NAMASTE, to One and All. No such thing. Be not dismayed. The Ancient saying of the raising I AM RACE PRESENCE, WIll dawn on Earth Plane. You are the very One you have been waiting for. So stay positive, constructive and creative. For the Veil opened up the Twenty second of March in two Thousand, twenty Three. If you all who read this stay in alignment, Aware and present, you shall recieve your presents 🎁, Alright then. Non of any situation, condition, and circumstances cannot and shall not make you a victem. For your Hallographic experience and creation is all your and your choice. For you all are Natural Divine Creator Acting less than who you truly are in this Self made Hallogramic reality Playground in time, space and matter of the Matrix. You have Divine Free Will, even before One had chosen to manifest in this realm. Weather you know or not and weather you remember it or not, it by your very own choice to be, here and now in the present going beyound time. We are all living in the most magical. Wonderful, creative, Light Liberating. Free choosing. Free bearing and True Light Expanding Reality in every Conscious Breathe you Choose to Breath to connect and Merge with you God-Goddess Presence within who and what is the Kingdom of God-Goddess Within the Immortal Three Fold Flame Within each and Every Heart. This is why We are All Gods and Goddesses been the very source of your Heart Beat and the Ebb and Flow of your very Breathe. It Is Just, What It Is. And resistance is futile. You all stand at an Epic time and no time, of One and All and Earth's Experience as Mother Terra Omni Gaia Sophia Adamus, is Already to go to higher dimensional Reality Sun Being. Just as other Earth Planes existances became Suns. Just Like Hilios and Vesta, that Graduated in Two Thousand-Twelve of December, 21st. Expanded to a higher Demension, so did Our Mother Terra Omni Gaia Sophia Adamus. ( Adamus Is Mother Terra Ancient Kemet- Egyptian-Biblical Meshraym-Kemetic/Ancient Kushite-Ethiopic- Biblical Ebasinia- Aramiac-Hebrew Name) So to The Father Sun of Even Pressure within Holo Inner Earth with.
Going by what appears to be a very cryptic message of the film, is that Childhood’s End as in the theme of the Iron Maiden song of the same name, from the Fear of the Dark album, because if so, I can very much agree with that message.
One of the things about the book that was especially interesting is the Korelian, and the "Overlords" were not evil. Despite being the very vision of the Devil, they were, in fact, slaves to the Overmind. Korelian, and others o his race, had to obey the Overmind in order to preserve their planet and species. If Korelian did not obey, both he and this race would be destroyed. Korelian actually liked humans, and grieved that he was the tool that was used to bring about the destruction of the planet and of humanity. Korelian appreciated and grieved the loss of humanity, and of all the other races that the Overmind had destroyed. He grieved for the loss of their essence and potential. He questioned himself whether the survival of his race was worth being the tools who were used to help destroy intelligent species the galaxy over. But in the end all he can do is to leave that single piece of music in the forever dark and empty place where the solar system had been, to act as humanity's tombstone.
This is what they do. They observe teach and finally reveal and destroy. The overmind is a hive like collective that aggregates the knowledge of many worlds.
WOOOOW.....didn't know this story was adapted for a series. I' ve read this book four times. The end is simultaneously shocking and good. Amazing work of Arthur Clarke
Yes, it originally aired on Syfy as a 3 part episodic mini-series. I was absolutely glued in for each of the episodes. I liked it so much I bought them all on Vudu.
Based on the book Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1953! A great short read that is well worth it and highly recommended. Loved that the summary ended with that recommendation.
Aliens have only two rules for humanity: No more war. No cruelty to animals. The Overlords (demons) for some unknown reason cannot become part of the Overmind. But they have been given the task to help other species make the change as gently as possible.
@@nickshevlin4063 Just because he was (if he was), doesn't mean he can't use the story in the book of revelation as a foundation for his own story. Nice try.
The theme of this book and series are profoundly unsettling. The idea that all we ever were could simply end with humanity not even serving as a footnote, let alone out individual lives and loved ones, would be devastating. I could imagine the world devolving into something like seen in Children of Men without future generations to come along as hopelessness sweeps the species. Nobody likes to think we may be so utterly meaningless but liking has nothing to do with it. In the book the appearance of the Overlords wasn't connected to earlier visits but to humanity's latent and undeveloped psychic potential which would only be fully realized when the children evolved to the next level. The idea of humanity's end connected to such demonic appearing creatures reverberated back through human unconsciousness and materialized in countless religions and art works. We were essentially preprogrammed to recognize the Overlords as evil as they represented the end of humanity. Their time spent changing the earth before revealing themselves in the book was much longer if I remember properly. I thought it was several generations.
