God Like Civilization Came to Earth And Captured All Humans Before Destroying The Planet Entirely

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  • Опубліковано 19 лип 2023
  • The arrival of aliens brings peace and prosperity to Earth until it becomes a utopia, but soon humanity realizes this is just the calm before a dangerous storm.
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  • @karthikaskitchenrecipes1870
    @karthikaskitchenrecipes1870 10 місяців тому +2933

    "Diseases are disappearing."
    Pharmaceutical companies invade and destroy the aliens.

    • @BoatMurderedDF
      @BoatMurderedDF 10 місяців тому +268

      "A patient cured is a customer lost."

    • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
      @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman 10 місяців тому +33

      And takes their cool names

    • @yodasmomisondrugs7959
      @yodasmomisondrugs7959 9 місяців тому

      🤣 Your hittin into my profit margine b!tch.

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 9 місяців тому

      Pharma companies have cured many diseases forever like Polio.

    • @eyoutube1
      @eyoutube1 9 місяців тому +79

      The aliens experience a mysterious opioid crisis of unknown origin.

  • @domdom3938
    @domdom3938 10 місяців тому +3352

    Imagine you're the last human on earth, and you decide to go back to the planet to report findings only to find out the planet is about to be vaporized.

    • @jema2609
      @jema2609 10 місяців тому +211

      He knew, but chose to go anyway. He was the last of the "old" humans.

    • @IloveJellow
      @IloveJellow 10 місяців тому +93

      I mean you are the last of your kind...
      Kids don't count anymore because they where physically changed...
      He was the last...

    • @subbywan1422
      @subbywan1422 9 місяців тому +64

      Sounds like THHGTTG - "The plans and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning office in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge formal complaints."

    • @bundariau874
      @bundariau874 9 місяців тому +22

      @@subbywan1422 And now for some Vogon poetry.

    • @redacted5035
      @redacted5035 9 місяців тому +2

      Top kek

  • @TeCuervo
    @TeCuervo 10 місяців тому +542

    They destroyed Earth "in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route"

    • @JohnJ469
      @JohnJ469 8 місяців тому +25

      And in their spare time wrote really, really bad poetry. "Ode to a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit one Summer afternoon" being a prime example. 😅

    • @rossigrace5031
      @rossigrace5031 7 місяців тому +17

      Where's your towel?!

    • @overland1178
      @overland1178 2 місяці тому +5

      Drops a space Dollar general in its place.

    • @Craig4Yeshua
      @Craig4Yeshua Місяць тому +2

      Highway 42

    • @Chuck8541
      @Chuck8541 19 годин тому

      DONT PANIC

  • @mikes4135
    @mikes4135 10 місяців тому +952

    When Aliens call themselves OVERLORDS, you just know it doesn't end well.

    • @UteChewb
      @UteChewb 10 місяців тому +63

      But it does end well. For humans. It depends how you view it. The novel can make some people depressed and others hopeful.

    • @spencers4121
      @spencers4121 10 місяців тому +105

      @@UteChewb The Overmind always seemed malevolent to me, basically goes around and destroys other alien civilizations to be able to absorb them into a collective conscious

    • @DrewWestPress
      @DrewWestPress 10 місяців тому +27

      It's debatable. I feel that God creates beings to have them experience life, then when they die they get absorbed back into itself, expanding God. It's interesting. I'm not really sure the Overlords were evil. They're just doing what they've always done.

    • @mesoanto1031
      @mesoanto1031 10 місяців тому +42

      ​@@DrewWestPressof course you are not speaking about the Christian God.
      Because we need God he doesn't need us.
      And our God cannot be expanded because he is omnipresent

    • @Thekarateadult
      @Thekarateadult 10 місяців тому +61

      @@mesoanto1031 that's cult talk 101

  • @sagatuppercut2960
    @sagatuppercut2960 9 місяців тому +131

    A space being that looks like a demon should've been the biggest clue that they were doomed.

  • @MasterMayhem78
    @MasterMayhem78 10 місяців тому +386

    FYI this is not a movie but instead is a three part miniseries totaling about 6 hours.

    • @user-wl8rn5sl9l
      @user-wl8rn5sl9l 10 місяців тому +8

      Title?

    • @chill2758
      @chill2758 10 місяців тому +11

      I was wondering how tf this was all squeezed into the length of a movie!

    • @maregondrako
      @maregondrako 10 місяців тому +13

      ​@@user-wl8rn5sl9l First 5 seconds of the video

    • @michaeldriggers7681
      @michaeldriggers7681 10 місяців тому +7

      Childhood's End

    • @artimuos903
      @artimuos903 10 місяців тому +1

      And they faithfully adapted the book.

  • @zoltanperei4789
    @zoltanperei4789 9 місяців тому +93

    Aliens: *create world peace*
    Also aliens years later: *blow up Earth*

    • @nalim27
      @nalim27 8 місяців тому

      Not true - years later evolved humans destroyed Earth, because they do not need it anymore. Not aliens.

    • @user-wj1id4ro3z
      @user-wj1id4ro3z 5 місяців тому +5

      Right. That's why you can't trust those with that kind of power.

    • @DeLaRafi.
      @DeLaRafi. Місяць тому +7

      sound American to me.

    • @tribeval
      @tribeval 18 днів тому

      @@DeLaRafi. that's not American, it bureaucratic

  • @lobo80085
    @lobo80085 10 місяців тому +1242

    The Overmind seems to work very similar to the Flood from the Halo series, or vice versa.
    The underlying premise is that the universe's original consciousness created other life so that it could absorb all of their experiences upon their death, in order to achieve infinite experiences.
    The aversion of death that all creatures experience is designed to give the original consciousness a chance to experience fear which is an impossible outcome if we are not given our free will.
    It would be interesting to know why the Overlords cannot enter the Light.
    I assume the Overmind does not want their experiences to be a part of the entirety of consciousness, perhaps because the experience of their work in the universe would be akin to seeing a director with his props in the final cut of a movie. Not allowing their race to enter the Light would be the only way the Overmind could deliver a pure batch of experiences to itself.
    Cool movie.

