Isaac Asimov's Childhood's End was one of the first 'grown up' sci-fi novels I ever read after graduating from the children's and young adult's sections at my local library. My Mom, a big reader of sci-fi, recommended the book to me. I was maybe 8 or 9 years old.
I can't say I completely grasped it, (we were not a religious family, so the whole significance of the "Supervisor for Earth" looking like a biblical devil was largely lost on me), but as a whole, the story left a deep impression and it has resurfaced in my thoughts over the years in conjunction with the material studied here.
Anyway.., I thought I'd see what this 3-part TV adaptation was like.
Several things about it immediately struck me...
Below are two images of the Mothership design from the show, and two different shots from a recent UFO sighting reported in early November of 2015:
Check out the similarities. What's up with that? -Deliberate hyper-dimensional marketing of some kind? Metaphoric reality doing its thing? Pure coincidence?
As for the story itself...
Childhood's End seems to fit in tightly with themes presented in numerous other bits of mass-consumption media. The x-Men films (with their 'mutant genes suddenly expressing' story-line), and the next installment of the Independence Day franchise due to release in mid-2016 come to mind.
There was also a strong Children of Earth vibe going on there in a few scenes, with the depiction of the alien ambassadors from each story moving around behind walls of one-way glass, dictating their dictates and making spooky monster sounds. Children of Earth, a horrifying British sci-fi story from 2009 about aliens demanding 10% of Earth's Children be delivered for recreational/drug purposes, is not to be confused with Asimov's tale, however I do suspect the British version was deliberately riffing on the some of the same concepts arising in the Asimov book surrounding the loss of our children.
Anyway, even Asimov's 'nice' version is a pretty scary message; tough love from the Space Brothers helping us through these difficult transitory times.
And.., there's a Ouji board in the story. Hm.
Right now only 2 of the 3 part series have been aired, I'm still digesting and I haven't worked out what the overall thrust means in terms of population programming. But I thought I'd post the subject here in an effort to (net)work out what is being beamed at us this time.
So...
Thoughts?
I can't say I completely grasped it, (we were not a religious family, so the whole significance of the "Supervisor for Earth" looking like a biblical devil was largely lost on me), but as a whole, the story left a deep impression and it has resurfaced in my thoughts over the years in conjunction with the material studied here.
Anyway.., I thought I'd see what this 3-part TV adaptation was like.
Several things about it immediately struck me...
Below are two images of the Mothership design from the show, and two different shots from a recent UFO sighting reported in early November of 2015:
Check out the similarities. What's up with that? -Deliberate hyper-dimensional marketing of some kind? Metaphoric reality doing its thing? Pure coincidence?
As for the story itself...
Childhood's End seems to fit in tightly with themes presented in numerous other bits of mass-consumption media. The x-Men films (with their 'mutant genes suddenly expressing' story-line), and the next installment of the Independence Day franchise due to release in mid-2016 come to mind.
There was also a strong Children of Earth vibe going on there in a few scenes, with the depiction of the alien ambassadors from each story moving around behind walls of one-way glass, dictating their dictates and making spooky monster sounds. Children of Earth, a horrifying British sci-fi story from 2009 about aliens demanding 10% of Earth's Children be delivered for recreational/drug purposes, is not to be confused with Asimov's tale, however I do suspect the British version was deliberately riffing on the some of the same concepts arising in the Asimov book surrounding the loss of our children.
Anyway, even Asimov's 'nice' version is a pretty scary message; tough love from the Space Brothers helping us through these difficult transitory times.
And.., there's a Ouji board in the story. Hm.
Right now only 2 of the 3 part series have been aired, I'm still digesting and I haven't worked out what the overall thrust means in terms of population programming. But I thought I'd post the subject here in an effort to (net)work out what is being beamed at us this time.
So...
Thoughts?