For some of us, it was an amazing novel that raised some provocative questions and didn't answer them.
The film is visual to some degree, but it is mostly dialog and atmosphere. The film version brings the story into the present and at least attempts to restore the balance. Simple ignorance explains why they had so few strong women characters. Like most of Clarke's science fiction contemporaries, 20-something "boys" in the science fiction world were geeks (we called them nerds) who had little understanding and less experience with "girls". The romantic aspects were largely invented for the series. The script was quite remarkable, adapting the 60-year-old novel and weaving its complexities more deftly than I had expected.
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The surprise is that the series manages them very well. The twists and turns in the plot are complex, complicated, and often subtle. Most people love the idea, but pockets of opposition rise up from people who feel threatened in one way or another. Should you buy the book, skip the introduction until AFTER you've read the book and/or seen the series.) As other people have said, the premise revolves around some apparently benevolent aliens who invade, declaring an end of war, hunger, climate change, hatred, and the other banes of 21st century society. (Incidentally, the introduction in the Kindle version of Childhood's end - and probably the latest print edition as well - includes a major spoiler, which is a criminal act. I will try very hard not to spoil anyone's enjoyment of the first episode.
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