I read it many years ago and have always though it was a great book....but ive always hated it as well because basically humanity ends,sure humanity has ascended to join the galactic overmind but not as an individual entity because it is subsumed by the overmind... Humanity doesn't advance it dies...
I don’t “like” to think it, it’s just a fact. The universe is too vast for human beings to be meaningful in anyway. You could say that life is meaningful, since it’s so rare. I’m sure there is other life out there in the cosmos, again, it’s just too big. The probability of at at least a few planets having life is higher than one might think. But that doesn’t mean life “means” anything. Life is just a side effect of the universe, and of existence. Things that just so happen to be in the right place for other things to be created naturally. That doesn’t mean I’m scared of death. Want to know why? Because I’ve already been through nonexistence, we all have, before we were born. All of us, prior to living, didn’t exist for a infinite amount of time. And idk about you, but I don’t remember any pain or agony. I don’t remember.. remembering. Because I didn’t exist. And all that infinite amount of time didn’t seem like anything, because I was nothing. So with that kind of mentality, you realize that death is nothing to be afraid of.
One detail the recap skipped, that was in the Childhood's End book, and think was an important point, was the 'overlords' were not evil and were in fact handicapped. Described as 'Baran Midwives', helping humanity raise to a higher evolutionary level, but incapable of achieving that themselves. While a version of humanity will live on the raised children, the overload's are an evolutionary dead end, unable to progress and can just watch others move on.
Children havent learned "humanity" yet and are still emotional creatures, thus "humanity" cant live on in them. At best "a few homo sapiens" live on, but not "humanity" ... which includes the STRUGGLE and the ACTIVE DECISION to "choose what is RIGHT over what is EASY". Being a human doesnt even make you humanitarian ... and most people fail to understand what this requires.
That's a fantastic book. They should make a series out of it, and use the album The Songs Of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield to accompany it. He read the book, and got inspired.
Wouldn't be much good for a star travelling civilization to have an alphabet based on constellations as they'd look different from different points in space and the most of the stars in them are nowhere near each other.
I have the original paperback of Childhood's End and it's one of the many treasures in my library. I could get high money out of it from the looks on Ebay but keeping it. I just bought the Blu-Ray this past week and watched this movie adaption and loved it. I didn't think they could do it justice but...wow! The sad scenes had me teared up and learning the fate of mankind kept me on edge.
Yes, its god was cruel and capricious, and knew no good other than its own desire to subsume all life. Was the childrens' evolution really into a god, or into ultimate evil? Clarke himself was -- ahem -- somewhat conflicted on this point iirc. Perhaps his subconscious was wiser than his conscious mind when he made the emissary look like a demon.
Amazing story. I have loved Arthur C. Clarke's books since I was a teenager. Someone, please make a movie adaptation of Rendezvous With Rama. I'm still waiting.
I may have seen this but I wasn’t able to watch the whole movie because something had came up. Thanks for the recap now I feel as if I’m finally able to watch the whole thing via recaps
I'm a bit stumped how it wouldnt be understood. Humanity has feared and preached about angels and demons. So an advanced species arrives on earth knowing full well the majority of its problems and history to know that if they reveal themselves people will just panic and respond like wild animals. So they are coached, mentored and assisted with kindness to clean up the planet - which is based on a clean and safe alternative power source. With wars and disease a thing of the past, humanity can advance as a species...which always presents in offspring. Then the aliens reveal themselves after for their true appearance and its time for the children to take their rightful place in the stars.
@@kenyatahill4056 More accurately it is how unevolved human minds perceived psychically perceived the end of the species as they knew it and assigned that fear to the image which would be its harbinger, the Overlords. The Overmind, which many consider "God" is if anything the true antagonist here. The higher consciousness of the universe harvests species simply to propagate itself with zero care for the species themselves other than their need to survive to the evolution point. The Overlords, whom the book explains are unable to make that jump, have enormously long lifespans and are used by the Overmind to assist in the final elevation of the generation which shall move forward while all that came before is lost. It is actually the Overlords who have compassion for and feel sympathy for the species they are sent to oversee. They interfere with individuals on several occasions for individual human's benefits. They work to make the world a utopia to ease life for the final generations of the species. In truth, if this story is that of the anti Christ and judgement day then God is definitively the bad guy. There is no judgement day, everyone but the last generation is destroyed with nothing remaining. No afterlife, no memories. Only the last generation moves forward who are so far from human as to no longer remotely relate.
We read this book in a high school class back in 1988. One of our assignments before we got to the reveal was to write a paper hypothesizing about the appearance of the Overlords and why they remained hidden. I still remember my hypothesis that the Overlords would simply be humans and the reason for the secrecy was all of humanity would never simply bow down and obey other humans. Only by conditioning humanity for generations to be docile could the Overlords reveal themselves and maintain control over earth's population. In the book the secrecy period lasted several generations I believe.
