Not sure whether to put this in TV or Flicks.
Did anyone see the SyFy 3 part movie? I loved the premise but didn't really like the movie. It felt inconsistent and rushed, especially at the end. But it has inspired me to read the book.
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Watched it last night (on lorin's recommendation 
) and mostly enjoyed it.
I did a bit of reading around it since and thinking about it, what it mostly feels like is an alien invasion film/series, but of the type I'm choosing to call 'serene' (there's a novel by Eric Brown that uses that adjective). What's interesting about these types of invasion is that they are more likely to be successful. That's the case here, and though the ending leans towards the positive, as in the evolution of the human species, something about the whole thing felt off to me.
I haven't read the book, so it may be that the series makers choose to make the story more ambiguous, but the end of the whole thing is that humanity is dead and the Earth is sucked dry of energy and destroyed. That sounds like a successful invasion to me. Yes I know that the 'evolved' children are going to join the Overmind, but that was at the price of the whole of humanity. It wasn't explained in the series, but why exactly did the human race have to die out? Why couldn't they continue to have children and evolve along whatever path they went?
The whole Devil, Ouija board, Hell thing seemed to me to indicate that maybe all was not as it seemed, and that humanity's choice to embrace the Overlord was a fatal mistake. The treatment of his ambassador, Rikki Stormgren, seemed manipulative and almost deliberately cruel throughout the whole of the story.
It was interesting and definitely worth watching, but overall it left me with an uncomfortable feeling that this was one alien invasion that humanity lost.
u.
) and mostly enjoyed it.I did a bit of reading around it since and thinking about it, what it mostly feels like is an alien invasion film/series, but of the type I'm choosing to call 'serene' (there's a novel by Eric Brown that uses that adjective). What's interesting about these types of invasion is that they are more likely to be successful. That's the case here, and though the ending leans towards the positive, as in the evolution of the human species, something about the whole thing felt off to me.
I haven't read the book, so it may be that the series makers choose to make the story more ambiguous, but the end of the whole thing is that humanity is dead and the Earth is sucked dry of energy and destroyed. That sounds like a successful invasion to me. Yes I know that the 'evolved' children are going to join the Overmind, but that was at the price of the whole of humanity. It wasn't explained in the series, but why exactly did the human race have to die out? Why couldn't they continue to have children and evolve along whatever path they went?
The whole Devil, Ouija board, Hell thing seemed to me to indicate that maybe all was not as it seemed, and that humanity's choice to embrace the Overlord was a fatal mistake. The treatment of his ambassador, Rikki Stormgren, seemed manipulative and almost deliberately cruel throughout the whole of the story.
It was interesting and definitely worth watching, but overall it left me with an uncomfortable feeling that this was one alien invasion that humanity lost.
u.
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.