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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
@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.
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.
@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.
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 :'(
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
@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
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.
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?
@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.
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).
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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.)
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
![[CULT TV] WAR OF THE WORLDS SEASON TWO INTRO](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DhETlS5_EpM/mqdefault.jpg)
The best theme to any sci fi series !!
ah,the good old days of late night Sat tv.
Also, this was the season that I caught first, and then went back and watched the better first season in reruns.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
@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.
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.
I find this theme addictive. I can’t stop humming it.
Man, I remember watching this as a kid! It scared the piss outta me...literally.
This show was unbelievably violent for prime time TV. Oh the nostalgia!
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.
Indeed, Sam! This show was groundbreaking for it's time! :)
Daniel Appleton Yes it did
@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.
Volume level-wise, this video is better than the video for the opening titles of Season 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 :'(
Yep, thats where he started in sindication, after that it was in Dark Shadows and finally Highlander.
this was awesome
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.
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.
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.
aw, man they did a good job despite having a $20 a week budget and a crate of lunchables(tm).....
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. :)
The Strain !
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.
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.
@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.
Season two is finally being released on DVD on October 26!
@bloodandbones9 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :)
@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 It's out on DVD now.
@fisk0 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :)
this series were awsome!!! are they on dvd? are the series here on youtube?
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.
Went down hill in the second season, especially when the advocates were killed off
@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
@PleaseGoAway1000 The series is now available on DVD at amazon.com. :)
The low budget actually made the second season better than the first. The darker, more paranoid atmosphere kept your attention.
It had a higher budget actually.
Very eriee opening.
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.
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?
Can anyone tell me where I could assist the first season again ?
@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.
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).
If you like season 2 or not I think we all can agree that killing off Col. Ironhorse was a big mistake.
Sorry meant 4th season
@thuncat1 yeah maybe, but adrian paul...he is good.
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)
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.
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.
It was a model?!
Ha ha Great job!
Where do I find/buy full episodes ?
KingCamembert full episodes are on CZcams and the complete series is on DVD. You didn't look hard enough.
subtitle?
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
All they had to do was create World of Warcraft. They would've peacefully brought humanity to it's knees.
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.
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.)
Scifimaster92 yes
Wish they didn't killed off Col. Ironhorse. Is season 2 ever gonna come out on dvd??
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.
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 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.
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Maybe there is one sci-f series we can both agree with, Doctor Who!!!!!
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@PleaseGoAway1000 sorry it took me so long. Its familiar, but not sure. someone commented on my comment. I hope it helps!
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.
Philip Chance those aliens were in Season Two as well
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.
@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.
when they got rid of Ryan Dallion, the show did fall off a bit.
the dude that replaced him STUNK.
That was actually Friday The 13th: The Series... and you're completely correct!
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.
They won sometimes
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!
Really? Blackwood was great. What didn't you like about him? Was it his character or the actor that played him?
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.
" Drake needed to be knocked for since he was in a wheelchair " ?
I'll bet you have LOTS of paraplegic friends, there.
Daniel Appleton drake was boring and need to be running around fighting the aliens.
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.
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.
this season killed the show.
this season was good but, too brave new world, too fast.
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!
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.
Yeah like o.k. fragile.
Heh, heh, heh, yeah right Whatever, heh heh heh.
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.
NOTHING!
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!
Whatever
So what was so great of the lame ass second season?
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.
BlimBlam1977 your dreaming Ironhorse was a tough no nonsense lieutenant Colonel, he was better.
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.