Yeah that plotline felt unfinished and circular… [spoilers below the cut]
I might have an answer
Civil War: Howard thought
Yeah that plotline felt unfinished and circular… [spoilers below the cut]
I might have an answer
Re: why did they stop? 1991, is my guess.
August 1991 was the coup that eventually brought down the Soviet Union. Okay so Howard was killed in December, but also December 26, 1991 was the date the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
It was a chaotic time in Russia and one could argue that Hydra wouldn’t let a little thing like the dissolution of the Soviet system slow them down, but maybe they did. Maybe they kept up their experiments until the funding got pulled. Maybe they put the others on ice and locked the doors because better to keep the imperfect ones locked down then to let them fall into the wrong hands (and they might need them later).
They could take Winter Soldier because he was already conditioned and ‘stable’.
For one reason or another, they just never got back there, maybe some like the guy in America went into hiding, who knows. But a lot of stuff went missing when the Soviet Union fell, and that’s true in the real world too.
(and that was what jumped out at me when I saw the year 1991 anyway)
So I just got back from Ender’s Game.
Me, a fan of the book for years, liked it.
Awesome Roommate, who has never read the books, liked it
further thoughts under the cut with some spoilers for the book and movie.
They simply dropped the whole Peter/Valentine subplot. I can understand that, since kids writing forum posts on the internet posing as adults wouldn’t have been that interesting on film. You still had a sense of what Peter and Valentine mean to Ender.
The mind game looked pretty good, actually.
Of course, yes, the actors are all older then the characters in the book, but you still get a sense of their youth.
Yes they left out large swaths of battle school and battle room, but hey it’s a 2 hour movie, what they did show was great and kept the plot moving along.
So was it perfect, no, but did it keep the spirit of the book intact? I think so. The acting was great, it looked pretty amazing and similar to what imanaged. So I’d recommend this movie.
Does it make me a bad Whovian that I’m not curled in a ball crying? Yeah, I like Smith, I’m going to miss 11 but I know there are always new things to see around the corner. And besides, i kinda saw this coming. Now, please bring Jack back for a visit?
“The good things don’t always soften the bad things — but vice versa — the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.”
