Guerra dos Mundos, terceiro post

Na cinesfera, já se falou bem e mal do final de Guerra dos Mundos (eu próprio me refiro a ele no post abaixo). Ainda não se disse, no entanto, algo que não pode ser esquecido: "ex machina" ou não, independentemente do efeito pretendido por Spielberg, a morte-surpresa dos extraterrestres por bactérias terrestres vem do próprio livro de H.G. Wells (pode-se fazer download aqui, é o livro mais visto do momento no Project Gutenberg). Aqui ficam duas citações:

Here and there they were scattered, nearly fifty altogether, in that great gulf they had made, overtaken by a death that must have seemed to them as incomprehensible as any death could be. To me also at that time this death was incomprehensible. All I knew was that these things that had been alive and so terrible to men were dead. For a moment I believed that the destruction of Sennacherib had been repeated, that God had repented, that the Angel of Death had slain them in the night.

At any rate, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the war, no bacteria except those already known as terrestrial species were found. That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckless slaughter they perpetrated, point also to an entire ignorance of the putrefactive process. But probable as this seems, it is by no means a proven conclusion.