'Sometimes we can care more about fiction than we can about fact,' Byrne said, comparing the alien invasion series to climate change.
"Sometimes we can care more about fiction than we can about fact," Byrne said, comparing the alien invasion series to climate change.War of the Worlds
"Sometimes we can care more about fiction than we can about fact," Byrne said of how the sci-fi series can be seen in this tumultuous political time. Byrne sees parallels between the original story and this modern day take. "In some ways the world is unrecognizable, but what the book does brilliantly and the series does it too, is that it provokes bigger questions about what it means to be alive, what keeps humans going in the face of despair," he said, adding that humanity is facing a slow burn environmental disaster but doing little about it. Byrne blames information overload.
The alien invasion plays a unifying force for humanity, bringing people together as well as flipping the social order — refugees already know how to scrape and survive, while scholars and scientists have to learn new skills. McGovern said that is part of what drew her to the story. "The differences between people have broken down because of this outer enemy that has unified them.
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