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Ok but seriously why was Picard still allowed to be a captain after wolf 359? I mean he was mind controlled by the Borg and destroyed a ton of Starfleet ships, including Ben Sisko's, the Saratoga. Either he was completely out of control of his body, in which case he needs to be in therapy and promoted into a diplomatic position (or asked to retire with pension), or he had some control, in which case he did that shit of his own will and needs some mental health and to no longer command hundreds of people. The commonality? He needs to NOT BE IN FUCKING COMMAND ANYMORE and to GET HELP. But noooo, have him keep captaining with severe ptsd (even if it magically disappears after a while). Nothing could go wrong. Great descision there, Starfleet.

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Ender's Game had a sudden "end"

Spoiler Alert.

It was a chilly night in Vancouver (give or take a few degrees). We were sitting in Wave's Café and had absolutly no idea what to do until someone suggested, "Let's go see a movie!" 'Hurray!' I thought, because I LOVE watching movies. So we did. We went to the Globe Theatre and bought tickets for ENDER'S GAME which ought to be renamed into WHEN DOES IT FINALLY END -- OH.. IT'S OVER -- GAME. We were sitting in the SECOND ROW! Imagine that! The second one. (The auditorium was full so we had to sit there.) That's the third worst place to sit in a cinema, followed by the first row and the floor right in front of the big screen. Anyway, I didn't expect much from the movie so I figured, let's just get it over with. So we have sat through the commercials and the trailers until the movie started. Approximately 30 seconds of production logos later the movie really started. And a quote shown for 5 seconds later the movie REALLY started. (During the quote I could hear the voice of that guy from MovieSins in my head saying: "reading") Well, long story short I've seen the movie and was not satisfied with it. But why? Well, for several reasons:

Firstly, what is the movie about? Well, if you want a proper synopsis you'd better check out Wikipedia.To me, it's a movie about a bunch of 12 year olds (the age was just an educated guess. I don't care what the movie says how old they were, they were TWELVE!) fighting in space against the evil aliens to prevent them from destroying humanity. And guess what. Andrew Wiggum, who's the main character in the movie, is the chosen one! If you have a short term memory that doesn't work quite well, don't worry! They repeat it often enough. Like three times in five minutes.

So let's get into the storyline, shall we? You could actually break the movie down into three parts.

The first part is basically a regular high school movie in space. No, really. It has got EVERYTHING! The bullies, the pretty girl, the horrible PE lessons, it even got quite a few cheesy lines but those were used throughout the whole movie. (If it really had been a regular high school movie taking place on earth, that'd have been awesome!) It's just a normal high school with the big difference that the students were being prepaired to fight the aliens and destroy their queen. At some point a big, soldier guy came into the scene. He was a baddy. Bad guy is bad because he demanded 40 push-ups from the main character almost one minute after he was introduced...brilliant. When the second bully was introduced I heard MovieSins's voice in my head again, saying: "short-guy-big-ego-clishé". And a third time, when Andrew and that pretty girl were training together and the short bully demanded Andrew not to train with her ever again. "bully-is-overprotecting-his-actually-not-girlfriend-clishé" and there were many more situation when I heard his voice. (By the way, the reason why I don't give any names except for the main character is that I can't recall any. Although someone was called Bean. And that's it. It's not really necessary to know their names.) The students were shown a video how the humans defeated the aliens the first time. (I just wondered, where did they get that footage from? Were cameras floating and flying around whilst the battle? That seemed quite weird.) But hey it's the year something something. I guess it's a very logical thing by that time.

The second part is the big climax, well, kind of. Really. Andrew was being prepaired to fight against the aliens. There were some battle simulations. He won the first one, he lost the second one, he won the third one. BUT PLOTTWIST, those battles were actual battles and no simulations! So when they told Andrew that AFTER he defeated the aliens in the third battle... the climax had already happened. There was no act of suspense. Andrew didn't face any obstacles in the movie. He always won (except for the second battle "simulation"). Before the fights and battles began (Him vs. the bully, Him vs. the Aliens...) you always knew that he'd win. There was not suspense whatsoever. He walked a neat path through the movie with hardly any steps back.

The third part is the "aftermath". Andrew SUDDENLY got what it's all about. He ran from the station, where he defeated the aliens from, to a nest where the queen was being bred. Conveniently the nest was only 500 meters away from the station, so that was an easy move. He promised the queen to give her a new home because he felt guilty that he exterminated a whole species and sent thousands of human soldiers into death and the movie ends. If that was a bit confusing to you. Don't worry! At first it was confusing me too but after the movie ended you see things clearer. I mean it's not hard. I could predict EVERY SINGLE THING in the movie. I knew that he'd defeat the bullies, I knew that he'd win the first battle and lose the second (this is poor scriptwriting, by the way) and I knew that he'd go get the queen out of her nest as he arrived there. It was funny when the scene was on. He'd talk to the alien protecting the unborn queen and my only thought was "It does not understand English, you moron!"

Anyway my final thoughts about the movie is that I won't watch it again and that I can't wait for MovieSins to pick on Ender's Game. I know that it's a movie adaptation, but I am not talking about the book. I'm talking about the movie.

If you're a friend of logical flaws and some action-packed scenes, go watch the movie! Visually it was pretty well done and the acting wasn't bad at all.

If you're not a friend of those things I just mentioned, a homo- or bisexual and/or a gay-activist I wouldn't recommend it. The author of the book and co-producer of that movie is a homophobic bigot, so... I wouldn't spend money on that one.

The movie itself is not homophobic at all, just the person who created the story.

I forgot to mention that there was a scene where he wanted to talk to his sister and the only place they thought of was in the middle of a lake sitting on a raft. ... I mean, why? So that the NSA won't spy on them or what? I just don't know.

My rating for that movie is: (Flott means Great, Faen means Fuck)

Flott: 2 (Due to good acting and great visual effects)

Faen: 4 +1 (Due to logical flaws in the plot, clishés, no act of suspense and almost no character development and one extra Faen for my dissatisfaction)

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The Just-World Phenomenon is when witnesses of an injustice, in order to rationalize it, will search for things that the victim did to deserve it. This eases their anxiety and allows them to feel safe; if they avoid that behavior, injustice will not happen to them. This peace of mind comes at the expense of blaming the innocent victim. To illustrate this, a research study was done by L. Carli of Wellesley College. Participants were told two versions of a story about interactions between a man and a woman. In both versions, the couple’s interactions were exactly the same, at the very end, the stories differed; in one ending, the man raped the woman and in the other, he proposed marriage. In both groups, participants described the woman’s actions as inevitably leading up to the (different) results.

Nikki, 10 More Common Faults in Human Thought

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