A great ground breaking book and miniseries. It's gestation as a miniseries was endless due to the sfx it would take to do the book justice. Finally happened and it was worth the wait. Charles Dance portrayal of Korellan was an inspired choice. His voice made the character awe inspiring. Arthur C.Clarke would have approved the entire production.
You don't really get it in the miniseries, but in the book, the reason why we recognized the aliens wasn't that the aliens had been to earth in the past, but because of space-time curvature we "knew" they would be there at our end. How cool and poignant is that?
Anytime anyone offers you free security, peace, and food. Watch out there is a hook, line and SINKER. But at least humans finally found there true purpose in life…. To be absorbed as energy lol😅
The overmind is an interesting analogy for the ultimate awareness and consideration of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time that is the material universe. Nothing is really destroyed it's just rapid change in relation to our viewpoint.
@@dragilxcom4176 The Overmind = the Creator = God= Beings, Spirits, Souls Thatens back at Native State the collective awareness of all, the state we interpret as god is really the ultimate complete unity of conciseness. We together are GOD.
At 9':34" - that's the art deco Sun Theatre in Yarraville (Melbourne AUS) near where I live! Also very close to some streets used in filming of "La Brea".
@@willn8664 I replied earlier to Roberto but it was apparently deleted. He meant the Outer Limits story "The Inheritors". It ran in two parts and starred Robert Duvall. I don't remember if it credited Arthur C Clarke.
Childhood's End is an American-Australian television miniseries based on the 1953 novel of the same name, by Arthur C. Clarke, and developed by Matthew Graham. It premiered on Syfy on December 14, 2015
3:29 "because he is a kind, honest and good man"..... lied to his wife the prior day. 😂 10:09 continues to lie to wife.... this is some great character writing here.
This is a great mini-series. I wish that we could eliminate war, pollution, poverty, and all the other bad things that happen all over the world. Too bad humans are evil, greedy, and sadistic. Of course not all of us are all those things. We will be lucky if humanity is still around in the next 100 years. We are close to blowing ourselves up! So, the little girl Jennifer has been absorbing earth's energy for 80 years?
I love the book, yet honestly dislike the idea that in the end, after a “second golden age” of humanity. Wasn’t there an island in the book? This book and miniseries disturbed me, yet I weirdly liked it. Milo hid (in the book) in a sperm whale (not a squid). The OVERMIND is FRIGHTENING. Jennifer is a Goddess now. Why?!
@@tomsavage8514 It was aired on SY-FY (SCI-FI) channel in 2015 and was never played again, only once did it air as I saw the 2nd and last of the three but thankfully I read the book when I was a LOT younger., Also YT have it for sale as well, to keep. I hope that helps.
It was aired on SY-FY (SCI-FI) channel in 2015 and was never played again, only once did it air as I saw the 2nd and last of the three but thankfully I read the book when I was a LOT younger., Also YT have it for sale as well, to keep. I hope that helps.
The is the most disturbing, Science Fiction book I have ever read, in fact as a teenager is gave me nightmares. Childhood's End is Arthur C. Clarke's magnum opus.
The series went nowhere and the novella Childhood's End wasn't some moralistic religious dogma tract but a reasonable cautionary tale about attaching superstition to the fact that the universe does not "care" about what any individual or species does or feels. It's time to grow up. It is Clarke's retort to overly moralistic and emotional stories like The Day the Earth Stood Still.
I read the book and loved it. I watched the series and loved it. Since I read the book I knew the little twist about the aliens in the middle. The thing is, I still didn't understand either of them that well.
Great book - and an ending that promises more ... and is highly frightening. Why does our children need to rise to a higher plane - leaving us behind? I don’t accept the premise, that space travel is not suited for mankind. So, the Overlords DID betray us, and we WERE warned because of the ancient scripts depicting the return of the Devil. I know, many takes a positive spin on our children becoming demigods … but MY initial thought was: in service of WHO? Because they are meant to service (is my cynical interpretation). Scary … and to think a novel from 1953 can still excite and create so many emotions, is a tribute to one of the Masters of Sci-fi: Arthur C. Clarke.
WOW I was glued to this story. an audio book & video in one. I like watching videos like this. That was an intense watch following every word anticipating the conclusion.
