What the *beep* kind of ending is that?
So Ender goes off on his little side quest and just leaves Earth to be attacked? I thought there was an enemy fleet approaching or something.
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Kill the queen and the rest stop fighting. He killed the planet, so there was no more threat.
shareI was under the impression that was a simulation, a test to find a solution to how to defeat the bugs. At any rate I thought the ending was a huge disappointment.
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They explained that it wasn't a simulation. It was really the attack. They didn't tell Ender because they didn't want him to do anything other than to win. They didn't want him to look for a diplomatic solution, and they didn't want him to be freaked out by the idea that it was the real thing.
Years ago, there was some power lifter who was trying to break the record and dead-lift 1,000#. He could lift 998#, but just couldn't get the 1,000#. His trainer knew it was all in his head, so the next day he had him lift the 998#.
After he did that, they weighed the weights and it came out to like 1,001#. The trainer had changed the painted numbers on the weights so the lifter thought he was still only lifting 998#.
Because he had no mental barrier to tell him he couldn't lift 1,000#, he was able to lift it.
Because Ender had no mental barrier to tell him that he was going to exterminate billions of lives, he didn't hesitate to exterminate billions of lives.
Because Ender had no mental barrier to tell him that he was going to exterminate billions of lives, he didn't hesitate to exterminate billions of lives.
He also didn't hesitate to sacrifice thousands of humans on those carriers when he diverted all of their drones to protect Petra's BFG ship.
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I was under the impression that was a simulation, a test to find a solution to how to defeat the bugs.
Ender was under that impression as well.
They tricked him into committing genocide pretty good ;-)
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My god! didn't think anyone could be this thick.