    • @delcox8165
      @delcox8165 10 місяців тому +117

      It's an extreme rarity to see a philosophical comment on UA-cam that isn't just utter nonsense or quoted from someone else. Nice.

    • @magpiefrogfrom2556
      @magpiefrogfrom2556 10 місяців тому +58

      The overlords species reached the end point in evolution, they couldn't evolve any further, humans on the other hand could with a little help, fast track to a point in evolution that allowed the evolved kids to join the overmind. One of the overlords explained this in the series with a little bit of envy, whilst his species was relegated to doing the dirty work.

    • @pschroeter1
      @pschroeter1 10 місяців тому +15

      Childhood's End was first since I read the book about half a century ago.

    • @jcf2322
      @jcf2322 10 місяців тому +36

      @@magpiefrogfrom2556 That end point seems very much self inflicted though. We know evolution by itself doesn't work that way, so long as species continue to reproduce, whether sexually or not, there are opportunities for mutations to emerge. The fact that they are, I guess, just perfect genetic clones with only slight planned variations or do not reproduce , must mean the Overmind is putting their thumb on the scale.

    • @UteChewb
      @UteChewb 10 місяців тому +49

      In the book, "Childhood's End", the Overlords say that their own evolutionary path has come to a dead end, but humanity can ascend to the next level. The Overlords are permitted to study the transition, but not interfere, or else. I haven't seen the movie / series of it, but in the book the Overlords never kill anyone, or let humans torture or kill animals, though they will let humans kill each other since that is their choice. And the children are the ones in charge, also the daughter is not all powerful, she is just one of many, it is the Overmind that is powerful. I highly recommend the book, even though it was written so long ago. Also, the Overlord's homeworld isn't all lava. It is under the light of a red dwarf star so there is a reddish pall to everything, for human eyes.

  • @Emerald.She-Ra
    @Emerald.She-Ra 10 місяців тому +667

    0:02 In case anyone missed it, this is a 2015 mini-series called "Childhood's End", based on a book by Arthur C. Clarke. It's very similar to his other work "The Songs of Distant Earth". I highly recommend reading them. (If you're a Mike Oldfield fan, his album of the same name "The Songs of Distant Earth" is a great accompaniment to listen to when reading TSoDE.)
    (edited to change time stamp)

    • @alexstone7594
      @alexstone7594 10 місяців тому +10

      Thanks.

    • @Kensoor
      @Kensoor 10 місяців тому +6

      Thats why it felt familiar.

    • @njswimdad
      @njswimdad 10 місяців тому +6

      You saved me from writing this, although I didn't know about the mini-series, only Clarke's original.

    • @Emerald.She-Ra
      @Emerald.She-Ra 10 місяців тому +10

      @@njswimdad fun/interesting fact - when my late husband was in the merchant navy in the 70s, he met Arthur, and surfed at his beach when they docked in Sri Lanka. I've got photos somewhere in the attic of it. (Hubby and I had an age gap before anyone asks. X)

    • @UteChewb
      @UteChewb 10 місяців тому +11

      The novel is one of the best science fiction books I have read. Excellent. The book portrays the Overlords as masters of the material world, but that is not enough, a radical idea in the 1950s. Also, they never kill anyone, but I that might have been added to spice the story up.

  • @christopherrenn8137
    @christopherrenn8137 10 місяців тому +554

    The part that got me was that the overlords were not able to enter the light. That they, lacked something we could do. Really brings to mind that no matter how advanced or dumb your are, you always have something that others do not.

    • @Lelo.Machaka
      @Lelo.Machaka 10 місяців тому +76

      That’s just included because no matter what higher being there is humans think they’re better in some way
      We’re so self centred 🙄

    • @justinemerson3704
      @justinemerson3704 10 місяців тому +8

      ​@@Lelo.Machakawell not all humans think they are better than anyone else. We are all grain's of nothing blowing in the cosmos when it comes to it. We live and can not avoid death.

    • @justinemerson3704
      @justinemerson3704 10 місяців тому +5

      No matter what you believe it all ends with us falling to dust. We live die and part's move on to join the universe. We are no better than the animals that we all think are soulless. We are no better than the other world's with no life. If I was in that universe I would have asked god would you do me the honor of destroying my body so I can at least have something that is my own even if I pass on from existence. I've only ever wanted a average life. I never wanted to over power people. I never wanted to rule people. But the human race is full of people who would rather remove me from society and keep the evil growing.

    • @Lelo.Machaka
      @Lelo.Machaka 10 місяців тому +1

      @@justinemerson3704 I’m talking about humans in general which is why I said ‘we’
      Besides ‘God’ or ‘the creator’ of us
      Who or what else do we think is greater or better than us ???

    • @Lelo.Machaka
      @Lelo.Machaka 10 місяців тому +1

      @@justinemerson3704 exactly, majority of humans think that way

  • @DS-nv2ni
    @DS-nv2ni 10 місяців тому +1017

    Basically, the biggest planet-swap scam ever. Well played aliens!

    • @shakunrelhan2944
      @shakunrelhan2944 10 місяців тому +91

      Where's the planet swap? It looks more to me like the farmer harvesting the mature pigs he had in his farm.

    • @DS-nv2ni
      @DS-nv2ni 10 місяців тому +14

      @@shakunrelhan2944 I saw the planet swap only in my mind, assuming the last scene about the planet destruction is just deception. But your interpretation is generally more correct, a bit like in the movie Jupiter.

    • @rickyracoon3151
      @rickyracoon3151 10 місяців тому

      Uh this is religious.. satan.. God etc.

    • @fabianagondo2139
      @fabianagondo2139 10 місяців тому +43

      Actually, base in the book, it's more like a teenage leaving home and the passage to adulthood, but the result is his/her old house being burned to the ground.

    • @LAVAZZ.
      @LAVAZZ. 10 місяців тому +6

      And we all basically die or lose our human forms? And can’t recreate so we’re locked in this form for ever whether we like it or not

  • @redragon1990
    @redragon1990 10 місяців тому +158

    Differences between the book and movie
    New Athens is something like a new Renaissance
    New Athens is actually taken out by a tidal wave and it's implied that this was done by the overlords.
    When Milo returns to earth, basically all the children don't look quite human and are all on one continent.
    The earth isn't destroyed but rather every living being joins the overmind in a flash of light that comes after the humans rearrange the moons orbit.

