Good synopsis; I've read Childhood's End almost as much as Lord Of The Rings (which is a lot). The miniseries wasn't as memorable, but I found the last scene quite poignant. Milo's memento. A piece of music, captured and preserved in the fabric of spacetime. Karellen and his companion don't understand it. Karellen orders that they should just leave it. "For whomever might pass by."
Thank you for reminding me this, the book is so great. The part that stuck most with me was when the boy starts describing other distant life forms, and I think the overlords were amazed how far he's reached.
Yup, I thought for a while it was about rick, then Jack, then maybe it was karallen, completely forgetting who was the first person introduced in the movie, and that he served a much bigger purpose when he grew up
i went into this thinking the demon creatures were going to be some kind of "sinister kindness" situation where they're actually enemies to humanity that want to ensure suffering and whatnot toward them, but honestly even though they weren't exactly kind they were better than i thought. having humanity die off naturally seemed much more kind than what i originally thought.
naturally? what? They literally are just servants that do some other beings plans to destroy planets some reason. Guy is literally just killing races off of planets and then destroy the entire planet for no reason from what we are shown.
I got that feeling too, kind of. I thought that maybe the Bible is real in the sense that there is a devil or fallen angels and all of that. But maybe us as humans through out history we interpreted the story differently. Like they were enemies but they were just following orders. Like God is the boss and the "devils" just do the leg work.? Maybe?
@@imgeorge81n its can be interpreted that way, as the devil do god bidding most of the time it become a "bet" between god and the devil in bible only that later it interpreted the devil as sinister who tried to lured humanity out of the light of god
@@dafuqgusdafrey60 Please don't let a Hollywood movie lead you astray into thinking that demons are "doing the leg work" for God. God detests all evil. He does not make deals with, or communicate with evil.
I like how you inject your own humor into the summary. Sets you apart from other recap channels 👏 20:43 - _"Her faith in religion was good, but still in vain. No one can prevent what's coming.... AI"_ lmao
Milo's last moment just hit so differently, and makes me question what could be the truth behind humanity's creation and future. We won't be there to see it, which also makes me wish I could see the world end like Milo so I would have an answer. That's when i realized, Milo got a gift greater than life, the truth and the end of life on earth. As well as Utopia
What's it all worth when there absolutely NONE to share it with? Shouldn't you be rather more concerned about knowledge of what happens when you cease to exist here?
I don't remember if they say it in the series, but in the book you learn that the overlords are in fact a sad doomed species, carrying the mission to help other worlds ascend while they will never be able to.
The book was worth reading too! I always thought Milo should've just stayed with the aliens, think of what it would be like traveling through the galaxy.
I'm just imagining a scenario where a hyper advanced alien gives me a "cure all" shot to use to save me from an illness he gave me.... and I instead use it on him to save him from a shotgun blast.... and the dude can't even Heal me as a thank you? Thanks a lot buddy! :'D
Right? I remember a reading a scifi book with a kind alien coming to announce the end of the world, and he looked like the devil, and he thought it must be some kind of reflection from the end of the world to the beginning. And that a human got on his ship and went to his home planet.
It'll always remind the of Trailer Park Boys. It's awesome to see how much youve grown into your own. I love the way you review moives , even if its a movie I've seen. Keep up the awesome job!✌️
Dr Boyce's facility in "South Africa" was shot in the Melbourne Museum in, well, Melbourne, Australia. I live literally 5 minutes away from it and have been there probably hundreds of times, including the room with all the stuffed animals (which is one of my son's favourite parts). Every time I see it in this movie it takes me right out of the immersion and into the headspace of "well, we're in Melbourne now..." and "hey, I've stood in those rooms and ran down that corridor".
@@ophelia7640thats not true. Humans and dogs have somewhere between 84% and 95% identical dna. I assume the 95% figure is ignoring some stretches of DNA as "irrelevant". Maybe your figure comes from comparing the # of genes for which there is a homologous version in both organisms? But genes can change function, be rendered non-functional, or be completely repurposed and such numbers wouldn't account for that
@@surrealtastic The Catholic Church teaches that all of humanity (rational intelligent animals) descended from the first two humans: Adam and Eve. All rational animals are descendents of Adam and Eve; which, in turn, means that there are no extraterrestrials (at least, no intelligent ones); they would have to resemble human beings. ****“Of all visible creatures [i.e. non-angels], only man is able to know and love his creator… he [man] alone is called to share… in God’s own life.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, § 356). **** Man is the only visible (non-angelic) creature that exists who has rationality. There are no intelligent aliens only demonic manifestations. ****The justification for saying aliens do exist, or might exist, is “given the incredible number of planets out there, it is likely or at least possible that life developed somewhere else as well.” But the premises of such an assertion are nothing but patently heretical Darwinism --- life cannot “develop” if merely given enough chances to do so --- it can only be created by God. *****Consider as well that any alien race would either be 1) Unfallen, or 2) Fallen, thus in need of Redemption. If they were 1) Unfallen, then they would each be Immaculate Conceptions, which would itself be contrary to Catholic Dogma on Our Lady being the only Immaculate Conception. If they were 2) In need of Redemption, then this would be abhorrent, since they could not receive it - it is Catholic Dogma that there is one and only one Incarnation (which itself is necessary for Redemption).
Very good recap! Unlike many others here, now I want to watch the film. I read Arthur C. Clarke's novel decades ago and really enjoyed it; I might re-read it.
I thought the room in the shot at 12:42 looked like the animals room from the Melbourne Museum. I checked and sure enough, it actually is. I used to go there all the times.
