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They were (or looked like) devils.
SyFy is actually getting back into the sci fi game.
“Defiance” was looking like a fail but this season has been exceptional.
Dark Matters is OKish as well as Kill Joys. Dominion is also good.
I plan to watch it, but I hope it doesn’t get ruined by making it a preachy plot on the environment. I just don’t trust these movie makers.
Reminds me of an old episode of Twilight Zone (I think) where the aliens said they came to serve man. At the end, as one of the more skeptical characters in the story is being wheeled up the gang plank of the flying saucer against his will, it’s revealed the book given to the humans by the aliens at the beginning of the story turns out to be a cook book.
They will probably Screw It Up like everything else.
It should be noted that Clarke included a disclaimer at the start of the book, apparently not wanting to be confused with L. Ron Hubbard, that this was a religious novel.
The book is anti-religious, in that the aliens are able to show the actual historical origins of the world’s religions are fake, with a very few exceptions.
I haven’t read the book but anytime a writer adds a character that wasn’t there I become skeptical. So this guy thinks he knows better than Arthur C. Clarke? Not.