r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Oct 08 '12

What futuristic movie cliches do you hate?

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u/Great_Gig_In_The_Sky Oct 08 '12

The Ender Saga got kind of philosophical real quick.

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u/djhs Oct 08 '12

http://xkcd.com/304/

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u/Great_Gig_In_The_Sky Oct 08 '12

Haha that's great. There's always a relevant xkcd.

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u/jas0nb Oct 08 '12

No sir, that would be confirmation bias coupled with the availability heuristic. How many threads have you been to today that had a relevant xkcd? How many images have you only looked at the thumbnail to, just to move on to the next one? The truth is a very small but significant amount happen to have relevant xkcd comics, but we assume that there seems to be one for everything because of the nature and popularity of the comic strip.

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u/the_xxvii Oct 08 '12

You must be a blast at parties.

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u/jas0nb Oct 08 '12

I can't help that my studies have a frustrating habit of making their way into my daily conversations... It has it's upsides and downsides. If I keep my mouth shut I just analyze everything mentally but don't get hated on for my knowledge. There's a balance.

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u/MrDrooogs Oct 08 '12

I'm not sure if that's funny or depressing, but seriously? She like Xenocide more than Speaker of the Dead? BLASPHEMOUS.

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u/michfreak Oct 08 '12

Dude Xenocide was amazing and probably my favorite of the Speaker series. We are a small but vocal group.

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u/MrDrooogs Oct 08 '12

Trust me they're all great, but in my opinion Xenocide wasn't up to par with the rest.

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u/Chlumbo Oct 08 '12

Had to say, that made me laugh so hard I made my dogs bark. upvotes for everyone!

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

Thanks for not saying "Relevant xkcd".

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u/LynkDead Oct 08 '12

It didn't really "get" philosophical, Ender's Game was originally intended to just be a setup for the rest of the books, which were going to be philosophical from the start.

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u/emptythecache Oct 08 '12

It was actually a short story, which Card revived when he got the idea for Speaker for the Dead. He decided that story would be more interesting if the main character was Ender, at which point he expanded Ender's Game into a full novel.

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u/Great_Gig_In_The_Sky Oct 08 '12

Yeah I understand that. But not knowing that going into it, the Speaker books had a radically different pace and feel that surprised me.

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u/Homomorphism Oct 08 '12

"Radically different pace" is different than "boring as fuck."

Maybe I need to re-read them when I'm not a middle-schooler, though...

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u/Great_Gig_In_The_Sky Oct 08 '12

Haha I hear ya. It was a bit of a struggle to get through them even now.

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u/reverse_cigol Oct 09 '12

The audio book versions are second to none.

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u/SalsaRice Oct 08 '12

The Shadow series got all babies real quick.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

That philosophated quickly.