@@WakeUpSmellTheCoffee I have read the book (more than once) and IMO this is one of the rare cases where the mini series is better than the book. The book presents interesting concepts, but it doesn't have a particularly powerful emotional impact. Whereas the series manages to keep all of the important concepts of the story while also having a powerful emotional aspect due to good screenwriting, casting, acting, and music. It is far more powerful than the book IMO. Having said that you might want to read the book first because it will seem rather flat after watching the series. I loved Childhood's End when I first read it, but after watching the series I went to read the book again and found that already knowing the entire premise it rather boring. Keep in mind it was written in the early 1950's where a lot of SCFI (even from the great Arthur C. Clarke) is somewhat wooden and simplistic when it comes to emotional depth. It is similar to Isaac Asimov's early robot stories vs the I Robot movie, those are also great stories but they are not as fleshed out and impactful as the movie. In that case the books and movie are more divergent in many ways, but the movie is far more entertaining.
This channel was in my feed and I do not regret watching the whole thing. At first I was like, did he inject humor into the video. It caught me off guard and as I kept listening, the video had a good commentary yet the humor kept me watching. I was waiting for it. at 14:02 really got me. " Tommy, you are just describing Lord of the Rings " lmao
This was Arthur C. Clarke's utopian vision, where all-powerful aliens wave the magic fairy wand and 'fix us'. He likes to dis all religion in this book, while wrapping up the plot in quasi-religious trappings. The idea of humanity ascending to a higher level with the help of aliens is repeated in "2001 A Space Odessey". I tried to like this story, but you meander your way through it where all these incredible things happen without explanation, and you end up feeling cheated.
yea it build up ur expenctation really really well, and throw it out of the window, they just left things unexplained at the end, except the earth techincally being consumed by the supreme being.
you can not have good without bad. Bad things helps us appreciate what we have, when life become stagnant we lose appreciation for what we have. Those movie directors who always try to make an utopia will never work, the problem is today we consume way to much so we either go live of the nature we have without all those stores or the whole food and drink industry must be regulated so that nobody can take more then they need. Impossible task to complete I would say, There is a reason why there is a ying and a yang, there is a reason we know god and the devil, there is a reason why we know light and darkness, trying to get rid of one is getting rid of the other and thats an impossible task to do.
@@diazclemenza3591stupid moral imo, because its based on a false premise. The good unequivocally outweighs the bad for many things and vice versa. There's no inherent karmic balance of happiness vs suffering. Seems to reinforce this weird nihilism where no progress csn be made cause there is always a bad side to every good thing, which is just an unhelpful way to think. Like, things like suffering and ecosystems needing balance are in a way the product of evolution and adaptation. But technology gives us the means to shape our environment in ways that needn't be quite so tightly bound to those same rules.
I love your videos! Just enough humor to make me smile. This was actually a really good recap. I want to watch it now. I wish I would have stopped it and not watch the end so I could be surprised lol
I really loved this show. I haven't read Arthur C. Clarke's original book, so I'll have to do that. The "Creator" always reminded me of Galactus. Travelling the cosmos destroying life and planets and moving on. Independence Day, anyone?
@@pi.log10 yes and no. Yes in the sense that they look identical. And no in the sense that they're not exactly "evil" more like neutral are basically forced to follow the whims of "god" where "god" basically creates life and then consumes them at the end. So in a way, the Bible is a bit off since it's not true that the devils are "bad" but rather they are the angels but just forced to follow "god". At least in the logic of the show. And it can be assumed that "Satan" could have been one of them and a few others like him may have tried to rebel and protect humanity but due to "god's" all powerful mind fckkkery abilities, Satan's efforts would have morphed to look like the acts of an "evil" force.
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 but it is revealed that the Higher God amongst them is the Satan, it's Quite Obvious. If you know the characteristics of Satan, it matches with that entity. And these are the Agents or Devils of Satan
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 Actually in the book it's stated that time doesn't exactly flow in one direction and as a result, thousands of years ago, Christians had visions of a future where the Earth was destroyed and the Overlords were present. They then drew the incorrect conclusion that the Overlords caused the destruction of the Earth. In the book the Overlords are only following the instructions of the Overmind in the hopes that they can one day join it and fully empathize with humanities' desire to remain individuals. At the end of the day the Overmind simply sees that humans are nearly ready to join with it and instructs the Overlords to hasten the process. The Overmind and Overlords do not engage in any shady manipulation beyond not stating their true intentions from the beginning. Wars are ended by providing the world's powers with shields that cannot be penetrated. Violence is ended by forcing aggressors to feel the pain of their victims. There's also no control alt deleting of fetuses. They added that into the show for shock factor. In the book the birthrate naturally drops to zero when it's realized all children everywhere are effectively catatonic from birth because they're connected to the Overmind.
The Overmind is way more powerful than Galactus. Galactus eats planets much like you or me might eat a tasty burger. At the end of the book Childhood's End the Earth becomes clear like glass as all its energy is released. Maybe I'm reading too far into this, but that sounds like they did some E=MC2 type stuff and converted the Earth's mass into energy. That's the amount of energy the Sun puts out in 44.5 million years happening in a couple seconds. Even Superman would get a sunburn from that.
