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I was thinking about the Ender's Game movie because I remember being so scared of it when I was a really small child, when my parents chose it randomly off the roster of films at the theater. I was way too young for it, just shy of 9 years old in a cold theater with a stomach full of pizza and the infamous giant murdered by rat scene came up. With that description, you can probably guess what happened when I saw it and why that pizzeria is forever ruined for the rest of my life (with the past two entries, you'd think I am constantly close to vomiting but it's actually very rare that I do due to my emetophobia). On the bright side, my parents had never brought me to a film that I didn't want to watch ever again! It's a funny memory and all but I looked into the context of that scene and I was aghast by how dumb it was. Don't take this as me thinking the genius child who must suffer is a horrible trope, I liked Artemis Fowl enough as a kid to read ten of those books and I am reading Animorphs recently. No, the problem is saying, "this kid broke the code like this making him special," and using that moment to convey it, without even understanding why it was juvenile choice on the kid's part. This wasn't to show the immaturity of the kid subtexually or illustrate that he is still a child, but that he so brilliant and different from the other children. He chose an action that was |
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essentially like lashing out at your Game Master when you're playing a tabletop instead of choosing an interesting path for the story. When you cannot convey your point in a manner that makes sense then it feels pointless.
I don't want you to take this next statement the wrong way but when I found that the author was an openly homophobic, Trump supporter, and racist, I also found that I was rather unsurprised by it. This isn't to say conservatives are incapable of making good art, I don't like to moralize art because it implies that only bad people make bad art (plus I grew up knowing Scott Cawthon was conservative and still found merit in his art). The issue is that the writer chose to create art in the sci-fi genre, one of the most political genres of fiction, and refused the idea that his work could have a hidden meaning, refusing to be openly acknowledge that his biases impact his work. Especially reading more of his interviews around his pieces, you get the sort of idea that he is being obtuse about this, whether intentionally or unintentionally (07/23/2024).
— Mars ᓚᘏᗢ
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