    • @UteChewb
      @UteChewb 10 місяців тому

      NO. New Athens is *not* taken out by a tidal wave. A tidal wave hits the beaches where Jamie is wading. Karellan, or his assistant, warn him and tell him to run to higher ground. Then Karellan visits and is asked by Jamie's parents if the Overlords are monitoring humans (No), their family (Yes). This is the start of the change in the children who don't raise their hands, that's just added in. New Athens ends when the parents are walking along the beach after the ships have arrived to take the children to a safe place, because they are in danger from their own parents. The wife looks at her husband just before the nuke goes off because she too is psychic. The Earth is destroyed, leached of all energy including the matter, that's almost a quote. The moon continues on, and Karellan thinks it will be lonely now.

  • @granitfog
    @granitfog 10 місяців тому +254

    The movie produced the same emotion that reading the book in high school did: despair, as the despair of the adults whose children have grown distant and start leave them (a horrible pain as any parent would know), and despair of all the individual characters whose lives are being followed:
    Ricky whose wife died of cancer, and he still misses her despite being remarried.
    Elly because Ricky can't let go of his previous dead wife,
    Rachael who loves Milo but her affection is not returned by Milo,
    Milo who wants to know everything but can't,
    Milo who later decides to love Rachael but too late because she is now dead, (this really got to me).
    and even despair of the overlords themselves because they can't join the overmind as part of the cognitive melting pot like all the other species have.

    • @ljgittingeriii3199
      @ljgittingeriii3199 9 місяців тому +3

      Pantheism must inevitably result in absolute despair and the eternal annihilation of all personal beings! Pantheists' heaven is actual human beings' hell!

    • @masonthunkwell9786
      @masonthunkwell9786 9 місяців тому

      Despair that I have to read this schlock.

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 9 місяців тому +7

      ​@@ljgittingeriii3199Why would you want individualism when you can join your original source, God, as one and have peace. Being stuck in heaven forever without any death is a kind of hell.

    • @chris-zu6sf
      @chris-zu6sf 8 місяців тому +1

      With Christianity, God created and calls those who are born again to be called the children of God.

    • @granitfog
      @granitfog 8 місяців тому +2

      @@chris-zu6sf I think you may have missed your last dose of anti-psychotic. Please remember to take your medications as your connection to reality will improve.

  • @goodanytimej8688
    @goodanytimej8688 10 місяців тому +1565

    I gotta say this is one of the best premises I've ever seen on here. I've always wondered if there was some crossover between our idea of angels and demons, ancient biblical events told in stories, and extra terrestrial life. Like the idea of what angels really look like (rotating rings of eyes surrounded by many, many wings and emanating light) sounds like a possibly misunderstood hologram or unknown tech. This is a fascinating exploration into the idea, and it could definitely be taken even further! Great video and subscribed!

    • @underarmbowlingincidentof1981
      @underarmbowlingincidentof1981 10 місяців тому +83

      I always wondered about the garden of Eden just being a test to see if humans are rally conscious entities.
      Like, how do you test if something is smart? Actually smart? Actual consciousness? Whatever you tell the thing to do and it does it its just a machine following orders. You tell an AI to draw a picture of a cat is just like pushing the gas pedal on a car. There is no true consciousness there.
      So how do you test consciousness? How do you test to see if your creations are ready?
      You give them the opportunity to break a rule. Machines can't break rules. Only true consciousness can go directly against what it is told.
      So perhaps the Garden of Eden was just a testing ground and once they broke that rule they proved themselves to be truly human, truly alive.

    • @squrielman
      @squrielman 10 місяців тому +14

      Its a great book. read it.

    • @goodanytimej8688
      @goodanytimej8688 10 місяців тому +5

      @squrielman this just keeps getting better! It's a book too? Thankyou I'm going to check Audible right now!🙂

    • @squrielman
      @squrielman 10 місяців тому +13

      @@goodanytimej8688 Yup! Same guy who wrote 2001 space odyssey

    • @neo_7864
      @neo_7864 10 місяців тому +3

      true

  • @Only_1tre
    @Only_1tre 10 місяців тому +258

    I like the fact that a lot of these movie recaps don’t end well😂😂

    • @carlmagrath6389
      @carlmagrath6389 10 місяців тому +18

      Well at least we see and watch the ending unlike some other recaps that don't have an ending, I've unsubscribed from them

    • @dendul
      @dendul 10 місяців тому +8

      ​@@carlmagrath6389yeah some of them use inappropriate thumbnail just to get views

    • @Awelbeckk
      @Awelbeckk 10 місяців тому +5

      I think it ended pretty well.
      Nothing exjst forever, and the children will continue to live a new existence

    • @himoffthequakeroatbox4320
      @himoffthequakeroatbox4320 10 місяців тому +3

      Humanity develops superpowers and goes off to explore the galaxy. Yeah, that would totally suck. 🤡 🤡 🤡

    • @jamesestelle7260
      @jamesestelle7260 10 місяців тому +5

      ​@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320that's only one view. Others view the end of civilization and our planet as scary and unconscionable.

  • @AmandaFessler
    @AmandaFessler 10 місяців тому +549

    Read the original novel by Arthur C. Clarke back in 8th grade. It was a very creative piece of work, and I loved that twist of the Overlords' appearance. The explanation of a sort of genetic memory, or echo perhaps, was a fascinating idea. Of course what really stood out to me was how it probably influenced the Zerg in Starcraft, with the Overmind as the core of their hive mind, and Overlords being psionic minions to oversee direct operations in the field.

    • @VRDejaVu
      @VRDejaVu 10 місяців тому +6

      James H. Schmitz did it before Clarke on his Second Night of Summer.

    • @misc.inc.3660
      @misc.inc.3660 10 місяців тому

      Reptilians

    • @buragi5441
      @buragi5441 10 місяців тому +12

      "Of course what really stood out to me was how it probably influenced the Zerg in Starcraft, with the Overmind as the core of their hive mind, and Overlords being psionic minions to oversee direct operations in the field."
      Starcraft's Zerg are derived from Warhammer 40K's Tyranids, so if anything, Tyranids were inspired by that.

