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Exclusive trailer debut of Syfy's Arthur C. Clarke series 'Childhood's End'
Los Angeles Times ^
| July 11, 2015
| Tracy Brown
Posted on 07/12/2015 7:26:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
We're exclusively premiering the new trailer for Syfy's miniseries "Childhoods End," which just debuted at Comic-Con on Saturday morning. Get a good look at what Arthur C. Clarkes sci-fi novel will look like in real life, right now.
Set in a world that's already been conquered by aliens, this trailer actually shows the big "first contact" moment. "Theres no need to be afraid," says the alien voiceover. "We've come to help mankind. We are not conquerors."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: arthurcclarke; childhoodsend; miniseries; sciencefiction; scifi; syfy
I first read the novel in 1960 and have re-read it several times since. I hope this adaptation is good.
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg
To: EveningStar
They were (or looked like) devils.
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:28:29 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
To: EveningStar
SyFy is actually getting back into the sci fi game.
“Defiance” was looking like a fail but this season has been exceptional.
Dark Matters is OKish as well as Kill Joys. Dominion is also good.
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:37:33 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: ifinnegan
Appearances can be deceiving.
I felt sorry for them.
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:40:50 PM PDT
by
null and void
(She who uses rope to contain reporters during her candidacy will use rope to hang them when in power)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:43:17 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: EveningStar
I plan to watch it, but I hope it doesn’t get ruined by making it a preachy plot on the environment. I just don’t trust these movie makers.
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:45:07 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Enterprise
It’s a made for the SyFy channel movie, some slight insulation from the Hollywood libertards.
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:47:51 PM PDT
by
null and void
(She who uses rope to contain reporters during her candidacy will use rope to hang them when in power)
To: Enterprise
Besides, if it follows the book at all the ending makes envirofascism kinda moot...
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:49:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
(She who uses rope to contain reporters during her candidacy will use rope to hang them when in power)
To: EveningStar
Reminds me of an old episode of Twilight Zone (I think) where the aliens said they came to serve man. At the end, as one of the more skeptical characters in the story is being wheeled up the gang plank of the flying saucer against his will, it’s revealed the book given to the humans by the aliens at the beginning of the story turns out to be a cook book.
To: EveningStar
They will probably Screw It Up like everything else.
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:52:39 PM PDT
by
BBell
To: cripplecreek
Defiance is a very interesting universe and I like and care about the characters. I have found that in SciFi, if you have an interesting premise AND you can care about the characters, you have a winner regardless of production values. Possibly the worst example of a limitless budget, very good actors and HORRIBLE writing and character development that I have ever seen was the film “Lost In Space”.
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posted on
07/12/2015 7:58:17 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
To: EveningStar
It should be noted that Clarke included a disclaimer at the start of the book, apparently not wanting to be confused with L. Ron Hubbard, that this was a religious novel.
The book is anti-religious, in that the aliens are able to show the actual historical origins of the world’s religions are fake, with a very few exceptions.
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posted on
07/12/2015 8:01:00 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
I remember that part of the book.
To: The Antiyuppie
I'm really liking Rahm Tak. He's a genocidal alien but a great character.
He wants to kill all the Pink meats but loves the old earther music.
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posted on
07/12/2015 8:08:34 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Uhhh, actually they blocked time viewer access to all areas and times associated with any extant religion’s origin.
Quite the opposite of proving them false.
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posted on
07/12/2015 8:22:01 PM PDT
by
null and void
(She who uses rope to contain reporters during her candidacy will use rope to hang them when in power)
To: cripplecreek
Defiance was looking like a fail but this season has been exceptional.
I gave up on it last season. I might go back and watch some of this season via On Demand.
Killjoys and Dark Matter are pretty good, so far.
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posted on
07/12/2015 8:29:46 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Lake Living
A friend of mine just gave me an iPad mini case that looks EXACTLY like the To Serve Man cookbook. We were at San Diego Comic Con at a restaurant taken over by SyFy channel, renamed and redecorated (every year) like one of its series.
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posted on
07/12/2015 9:10:50 PM PDT
by
Moonmad27
("I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit)
To: Lake Living
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posted on
07/12/2015 9:21:19 PM PDT
by
bitt
(If Obama is really worried about “the children”, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
To: EveningStar
I haven’t read the book but anytime a writer adds a character that wasn’t there I become skeptical. So this guy thinks he knows better than Arthur C. Clarke? Not.
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posted on
07/13/2015 9:03:05 AM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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