Headscratchers / Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

• If the Martians are inside their handling machine draining humans of blood, how can the journalist and Nathaniel see this?
  • Along that same line, The Martians are described as being larger than bears, so how is 1 let alone multiple Martians able to fit inside the machine and at the same time have humans in there as well getting their blood drained?
  • They might not see the actual blood-draining itself, but might be able to witness enough (person gets dragged into machine; lots of horrible screaming and slurping sounds; dessicated corpse clearly drained of blood is dropped out of the machine) to logically piece together what happens based on context clues. Hence, they "see" what happens. As for the space issue, this is likely a trimmed-for-space issue; the original novel reveals that the Martians are boneless and can manipulate their bodies to whatever shape they need, so they can likely just compress themselves even further if necessary. Also, while the Martian itself is described as larger than a bear, IIRC there's no description of how large the handling machine is; presumably it's large enough to fit more inside than just the Martian if necessary.
    • According to [[this [1]◊ Concept Art, the "heads" of the fighting machines are one hundred feet wide. The game's based on the album, as well as the CG from the live shows, depicts the handling machines as having a similarly designed "head", but noticeably wider. So there would likely be plenty of room for the bear-sized Martians, especially if they are able to compress themselves.

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