    • @AmandaFessler
      @AmandaFessler 10 місяців тому +11

      @@buragi5441 I don't mean the direct thematic inspiration. Starcraft was, after all, supposed to be a 40k game before the deal fell through. I just meant the names specifically.

    • @DoggyP00
      @DoggyP00 9 місяців тому +6

      It has literally nothing in common with the zerg or the flood or any other sci fi race with the word "overmind" in it

  • @broark88
    @broark88 10 місяців тому +57

    Childhood's End was one of my favorite sci-fi movies (miniseries) despite it being so often overlooked and underappreciated. I strongly recommend watching it before watching past the first few minutes of this summary because the reveal of Karellen is epic.

  • @arisurec
    @arisurec 10 місяців тому +21

    I really enjoyed this recap, thank you for uploading.

  • @Cafeston
    @Cafeston 10 місяців тому +35

    They did an adaptation of Childhood's end? I didn't know. One of the most intriguing Arthur C.Clarke novel

  • @Khaybar007
    @Khaybar007 10 місяців тому +228

    I was expecting silly movie, but it turned out pretty darn good. Holy shiet, i didnt even expect it to turn this way. I thought the Devil Creature is just posing being good while its tailoring its evil master plan behind everyones back.

    • @volsung2511
      @volsung2511 10 місяців тому +67

      Because it was based on a properly written book, and not a brainfart of some hollywood producer.

    • @grantpflum6844
      @grantpflum6844 10 місяців тому +30

      That's essentially what it was. No one thinks there the bad guy but when you go around murdering planets, guess what? You are.

    • @efran202
      @efran202 10 місяців тому +6

      @@grantpflum6844 reminds me of the main plot in mass effect...

    • @anthonyzullo
      @anthonyzullo 10 місяців тому +8

      ​@grantpflum6844 morality is subjective though. It's why they came to earth for so many years prior. Humans had to "accept their fate". Which is thr basis core belief of every major religion. Blindly believing is the only way. Great blend between the contemporary and the science fiction. Good science fiction creates conversation in the parking lot.

    • @johnlawful2272
      @johnlawful2272 10 місяців тому +2

      @@grantpflum6844 so galactus

  • @xzardas541
    @xzardas541 10 місяців тому +41

    It is really impressive how faithful to the book is this movie.
    A true rarity nowdays.

  • @demontimet7773
    @demontimet7773 10 місяців тому +29

    Moral i learned: Despite how hard you may fight to go against one thing sometimes its impossible u can reach the point where there is 1% left for u to change but it just doesnt happen. Sometimes u just got let it go

  • @tena2sweet
    @tena2sweet 10 місяців тому +22

    As the old saying goes. if it's too good to be true, it is.

  • @botmoderator3405
    @botmoderator3405 10 місяців тому +81

    So humans can ascend and join the overlord and maybe a new reality. The gift is so great that it makes the aliens envy it. The devil like creatures envy humans because they are stuck in this one reality and can never escape it. Well, damn. Looks like the humans who left their plane of existence can enjoy another one possibly. The devil like creatures can only know the reality they currently inhabit. It's like living in different movies or video games and experience new possibilities. The aliens only get to enjoy one game but seemingly live forever. It would get stale playing one game as the same character or watching the same movie over and over again.

    • @rharris4736
      @rharris4736 10 місяців тому +26

      It's an allegory of the Bible. The aliens are angels, the devils are the fallen angels, the hive mind is the "New Jerusalem" of Revelation," and the envy the Overlords feel is the same envy that led some of the angels to fall. The new reality is Heaven, and the Earth being destroyed is an allegory for "the Old Heaven and the Old Earth passed away."

    • @UteChewb
      @UteChewb 10 місяців тому +14

      @@rharris4736 I don't think Clarke wrote it as an allegory. In the book the reason that people fear the devil is that humans can see the future and other things, though not well, this is the thing that the Overlords don't have and that the Overmind will enhance in humanity. But humans sense that in some future these creatures will come and take away their children, and doom the Earth, which is an oversimplification of what happens. So the bible is a foreshadowing of the event produced from the occasional psychic ability in humans. Read the book, it's pretty clear.

    • @rharris4736
      @rharris4736 10 місяців тому +5

      @@UteChewb There's some merit to your statements. And I'll admit that it's been a while since I read it (Freshman year in college). But the "it's an allegory for the Bible" explanation is what I built my end-of-term Lit Paper on and it worked (98 out of 100, even from a professor who hated religion, because he couldn't deny that the arguments were at least soundly supported), so I'm going to stick with the interpretation that has worked so far.
      It's a novel though, and the funny thing about literary symbolism is it changes with age, and with audiences.

    • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
      @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman 10 місяців тому

      It clearly projection, cuz humans will forever be weak and stuck here until extinction, mere mold on a rock

    • @Vysair
      @Vysair 8 місяців тому +1

      it feels like as if ascension is a way for you to log out of the "simulation"

  • @immagical7036
    @immagical7036 10 місяців тому +46

    THE PLANES LANDING LIKE HELICOPTERS IS SO DAMN HILARIOUS

  • @Wampor
    @Wampor 5 місяців тому +6

    Wow, i would have missed this. Nice visuals. Thank you for the recap! :)

  • @jep9092
    @jep9092 10 місяців тому +76

    This is really cool and really scary
    The idea of a hive mind and loosing ones individuality it only the tip of the iceberg
    But also seeing the whole earth blow up like it never existed
    Only the animals saved on a zoo remains in a other star system many light years away
    Our music, art, scientific and math discoveries, history, wars, humans ourselves
    All gone in an instant
    Thats terrifying

    • @statinskill
      @statinskill 10 місяців тому +3

      To you perhaps terrifying, but to the Masters, they can always make more humans.

    • @BruceLeon83
      @BruceLeon83 10 місяців тому +2

      Agreed. That thought is both scary and depressing, but somehow slightly calming too. Sometimes I feel Humanity carries too much weight and forces too much Meaning on ourselves.

    • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
      @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman 10 місяців тому

      So cool i would do it again

    • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
      @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman 10 місяців тому

      ​​@@BruceLeon83 everything is inherently meaningless humans make up their own thing, thats why this "force too much meaning" happened
      Mere molds on a rock

    • @DS-lk3tx
      @DS-lk3tx 7 місяців тому

      I may be ignorant of how things are within the consciousness. But I'd think that all of our art, music, and stories gets to finally be shared with everyone else.

  • @fachi4110
    @fachi4110 10 місяців тому +28

    The planes making a complete vertical landing like that is so hilarious and really makes this movie feel super jank.

    • @MuantanamoMobile
      @MuantanamoMobile 10 місяців тому +1

      Horizontal/

    • @Marshkoon
      @Marshkoon 10 місяців тому +1

      @@MuantanamoMobilehey did a vertical landing wherever literally even though they shouldn’t be able to

  • @bighatastrea
    @bighatastrea 10 місяців тому +169

    I love the idea of aliens looking like the devil, or even like angels but in the scary biblical accurate way. Not enough science fiction movies using this concept.
    Also, I love the shot at 16:50 with the children flying into the sky with their arms spread like crosses. Sure, people will joke about t-posing yaddayadda very funny but I think despite the subtle goofiness it's still an amazing, obscure and outlandish idea and gives me Evangelion vibes

    • @aliensoup2420
      @aliensoup2420 10 місяців тому +3

      I find it rather silly and illogical. How does anyone know what the Devil looks like, let alone that it exists at all? The images of angels and demons are products of human imagination.
      The only interesting aspect of the devil look-alike, is that humans of the ancient past had already been visited by Korellan, which inspired their images of the devil. I think the adoption of Christian iconography in the writing was a conceit to appeal to a Western readership.

    • @bighatastrea
      @bighatastrea 10 місяців тому +17

      @@aliensoup2420 I don't think it was explained in the movie, but I think it was a surprising "Oh hey, look, aliens are actually devils/demons/angels, so that's where all that stuff came from" moment I didn't expect from the movie at this point, even though it's a low-hanging fruit. It's not very deep or super interesting in this movie, but I still like the concept.

    • @xzardas541
      @xzardas541 10 місяців тому +4

      @@aliensoup2420 It was explained in the book that takeover of all the children by the overmind created sort of psionic echo that traveled across time itself carrying images of the overlords together with fear and despair of dying humanity.
      A few centuries of creative interpretation later christianity was born.

    • @handykamal7555
      @handykamal7555 10 місяців тому

      the rapture?

    • @Sammasambuddha
      @Sammasambuddha 9 місяців тому +1

      Ancient Astronaut Theory.
      Hint: they will say 'yes'

  • @blackmagickdancer2282
    @blackmagickdancer2282 10 місяців тому +195

    So basically the children were nephelim!??? And the fallen angels were aliens 😂This was awesome

    • @Kncperseus
      @Kncperseus 10 місяців тому +6

      How are the children Nephilim??

    • @MuantanamoMobile
      @MuantanamoMobile 10 місяців тому +7

      @@Kncperseus Yeah. Nephilim angle makes zero sense. It's based on a famous Sci-Fi novel by Arthur D. Clark.

    • @pascival6468
      @pascival6468 10 місяців тому +2

      Exactly

    • @silverfeather1961
      @silverfeather1961 10 місяців тому +12

      ​@@pascival6468 The Nephilim are in the bible, in Genesis 👍🏾

    • @victoriazero8869
      @victoriazero8869 10 місяців тому +18

      @@MuantanamoMobile The movie took a weird turn in the last third, the biblical metaphor become way more obvious with people joining God in heaven.
      Notice how Mr. Alien cannot enter the light?

  • @HeavyHardDrive
    @HeavyHardDrive 10 місяців тому +24

    Oh gee ! Just the happiest of endings. A bunch of secrets. A bunch of time jumps. And then bam ! The end

    • @zaberfang
      @zaberfang 3 місяці тому

      I mean the guy doesn't want any help anymore and apparently dies happy.

  • @Nictator42
    @Nictator42 9 місяців тому +14

    When I saw this the first time I was pretty surprised that they actually went through with following the plot of the book so closely since it'd probably be seen as controversial and unorthodox to most viewers.

  • @averageday
    @averageday 10 місяців тому +7

    So basically Evangelion but with extra steps

  • @daynawhitehead7611
    @daynawhitehead7611 10 місяців тому +25

    This is one of the best mini-series I’ve ever watched. I loved it so much I purchased it

    • @QueenTams
      @QueenTams 10 місяців тому +1

      What’s the name of it

    • @daynawhitehead7611
      @daynawhitehead7611 10 місяців тому +3

      @@QueenTams Childhoods End

    • @Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis
      @Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis 10 місяців тому +1

      That’s because it’s based on an amazing novel written by a brilliant author

    • @mesoanto1031
      @mesoanto1031 10 місяців тому

      What's so good about it?

    • @Thekarateadult
      @Thekarateadult 10 місяців тому +2

      @@mesoanto1031 it feels truer than any holy book ever has

  • @lassenker07
    @lassenker07 9 місяців тому +21

    I think the Harvesters would've been a better name for them. They're harvesting the life that they created into their collective consciousness

    • @milhousevanhoutan9235
      @milhousevanhoutan9235 8 місяців тому +6

      That's not really what happens to humans in the book or the movie. They don't join the overmind as the recap suggests, humans become their own independent 4th/5th dimensional species. The Overmind is essentially a doctor (in the sense that it directs the 'birth') and the Overlords are like midwives. What was discovered is this is the only path of evolution that works, all other paths lead to galactic violence or self destruction, and the overlords are actually an evolutionary dead end. That's why they assist the overmind willingly, they are allowed to study the process and they are trying to overcome their own nature as an evolutionary dead end. So basically the overlords cull the dead ends and free up their planets for other species to take over (it's implied in the book they were responsibile for the dirty work of the "flood" from the bible because the species on track to take over the planet was a violent one and humans have a genetic memory of the event from a past ancestor) and they help birth the new ascendant consciousness into the next world.