Man, this movie hits hard. I read the book and that hit hard too. I didn't even realize there was a movie adaption. I don't think it was a pleasant story and certainly don't think it had a happy ending for well, pretty much anyone in the story to be honest. For all the talk about transcendence, it was forced upon humanity, and it was done so by an alien 'overmind' whose motivations were never truly explored, and frankly the mass extinction of our species as the price - well... I think the scales come up short, especially since we don't know what becoming part of the overmind's collective actually means. Having said that; I love the parallels to scripture (even if it's a bit on the nose sometimes) from everything from the demonic Overlords (I mean, they are actually called overlords!) to the Rapture. And the alien overmind, is it really all that different from our concepts of God anyway, I mean, He could snap his fingers (tentacles?) tomorrow for Rapture and we would be in the same boat. I guess I'm all for 'transcendence', but I think it has to be human controlled or decided upon. What I don't really understand though is that why did Earth get destroyed at the end if the goal was transcendence. It's this that makes me suspicious of the Overmind more than anything else.
It wasn't the best movie, not particularly engaging but still enjoyable because of the concept is interesting, recap of the recap humans are low level physic and are on the cusp of evolving, we've foreseen the images of devilish looking creatures with visions of the end of the world, but these creatures are simply unable to evolve to the point where they can merge with a universal consciousness so they help shepard younger races who can, thus the association between them and of the world and people interpreting them as evil heralds of the apocalypse the world ends and humanity ascends to a higher form of consciousness and merges with the universal collective conscience which people interpreted as God
It's not God, it's Satan. The demons are agents of evil, the outcome of their actions are evil. If the racial premonitions of the legions of Hell were real, then the racial premonitions of the angels of Heaven must also be assumed to be real. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, or intentions perceived as good.
@@st.dennie1149 I didn't say it's an agreeable point of how just an interesting one from the standpoint of fiction, Arthur c Clarke was an atheist who found ways to explain religious ideas in his books, which is why he focused on a transcendental nature of humanity and existence, which is logical from that point of view, I also don't think eru iluvitar sung Middle earth and it's inhabitants into existence, I understand how it can be a disagreeable world view echoing humanism whereas Tolkien would not be, echoing Christianity, they can both be used to spin interesting stories and concepts even if the world view is not one you agree with
I never read the book/s but this tv show i loved it, especially karelens 1st scene showing everybody who he is. GREATEST REVEAL I HAVE EVER SEEN I REWOUND IT A FEW TIMES.
I like how the series just glossed over the religious bits and why there was suddenly peace. IIRC, in the book, the aliens basically had a window into the past to show people that all religions were basically fake news(well not really 'fake news', but just showed everyone what REALLY happened to whatever any holy books say). But I guess you'd want to sidestep that bit nowadays, especially if you have a religious showrunner/writers or whatever(since it seems whoever adapted this still wanted to have religion in there, despite the book being pretty areligious).
What's funny is that most wars are not religious but rather greed-motivated. Even the religious wars mostly involve a certain "religion of peace"; without that one religion, the rest of the religions are mostly peaceful. More interestingly atheistic socialism/communism has killed more people in the past 100+ years than all religions combined.
@@silaaron76 but whats funny is that you can replace the demon looking creature with an advanced alien race and would play out the same way... humans are dumb and think the universe revolve around them worried about demons and shit but what we should worry about is if some advanced race finds us and decide we are worthless and start hunting us for meat same way we hunt animals or put us on leashes and become some alien childs dog 😂😂
@@eme.261 Well, to me it was convoluted. Glad you found it clear. Don't know why you felt you needed to call me out on the fact that the plot confused me.
@@elianascollection100 The recap, itself, may have left you feeling a lack of clarity about the overall story beats and plot connections, which is a failing of the recap channel. I found the mini series, itself, to be very well done-- its linear structure, though disparate, allowed for ease of access into the philosophical, socio-political, religious and scientific concepts that were deliberately evoked by CHILDHOOD'S END author, Arthur C. Clarke. Individually, those concepts are complex and can be difficult to follow. Having them all woven together, into one story, increases that complexity; yet, somehow, the mini series found a way to bring structure and the possibility of clarity. What can be gleaned is dependent on the individual doing the gleaning. Please know that, on my part, there was no intention of calling you out. I suppose the brevity of my initial reply left room for misunderstanding of my motivation.
@@abdulrahmanmohammed7558they all believed same at first but with positive changes taking place it's hard to not believe them . Ex: America As America has proved it's not worth the trust over the years , Which new country would believe on them ?! But the overwhelming power and good display just is too good for anyone to not believe upon America . Just mind games man .
Moral of the story: The ancients was right, the Devil is evil. It seems to be based on parts from the Book of Revelation but it also messed it up heavily. They left out the Messiah, so there is no happy ending.
To be fair the religious people would call any alien the devil. They still call Barrack Obama the Devil and Trump Jesus, so they don't really have their heads on straight. Its what happens when a humans gift of critical thinking gets pounded into nothing since birth.
@@shadowskill111 The angels also can be considered as "aliens", also Jesus said "I am from above; I am not of this world", so it's not that simple 🙂 Most people are superficial, like simple answers, and more emotional than rational. It's not just a religious stuff, it's quite common.
That's what I was about to say, this is just to remind us that the world will still come to an end, terminator movie also warn us about the danger of artificial intelligence
@@owosenivicent2035kind of a false premise though. Humanity needn't end for billions of years and our greatest malefactors (at least over human timescales) are among us, not in the stars.
"Childhood End" - A REALLY good novel by Artur Klark, highly recomend it. One of the few novels I'll always remember what it is about - it was that impactful to my mind.
i remember when this movie came out. took a while to process it. great narration btw, keeping the sentiment and overall moral of the story while trying to give it a lighter and less confusing tone.
I love the wildly irreverent but true stuff you add in in the same tone of voice. It just leaves me hoping that the movie actually has these bits of dialogue.