If all the efforts and cost spent to hold up borders and armies housed... stopped... we could repeat the benefits shown here - without the ill effects of a demons help!
study the mouse utopia experiment. you many change your mind on what would happen if humans had all basic needs met and had no struggles in their day to day lives. very eyeopening
"Childhoods End" It was aired on SY-FY (SCI-FI) channel in 2015 and was never played again, only once did it air as I saw the 2nd and last of the three but thankfully I read the book when I was a LOT younger., Also YT have it for sale as well, to keep. I hope that helps.
Am I the only one that thought about what happened to the planes that were flying in the middle of the oceans? we're they just lowered to ocean level to then sink?
Series name: Childhood's end (2015)
NAMASTE, to One and All. No such thing. Be not dismayed. The Ancient saying of the raising I AM RACE PRESENCE, WIll dawn on Earth Plane. You are the very One you have been waiting for.
So stay positive, constructive and creative. For the Veil opened up the Twenty second of March in two Thousand, twenty Three.
If you all who read this stay in alignment, Aware and present, you shall recieve your presents 🎁, Alright then. Non of any situation, condition, and circumstances cannot and shall not make you a victem. For your Hallographic experience and creation is all your and your choice. For you all are Natural Divine Creator Acting less than who you truly are in this Self made Hallogramic reality Playground in time, space and matter of the Matrix. You have Divine Free Will, even before One had chosen to manifest in this realm. Weather you know or not and weather you remember it or not, it by your very own choice to be, here and now in the present going beyound time.
We are all living in the most magical. Wonderful, creative, Light Liberating. Free choosing. Free bearing and True Light Expanding Reality in every Conscious Breathe you Choose to Breath to connect and Merge with you God-Goddess Presence within who and what is the Kingdom of God-Goddess Within the Immortal Three Fold Flame Within each and Every Heart.
This is why We are All Gods and Goddesses been the very source of your Heart Beat and the Ebb and Flow of your very Breathe. It Is Just, What It Is. And resistance is futile. You all stand at an Epic time and no time, of One and All and Earth's Experience as Mother Terra Omni Gaia Sophia Adamus, is Already to go to higher dimensional Reality Sun Being. Just as other Earth Planes existances became Suns. Just Like Hilios and Vesta, that Graduated in Two Thousand-Twelve of December, 21st. Expanded to a higher Demension, so did Our Mother Terra Omni Gaia Sophia Adamus. ( Adamus Is Mother Terra Ancient Kemet- Egyptian-Biblical Meshraym-Kemetic/Ancient Kushite-Ethiopic- Biblical Ebasinia- Aramiac-Hebrew Name)
So to The Father Sun of Even Pressure within Holo Inner Earth with.
What is the background music you use
The Book by Aurthur C. Clarke was awesome, so hopefully the movie is close to as awesome!
Childhoods end is a smashing read!
Going by what appears to be a very cryptic message of the film, is that Childhood’s End as in the theme of the Iron Maiden song of the same name, from the Fear of the Dark album, because if so, I can very much agree with that message.
One of the things about the book that was especially interesting is the Korelian, and the "Overlords" were not evil. Despite being the very vision of the Devil, they were, in fact, slaves to the Overmind. Korelian, and others o his race, had to obey the Overmind in order to preserve their planet and species. If Korelian did not obey, both he and this race would be destroyed. Korelian actually liked humans, and grieved that he was the tool that was used to bring about the destruction of the planet and of humanity. Korelian appreciated and grieved the loss of humanity, and of all the other races that the Overmind had destroyed. He grieved for the loss of their essence and potential. He questioned himself whether the survival of his race was worth being the tools who were used to help destroy intelligent species the galaxy over. But in the end all he can do is to leave that single piece of music in the forever dark and empty place where the solar system had been, to act as humanity's tombstone.
This is what they do. They observe teach and finally reveal and destroy. The overmind is a hive like collective that aggregates the knowledge of many worlds.
@@christopherleubner6633 Well, we're just about at the "reveal" part now IRL...
WOOOOW.....didn't know this story was adapted for a series. I' ve read this book four times. The end is simultaneously shocking and good. Amazing work of Arthur Clarke
I read it, too. Had no idea of where it was going in the end.
Yes, it originally aired on Syfy as a 3 part episodic mini-series. I was absolutely glued in for each of the episodes. I liked it so much I bought them all on Vudu.
0fine clip read the book the clip followed it to a T
they did a wonderful job with the series
It was only a 3 episode series….
Honestly, the best recap of this series I've seen all over RUclips. All other channels have made is so confusing. You guys did it really good.
Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it :)
And you are our best fan ;)
Helps to have read the book, but I agree, this was really well done.
"... really well."
Except the movie title is never in the description. The movie title and year it was released ALWAYS NEEDS TO BE IN THE DESCRIPTION!!!!
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Based on the book Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1953! A great short read that is well worth it and highly recommended. Loved that the summary ended with that recommendation.