  • @GorVala
    @GorVala 10 місяців тому +7

    Isn't it crazy that human suffering is a commodity nowadays😮

  • @21skyrim
    @21skyrim 10 місяців тому +15

    Y’all the name of the movie is literally at the bottom of the screen at the start of the video. Please read

    • @vurhn2009
      @vurhn2009 10 місяців тому +1

      Even they can't read the intro name from other videos either series or title name, such short attention people.

  • @JeffreyW67
    @JeffreyW67 10 місяців тому +49

    I remember reading the book years ago by Arthur C. Clarke. Enjoyed the book back then, will need to check out the movie.

    • @twdjt6245
      @twdjt6245 10 місяців тому +1

      It’s a mini series. Think it was like 3 or 4 episodes.

    • @Marcatolegato
      @Marcatolegato 10 місяців тому

      @@twdjt6245 it seems to have a lot going on for 3-4 episodes - almost felt like it was 3-4 seasons instead

  • @always-ask-why
    @always-ask-why 10 місяців тому +42

    This is more religion than science fiction.

    • @JV7486
      @JV7486 10 місяців тому +5

      Its not religion, its science fiction.

    • @DixieRect
      @DixieRect 10 місяців тому +15

      @@JV7486 its not fiction, its scientific religion

    • @JV7486
      @JV7486 10 місяців тому +4

      @@DixieRect no, like i said before is not religion, it's just science fiction.

    • @DixieRect
      @DixieRect 10 місяців тому +9

      @@JV7486 and I told you, its not science, its just fictitious religion

    • @JV7486
      @JV7486 10 місяців тому +3

      @@DixieRect no, is just science fiction, like any other movie it borrows from religion.

  • @loptseldr
    @loptseldr 10 місяців тому +29

    for all those yelling about no movie title its literally at the start of the video one second in geez.

    • @GameReplays-
      @GameReplays- 10 місяців тому

      they're bunch of idiot$.Its freaking atthe beginning of the video and they still can't see it

    • @MasterMayhem78
      @MasterMayhem78 10 місяців тому +2

      Nobody is yelling about it. Why do you people insist on creating a non existent issue just to feel like you are the bringer of truth. Get over yourself

    • @loptseldr
      @loptseldr 10 місяців тому +3

      @@MasterMayhem78 nope, I was referring to those typing in all caps. thats yelling in typing. thats all. I don't feel like I am "the bringer of truth" as you said lol. those are your own words.

  • @ironclad1056
    @ironclad1056 10 місяців тому +3

    Damn, this was actually very good!

  • @jdng86
    @jdng86 10 місяців тому +18

    I remember the SyFy Channel did a Childhood's End miniseries recently, I didn't know there was a movie as well. Or is this that?

    • @___idk
      @___idk 10 місяців тому

      .

    • @VanMichael21
      @VanMichael21 10 місяців тому +21

      This is that. This is not a movie, this is the series.

  • @lowachannel
    @lowachannel 10 місяців тому

    Bro your video is great

  • @Pluto_is_a_planet273
    @Pluto_is_a_planet273 8 місяців тому +1

    The sountrack of this channel is mad underrated

  • @satanofficial3902
    @satanofficial3902 10 місяців тому +6

    "Friends don't let friends drink and play the accordion."
    ---Albert Einstein

  • @nimbusnation9584
    @nimbusnation9584 9 місяців тому +3

    Wow this movie is damn good yow.... Who would expect it to turn out the way it did

  • @Graves-81_69
    @Graves-81_69 10 місяців тому

    Once again you’ve turned me on to a movie I missed. After the video I’m going to watch the movie. Thank you.

  • @XP-nt9iy
    @XP-nt9iy 2 місяці тому +2

    The most unrealistic thing in this video is the therapist chasing after and yelling at the kid who's having a meltdown and covering his ears.

  • @browningcq
    @browningcq 10 місяців тому +7

    I have never seen this movie, but already knew everything including the ending. This has to be a movie made from an old book I’ve read at some point. I just can’t remember because I have read too many scifi novels lol

    • @brucethompson7214
      @brucethompson7214 9 місяців тому

      Same name as the series. Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clark. It won some big sci fi book awards back in the 80s.

  • @ryanjann9572
    @ryanjann9572 9 місяців тому +4

    The Overlords weren’t our enemies or our allies, they were mirrors.

  • @vengeance8924
    @vengeance8924 2 місяці тому +2

    Planes landing like helicopters

  • @titanfallsentinel
    @titanfallsentinel 10 місяців тому +2

    Bro actually picked be happy for 2 seconds and then die over go on epic cosmic adventures

  • @yoni-in-BHAM
    @yoni-in-BHAM 8 місяців тому +23

    Even with a death wish, I would've taken that opportunity to go with them just because of the new things you'll see and learn! 🛸

  • @SakhaGaming
    @SakhaGaming 10 місяців тому +6

    Childhoods End by Arthur C Clarke, so awesome :)

  • @debbiep99
    @debbiep99 10 місяців тому +10

    Whoa. This is a great movie! And I've never heard of it.

    • @nucleartheorist2780
      @nucleartheorist2780 10 місяців тому +1

      It's called childhoods end

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 10 місяців тому

      It's based on the old (60's, I think) classic Arthur C. Clarke sci-fi novel "Childhood's End".

  • @TheMrSlyxx
    @TheMrSlyxx 10 місяців тому +3

    The story is Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Not sure why they didn't credit

  • @transmaster
    @transmaster 10 місяців тому +44

    The aliens who happened to look like the devil's in the Christian tradition come to earth to shepherd the Human race as it evolves and ascends joining the universal overlord. It was their job to do this across the universe because their race could not ascend to this level of existence. Please read the book. It is a classic but so disquieting that I will never read it again.

    • @nebulo89
      @nebulo89 10 місяців тому +3

      I had exactly the same thoughts when I read the book.

    • @ssww3
      @ssww3 10 місяців тому +1

      The book? You mean the bible?

    • @narniaknight
      @narniaknight 10 місяців тому +1

      What is the name of the book?