Wait..is that the end? Is there not a follow up explanation of why the Overmind wanted to destroy the planet? What the overlord did to make the woman Unalive herself is evil. And bro couldn’t get more super medicine to save the moderator guy after he used his dose to save the overlord? Where did the kids go?
Children became a part of superior being, overlords are inferior servants of superior being unable to ascend themselves, that is why they kinda envy of humanity as a whole and pity those parts of humanity who would be left behind. They come to the planets with species capable of becoming an energy form of life and help them reach their potential. As for why they look like devils humanity is a race with psychic potential and prophets in ancient times had visions about who would be the end of our race.
"Please, take him, I don't want him" 🤣🤣🤣 That part got me rolling on the floor lmao 🤣
Same 😂😂
2:38 🤣🤣🤣
should have been "I don't want him living in sickness"
fr like im dyin from that
"college kids everywhere are free of Chlamydia" 😂
Good synopsis; I've read Childhood's End almost as much as Lord Of The Rings (which is a lot). The miniseries wasn't as memorable, but I found the last scene quite poignant. Milo's memento. A piece of music, captured and preserved in the fabric of spacetime. Karellen and his companion don't understand it. Karellen orders that they should just leave it. "For whomever might pass by."
Thank you for reminding me this, the book is so great. The part that stuck most with me was when the boy starts describing other distant life forms, and I think the overlords were amazed how far he's reached.
“College student are free from chlamydia”
Dead.
so out of pocket LOL
the chlamydia? yes it is
I can't breathe 😂
Ahh yisss
Proving it to be fantastical beyond belief!!!
"you just describing lord of the rings Tommy" got me🤣
Milo has to be one of the main characters of all time
yup
Milo cups
Yup, I thought for a while it was about rick, then Jack, then maybe it was karallen, completely forgetting who was the first person introduced in the movie, and that he served a much bigger purpose when he grew up
8:00 Your telling me the government hasn’t put any security or military to protect the only guy able to talk to aliens?
Probably cuz
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They didn’t have the budget for a bodyguard this being the Sy Fy channel
i went into this thinking the demon creatures were going to be some kind of "sinister kindness" situation where they're actually enemies to humanity that want to ensure suffering and whatnot toward them, but honestly even though they weren't exactly kind they were better than i thought. having humanity die off naturally seemed much more kind than what i originally thought.
naturally? what? They literally are just servants that do some other beings plans to destroy planets some reason. Guy is literally just killing races off of planets and then destroy the entire planet for no reason from what we are shown.
I got that feeling too, kind of. I thought that maybe the Bible is real in the sense that there is a devil or fallen angels and all of that. But maybe us as humans through out history we interpreted the story differently. Like they were enemies but they were just following orders. Like God is the boss and the "devils" just do the leg work.? Maybe?
Humanity shouldn't die "naturally" people die in pain. People should die painlessly.
@@imgeorge81n its can be interpreted that way, as the devil do god bidding
most of the time it become a "bet" between god and the devil in bible
only that later it interpreted the devil as sinister who tried to lured humanity out of the light of god
@@dafuqgusdafrey60 Please don't let a Hollywood movie lead you astray into thinking that demons are "doing the leg work" for God. God detests all evil. He does not make deals with, or communicate with evil.
I like how you inject your own humor into the summary. Sets you apart from other recap channels 👏
20:43 - _"Her faith in religion was good, but still in vain. No one can prevent what's coming.... AI"_ lmao
22:29 the city is like a time before the over lords arrived. _Stank, smelly, overcrowded, with death around every corner , p a ra dise_ lmao
Chlamidiya thing
"College students everywhere are cured of chlamydia." 😆
@@Seetiyan yes that part had me rolling
I just lmaod at that part.
You know it's going to be good when you have a 30 minute video
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Damn I didn't even realize it was that long
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@@moji3812yo still watching? Cus i am
"College students everywhere are free of chlamydia" ☠️☠️☠️ One of your funniest lines yet. 😂
Especially since it’s curable.
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Milo's last moment just hit so differently, and makes me question what could be the truth behind humanity's creation and future. We won't be there to see it, which also makes me wish I could see the world end like Milo so I would have an answer. That's when i realized, Milo got a gift greater than life, the truth and the end of life on earth. As well as Utopia
God is the truth
What's it all worth when there absolutely NONE to share it with? Shouldn't you be rather more concerned about knowledge of what happens when you cease to exist here?
I'm Joe chuks
Last person who will lived on earth before the end is a man name Imam Ali
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I don't remember if they say it in the series, but in the book you learn that the overlords are in fact a sad doomed species, carrying the mission to help other worlds ascend while they will never be able to.
Wasn't this a SYFY adaptation of one of Arthur C. Clarke's stories ? If it is, it DIDN'T have an upbeat ending. EDIT. Yep, it is.
'Peaceful Aliens invades Earth' Then they dont sound so Peaceful to me.
Overmind is essentially frieza
@@destruction8192 more like Demiurge
They do behave peacefully, as they don't have to fight to subjugate.
@@eme.261 yeah.
Well, God has decided that humanity's time is up -- the aliens are seeking to make humanity's final years of existence the very best that they can be.
I watched a recap on this movie elsewhere, and it wasn't nearly as detailed. So much info was missing. This recap is so much better. Thank you!
I did as well and agree with you. Love this channel
Whats the name of the movie?
Childhood's End. Yes it's annoying when it's not first announced. Took me a while to work it out.@@paulbroussard4678
@@paulbroussard4678it's at the bottom of the video the entire time
Name of movie
The book was worth reading too! I always thought Milo should've just stayed with the aliens, think of what it would be like traveling through the galaxy.
