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Posted on 12/14/2015 11:33:24 AM PST by EveningStar
Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction classic "Childhood's End" has been reimagined for the 21st century, and brought to the small screen, in a new TV miniseries debuting tonight (Dec. 14).
When a fleet of spaceships appears in the sky above Earth's largest cities, the alien beings onboard insist that they have arrived to help the human race. The visitors slowly begin to eliminate war, disease and poverty -- but what will be the cost of building heaven on Earth?
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
thanx. that is probably it!
So far, two thumbs up.
Not cleaving perfectly to the book, but a pretty good adaptation.
Would have made the abduction scene a bit longer, I thought it was important that Ricky write a check to his card playing kidnapper.
And I’d have held off on introducing Karellen to tonight’s show. (In the book it was 50 years).
I watched it last night after reading it decades ago. As it went on, more and more came back to me.
I thought the abduction scene in the book was funny. I was telling my wife how he played cards with the Russian guy and wrote him a check.
I was thinking about Free Republic, and the people who had not read the book reacting Karellen... I could just about hear the TVs clicking off in the bible belt. I wished there was a crawl on the bottom of the screen saying, “stay with us here....”
“Flowers” was one for me too. I read it in sixth grade.
Since then, I’ve avoided see the movie “Charly” just because I liked “my” version better.
SOLD! next on my list
Are you thinking of Earth: Final Conflict?
Second day, not as good.
After watching day one, to hear that day two is worse is sad-making. I find the ‘movie’ a boring, tedious leftist wet dream.
Re-purposing the USN to haul food to Africa might be forgivable if food fell from the sky, but not when food is the product of someone else’s labor. Slavery is slavery is slavery. I guess when I read the book as a teenager, I was too young to recognize communist hooey, which would be odd considering I was raised in the 1940s and 50s. Bad show.
That is my assessment as well. A leftist, atheistic, homo wet dream. In that sense it is true to the spirit of Arthur C. Clarke's vision.
They certainly made sure that in the Overlord's utopia 'homophobia' is at an end. It reminds me of a scene in Clarke's book 3001 when Frank Bowman is revived after floating in deep space and returns to a space station and who does he encounter? A homosexual couple and their "kids".
But then Clarke himself was a homo so what do people expect?
I recorded it.
But I saw the first half hour. It was kind of a snooze fest.
It didn’t follow the book very well. Sad because it wouldn’t have been all that difficult for it to have cleaved more closely.
Foe one thing, in the book there were multiple overlords, and the conversations they had between themselves would have been a very good way to introduce the themes that were so awkward for Karellen to voice to the humans.
They also can’t seem to resist prematurely introducing themes. Karellen was introduced in 15 years, not 50.
By spilling the beans about the children early, and not subtly, they missed a great line:
‘You said you weren’t going to monitor the human race, why are you watching my kids???’
‘They aren’t human’.
It’s not a terrible adaptation*, but it could easily have been so much better.
*That bar was set VERY high by the so-called “Issac Asimov’s Nightfall”...
Started reading it last night - can't wait to read more.
Thanks for the tip.
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The second Moffitt book is dense with technical information but (factoring in genetic engineering) technically feasible.
I read many of AC Clarke novels back from the late 60s forward. Never read this ones. From what I gather Clarke and Kubrick wanted to make this movie but the rights were owned by someone else. So Clarke crafted 2001 along with Kubrick as a similar.....evolution of the human race, piece. Even the Hotel room/White room was similar.
I liked 2001 the book/movie. I have now watched all 3 episodes of Childhood’s End and am not sure I like it. It’s interesting. I might read the novel. I kind of find the ultimate fate of humanity not appealing and counter to human advancements.
Just my $0.02
Iain M Banks “Culture” series and his “The Algebraist”; anything by Gene Wolfe - one ofteh best living writers of the English language.
Neither of these authors fit the catagories you listed and are well worth the read.
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