Utterly wrong.

A couple of other things:
In Gods of Egypt (#1 above), it would have been very appropriate to cast ethnically pure Egyptians, except that this would be impossible. There are no ethnic Egyptians left. There are Greek Egyptians, Turk Egyptians, Sudanese Egyptians, Libyan Egyptians, Lebanese Egyptians ... but after being…

I remember this movie, mainly for the robot design. It was shown in dubbed form on American TV in the late 60s. Imagine that.

Actually, they envy our children, but they feel sorry for the adults and do much to mollify the loss in the decades preceding the ascension.

Did you even watch the show?
The Overlords are genuinely sorry for the poor, underevolved homosaps who get left behind, but it’s their job, man. They were here to keep us from killing the babies before they were ready to leave. The Overlords did not “pluck” the transhuman children ... they just kept the parents calm…

“gone off piste.”
A piste is the strip on which fencers fight.
Interesting vocabulary, there, Natalie!

Absolutely not. In fact, so far the show is following the characterization of the Overlords very closely. Therefore, the characterization of them as “sinister” in motive is misleading.
But enough about Gawker.

Translation: “I don’t know the story, so I am prejudging the alien race based on their appearance and my own cultural baggage.”
Granted, the show is lending rather a lot of weight to that interpretation (much more so than A.C. Clarke ever did in the book), but it is still incorrect.

The current import of the word “sinister” is “nepharious” or “evil.”
True, it is derived from the French for left, because left-handed people were regarded as evil (as they are), but to use this word to characterize the Overlords is incorrect.
Nice try, though.

That headline is either intentionally misleading or you did not read the dang book.
The Overlords are not evil; they are servants (as Kerellen noted) doomed to watch other races mature and evolve.
I am sure it is sad from the point of old Homo Sap, the nekkid plains ape with thumbs, but I am sure the same was said when…

Thanks for pointing out Sprochete’s misinterpretation of the book. In fact, IIRC (and it’s been 40 years since I first read it), don’t the Overlords follow emerging cultures around because ...
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True. Mystique is not always the bluenude.

I like the re-dubbed voice work, and the subtitles ... makes the aliens far more believable and menacing.
However, omg was that CGI terrible. Droids on speeders riding THROUGH the hulls of spaceships, dino-critters racing THROUGH trees ... I know it was a while ago, but this shit is just sloppy.

Me am hating design, as well. It am cluttered and antique.

A Sith of infinite jest.

Ah.
You are, indeed, what you eat.
<drop mike>

Seems like there are several methods for activating the obelisk:
planetary alignments
Skye’s vibrational thingy
The presence of Inhumans(?)
It’s a McGuffin, and anything it has done in the past, it may be able to do again in the future.
Plus, I think it would be cool.
But that’s just me.

Take care for the chronosynclastic infundibulum ... you might end up on Saturn VI (as opposed to the moon with a naked Farrah Fawcett).

Well done.

Babies with rabies.