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Review: The Shape of Things to Come
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Nice - I've always felt this is an underrated / under-looked-at piece of Wells' work. Wings Over The World are an interesting concept, and also inspired Paul McCartney:
That is a very good adaptation, and especially the growing punchline of
the alt-history thinking they're the BETTER future, and Raven coming to agree, which means he has to force change in ours by kicking off similar bloody events. "This bad thing had to happen to make this better thing" is a common speculative fiction thing but not normally where, to us, these bad things are worse.
It is indeed. Especially given the hint that
Raven was their second attempt to restore their timeline. Their first attempt resulted in our timeline’s WWII.
On the whole, I think the Big Finish adaptation created a more compelling version of the story than the 1936 movie. That movie was very influential of course - from my father’s description of it, it had a similar impact to Threads in the Eighties.
The movie did have some impressive scenes and memorable lines (I paraphrase the description “fine pre-pestilence machine” sometimes when talking about the time before Covid), but felt more like a series of vignettes compared to the flowing narrative of the Big Finish adaptation.
In case anyone is curious about this adaption, Big Finish do have an excerpt from it available for free:
www.bigfinish.com
The Shape of Things to Come (excerpt)
British diplomat Dr Philip Raven knows the world is on a knife edge. But he is about to see how history might have played out differently. An emissary from that future has come to show him... The Shape of Things to Come.
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In case anyone is curious about this adaption, Big Finish do have an excerpt from it available for free:
The Shape of Things to Come (excerpt)
British diplomat Dr Philip Raven knows the world is on a knife edge. But he is about to see how history might have played out differently. An emissary from that future has come to show him... The Shape of Things to Come.
I can't believe I didn't mention this in the article itself!
Thanks for mentioning it on here, though!