Just finished War of The Worlds after a long time on my list. Really good and better than any movies I remember seeing. It seems to me in the movie version they made out the Martians to be invincible right up to the end but in the book they are shown to be vulnerable which makes more sense.
realized is a word, but not sure about the way they are using it. You can realize an event but I don't think you can realize a fantasy (as in make it real).