    • @All7777Fever
      @All7777Fever 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@narniaknightThe show is named after it 😉

    • @15000sunsets
      @15000sunsets 10 місяців тому +9

      @@narniaknight Childhood's End. By Arthur C. Clarke. One of the most beautiful and terrifying books.

  • @johnmarbaladiang8329
    @johnmarbaladiang8329 10 місяців тому +1

    Great video

  • @aissatoundiaye5138
    @aissatoundiaye5138 5 місяців тому +1

    The ending as we get close to the ending we realise there wont be an extra plot where finally earth manage to survive or human being manage to survive in a certain way the shocking part where everything is litterally obliterated annihilated is so sad

  • @Matrioshka_Brain
    @Matrioshka_Brain 10 місяців тому +3

    One of my favorite books by Arthur C. Clarke.

  • @citizenVader
    @citizenVader 10 місяців тому +4

    Karellen looks like Charles Dance. I wonder if it's him?

  • @TheQueenReborn
    @TheQueenReborn 10 місяців тому +1

    I remember having to read Childhoods End in the 7th grade. That was in 1982 . Scared me then still concerns me now.

  • @JohnTrustworthy
    @JohnTrustworthy 10 місяців тому

    Sounds like what you need is some good ol fashioned Gantrithor.

  • @Seagate2k
    @Seagate2k 10 місяців тому +6

    man i love this series so much, such a good story ^^) highly recommend this to anyone who hasnt seen it :)

    • @forrestfrantone
      @forrestfrantone 10 місяців тому +1

      Wat is it called

    • @Seagate2k
      @Seagate2k 10 місяців тому

      @@forrestfrantone childhoods end ^^)

  • @drearydoll6305
    @drearydoll6305 10 місяців тому +10

    This movie may have flaws, but i m a sucker for those kind of premises so I can't say anything bad about it.

  • @carlmagrath6389
    @carlmagrath6389 10 місяців тому

    I love this channel, shows movies I've never seen, must get this movie, narr, I'll just watch this again

  • @stonedscared8461
    @stonedscared8461 5 місяців тому +3

    So did anyone else notice theworld didn't end like the vision showed? But was being destroyed by the little girl sucking out the planet's energy? So didn't they lie about the world's end and destroy it on purpose?

  • @IamKnucks
    @IamKnucks 10 місяців тому +2

    Hahah. I love the devil reveal.

  • @bille77
    @bille77 5 місяців тому

    This is one of my favorite videos on YT. ❤

  • @ericwong4213
    @ericwong4213 2 місяці тому +1

    Alien: We are here to end all wars
    Human: All leaders holding hands, declaring peace forever
    Alien: WTF, It really works!!

  • @kazervids8828
    @kazervids8828 10 місяців тому +36

    this was such an experience, would watch the whole thing if I have the time

    • @jevilz9858
      @jevilz9858 10 місяців тому +4

      If you have time commenting a UA-cam video then you also have time to watch a movie

    • @winterfell2650
      @winterfell2650 10 місяців тому +5

      ​@jevilz9858 Really? It takes a mi minute to comments, but takes an hour and a half to watch a movie, fool

    • @jevilz9858
      @jevilz9858 10 місяців тому +4

      @@winterfell2650
      Omg you take it too literally i mean why u not have time?
      U neither have a girlfriend or a busy businessman…

    • @joshuavarghesesaji1507
      @joshuavarghesesaji1507 10 місяців тому +2

      whats the name of the film afterall

    • @kazervids8828
      @kazervids8828 10 місяців тому +1

      @@jevilz9858 the latter bruv

  • @StanWatt.
    @StanWatt. 10 місяців тому +3

    I remember watching this years ago.

    • @maym2282
      @maym2282 10 місяців тому

      Do you remember the name of this? Ty.

    • @tezlol2255
      @tezlol2255 14 днів тому

      ​​@maym2282 Childhoods end

  • @Noirfury
    @Noirfury 21 день тому

    Part 1 and 2 were great. Also this is the one of the only ways we can have world peace.

  • @salkola9881
    @salkola9881 8 місяців тому +1

    Great Scott 😮

  • @Raz.C
    @Raz.C 10 місяців тому +9

    Dude, that plane isn't "landing!" It's being gently lowered by something that has power over gravity!!
    I haven't seen the film, so I don't understand what's going on. But I DO know that for an aeroplane to remain aloft (VTOL excepted, but irrelevant here anyway) it needs to generate lift over its wings, which can only happen when there's enough airflow over them. This means that if it wants to stay in the air, it NEEDS to also be moving forward.
    This aircraft ISN'T moving forward at all, instead appearing to just be hovering in the one spot, being lowered ever so gently. That implies the defiance of gravity.

  • @marqessanzcora4089
    @marqessanzcora4089 10 місяців тому +3

    Strong story

  • @robinsampson4458
    @robinsampson4458 10 місяців тому

    Well needed😊

  • @mayaamis
    @mayaamis 4 місяці тому

    lol they really could've done better on alien devil mask.. I choked with laughter with he walked out 🤣

  • @420BongHit
    @420BongHit 10 місяців тому +8

    now i regret not watching the full movie. well done Movie Recaps

  • @fathurshaon123
    @fathurshaon123 10 місяців тому +4

    "Awaken my child and embrace the glory that is rightfully yours; Know that I am the Overmind, the eternal will of the swarm and you have been created to serve me. Behold, I shall set you amongst the greatest of my Cerebrates...." ~ The Real Overmind

    • @anticommyalwaysbarker82
      @anticommyalwaysbarker82 10 місяців тому +2

      Not if FFENIX and TASSASAR have anything to say about it. I'm a starcraft player too.

    • @Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT
      @Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT 10 місяців тому

      *I K H L A S*
      *ALLAHU EKBER!!!*

    • @UteChewb
      @UteChewb 10 місяців тому +2

      "Construct more overlords."

  • @Escuroz_8
    @Escuroz_8 Місяць тому

    Childhoods End is a very interesting mini series👍🏾

  • @alie_squid
    @alie_squid 10 місяців тому

    Hay my go to move man i still watching all your videos thx pal

  • @funveeable
    @funveeable 8 місяців тому +9

    If godlike aliens arrive, humans become pets. They stop working and innovating and prefer to be taken care of by the alien and his limitless energy and resources.

