{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Childhood\u2019s End 1 \u2013 The Overlords","description":"I think we should rename ourselves to Podcasting Overlords. Isn\u2019t it weird how the word \u201clord\u201d is used in a lot of sci-fi? Like Time Lords\u2026 Overlords\u2026 Lords of Time\u2026. lords\u2026 Look this was a way better point when I started this sentence than when I finished it. So you\u2019re just going to have to pretend to agree with me. It\u2019s The Overlords, written by Matthew Graham and aired on December 14, 2015. Show-notes: 1:10: Get your own copy of the book here, at Barnes and Noble. For once I decided not to link amazon. (Editor\u2019s note: Get it at a local bookstore.) 1:48: Xenogears is an rpg\u2026 or something. It\u2019s also the subject matter of the best text-based let\u2019s play ever made. By the way, the English translation for the game (impressively completed by translator Richard Honeywood) changes \u201cKarellen\u201d to \u201cKrelian.\u201d Maybe Honeywood didn\u2019t get the reference? Could just be some sort of error as the English script also misrepresents the character name \u201cMyyah\u201d as \u201cMiang.\u201d 3:14: I\u2019ve actually struggled to find an actual text quote of Kurt Vonnegut saying this, but to be fair I\u2019ve struggled to find Vonnegut saying anything about Arthur C. Clarke even though they were well acquainted. 12:16: Arthur C. Clarke refers to \u201cPresident Bush [senior]\u201d in his introduction. Interestingly he also refers to the TV show V, which will get mentioned later in this podcast, in the same introduction as being a perfectly acceptable (to him) adaptation of Childhood\u2019s End. 18:44: Check out our first episode on the Prisoner (2009). 21:25: A lot of my information on the behind the scenes \u201ccreation of\u201d Childhood\u2019s End is coming from this article here. 22:40: And the second article I\u2019m referring to is this Rolling Stone article, which has much of the same information. 26:40: We have regretfully watched The Da Vinci Code and its sequels for our (also regretful) movie trilogy podcast Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast. 27:22: If you go and listen to our episodes on The Prisoner (2009) you can hear some of this confusion, especially towards the end of the season. 28:00 We have equally regretfully covered the Space Pirates (Doctor Who) on our Doctor Who Podcast, Trust Your Doctor: A Doctor Who Podcast. Multiple times. 31:30: Fully synthetic plastic was actually invented as early as 1907. 40:25: Torchwood\u2019s Children of Earth. Good times. Not regretful at all. We watched it on Trust Your Doctor: A Doctor Who Podcast, our Doctor Who podcast. Check out the first episode of it if it strikes your fancy. 49:35: Dylan said this because this was a reference to our Eve of the Daleks episode on Trust Your Doctor: A Doctor Who Podcast, our Doctor Who podcast. 58:30: Daisy. 1:23:30: I don\u2019t know how I forgot this, but the quote is from The Last Jedi, it\u2019s Yoda talking to Luke. 1:25:33: Her name is Jennifer Anne. 1:44:44: We have also regretfully watched Alien 3 on Triple Play: A Movie Trilogy Podcast, our movie trilogy podcast. Childhood\u2019s End \u00a9 SyFy Television Any other references belong to their respective owners, no copyright infringement is intended by this podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on Google Play! Subscribe on Spotify! Check us out on Facebook!Check us out on YouTube! Check us out on Twitter! ","author_name":"Inevitable: A Classic Sci-Fi Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/decorativevegetable.com\/category\/inevitable\/","html":"