He wasn't thinking about it.. Until he saw them cracks in the ground
I'm just imagining a scenario where a hyper advanced alien gives me a "cure all" shot to use to save me from an illness he gave me.... and I instead use it on him to save him from a shotgun blast.... and the dude can't even Heal me as a thank you? Thanks a lot buddy! :'D
So ungrateful
We need the old intro back!
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No. Just move on.
tell that to everyone who skipped it.
During the press conference all Ricky can say, is that the alien showed off in Mexico are fake as sh*t LMAO 😂 4:51
“Childhood’s End” is based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke, who also wrote “2001” and its sequels, as well as “Rendezvous With Rama.”
Right? I remember a reading a scifi book with a kind alien coming to announce the end of the world, and he looked like the devil, and he thought it must be some kind of reflection from the end of the world to the beginning. And that a human got on his ship and went to his home planet.
Whas a timie when people enjoy to read books.
“those things they just showed off in Mexico are fake as sh*t” 😭😭
Your comments make these recaps 100x better
Hahahah.... I know, right?
It'll always remind the of Trailer Park Boys. It's awesome to see how much youve grown into your own. I love the way you review moives , even if its a movie I've seen. Keep up the awesome job!✌️
4:17 Sounds legit 😂
Absolutely love the commentary. As always, Adam is bringing sustenance to the narration.
I completely agree.
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A guy with a girlfriend as a main character, Jesus Christ this is getting old.
@@Eric0225😮 4:42
Dr Boyce's facility in "South Africa" was shot in the Melbourne Museum in, well, Melbourne, Australia. I live literally 5 minutes away from it and have been there probably hundreds of times, including the room with all the stuffed animals (which is one of my son's favourite parts). Every time I see it in this movie it takes me right out of the immersion and into the headspace of "well, we're in Melbourne now..." and "hey, I've stood in those rooms and ran down that corridor".
Why does a divine hyper-advanced reality warping demon alien need bad writing to survive a shotgun shot
Because it had no sci-fi exoskeleton spacesuit and is "just a guy" getting shot
same reason why a regular dog can kills us by tearing out our throat despite us being the far more advanced species
@@kingwick You'd be surprised as of how little DNA difference there is between dogs and us. Literally decimals out of 100%
@@ophelia7640thats not true. Humans and dogs have somewhere between 84% and 95% identical dna. I assume the 95% figure is ignoring some stretches of DNA as "irrelevant".
Maybe your figure comes from comparing the # of genes for which there is a homologous version in both organisms? But genes can change function, be rendered non-functional, or be completely repurposed and such numbers wouldn't account for that
Big pharma punching the air after everyone was cured from their diseases.
I hate it when you leave for 5 minutes and when coming back the entire humanity is missing.
"The city is smelly, polluted, overcrowded" - Nah man that's just Melbourne lol.
Best movie recap channel period. Great narration. Insightful. Funny. And makes you feel like you watched a better version of the movie.
what movies is it?
Brilliant. Your commentary is more entertaining than most of the movies you describe. Thank you for saving me so many potentially wasted hours.
Aliens as demons.... sounds right.
truly knee deep
@@surrealtastic The Catholic Church teaches that all of humanity (rational intelligent animals) descended from the first two humans: Adam and Eve. All rational animals are descendents of Adam and Eve; which, in turn, means that there are no extraterrestrials (at least, no intelligent ones); they would have to resemble human beings.
****“Of all visible creatures [i.e. non-angels], only man is able to know and love his creator… he [man] alone is called to share… in God’s own life.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, § 356).
**** Man is the only visible (non-angelic) creature that exists who has rationality. There are no intelligent aliens only demonic manifestations.
****The justification for saying aliens do exist, or might exist, is “given the incredible number of planets out there, it is likely or at least possible that life developed somewhere else as well.” But the premises of such an assertion are nothing but patently heretical Darwinism --- life cannot “develop” if merely given enough chances to do so --- it can only be created by God.
*****Consider as well that any alien race would either be 1) Unfallen, or 2) Fallen, thus in need of Redemption. If they were 1) Unfallen, then they would each be Immaculate Conceptions, which would itself be contrary to Catholic Dogma on Our Lady being the only Immaculate Conception. If they were 2) In need of Redemption, then this would be abhorrent, since they could not receive it - it is Catholic Dogma that there is one and only one Incarnation (which itself is necessary for Redemption).
Where is god in all of this? Oh right, god doesn't interfere. LOL
@romulanwarbird6600 He gives us free will to discern and choose
"Elaborate on that."
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'College students everywhere' was uncalled for 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ya….i died at that 😂😂😂😂😂
@@revlee4166 of chlamydia?
"is there free beer. No, then it's garbage". couldn't agree more
This is basically just the book of revelations with aliens.
My thoughts exactly
“Mom there’s an alien spaceship above our house and my dead grandma is in my bathroom….” “Doesn’t matter you still have to go to school!!”
Man's misery comes from the fact he was once a child.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Dope recap.
Really?
THAT IS A BRILLIANT AND COMPLETELY DEEP AND ACCURATE QUOTE! WOW
4:17 "college students everywhere are free of chlamidya"
bro that come so out of nowhere lmao i laughed so hard
so basically the devil dupes humanity and destroys the world.
nah
they give 5-6decade of utopia to humanity before it's ended by someone else
taht's twisted but better then the other option tbh
Very good recap! Unlike many others here, now I want to watch the film. I read Arthur C. Clarke's novel decades ago and really enjoyed it; I might re-read it.
This is the longest recaps I have come across on mystery recapped channel 😱🤯
Omg I just noticed
There's an hour video
@@Realword-d3o are you sure I have never seen it the most I came across with was 23min
I think it's the second longest we've ever made!
