie Faddis War of the Worlds Takedown.jpg|Connie Faddis: "Takedown" (unknown zine)
Image:Connie Faddis illo War of the Worlds story 1982 fanzine unknown.jpg|Connie Faddis (1982, unknown zine)
Image:Connie Faddis illo for War of the Worlds story 1990 fanzine unknown.jpg|Connie Faddis (1990, unknown zine)
== Fanfic ==
Most WOW fiction appears in print zines, and most is gen, thought there is some slash in multimedia zines. 
For a full list of WoW zines, see :Category:War of the Worlds.
Single Fandom: Advocate Angst | The Advocate's Deli | Alien Sushi | And Hell Followed With Him | Another Battlefield | Ashes to Ashes | Ask and Ye Shall Receive | Celebrity Mudwrestling | Cell-Phase Matching | Code 47, Level 3, Authorization 10 | Cosmic Travelers Guide to War of the Worlds | Dee-Pice | Downloading Aliens | E.T. Phone Help | Forgive Us Our Trespasses | The Forrester Papers | Green Floating Weirdness | The Happy Hunting Ground | Heretic Flotsam | Ironhorse Project | It Is What It Is | Late Night Musings | Leap of the Worlds | Let the Children Come.... | Mind Games | Need to Know | Pearl of Great Price | The Phoenix Mountain Project | The RC Dispatch | A Sacrifice of Jealousy, A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed | Sarge | Scent of an Alien | The Second Wave | To Life Immortal | The Triangular Whatsis | Troubled Times | WOW! | War of the Worlds Fan Fiction Bibliography | The War of the Worlds Special Gen Collection | The War of the Worlds Special Slash Collection | War of the Worlds Surplus | Wasting Aliens | Whispers of Armageddon | The Whitewood Chronicles | Yea Though I Walk | You Call This Living?
 
Multimedia: Adult Situations (slash) | The Celestial Toybox #5, #6, #7 (gen) | Chalk and Cheese #7, a Professionals/WOW crossover | Compadres #7 (gen) | CrosSignals #2 (gen, two crossovers) | Dyad (slash) | Missing in Action (gen) | Moonbeam (gen) | Of Dreams and Schemes #8 (gen) | Our Favorite Things #8 (gen) | Osmosis (gen) | Rerun #8 (gen) | Thoroughbreds (gen) | Wild Cards (slash) | ΞΕΝΟΦΟΝ (gen, focus on horses)
Newsletters: The Eagle Flyer (Richard Chaves fan newsletter)
Also see: Proposed Zines
===Zine Fic as of 1990===
 
From a list in Phoenix Mountain Project #1:
* A Christmas Story, fiction by Ruby (Wild Cards #1)
* A Night to Remember, fiction by Delaine (Playfellows #1)
* A Turn of the Wheel, fiction by Duval (Business Associates #1)
* After-Image, fiction by Copeland (Dyad #10)
* At the Edge, fiction by Hicks (Dyad #9)
* Behold a White Horse, fiction by Hicks (Dyad #5 and Business Associates #1) 
* Between Two Soldiers by Hicks (Dyad #12, Business Associates #2) 
* Blood and Roses by Hood (Dyad #2)
* Child of Dawn, fiction by Hood (Business Associates #1)
* Duty Calls, fiction by Duval (Playfellows #3 and Business Associates #1) 
* Embracing the Snake by Duval (Dyad #10 and Business Associates #1) 
* Flowers by Duval (Dyad #9 and Business Associates #1)
* Flying on the Ground is Wrong, fiction by Gilgomesh (Plain Brown Wrapper #1) 
* Green Pastures by TACS (Compounded Interest)
* Hard Freeze, fiction by Duval (Dyad #13 and Business Associates #1)
* I Know What You Want, fiction by Audrey (Wrath of Frisky Business)
* I'll Remember You, fiction by Delaine (Playfellows #2)
* Interlude Before Dark, fiction by Hicks (Frisky Business Strikes Back and Business Associates #1)
* Into the Valley of the Shadow of Death, fiction by TACS (Compound Interest) 
* Moonlight by Wendy (Adult Situations #5)
* The Moon's Secret, fiction by Ruby (Business Associates #1)
* Native Secrets, fiction by Duval (Business Associates #1)
* Night Song, fiction by Dundas (Playfellows #2)
* On the Other Side of the Border, fiction by TACS (Compound Interest)
* Sea Cruise, fiction by Duval (Playfellows #4)
* Storm at Sea, fiction by Duval (Business Associates #1)
* Surprise!, fiction by Ruby (Business Associates #1)
* Surrender of Logic, fiction by Radei (Playfellows #2)
* Thanks Given, fiction by Duval (Dyad #11 and Business Associates #1)
* Battle Grounds, poem by Hood (Playfellows #1)
* Body of the Rock, poem by Hood (Business Associates #1)
* Distant Passion, poem by Hood (Business Associates #1)
* Flight of Fancy, poem by Duval (Business Associates #1)
* From One to Another, poem by Duval (Dyad #8 and Business Associates #1) 
* I Remember by Duval (Business Associates #1)
* Ironman, poem by Hood (Playfellows #1)
* Knights in Jasmine, poem by Hood (Playfellows #1)
* Medicine Bundle, poem by Duval (Business Associates #1)
* Moonlight & Swords, poem by Cameron (Playfellows #4)
* Night-Aliens, poem by Jonson (Playfellows #3) see also War Time/Night Time Surrender to Logic, poem by Radei, Playfellows #2)
* War Time/Night Time by Mercedes (Playfellows #4) see also Night-Aliens
==Mailing Lists==
* Late Night Musings archive link "This list is an adult slash fiction list dedicated to the show War Of The Worlds The Series. This list is for posting fiction and making story challenges about our favorite characters from the series. This list also will welcome general relationship stories as well as long as it is about War of the Worlds The Series. This is an ADULT list so PLEASE DON'T SUBSCRIBE IF YOU AREN'T OVER EIGHTEEN YEAR OF AGE!!! This list Avatar assumes that by your subscription to this list that you are confirming that you meet the age requirement."
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