Aliens have only two rules for humanity:
No more war.
No cruelty to animals.
The Overlords (demons) for some unknown reason cannot become part of the Overmind. But they have been given the task to help other species make the change as gently as possible.
Read the book of revelation, it is essentially what this film is about, or series.
@@tommargarites2811 But then you realise that A C Clarke was an atheist... Nice try. :D
He's right. This is an new take on the story of the antichrist. Atheist or not. It's what it is.
@@nickshevlin4063 Just because he was (if he was), doesn't mean he can't use the story in the book of revelation as a foundation for his own story. Nice try.
The theme of this book and series are profoundly unsettling. The idea that all we ever were could simply end with humanity not even serving as a footnote, let alone out individual lives and loved ones, would be devastating. I could imagine the world devolving into something like seen in Children of Men without future generations to come along as hopelessness sweeps the species.
Nobody likes to think we may be so utterly meaningless but liking has nothing to do with it.
In the book the appearance of the Overlords wasn't connected to earlier visits but to humanity's latent and undeveloped psychic potential which would only be fully realized when the children evolved to the next level. The idea of humanity's end connected to such demonic appearing creatures reverberated back through human unconsciousness and materialized in countless religions and art works. We were essentially preprogrammed to recognize the Overlords as evil as they represented the end of humanity. Their time spent changing the earth before revealing themselves in the book was much longer if I remember properly. I thought it was several generations.
I read it many years ago and have always though it was a great book....but ive always hated it as well because basically humanity ends,sure humanity has ascended to join the galactic overmind but not as an individual entity because it is subsumed by the overmind...
Humanity doesn't advance it dies...
I don’t “like” to think it, it’s just a fact. The universe is too vast for human beings to be meaningful in anyway. You could say that life is meaningful, since it’s so rare. I’m sure there is other life out there in the cosmos, again, it’s just too big. The probability of at at least a few planets having life is higher than one might think.
But that doesn’t mean life “means” anything. Life is just a side effect of the universe, and of existence. Things that just so happen to be in the right place for other things to be created naturally.
That doesn’t mean I’m scared of death. Want to know why? Because I’ve already been through nonexistence, we all have, before we were born. All of us, prior to living, didn’t exist for a infinite amount of time. And idk about you, but I don’t remember any pain or agony. I don’t remember.. remembering. Because I didn’t exist. And all that infinite amount of time didn’t seem like anything, because I was nothing. So with that kind of mentality, you realize that death is nothing to be afraid of.
One detail the recap skipped, that was in the Childhood's End book, and think was an important point, was the 'overlords' were not evil and were in fact handicapped. Described as 'Baran Midwives', helping humanity raise to a higher evolutionary level, but incapable of achieving that themselves. While a version of humanity will live on the raised children, the overload's are an evolutionary dead end, unable to progress and can just watch others move on.
Children havent learned "humanity" yet and are still emotional creatures, thus "humanity" cant live on in them. At best "a few homo sapiens" live on, but not "humanity" ... which includes the STRUGGLE and the ACTIVE DECISION to "choose what is RIGHT over what is EASY".
Being a human doesnt even make you humanitarian ... and most people fail to understand what this requires.
@@Muck006 there wasnt anything easy about what little jennifer was doing at the end
I think they were in goods hands of little Jen definitely not the average kid! @@Muck006
Honestly I really liked the adaptation. I liked most of the acting, but the aliens were well portrayed.
It's in the quran nothing new
Charles Dance plays the alien Karellin. He is an absolute legend. He played Tywin in Game of Thrones.
he pushed his father telekenetically and they take the boy to therapist . Mind blown.
🤣🤣🤣
This looks absolutely brilliant. Great recap. Also. Carelan seems like a fairly good dude! Surprisingly.
It's a great series. And yes, Karellin is an ok guy. Played by Charles Dance (Tywin in Game of Thrones).
Never seen this, or even knew it existed. Thank you for your video. It's a fascinating story😊
One of Arthur's best efforts. I would also love to see "Songs of Distant Earth" adapted this way.
That's a fantastic book. They should make a series out of it, and use the album The Songs Of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield to accompany it. He read the book, and got inspired.
i remember this book , i was a huge sci fi fan as a youngster and read this in the sixties , Clarke was a genius.
This recap actually hit the heart strings
Wouldn't be much good for a star travelling civilization to have an alphabet based on constellations as they'd look different from different points in space and the most of the stars in them are nowhere near each other.
I have the original paperback of Childhood's End and it's one of the many treasures in my library. I could get high money out of it from the looks on Ebay but keeping it. I just bought the Blu-Ray this past week and watched this movie adaption and loved it. I didn't think they could do it justice but...wow! The sad scenes had me teared up and learning the fate of mankind kept me on edge.