@@DeepDarkBoys omg hiiiiii
I thought the room in the shot at 12:42 looked like the animals room from the Melbourne Museum. I checked and sure enough, it actually is. I used to go there all the times.
Cool n the book was brilliant I always wanted it to be a movie
yup i recognized it immediately
I loved this short series! It's also a great book.
Do you prefer the book or the series? Or which do you recommend first?
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Definitely read the book first. It was the original, after all.
@@WakeUpSmellTheCoffee I have read the book (more than once) and IMO this is one of the rare cases where the mini series is better than the book. The book presents interesting concepts, but it doesn't have a particularly powerful emotional impact. Whereas the series manages to keep all of the important concepts of the story while also having a powerful emotional aspect due to good screenwriting, casting, acting, and music. It is far more powerful than the book IMO.
Having said that you might want to read the book first because it will seem rather flat after watching the series. I loved Childhood's End when I first read it, but after watching the series I went to read the book again and found that already knowing the entire premise it rather boring. Keep in mind it was written in the early 1950's where a lot of SCFI (even from the great Arthur C. Clarke) is somewhat wooden and simplistic when it comes to emotional depth.
It is similar to Isaac Asimov's early robot stories vs the I Robot movie, those are also great stories but they are not as fleshed out and impactful as the movie. In that case the books and movie are more divergent in many ways, but the movie is far more entertaining.
@@ericmichel3857 If you enjoyed this concept you should read All Tomorrows. It's this but on steroids
This channel was in my feed and I do not regret watching the whole thing. At first I was like, did he inject humor into the video. It caught me off guard and as I kept listening, the video had a good commentary yet the humor kept me watching. I was waiting for it.
at 14:02 really got me. " Tommy, you are just describing Lord of the Rings " lmao
Exponential decreasing interest at this story went on, can’t imagine sitting thru every episode.
Only 3 n idk how u get on in life
This was Arthur C. Clarke's utopian vision, where all-powerful aliens wave the magic fairy wand and 'fix us'. He likes to dis all religion in this book, while wrapping up the plot in quasi-religious trappings. The idea of humanity ascending to a higher level with the help of aliens is repeated in "2001 A Space Odessey". I tried to like this story, but you meander your way through it where all these incredible things happen without explanation, and you end up feeling cheated.
That's pretty much my recollection. It would probably have been better served as a short story.
yea it build up ur expenctation really really well, and throw it out of the window, they just left things unexplained at the end, except the earth techincally being consumed by the supreme being.
we could get all the explanation yet still not achieve a thing. greed is the primary blocker of things
you can not have good without bad. Bad things helps us appreciate what we have, when life become stagnant we lose appreciation for what we have.
Those movie directors who always try to make an utopia will never work, the problem is today we consume way to much so we either go live of the nature we have without all those stores or the whole food and drink industry must be regulated so that nobody can take more then they need.
Impossible task to complete I would say, There is a reason why there is a ying and a yang, there is a reason we know god and the devil, there is a reason why we know light and darkness, trying to get rid of one is getting rid of the other and thats an impossible task to do.
@@diazclemenza3591stupid moral imo, because its based on a false premise. The good unequivocally outweighs the bad for many things and vice versa. There's no inherent karmic balance of happiness vs suffering. Seems to reinforce this weird nihilism where no progress csn be made cause there is always a bad side to every good thing, which is just an unhelpful way to think.
Like, things like suffering and ecosystems needing balance are in a way the product of evolution and adaptation. But technology gives us the means to shape our environment in ways that needn't be quite so tightly bound to those same rules.
That, "please take him, I don't want him." Gave me serious mystery science theater 3000 vibes.
When a guy is named Milo you know it's going to be chaos
Ong😂😂
Murphey's law bud
Never trust someone offering you utopia, every utopia is a dystopia at the same time or in the near future
I love your videos! Just enough humor to make me smile. This was actually a really good recap. I want to watch it now. I wish I would have stopped it and not watch the end so I could be surprised lol
I really loved this show. I haven't read Arthur C. Clarke's original book, so I'll have to do that. The "Creator" always reminded me of Galactus. Travelling the cosmos destroying life and planets and moving on. Independence Day, anyone?
So, the Overlords were Demons from Bible?
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yes and no.
Yes in the sense that they look identical.
And no in the sense that they're not exactly "evil" more like neutral are basically forced to follow the whims of "god" where "god" basically creates life and then consumes them at the end.
So in a way, the Bible is a bit off since it's not true that the devils are "bad" but rather they are the angels but just forced to follow "god". At least in the logic of the show.
And it can be assumed that "Satan" could have been one of them and a few others like him may have tried to rebel and protect humanity but due to "god's" all powerful mind fckkkery abilities, Satan's efforts would have morphed to look like the acts of an "evil" force.
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 but it is revealed that the Higher God amongst them is the Satan, it's Quite Obvious. If you know the characteristics of Satan, it matches with that entity. And these are the Agents or Devils of Satan
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 Actually in the book it's stated that time doesn't exactly flow in one direction and as a result, thousands of years ago, Christians had visions of a future where the Earth was destroyed and the Overlords were present. They then drew the incorrect conclusion that the Overlords caused the destruction of the Earth.
In the book the Overlords are only following the instructions of the Overmind in the hopes that they can one day join it and fully empathize with humanities' desire to remain individuals.
At the end of the day the Overmind simply sees that humans are nearly ready to join with it and instructs the Overlords to hasten the process. The Overmind and Overlords do not engage in any shady manipulation beyond not stating their true intentions from the beginning.
