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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I remember there being something like this already. The final mission happens as they say "this is the final training for you". The enemy (aliens) behave differently than expected in this final simulation because they are not immediately aggressive and are waiting while defending their location, but the child successfully eliminates them. And later learns that was the actual aliens and not the simulation. And the aliens were just trying to find a place and protect their new generation, or sth.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that was Ender's Game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup, looks like that movie. Thanks, I didn't remember the name.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The book is much better. Translating genius to the screen is difficult at best, and they (the director and producers,) didn't seem to understand the objective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The first one was great, the rest of them not so much

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The 2nd one was pretty good too. 3 and 4 went kinda off the rails. But then the Bean series was interesting again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

4 was a weird ride, but the last fifty pages ended the series well for me. Enough that when I closed the book there was a moment of sadness that the story I read as a child was finally concluded.

Bean books were amazing. Bought them all on hardback for $5 and felt guilty thinking they should have been more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If only the author was as amazing as his characters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have a book with his autograph and a picture with him, and then a few years later learned who he really is. Made me sad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

In the books, they didn't understand we were individuals at first, and when they did they were horrified. They were never going to send a third wave, they wanted to find a way to communicate, but humanity just kept cutting a swath to the home world where all the queens lived.

By the final battle, they had managed to connect with Ender, but he was a warped child genius collapsing under the pressure. In the end, they basically accepted their fate out of guilt, and left a baby queen imprinted with their monitors hidden in stasis on one of the colony worlds they had taken