Thank you for bringing this story to my attention. I can’t wait to read the book. ACClarke was a genius ahead of his time
It really is!
@@TheRecapManiaOfficial very nice series. The guy was a genius who wrote this.
The Arabs and the Jews coming together... boy someone sure got that one wrong!
Religion will make sure that never happens
No they didn't it will happen one day it's a long old war nothing new
@gedprobert9814 religion will make sure it do the real religion not the ISH people
We need the aliens to unite Arabs and Jews...
@@ericksonhermosisima8284 And then take them BOTH to a far-off galaxy a trillion light years away.
Childhood's End was one of the most depressing SF stories I've ever read.
Yes, its god was cruel and capricious, and knew no good other than its own desire to subsume all life. Was the childrens' evolution really into a god, or into ultimate evil? Clarke himself was -- ahem -- somewhat conflicted on this point iirc. Perhaps his subconscious was wiser than his conscious mind when he made the emissary look like a demon.
Intriguing, captivating, held my attention throughout, Enjoyed, 😊
So glad!
Amazing story. I have loved Arthur C. Clarke's books since I was a teenager.
Someone, please make a movie adaptation of Rendezvous With Rama. I'm still waiting.
I may have seen this but I wasn’t able to watch the whole movie because something had came up. Thanks for the recap now I feel as if I’m finally able to watch the whole thing via recaps
Thanks for explaining. I've watched this series twice and couldn't figure out what the hell it was about!
I'm a bit stumped how it wouldnt be understood. Humanity has feared and preached about angels and demons. So an advanced species arrives on earth knowing full well the majority of its problems and history to know that if they reveal themselves people will just panic and respond like wild animals. So they are coached, mentored and assisted with kindness to clean up the planet - which is based on a clean and safe alternative power source. With wars and disease a thing of the past, humanity can advance as a species...which always presents in offspring. Then the aliens reveal themselves after for their true appearance and its time for the children to take their rightful place in the stars.
Really?? 🤨 You watched this twice, and couldn't figure out the story?? Well okay...
Its a biblical prediction of the anti Christ and judgement day for earth
@@kenyatahill4056It's really not. Read the book.
@@kenyatahill4056 More accurately it is how unevolved human minds perceived psychically perceived the end of the species as they knew it and assigned that fear to the image which would be its harbinger, the Overlords. The Overmind, which many consider "God" is if anything the true antagonist here. The higher consciousness of the universe harvests species simply to propagate itself with zero care for the species themselves other than their need to survive to the evolution point. The Overlords, whom the book explains are unable to make that jump, have enormously long lifespans and are used by the Overmind to assist in the final elevation of the generation which shall move forward while all that came before is lost. It is actually the Overlords who have compassion for and feel sympathy for the species they are sent to oversee. They interfere with individuals on several occasions for individual human's benefits. They work to make the world a utopia to ease life for the final generations of the species.
In truth, if this story is that of the anti Christ and judgement day then God is definitively the bad guy. There is no judgement day, everyone but the last generation is destroyed with nothing remaining. No afterlife, no memories. Only the last generation moves forward who are so far from human as to no longer remotely relate.
Milo ..that was the stupidest decision ever😂😂😂
I don't know if it's sinister. All humans ascended to heaven. The devil looking aliens can't and are stuck in this plane of existence.
Watched it and loved it back then. Especially when the aliens first showed themselves. Quite a surprise. A true eye opener. 😊
We read this book in a high school class back in 1988. One of our assignments before we got to the reveal was to write a paper hypothesizing about the appearance of the Overlords and why they remained hidden. I still remember my hypothesis that the Overlords would simply be humans and the reason for the secrecy was all of humanity would never simply bow down and obey other humans. Only by conditioning humanity for generations to be docile could the Overlords reveal themselves and maintain control over earth's population. In the book the secrecy period lasted several generations I believe.
What's it called and where can I watch it
Something like this could actually be true. The universe is so big.
A great ground breaking book and miniseries. It's gestation as a miniseries was endless due to the sfx it would take to do the book justice. Finally happened and it was worth the wait. Charles Dance portrayal of Korellan was an inspired choice. His voice made the character awe inspiring. Arthur C.Clarke would have approved the entire production.
You don't really get it in the miniseries, but in the book, the reason why we recognized the aliens wasn't that the aliens had been to earth in the past, but because of space-time curvature we "knew" they would be there at our end. How cool and poignant is that?
so...they look like demons, not because demons existed in our past, but because the space-time curvature ... am i reading that correctly ?
