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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (9 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 2 months ago (7 children)

I think that was Ender's Game.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

If only the author was as amazing as his characters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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.

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