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 7 місяців тому +1

      would you really complain?

    • @TheIrishRushin
      @TheIrishRushin 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@MakaroscYes. Not everyone wants to be sheep.

    • @Makarosc
      @Makarosc 7 місяців тому +2

      @@TheIrishRushin and not everyone wants to work themselves to the bone just to barley make ends meet

    • @TheIrishRushin
      @TheIrishRushin 7 місяців тому

      @@Makarosc Not everyone wants to be a slave to the aliens like you. Your laziness would lead to humans being nothing great ever. Just a dead end species on space food stamps.

  • @Stefus87
    @Stefus87 2 місяці тому +4

    Haha, wtf. This story takes such a weird religious turn halfway through xD

    • @MrAicex3000
      @MrAicex3000 Місяць тому

      Religon is the split in our evolution that ruined our species.

    • @YourEarthshorts
      @YourEarthshorts Місяць тому

      💀

  • @TerminalConstipation
    @TerminalConstipation 10 місяців тому

    i think the best part of this youtube channel is they never tell you the name of the movie so i never bother to look for it to watch it

  • @tablescissors67
    @tablescissors67 4 місяці тому

    That was like a really interesting episode of Outer Limits.

  • @MrQuantumInc
    @MrQuantumInc 10 місяців тому +4

    Okay, but if they are aliens and not demons why do they keep reacting badly to the holy cross?

    • @Sheperdy
      @Sheperdy 9 місяців тому

      Lozzz why are you dump. Do you thinks demons react to cross in real life?

    • @davidt8087
      @davidt8087 8 місяців тому +2

      Ikr. Even Arthur c Clarke was born and raised in a culture that thought the cross had magical powers.

    • @user-wj1id4ro3z
      @user-wj1id4ro3z 5 місяців тому

      Something wasn't right.

  • @rickdeckard9810
    @rickdeckard9810 10 місяців тому +4

    6:15 Why are aliens always naked. They have no suits no gear to us humans everything is an animal.

    • @marcussinclaire4890
      @marcussinclaire4890 10 місяців тому +1

      In Fire in the Sky it shows that the "grey alien" that we see is their space suit. Great movie and tou should watch it. Supposedly based on a real story too.

    • @MPeaches1958
      @MPeaches1958 10 місяців тому +1

      In Independence Day the alien pilot's outward appearance is really a suit.

  • @ralphacosta4726
    @ralphacosta4726 8 місяців тому

    I read Childhood's End decades ago, but didn't know there was follow up material. Never saw the movie before this synopsis.

  • @VaibhavShewale
    @VaibhavShewale 10 місяців тому +2

    yup seen this, it was awesome!

  • @obsidian00
    @obsidian00 10 місяців тому +3

    The sheer hubris on Mankind on display...

  • @NeoRoman1453
    @NeoRoman1453 10 місяців тому +5

    Imagine that it's not an alien doing this, but an Artificial Superintelligence. Now add to the mix a touch of "Her" (Movie).
    You can now understand how an AI might takeover. No bullets or terminators needed.
    You're welcome.

  • @Jnaathra
    @Jnaathra 10 місяців тому +2

    What a fucking nightmare.

  • @STONERETTE916
    @STONERETTE916 4 місяці тому

    Wow you left out the part where milo kept the music from his memories and thats what remained of earth!!!

  • @charleshamilton9274
    @charleshamilton9274 9 місяців тому +10

    This miniseries was truly one of my favorite of all time. For those of us lucky enough to watch it, it was unforgettable. Charles Dance gave the performance of a lifetime as “Karellen.” 👍

  • @T3rradonStudios
    @T3rradonStudios 9 місяців тому +3

    A certain Austrian man would be happy to see the children’s hand movements 😂

  • @BlutoSan
    @BlutoSan 10 місяців тому +1

    Great book, actually a pretty quick read.

  • @YamisRandom
    @YamisRandom 5 місяців тому +1

    How ironic that the so ‘good’ alien is designed as the devil. 💀

  • @DadCanInJapan
    @DadCanInJapan 10 місяців тому +27

    This is based on Arthur C Clarke's book, "Childhood's End". The one thing that really bothered me was the fact that they changed the spokesman from the UN General Secretary in the book, to some farmer from the Midwest in the miniseries. Why would they choose him from all the people in the world? It doesn't make sense. There seems to be a trope about the protagonist having to be some down-to-earth white male from the Midwest. If the story needs it to be that way, OK, but don't strong arm a character in for no good (plot-wise) reason.

    • @theuglykwan
      @theuglykwan 9 місяців тому +1

      Because politicians have baggage. I think it was a wise change. People don't trust politicians. I mean the appearance of the overlords is alarming enough.

    • @DadCanInJapan
      @DadCanInJapan 9 місяців тому

      @@theuglykwan Farmers have baggage too - all the beliefs from their podunk town and ignorance of the wider world. There are good politicians with a wide knowledge of negotiations and world affairs who would be better fits to handle a world-changing event than some hick who probably had never been out of Kansas. I certainly wouldn't trust him. The show was a US production and they decided they needed a US protagonist, so they went with the standard trope of using a someone from the Midwest.

    • @JehutySet22
      @JehutySet22 8 місяців тому

      Honestly changing from a politician to a farmer wasn’t that bad of change choice, it sort of makes sense as someone already said most people nowadays don’t trust politicians. The big change that irked me more than anything was the condensed time frame, in the book the overlords waited 50 years before they showed themselves, they wanted humanity to grow accustomed to their presence and guiding force before they appeared to the world as they truly were, they wanted to make the earth a paradise for a reason as it was the mission entrusted to them by the overmind. The mini series didn’t really make the new “Golden Age” the way the book described it, I was hoping to see more of that era as it sounded interesting in the book, I wish they would have kept a few more plot points from the book but what we got wasn’t terrible just not as good as it could have been.

  • @jeremiahmarlow8938
    @jeremiahmarlow8938 10 місяців тому +3

    Sorry Have a amazing day ❤