US: Childhood's End - SyFy miniseries

Its only 3 episodes think they were about 1 hour and half each roughly and yes earth blew up, overall it was all longed out, not sure what exactly happen at the end. Did the children which evolved and became part of one conscious, so almost like god? Adults seemed to be dusted and never had a chance. The whole devil, over lords hmmm so they just go round doing the same thing to different planets to assist them in their journey to evolution, heaven or hell?

Overall it almost felt a bit it took elements from falling skies, defiance and then V but I guess that is with most scifi tv series.
 
Liked the journey didn't like last episode. Not much makes sense in the end - dude hides on an alien ship to go on a 80+ years round journey, which for some reason the devils entertain, returns to Earth, everyone is dead but the energy draining kid on table mountain in Vegas is still a kid, still draining energy.

What have we learned after 4.5 hours of watching - don't have kids, they will drain your energy and run forever.
 
v0n said:
don't have kids, they will drain your energy and run forever.
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grave stone quote worthy stuff :D

We would probably have to read the book or perhaps its just meant to end that way leaving is a mystery or up to our own interpretation.
 
Just got round to watching the final part I loved it. I kinda spoiled it for myself when I heard it was being made, I tend to do that when I know there's a book I'll read the Wikipedia plot summary which often helps me understand what I'm watching.
I found the ending is really disturbing, yeah it's about our kids evolution but I can't
empathise with them all I see is the destruction of a species. Hope syfy do more like this.
 
I didn't think it was great. If anything I thought it was really strange.
At first I thought the devil thing was going to lead to a twist and it didn't, I thought the characters were going to have more roles to play and they didn't. I didn't get the whole ouiga board thing at all, the way the human just accepted their fate was bizarre, and where the hell did the children go and why did they need to destroy the planet?

The only way I can make any of it work was that the whole story was meant to be a scientific reimagining of heaven and hell/armeggedon/bible story.
If it wasn't that then I'm baffled.
 
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I didn't get the whole ouiga board thing at all, the way the human just accepted their fate was bizarre, and where the hell did the children go and why did they need to destroy the planet?
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Yeah from what I understand it's all better explained in the book but they seemed to gloss over a lot of things. The ouija board is used differently in the book & telepathy is an important plot point. Plus in this the children seem to evolve and disappear til the end so it doesn't make sense why the earth ends but apparently they consume it in order to gather the energy to join the overmind. It's a strange story but I really liked it.

Essentially humanity was evolving and the overlords turned up right at the turning point to help the last generation of humans through it.
 
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