https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2015/09/childhoods-end-trailer Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 04 Jun 2017 18:39:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2015/09/childhoods-end-trailer#comment-265039 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:53:29 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/09/childhoods-end-trailer#comment-265039 “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favorite books, and a masterpiece of science fiction. But truth be told, I have a bad feeling about this SyFy adaptation based on this trailer. I’ll watch it, but it looks like the producers took a few too many liberties with the story. The scene in which millions of people are suddenly possessed to say, “There’s no need to be afraid,” is not in the book. The very cerebral tone of Clarke’s story seems much creepier here. I guess I’ll have to reserve judgment until December, but I suspect poor Clarke may end up spinning in his grave.

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