@@MM-24 Yes. The "future memory" humanity has of them was as evil demons just because they are there at the end.
@@nsbd90now ok yea, that is def very cool backstory
Anytime anyone offers you free security, peace, and food. Watch out there is a hook, line and SINKER.
But at least humans finally found there true purpose in life…. To be absorbed as energy lol😅
The overmind is an interesting analogy for the ultimate awareness and consideration of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time that is the material universe. Nothing is really destroyed it's just rapid change in relation to our viewpoint.
The Overmind = the Creator = God.
@@dragilxcom4176 The Overmind = the Creator = God= Beings, Spirits, Souls Thatens back at Native State the collective awareness of all, the state we interpret as god is really the ultimate complete unity of conciseness. We together are GOD.
@@ericswain4177 "We together are GOD" --> bored God😅
No it's more like galactus consuming worlds to fuel itself.
❤ The recap I have not even watched the series and yet I understand everything.
This movie is VERY special, (although not for everyone)
I've just started watching this. It's really good. Thanks for the heads up.
Glad you liked it! See you in the next recap :)
At 9':34" - that's the art deco Sun Theatre in Yarraville (Melbourne AUS) near where I live!
Also very close to some streets used in filming of "La Brea".
I remember watching this when it was on tv and it was an amazing mini-series and just rewatched it recently
If aliens landed and were to make changes my first wish would be to remove all dictator’s and the nasty bad egg people in our society.
Something you can't tell from this recap, Karellen the demon alien was played by Charles Dance. AKA Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.
Ok thanks! This blows highs on a MASSIVE scale!! Depressing AF!!😮
This story is more true than people realize. Stay tuned 2027-2030
Ikr
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bookmarking this page, and reporting your comment on jan 1 2031 if possible 😅
😂😂😢😢
I can see this taking in reality
Never heard of this before, but is reminiscent to V.
Got the book from my Uncle when I was a kid. Great story. Well done series.
Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End. Good book. I read it when I was a kid.
Chief O'Brian is going to sort it out.
This reminds me how Indian kings and princes have made the British to mediate their issues with each other.
And Brits have taken over all of their territories and built a Museum to preserve culture. Lol
I can't help but feel the truth in this story 😢
This re cap, very very well done.
Thank you so much David! See you in the next recap :)
That's pretty much the only thing that would actually stop people from hating each other. Would be an alien encounter.
What film is this? Not one mention what it is in the video or description.
Similar vibes like the "Midnight Mass" ❤
100%! Glad you liked it :)
Yes, great recap 🙂@@TheRecapManiaOfficial
2:07 boy do we need this now more than ever.
Yes haha !
Thank you.
You're welcome!
I watched this when it aired... and really liked it. Bought it on Amazon... have to watch it again.
Please the name of the movie
There was an episode of either the outer limits or the twilight zone titled "To serve man". What an ending that had!! This seems very similar
How? In to serve man, the humans were the food. In this one it is literally something beyond everything. That is the best way I can describe it.
@@willn8664 I replied earlier to Roberto but it was apparently deleted. He meant the Outer Limits story "The Inheritors". It ran in two parts and starred Robert Duvall. I don't remember if it credited Arthur C Clarke.
@@cap3001 ah okay thanks. I might have to check that episode out.
Childhood's End is an American-Australian television miniseries based on the 1953 novel of the same name, by Arthur C. Clarke, and developed by Matthew Graham. It premiered on Syfy on December 14, 2015
Superb! Thank you for this star chart.
I'm glad you liked it!
They twisted and shortened the plot, well done ,maybe an improvement on other attempts BRAVO !!
3:29 "because he is a kind, honest and good man"..... lied to his wife the prior day. 😂 10:09 continues to lie to wife.... this is some great character writing here.
They changed this so much from the book
This is a great mini-series. I wish that we could eliminate war, pollution, poverty, and all the other bad things that happen all over the world. Too bad humans are evil, greedy, and sadistic. Of course not all of us are all those things. We will be lucky if humanity is still around in the next 100 years. We are close to blowing ourselves up! So, the little girl Jennifer has been absorbing earth's energy for 80 years?
I love the book, yet honestly dislike the idea that in the end, after a “second golden age” of humanity.
Wasn’t there an island in the book?
This book and miniseries disturbed me, yet I weirdly liked it.
Milo hid (in the book) in a sperm whale (not a squid).
The OVERMIND is FRIGHTENING.
Jennifer is a Goddess now. Why?!
i never knew they made arthur c. clark's story into a movie.
It was a 3 part TV movie. I forget which channel did it. It wasn't widely talked about, never in theaters. Pretty well done too.
@@mycroft16i'll have to track it down and watch it.
