The ending is hampered by
erm... H.G.Well's ending, to be honest. Plus, the family story ending was too cheesy and neatly tied up.
( Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 22:52, archived)

most
of the world laid to ruins aside from the nice houses at the end.The one thing that was missing was like in the original film was that of a atomic strike against them, okay so this was done in independence day but not one person mentioned it even being tried.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 22:58, archived)

is it just me getting confused
or didn't all the aliens in the book die of colds or something?
(P-nut Obsessive Compulsive Green Day Disorder..., Sat 2 Jul 2005, 22:59, archived)

Erm...
Yes...erm...

*tries to think of way to not spoil the end now*
( Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 23:00, archived)

they
did,they studied everything about us aside from basic biology which is a bit weird if your gonna end up eating that which your studying.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 23:02, archived)

Same goes for Signs (super small text due to spoilerage ahead)
If you are advanced enough to build huge ships, with forcefields, invisibilty and all, travel between the stars for food etc etc why would you go to a planet that is 2/3 covered in the one thing that can kill you, a planet where that very same thing falls from the fucking sky on a daily basis?
Click here for an easy way to read it
( elusive I'm not really here. You're imagining me, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 23:06, archived)

would
appear the rule of thumb for all alien invasions is that regardless how intelligent they are ultimately they end up being fuckwits and overlook one very small thing.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 23:08, archived)

Still,
better than Bush and Blair

*satire*
( Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 23:10, archived)

worrying
thing is that it would take something like that to actually unite the world.Although there was some site I visited years back that had pyramid scale of what kinda wars would be fought over the coming years and in the past.It started off with communism at the bottom ,then terrorists above that then followed by alien invasion.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Sat 2 Jul 2005, 23:15, archived)