Unveiling the Darkest Secret of 'War Of The Worlds'

The Disturbing Reason Tripods Were Buried Under The Earth (War Of The Worlds 2005) is a video by pupbenny taking a look at the reasons the Aliens from Steven Spielberg's War Of The Worlds 2005 film starring Tom Cruise didn't come down in a spaceship or UFO or flying machine and instead created a storm and arrived through the lightning and thunder. They had their Tripod fighting machines buried under the planet all along and finally came to fulfill their alien invasion. This is said by some people to be a plothole and actually this is not the only plot hole and as a result, in this video, I take a look at some theories that may resolve these plotholes and actually reveal the terrifying reason the tripods were buried here by the Martians that, in this film, aren't actually from Mars supposedly. This theory has terrifying implications for humans and humanity and all of human history that weren't prevalent in the original H.G. Wells The War Of The Worlds story.

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HG Wells The War Of The Worlds has inspired many adaptions including The War Of The Worlds 1953 film, The Great Martian War 1913-1917, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds and even Steven Spielberg's 2005 War Of The Worlds starring Tom Cruise. I found this War Of The Worlds game to be a nice adaption and it certainly makes a nice change from FOX's War Of The Worlds and the BBC's War Of The Worlds that we've gotten lately. The War Of The Worlds Multiplayer survival horror game is a worthwhile, fun and nicely stylised adaption of H G Wells The War Of The Worlds.

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[pupbenny]

The reason the Tripods were buried adds such a disturbing dynamic to human history in what is already quite a grim film. It's quite a fantastic idea!

[rayzain]

This film traumatized me when I was a little kid. LOL, but it was my first exposer to War of the Worlds. So I guess I can thank my dad for showing this film to me.

[GenericOceanLinerHistorian]

I think it’s pretty cool to think that the tripods might be super outdated technology to the martians, because if they planted the tripods here long ago, they must have invented new technologies. It’s as if we went to mars and fought tribes of a lower intelligence species with catapults and trebuchets, and absolutely demolished them.

[regulate.artificer_g.mdctlsk]

The "buried in the ground" thing reminds me of Playstation's _Resistance_ franchise, where the alien race known as the Chimera building/burying their superstructures deep beneath the earth, but their method of invasion is certainly unique: instead of coming to earth themselves, they designed a virus that infects humans to turn them into, well, Chimera.

[Sean-hnvt]

I don't think they actually went to Earth and buried the Tripods. They used lightning to transport themselves through the ground, so they might be able to do the same for the Tripods as they are very advanced. Because of this they may not have ever stepped foot on Earth before and therefore had no idea about the harmful bacteria and never succumbed to it.

[rburns]

The disease plot hole can be filled by the fact germs and viruses mutate and evolve all the time. I doubt caveman had to worry about COVID 19.

[chissstardestroyer]

It is hinted at in the movie *billions* of years ago that they were here and burried their tanks last, not millions or even thousands of years ago in the storyline; so I guess they were planning on settling here all along, but wanted to terriform the planet, and likely they age at a different rate than we humans do.

[piper]

This is a good theory . May I add to this?? When they came they took the large dinosaurs, that is why they became extinct at roughly the same time. They decided to come back later to harvest what evolved next

[Bingus]

Fun fact: Steven Spielberg actually made his version of war of the worlds because he got the inspiration from the 1953 war of the worlds and he took some of the lines from it to.

[ariesdemiurge]

As if the 05 Tripods weren't terrifying enough...

[bobbybigelow]

the idea that every human in history has been bred as a livestock animal for aliens is honestly terrifying. good analysis!

[chissstardestroyer]

I really like the fanart; and I have read a tale along similiar lines; years ago; by the name of "Closer to Them" that appears to have disappeared from the website it was on in the intervening years... it was a good quality war-story about this conflict from an alien soldier's eyeview... but I really liked the idea of the alien biologist in the biology coat observing the microscope you've got in the pictures in this.

[Bdiorio]

You also have to remember that this movie was released in the aftermath of 9/11. Much of the imagery in the movie (missing persons posters, etc.) had 9/11 in mind. One of the reasons of the buried machines was the sense of "they were here under our feet the whole time" that terroism provoked.

[Owen_]

I know not many think about how the aliens came down into the tripods, if they came down through lightning, we’re did the lightning come from, did they open up some portal, or was there really some sort of mothership disguised as a storm?

[starscream]

No problem! I was obsessed with this movie back in 2004 when I read that Spielberg was going to direct War of the Worlds. I’m a huge Spielberg/ Alien movie fan so the combination excited me. I was always searching for any information I could find about the movie before it came out.

I got really excited when Spielberg said he wanted the movie to feel real. He said it was going to be “Saving Private Ryan style except the villains were aliens instead of Germans.” That’s another aspect of the movie I love. How grounded and real feeling it is. One of my favorite movies of all time.

I love reading about theories and all of that stuff about the movie but the most important thing about the movie is that we don’t know or understand anything about the invasion, other than it’s happening. Spielberg intentionally did this because it’s realistic. The aliens would never tell us what, how, or why they were doing this. Everything is speculation. And that’s another reason why people can still have interesting conversations about it two decades later.

I’m happy there are other people who love this movie as much as I do that create content about it. When I show people this movie who have never seen it, they are all so impressed with it and don’t understand why they never heard of it or watched it. This movie’s SFX look better than most movies made today due to an amazing director using multiple film making techniques not used as much today. I love this movie and thank you all for keeping it relevant!

[transformersrevenge]

I have a fan theory. The tripods are buried in strong cylinders. When the first tripod emerges, we see the ground unscrew. The reason why humans never dug up Tripods, is because by 2005, we would not have had technology to dig up something that big if it's buried that deep. Most likely they hit a cylinder, saw that it's impassable, and dug elsewhere. But what if in that universe, Area 51 is america digging up a Tripod and being confused by it for years?

Also, that cloud thing up there, that sent the lightning down? Most mysterious thing in the movie. It shows up twice (at the start, and after the ferry scene), and never again. Is it still in orbit? Did it go away? And finally, Ray did say that wind was blowing towards the storm. I think that was a portal opening, hence the vacuum of space sucking air towards the portal.

[omorigaming]

I’ve always wondered did they ever return the machines to work on them or have they been there since the start. For all we know these could of been a prototype machines from prehistoric times. But that’s just my thoughts good video as always

[palpadur]

what'll really mess with you is that, in one of the special features of the 2005 dvd, Stephen Spielberg himself says that the tripod aliens come from the same part of the universe as E.T, but a much darker part of it.
which means that Star Wars can get pretty dark.

[LadyYautjaSpacePirate]

Personally, I like HG Wells' idea about them being Martians, but I also like Spielberg's idea of the aliens' machines already buried symbolizing the Martians' envy for the human race being surface dwellers. Scientists speculated that Mars was once liveable above and below surface until it changed, possibly forcing them underground. That's a possibility. One of their rovers found fossils on Mars.

[BrianWelch-vcxy]

The idea that the aliens were here all along, lurking just beneath the surface, brings up some very important questions that were not addressed in the movie:

Why did the aliens pick "now" to begin their invasion?
What triggered their appearance?
How did they go unnoticed by construction crews and diggers?
Why were they vulnerable to microbes when they had already been living here for such a long time?