gak wrote:Trying to get into this "childhoods end" thing and so far it's pretty shitty.
Well, I did the "aflac" commercial in the other thread, so I'll just give my review.
First of all, I dunno what the book was like, but if this has anything to do with what the original book WAS about, ACC was an idiot
Goes like this:
Here's planet earth in the year 2016. Some fucking alien ships come down (like 40 of them) just like "independence day" (I knew I was doomed right then) and some mysterious voice announces that's it's gonna be fine (don't go in the tool-shed johnny!!!!) and for some dumb-ass reason, the planes all start descending really slowly*
Then there is this whole thing about meeting the cast. All of the people are so pretty and perfect (as if you didn't feel crappy about yourself in the first place) There is the "main" guy who is contacted through a probe that instead of asking him to come to them, starts tearing the place apart with him remarking "ok I'll go" which is just another WTF. He can't see the "overlord" but his chosen to be the spokesperson for the planet.
Somewhere along the line the "overlord" gives our main character some device which he hands over to the government stooge. Not sure it ever showed up again. More WTF.
After a bunch of filler, he eventually sets the planet straight over the "overlords" and peace and harmony begins. There is also a plot by a major news guy to overthrow the "overlords" but that ends badly (and we never hear about them again)
Ok, so then like 15 years goes by. Our main character hasn't aged a day, but the kid in the wheelchair is now an "adult" and everything is rosy. Mass breeding, no disease and then the overlord reveals himself.
No surprise it's Satan. Who were you expecting, saddam hussein?
So some religious nut becomes a therapist, the kids start acting all cray cray, the overlord makes this batch pregnant, and she decides to be proactive about the whole thing by getting on a bus, that just happens to go to the corn field in missouri (well, at least its not Ohio) where our "main" character resides as some worshiped guy by about 30 people and makes contact with the new wife.
At this time, I'm not sure why I bothered anymore, but anyways....let me cliff notes this a bit more.
So then it's 4 years later (and nobody has aged except the black kid in the wheelchair who was killed but then the bad guy was killed and of course can walk, which everyone saw coming) and satan make this fucking Ouija board thing, the pregnant batch has had her kid, shes some freaking conduit, all the kids point to her and call her name, there is a city called "new athens" that they try to escape to, the kids are all abducted, some guy sets off a nuke, and the "main character" is now dead but they never explained why he got the disease. Much WTF ensues......
Then, somehow, though he knows it's going to be 80 years round trip, our "not in a wheel chair keeps aging while nobody else does guy" talks his girlfriend into getting him onto the ship that will take him to the home planet. He gets there, it's HELL, and some other "overlord" sends him back to earth. He's so surprised everything is not right. Then he goes back down to the earth, to witness it's end, the "jennifer" child that is the conduit is STILL there doing her best "storm" impression, the earth vanishes and the overlords, I mean satans are off to their next job.
Are you confused? You should be. It's one of the most super-sized WTF's ever created. Now, I never want to read the book.
*Why the fuck were they descending so slowly RIGHT OVER fucking cities where is was obvious they were not going to fit. They didn't have any problem with flight later on in the darn thing.
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