Movie Review Thread

[gla22]

thought enders game was shallow and pedantic

[The Dude]

some people here butthurt that a sci-fi book they liked tricked them into rooting for evil.

[The Comrade]

considering how much of a colossal asshole the author is i don't get why it's so hard for people to believe

[Spider]

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[Spider]

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Ah. Nevermind. Clearly I've walked directly under the bridge again.

[eynon81]

[Dylan]

[exploited]

It doesn't even jive with the original. The entire theory is the equivalent of reading "Battle Royale" and arguing that the reader was celebrating evil because the main characters were forced to kill people who didn't deserve to die. It is just silly, and if the author wasn't a dickhead, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Ender was raised in a military-style academy and taught from birth that his job is to annihilate the enemy. He was deliberately put in awful situations, then forced to resolve them with zero help from adults, who manipulated everything to ensure he was brutal. Finally, he defeats the Buggers and is sickened by his own actions. The entire story is about how awful it is, and how people are forced to do disgusting things to survive. I don't know how you guys read into it, but I never thought of Ender as a hero - I thought of him as a victim. And most crucially of all, unlike Jews in Germany, the Buggers did actually almost wipe out humanity.

The theory makes no sense. It is just an ad hom on the author.

[Dylan]

And Ender makes amends with the buggers and the buggers are portrayed quite favorably in later books.

If it's an apologia for Hitler Card really needs to brush up on his history.