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Childhood's End
#21
RE: Childhood's End

"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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#22
RE: Childhood's End
Would Clarke have ended a sentence with a preposition? I doubt it. That must have been the mistake of the show writers.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#23
RE: Childhood's End
WHAT THE FUCK.

I'm not reading the book if that is the ending.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#24
RE: Childhood's End
I am reiterating that I have not read the book.

I feel there should have been another episode already, because the third episode did not seem to be an ending whatsoever.

For those who have seen the three episodes so far and have also read the book, is that how it ends?

If so, I am highly disappointed.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#25
RE: Childhood's End
Yes, that is how the book ends. More or less. With a few exceptions, most notably the shortened time line, addition of the intermediary character into the last 2 parts, the party being much more modern and the aliens providing the oija board, it is close to spot on.

Remember it was written in the late 40s and published in 1952. It I great, if you step back, imo, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?” 
― Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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#26
RE: Childhood's End
They really changed it though. I was kinda hoping artistically/thematically it might have been made to look as though it were made in the 50s, and portraying the future as imagined from then, not as imagined from now.

Recall the archaic technology in Brazil, the multiple eras (30s-40s-50s-60s) simultaneously existing in Dark City, they could have done something inspired like that, but in a different direction, and closer to Clarke's concept.
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