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Isn't this just Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" for boomers?
Not quite. While both deal with humanity facing advanced extraterrestrial contact, Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End features an authoritarian alien "Overlord" stewardship that ends humanity's independence. Conversely, Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day frames the revelation as a grassroots whistleblowing event that forces a divided humanity to stop fighting and practice empathy.The film treats the concept of contact deeply rooted in wonder and human free will, as seen in these thematic differences:Agency vs. Paternalism: In Childhood's End, aliens actively govern and guide humanity's development to its ultimate conclusion. In Disclosure Day, the aliens remain enigmatic, giving Daniel and Margaret the tools and knowledge to force global transparency, leaving the actual reaction up to human free will.The Nature of Evolution: Clarke’s novel is about the physical and transcendental mutation of human children into a single hive-mind entity. Disclosure Day is a grounded, contemporary political thriller focusing on hard drives, cybersecurity whistleblowers, and the psychological weight of accepting the truth.The Core Message: Clarke's ending is melancholic and final, whereas Spielberg's film emphasizes the necessity of connection and actively listening to one another.
To me the outcome is the same, the aliens aren't here to give us some noble wisdom.
Like other shows such as Earth Final Conflict, humans are just a tool to be exploited.
The whole idea of empathy is laughable as if its some sort of new concept.
Even if humans stumbled upon something that gives them everything they need and they no longer have to compete for limited resources, they would still fall prey to their own genetic urges with predictable outsomes.
Recommend cozy decent quality sci-fi with soul
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Was Balok the Ultimate Master Troll?
Sent a radioactive probe to chase the Enterprise around, bathing them in gamma rays for fun.
Tractor beamed and then threatened them with a scary voice and ridiculous puppet.
Gave them 10 minutes until inevitable death, ensuring the crew will go bonkers with fear.
Enjoyed a private laugh at the amateurish Corbomite claim.
Tested the Enterprise engines 20% past their design specs to ensure lots of damage to keep Scotty busy.
Faked a distress call for shits and giggles.
Gave Kirk, McCoy and Bailey unknown alien liquid to drink, which could have been Balok’s own piss for all they knew.
Took Bailey for a year because Balok watched him on the Bridge have an epic yet entertaining freakout, that kind of B-level acting deserved a reward.
Had no intention to pay back all the damage he caused, as if Starfleet could do anything anyway.
Intended to be friends with Earth all along, but decided to have some harmless fun with the pinkskins before establishing relations.
This movie is un realistic, bell would never get with the beast. The only reason why he won is because he has a castle and enough money to impress her in the first place. Without the rows of books and roses he would have nothing.
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Dee Dee Gatton from the National Desk has got to be the single most pornographic, English-speaking news anchor I’ve ever seen. Only the Spanish-language newsbabes are probably more pornographic-looking without being in Naked News or just straight up bukkake news porn.
Seen anyone with a more porno look on the news than her?
Just rewatched higurashi season 1 I'd rate it a 7 at most
In fact, I'm pretty sure the average higurashi fan has to be retarded.
99% of higurashi discussion:
> waifufaggotry
> theorycrafting about some autistic bullshit like uhh is the blond bitch from umineko actually blond bitch 1 or blond bitch 2 from higurashi
> seething about their author forgetting how to write anything because they don't like his other works (conveniently ignoring how retarded the original is)
Meanwhile umineko discussion is actual analysis of the characters motivations etc and actual stuff you can reflect on, but higufags HATE it for some reason
I haven't seen gou sotsu yet but if original higu fans hate it, it must be good.
