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I find this a bit like saying other movies have done space or time travel, so it's hackneyed.
I've heard the accusation that it's racist before but I don't think it sticks at all because it shows White kids being brats and over-privileged.
I agree, that's what's in the novel. The Overlords are basically midwives for the pregnant human race and the children are the next stage, just as real children actually are. They were there to manage a positive transition.
The series is definitely at least deistic if not theistic, but to address your point directly, I could not worship a God who created a vast barren Universe, empty of life except for humans. That would be a deal-breaker for me. The original novel is influenced by the work of Olaf Stapledon, who was theistic and also believed in a cosmic group mind as the end point of evolution in the Universe, who would commune with the Star Maker.
I have an official diagnosis of ADHD and had no problem enjoying this.
They don't visibly age, then they are euthanised or die of the drugs they're taking once they reach a certain age.
Neither. It's a pile of trash with scarcely any connection to the book. Apparently it's very difficult to adapt. But no, it isn't pro-communist or woke in any way. It's not intelligent enough to take a position either way on those issues. It's so bad I actually watched three episodes in disbelief at how awful it really is, but it isn't even entertainingly awful. Don't waste your time watching it.
According to Jainism, there's a reserve of souls at the "bottom" of the ladder consisting of subatomic sized particles, possibly infinite. They are gradually reincarnated as natural inanimate objects, microbes etc and only become human after millions of cycles.
I don't think it was badly written so much as understated because it would've changed the tone and focus of the movie if it had been shown more graphically. It was confusing though. Perhaps a bad decision, but a conscious one.
There was a load of diversity in it: a working-class man, a woman in academia in the 1930s, a disabled woman and a gay man. Not ethnic diversity but lots in other ways.
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