Production
"Childhood's End" was the first working title for an episode of Stargate Atlantis revealed to the public. The title is a reference to Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. This is nothing new in the Stargate series; two episodes of Stargate SG-1 were named after Sir Arthur C. Clarke novels of The Space Odyssey series, namely "2001" and "2010". This is the only episode in the Stargate franchise to be directed by science fiction veteran David Winning. Courtenay J. Stevens originally played the role of Lieutenant Elliot in Stargate SG-1, appearing in the Season 5 episodes "Proving Ground", "Summit" and "Last Stand". Writer Martin Gero compared Ares in "Childhood's End" to a villain in The Incredibles. In the scene of the final confrontation with Major John Sheppard, he begins "monologuing," which is a key feature of villains in the film. The effects team of the episode built the village and took care of all the decoration in the episode. This is the first episode of the series which doesn't deal with the overall mythological arc of the series. This is also the first episode written by Gero, as he joined the Stargate franchise writing staff earlier that year (2004). He was able to join the writing staff of Stargate Atlantis, since they were undermanned at that time.
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“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)
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