There is no "The" in the title.

The Film's surprise is already blown in the idiot ad campaign

Also, Card is not getting a dime out of me (and yes, he wrote the screenplay so he's up for points) for his rather twisted views on things the past 20 years.

I don't support homophobic Mormons sorry.

Feel free to enjoy it though.

Think of his works as a universe detached from the author. It's better this way.

expectations on the movie that's coming

If you're going to have any serious expectations about any movie ever being made, you're going to have a bad time.

Oh God.

I'll never get his booming voice out of my head from the 1988 New Orleans WorldCon.

Could hear him 300 yards away from ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel entrance.

.......and it was a panel discussing "What to do about the Wesley Crusher Problem ?"

"What to do about the Wesley Crusher Problem ?"

huh ?

Wesley Crusher was a character in Star Trek: the Next Generation, widely disliked by the fanbase for being inhumanly good at anything he attempted.

He walked onto the Enterprise and instantly knew every panel and button, he would have passed his Starfleet Academy exams with the highest scores in his class (if he hadn't stopped to help his classmate), he was compared to 'Mozart' by an alien vistor to the ship (vis a vis his apparently-uncanny understanding of time and space).

Basically, he was the archetypal 'Mary Sue': a precocious supergenius who was better than the adult characters were at running their own ship.

"What to do about the Wesley Crusher Problem ?"

huh ?

sorry ..I know the character ..he was a smug bastard that ended up being in the Q continuum ... I just didn't get krix`s analogy of him ....
so what`s wrong with being a smug bastard who knows everything ...Christ knows ..theres enough of them in GD ?

I've read three books in the series. My favorite was the one featuring Bean as the main character. The same events of Ender's Game, but from Bean's perspective.

Card does drive me nuts though. I make sure I don't ever read the author's foreword. The guy sure is impressed with his own work and how important it is to the world as a whole.

Ender's Shadow.

Also a fantastic book.

Loved the books but every movie that was ever made based off of books ive read have always left me dissapointed. Doesn't mean i wont go watch it anyway though

I'm about three quarters of the way done with the book and I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Maybe there's some huge, amazing surprise in the last quarter of the book that I've yet to read........

I'm about three quarters of the way done with the book and I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Maybe there's some huge, amazing surprise in the last quarter of the book that I've yet to read, but so far it's just Ender being a whiny strategic genius.

Read Revelation Space by Alaster Reynolds if you want really cool sci fi. I kept picturing Eve in my mind.

Which nearby universe are you living in ?

This upcoming release is the first of the series to have such.

Im talking about over my life time books I have read not Ender's game and due to those experiences i have low expectations for this movie as well.

There is no "The" in the title.

The Film's surprise is already blown in the idiot ad campaign

Also, Card is not getting a dime out of me (and yes, he wrote the screenplay so he's up for points) for his rather twisted views on things the past 20 years.

I don't support homophobic Mormons sorry.

Feel free to enjoy it though.

smug bastard that ended up being in the Q continuum ... so what`s wrong with being a smug bastard who knows everything ...Christ knows ..theres enough of them in GD ?

Can we have a little leeway on this for the upcoming "Gravity" ?

Card has done a "Spider Robinson;" gone completely certifiable bonkers. He used write well, then got preachy... I can live with that. Heinlein did it, and whilst it was annoying, you could kinda filter it out. But where he is now? No thanks. None of my $$, either.

And don't get me started on Pulaski.

I don't see the big deal about him being anti-gay marriage. Just about a billion other people are anti-gay marriage too. Just what the author's opinions about certain issues have to do with his book that has nothing to do with said issues is a mystery to me. Now this boycott of the film and such by the pro-gay marriage team is just ridiculous and hypocritical. Let the man believe what he wants to believe. Sure, he's a **** but who cares? Why is it such a big deal?

Also, most overrated sci fi book ever. Yes, the concept is cool but that doesn't take away from the fact that literally the first 3/4 of the book is superfluous diarrhea of the mouth.

That's your choice to make, but it's just his opinion. It's not like he's running for president and plans to ban gay marriage or anything. Am I missing something? What if the boss of CCP were anti-gay marriage? Would you stop playing Eve? How does his opinion on the subject affect your life? That's what I'm getting at. Is the movie going to be homophobic? I seriously doubt it, as the book doesn't even get close to the subject. I'm pro-gay marriage, but if I wrote a movie that had nothing to do with it, how would it affect people who were anti-gay marriage?

I dunno, the book just seemed a little meh. Of course it's just my opinion, but having heard so many people rant and rave about it, I was rather disappointed. Maybe I was expecting too much. Maybe I should've read it in 1984 when I was 6 years old. Ok, the twist (if you want to call it that) was interesting and inventive, but I had already figured it out by the time I got there.

Just as there are requirements for having one's criticisms taken seriously, so should there be requirements for having one's praises taken seriously.

So you would stop enjoying something you enjoy because the creator has a different set of values than you, even when it wouldn't affect your life in any way?

Prop 8 affected my ability to get married.

Who said anything about not participating if an entity does not announce being absolutely pro-gay ? I sure did not. You sure did.

.........and yes, I'd quit EVE in a heartbeat were that true. But Icelanders would not be that uncool..

And when there is no place left to get married ? ? Whereto then ? And yes, I want to desperately move back to California. And with that statement, you seem to have an ulterior motive of a sort here, on top of the backwards thinking in your arguments.

Better safe than sorry? (He wants no chance his money would be used that way)

Back on topic about what you wrote earlier Astenion, When I first read the ender series I was very young and thought it was the most amazing sci fi books i ever read. Then I re read them when i was all grown up and realized it wasn't all that great, still enjoyed the book tremendously, but still not a fantastic piece of literature.

I guess it was the concept that excited folks the most i dont know.