Wars are ended by providing the world's powers with shields that cannot be penetrated.
Violence is ended by forcing aggressors to feel the pain of their victims.
There's also no control alt deleting of fetuses. They added that into the show for shock factor. In the book the birthrate naturally drops to zero when it's realized all children everywhere are effectively catatonic from birth because they're connected to the Overmind.
The Overmind is way more powerful than Galactus. Galactus eats planets much like you or me might eat a tasty burger. At the end of the book Childhood's End the Earth becomes clear like glass as all its energy is released. Maybe I'm reading too far into this, but that sounds like they did some E=MC2 type stuff and converted the Earth's mass into energy. That's the amount of energy the Sun puts out in 44.5 million years happening in a couple seconds. Even Superman would get a sunburn from that.
Spoilers ahead, Watch out and take care
Man, this movie hits hard. I read the book and that hit hard too. I didn't even realize there was a movie adaption. I don't think it was a pleasant story and certainly don't think it had a happy ending for well, pretty much anyone in the story to be honest. For all the talk about transcendence, it was forced upon humanity, and it was done so by an alien 'overmind' whose motivations were never truly explored, and frankly the mass extinction of our species as the price - well... I think the scales come up short, especially since we don't know what becoming part of the overmind's collective actually means.
Having said that; I love the parallels to scripture (even if it's a bit on the nose sometimes) from everything from the demonic Overlords (I mean, they are actually called overlords!) to the Rapture. And the alien overmind, is it really all that different from our concepts of God anyway, I mean, He could snap his fingers (tentacles?) tomorrow for Rapture and we would be in the same boat. I guess I'm all for 'transcendence', but I think it has to be human controlled or decided upon.
What I don't really understand though is that why did Earth get destroyed at the end if the goal was transcendence. It's this that makes me suspicious of the Overmind more than anything else.
Thank you for uploading bro keep making banger vids
My 10 year old throws me 10 feet across the room..."Maybe he needs therapy?" 🤦🏿♂️
It wasn't the best movie, not particularly engaging but still enjoyable because of the concept is interesting, recap of the recap humans are low level physic and are on the cusp of evolving, we've foreseen the images of devilish looking creatures with visions of the end of the world, but these creatures are simply unable to evolve to the point where they can merge with a universal consciousness so they help shepard younger races who can, thus the association between them and of the world and people interpreting them as evil heralds of the apocalypse the world ends and humanity ascends to a higher form of consciousness and merges with the universal collective conscience which people interpreted as God
This is not a movie, jackass.
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It's not God, it's Satan. The demons are agents of evil, the outcome of their actions are evil. If the racial premonitions of the legions of Hell were real, then the racial premonitions of the angels of Heaven must also be assumed to be real. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, or intentions perceived as good.
@@st.dennie1149 I didn't say it's an agreeable point of how just an interesting one from the standpoint of fiction, Arthur c Clarke was an atheist who found ways to explain religious ideas in his books, which is why he focused on a transcendental nature of humanity and existence, which is logical from that point of view, I also don't think eru iluvitar sung Middle earth and it's inhabitants into existence, I understand how it can be a disagreeable world view echoing humanism whereas Tolkien would not be, echoing Christianity, they can both be used to spin interesting stories and concepts even if the world view is not one you agree with
And I think in the series these were also the last of their race, only alive to work for the God.
"Take him i dont want him" 😂 got me
I never read the book/s but this tv show i loved it, especially karelens 1st scene showing everybody who he is.
GREATEST REVEAL I HAVE EVER SEEN
I REWOUND IT A FEW TIMES.
6:15 fucking got me 🤣
"Please take him, I dont want him" I laugh so hard 😂😂
The video:College students are free from chlamydia everywhere
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Me:😂😂😅
My mom:how do you get that joke😡😤🤬😤😡🤬😤😠🤬😡😤
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I know it's a joke but you'd have to be extremely sheltered to not know about STDs
@@ghostly_number true 💀
Where can I watch this movie? I looked everywhere. Any suggestions would be great! thanks
I love the humor and detailed summary!!! Great job, please keep them coming!
Milo is a damn fool. I would've stayed on the ship with the overlords.
Rebuilt!? EVANGELION
What movie is this?
"And Milo, gets his first half-chub..."
I'm dead.
The sporadic humorous additions to the narration make recap far more enjoyable than any other recap channels I've seen.
"College students are freed from Chlamydia" 😂🤣🤣
2:38 "Pleasg taek em i dont want em"
4:21 "college students everywhere, are free of Chlamydia"
That's the funniest thing I've heard for a very long time lol
No one can escape what's coming... AI 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like how the series just glossed over the religious bits and why there was suddenly peace. IIRC, in the book, the aliens basically had a window into the past to show people that all religions were basically fake news(well not really 'fake news', but just showed everyone what REALLY happened to whatever any holy books say). But I guess you'd want to sidestep that bit nowadays, especially if you have a religious showrunner/writers or whatever(since it seems whoever adapted this still wanted to have religion in there, despite the book being pretty areligious).
whats the books name
@@sigma0thee0enygma Same name as the series, Childhood's End.
What's funny is that most wars are not religious but rather greed-motivated.
Even the religious wars mostly involve a certain "religion of peace"; without that one religion, the rest of the religions are mostly peaceful.
More interestingly atheistic socialism/communism has killed more people in the past 100+ years than all religions combined.
The author literally just took what the Bible says will happen with the antiChrist and changed it slightly.