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@@tomsavage8514 It was aired on SY-FY (SCI-FI) channel in 2015 and was never played again, only once did it air as I saw the 2nd and last of the three but thankfully I read the book when I was a LOT younger., Also YT have it for sale as well, to keep. I hope that helps.
"Krillen came to me as my dad"
"yeaa me too.. he was my dad too.."
"it was ur ex wasnt it..?"
"... yeah... sorry.."
This was DEEP!!!
Wow this was interesting!! Great job !!
What song was left behind and was it on an eight track and 8 track player?
I watch this (Childhood's end) I think on Netflix five years ago, It is excellent.
It was aired on SY-FY (SCI-FI) channel in 2015 and was never played again, only once did it air as I saw the 2nd and last of the three but thankfully I read the book when I was a LOT younger., Also YT have it for sale as well, to keep. I hope that helps.
The is the most disturbing, Science Fiction book I have ever read, in fact as a teenager is gave me nightmares. Childhood's End is Arthur C. Clarke's magnum opus.
The series went nowhere and the novella Childhood's End wasn't some moralistic religious dogma tract but a reasonable cautionary tale about attaching superstition to the fact that the universe does not "care" about what any individual or species does or feels. It's time to grow up. It is Clarke's retort to overly moralistic and emotional stories like The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Which version of The Day the Earth Stood Still? The 1951 version, or the remake garbage version?
Wow this sounds incredible
so why did the overlords make the Earth a Utopia in the 1st place since they knew it was going to be destroyed???
What was the name of the song left playing ?
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Wow, Charles Dance played the Alien Satan AND Tywin Lanister ... two of the most evil characters in all fiction!
Damn ,that was excellent! I've never even heard of this series
Do you think you could put the the name in your titles please its weird not knowing what I'm watching
It is in the description! :)
I read the book and loved it. I watched the series and loved it. Since I read the book I knew the little twist about the aliens in the middle. The thing is, I still didn't understand either of them that well.
Great book - and an ending that promises more ... and is highly frightening.
Why does our children need to rise to a higher plane - leaving us behind?
I don’t accept the premise, that space travel is not suited for mankind. So, the Overlords DID betray us, and we WERE warned because of the ancient scripts depicting the return of the Devil.
I know, many takes a positive spin on our children becoming demigods … but MY initial thought was: in service of WHO? Because they are meant to service (is my cynical interpretation).
Scary … and to think a novel from 1953 can still excite and create so many emotions, is a tribute to one of the Masters of Sci-fi: Arthur C. Clarke.
WOW I was glued to this story. an audio book & video in one. I like watching videos like this. That was an intense watch following every word anticipating the conclusion.
My conspiracy mind is challenging me right now😂❤
Me too...
The movie that I would like you to replay Is The Day the Earth Stood Still there was done in the fifties or sixties thank you
Whats the name of the music you playing in the backround?
I have that same sofa that Milo was sitting on... except mine is nice.
Tywin Lannister has a new gig, as Karellen!
If all the efforts and cost spent to hold up borders and armies housed... stopped... we could repeat the benefits shown here - without the ill effects of a demons help!
study the mouse utopia experiment. you many change your mind on what would happen if humans had all basic needs met and had no struggles in their day to day lives. very eyeopening
@@halfashine6348 never said "well fair state"
Why do you never put the title in the descriptions? That's annoying. What if I wanted to watch it?
Childhood's end - there is no free lunch and no nirvana and no paradise on earth.
Loved the book and this
Wow, that was deep!!!❤
I read the story years ago, and found it deeply disturbing.
If there was peace on Earth because no one could be exploited, many more people would have to work much more. And nobody really wants that.
One of the few Clarke novels I absolutely hated. It's so depressing.
We don't need any help we need to stop supplying arms to these countries that can't get along
Dream on. Humanity will never change
2:08 That did not age well
What series is this, name please. Thanks
"Childhoods End" It was aired on SY-FY (SCI-FI) channel in 2015 and was never played again, only once did it air as I saw the 2nd and last of the three but thankfully I read the book when I was a LOT younger., Also YT have it for sale as well, to keep. I hope that helps.
Yeah I thought the movie was real good too I seen it 6 times
2:10 Now we _know_ this movie's true science fiction!
Am I the only one that thought about what happened to the planes that were flying in the middle of the oceans? we're they just lowered to ocean level to then sink?
They float.
What would happen if the overlords landed on the alternate universe of earth, where they are extremely aggressive humans?
Then they would have never been sent there in the first place.
*Man guns down the overlord with a rifle*
Board their ship, take everything you can!
*Crowd overuns the ship, capturing their technology*
You mean Texas?
Great book, as are many others.