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http://io9.com/syfy-takes-some-liberties-with-childhoods-end-but-its-1747549738
A fleet of alien ships suddenly appears overhead, carrying a mysterious race of visitors with weirdly benevolent intentions: They’re here to fix all of the world’s problems. Great! So what’s the catch? That’s the set-up for Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End, now a Syfy “event series” that kicks off on Monday.
Childhood’s End was published in 1953, 15 years before 2001: A Space Odyssey, and though it’s been bandied about Hollywood over the years, this is the first time it’s been adapted to the screen, with a script by Matthew Graham (Life on Mars), and direction by Nick Hurran (Doctor Who, Sherlock).
Watching the events unfold in the three-part miniseries, it’s pretty incredible how familiar a lot of its images and plot points feel—a testament to how influential Clarke’s book has been on science fiction works that came after it. In a new intro to the novel written a few years before he died, Clarke himself recalls watching the opening scenes of Independence Day and feeling a sense of déjà vu. And Independence Day is certainly evoked here, in turn, when the massive ships arrive and all of humanity stops to gawp and gasp with a mix of wonder and sheer terror.
I wonder how the Bible Belt will react,given that the aliens look like you know who
A fleet of alien ships suddenly appears overhead, carrying a mysterious race of visitors with weirdly benevolent intentions: They’re here to fix all of the world’s problems. Great! So what’s the catch? That’s the set-up for Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End, now a Syfy “event series” that kicks off on Monday.
Childhood’s End was published in 1953, 15 years before 2001: A Space Odyssey, and though it’s been bandied about Hollywood over the years, this is the first time it’s been adapted to the screen, with a script by Matthew Graham (Life on Mars), and direction by Nick Hurran (Doctor Who, Sherlock).
Watching the events unfold in the three-part miniseries, it’s pretty incredible how familiar a lot of its images and plot points feel—a testament to how influential Clarke’s book has been on science fiction works that came after it. In a new intro to the novel written a few years before he died, Clarke himself recalls watching the opening scenes of Independence Day and feeling a sense of déjà vu. And Independence Day is certainly evoked here, in turn, when the massive ships arrive and all of humanity stops to gawp and gasp with a mix of wonder and sheer terror.
I wonder how the Bible Belt will react,given that the aliens look like you know who
She's SUCH a stereotypical stock character - the simple, unsophisticated mediator's even simpler girlfriend. She's so simple she's about on par with a female chimp or a high school football player's cheerleader girlfriend. She's uncaring about the greater universe, the big questions, the ramifications about a populated universe. She is simply there to emote at an adolescent level. She only cares about things that stand at arm's length - her boyfriend, their relationship, her jealousy of a dead woman from his past. Ye gods, that's the best the writers could do? The other female characters are no better - simple dimwit girlfriend, the uneducated drug addict single mother, the religious fundamentalist fanatic. I hope the characters improve, but something tells me they won't.