@@silaaron76 but whats funny is that you can replace the demon looking creature with an advanced alien race and would play out the same way... humans are dumb and think the universe revolve around them worried about demons and shit but what we should worry about is if some advanced race finds us and decide we are worthless and start hunting us for meat same way we hunt animals or put us on leashes and become some alien childs dog 😂😂
Thank you for saving me from watching this convoluted movie! The commentary was great.
Not very convoluted. Also, it's a mini series.
@@eme.261 Well, to me it was convoluted. Glad you found it clear. Don't know why you felt you needed to call me out on the fact that the plot confused me.
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The recap, itself, may have left you feeling a lack of clarity about the overall story beats and plot connections, which is a failing of the recap channel. I found the mini series, itself, to be very well done-- its linear structure, though disparate, allowed for ease of access into the philosophical, socio-political, religious and scientific concepts that were deliberately evoked by CHILDHOOD'S END author, Arthur C. Clarke. Individually, those concepts are complex and can be difficult to follow. Having them all woven together, into one story, increases that complexity; yet, somehow, the mini series found a way to bring structure and the possibility of clarity. What can be gleaned is dependent on the individual doing the gleaning.
Please know that, on my part, there was no intention of calling you out. I suppose the brevity of my initial reply left room for misunderstanding of my motivation.
@@elianascollection100 Convoluted? Does the Teletubbies confuse you too?
@@eme.261 That makes so much more sense. As this kept going, I started thinking how insane it is that this is all crammed into 2 hours
What's the name of the movie?
Your little remarks plus your style of narration makes this so much more entertaining 😂
NOT THE COLLEGE STUDENTS LMAOOOO.
College student everywhere are free of chlamydia 😂😂😂
waiting until the next morning to tell your wife about your son's telekinesis is wild
Lessons
1.dont talk to aliens
2.dont trust aliens
3.a milo is probably right
4.there aint such a thing as *utopia*
I mean who the f*ck would trust a demon
@@abdulrahmanmohammed7558they all believed same at first but with positive changes taking place it's hard to not believe them .
Ex: America
As America has proved it's not worth the trust over the years , Which new country would believe on them ?!
But the overwhelming power and good display just is too good for anyone to not believe upon America .
Just mind games man .
@@subhakantrout8346 always be sus of too good to be true kinda utopia
They went down without even a fight. Should have been nuking those over lords and see how they like that.
@@GrumpyCat-mw5xl yeah
Moral of the story: The ancients was right, the Devil is evil.
It seems to be based on parts from the Book of Revelation but it also messed it up heavily. They left out the Messiah, so there is no happy ending.
To be fair the religious people would call any alien the devil. They still call Barrack Obama the Devil and Trump Jesus, so they don't really have their heads on straight. Its what happens when a humans gift of critical thinking gets pounded into nothing since birth.
True , where is the messiah ?
seems to be the missing piece for any horror type Apocalypse movie
@@shadowskill111 The angels also can be considered as "aliens", also Jesus said "I am from above; I am not of this world", so it's not that simple 🙂
Most people are superficial, like simple answers, and more emotional than rational. It's not just a religious stuff, it's quite common.
That's what I was about to say, this is just to remind us that the world will still come to an end, terminator movie also warn us about the danger of artificial intelligence
@@owosenivicent2035kind of a false premise though. Humanity needn't end for billions of years and our greatest malefactors (at least over human timescales) are among us, not in the stars.
Why not name the movie somewhere in the description?
So these aliens are basically a nicer version of viltrumites
"College students are freed of Chlamydia 😃😀😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Interesting series. Wish i could have seen it. Good recap😊
Practically most mini-series suck balls. I liked this one.
ngl i was expecting milo to die somehow in the movie when he mentioned his ambition was to be an astronaut.
25:32 Jennifer be t-posing and every other children also flying bruh
What version is this? When did it come out? I read the book and watched a miniseries but.....what is this?
You missed the ending where music plays where once the Earth stood. Something to remember humanity by.
"Childhood End" - A REALLY good novel by Artur Klark, highly recomend it.
One of the few novels I'll always remember what it is about - it was that impactful to my mind.
Love the funny and witty narration
i remember when this movie came out. took a while to process it. great narration btw, keeping the sentiment and overall moral of the story while trying to give it a lighter and less confusing tone.
I don't think you do because it was a miniseries
I love the wildly irreverent but true stuff you add in in the same tone of voice. It just leaves me hoping that the movie actually has these bits of dialogue.
"Childhood's End" is a great book of Arthur C. Clarck, one of the best sci-fy books ever
3:16 that is hilarious, I have trailer park boys playing on the tv while watching this video lol.
Wait..is that the end? Is there not a follow up explanation of why the Overmind wanted to destroy the planet? What the overlord did to make the woman Unalive herself is evil. And bro couldn’t get more super medicine to save the moderator guy after he used his dose to save the overlord? Where did the kids go?
Children became a part of superior being, overlords are inferior servants of superior being unable to ascend themselves, that is why they kinda envy of humanity as a whole and pity those parts of humanity who would be left behind. They come to the planets with species capable of becoming an energy form of life and help them reach their potential. As for why they look like devils humanity is a race with psychic potential and prophets in ancient times had visions about who would be the end of our race.
Doesn’t matter, when the last human ends so does our story
The golden throne needs fuel.
@@weeaboobaguette3943 An unlikely reference to be understood here, but hilarious nonetheless.
Whats the series called?
2:36 🤣
what is this movie whats its name when did come out where is it at now
Dr Boyce is none other than Cole Turner aka Belthazor the powerful half demon from charmed
"please take him! I don't want him!" LOL
College students with chlamydia and mexican aliens got me😂😂