The Martian Chronicles

Whenever I start reading a book, I always start imposing my own thoughts on where the book will go. For example, after reading the first couple of stories, I thought the entire book was going to be about different expeditions to Mars in a horror and scifi mesh. It didn't go that way at all, well, nit really. Then, I thought perhaps that Earth would be the new Mars, since all the Earth people were coming to Mars. I thought maybe that some other species would colonize Earth and then take over Mars and see how those Earth people like their planet being taken over. But no. It just ended with everyone dying.

I was very confused on where all the Earth people on Mars went though. I knew that on Earth they all died from war and stuff, which ok fair if the world was going to end my first thought would be world and disease. Ray Bradbury wasn't really creative on that one. Anyways, but the death of the Martian Earth people isn't ever really explained. That bothered me. But I assume that perhaps the Martians drove them out, as confusing as that sounds. Like their memories in some way kind of what I thought was happening in the story about the martian (I think?) that was pretending to be everyone's old dead relative. Or maybe it was just a it didn't really work out kind of thing. 

Also, Captain Wilder went out to freaking Jupiter and Pluto and stuff and he didn't find anything worth something? No civilizations no precious elements? That seemed off. Also, I found their lack of high tech really strange. I know they're telepathic, but they never seem to able to contact or be aware of everyone else on the planet. Mars just felt very small. That's all.