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No Need For Trek Anymore
dcsmith writes "In an article at the LA Times, Orson Scott Card says 'So they've gone and killed Star Trek. And it's about time.' SciFi blasphemy? Not really. Card makes several good observations about the growth of SciFi over the past 30+ years. The article also comments on several other genre gems, including Joss Whedon's Firefly." From the article: "...the hungry fans called their friends and they watched it faithfully. They memorized the episodes. I swear I've heard of people who quit their jobs and moved just so they could live in a city that had Star Trek running every day."
would include someone who fell into this category:
"I swear I've heard of people who quit their jobs and moved just so they could live in a city that had Star Trek running every day."
particularly when it runs almost every day on Sci-Fi network.
Card's just sour that nobody reads his hate-filled bile spewings that he passes off as novels.
Screw the enraged Trekkies, he's knocked SciFi as a whole by listing such a crap set of unabashedly mainstream and modernly-popular authors - with the exception of Ellison - to represent 'Sci-Fi of the time' or whatever he calls it. Card is a hack and lucky he wrote two good books. After that, well, he went downhill and the new books might as well be the Narnia chronicles... Only not as content-filled.
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How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
I have not been able to watch Trek since Babylon 5 aired. Once I saw B5, Trek was so damn tired and silly I could not stand it anymore. It is hard to believe I used to enjoy Trek but I guess I was such a kid.
I hate to say this, but I completely disagree with you... If anyone is worthy of this kind of respect, it's Harlan Ellison. OSC wrote a popular children to mid-teen's book. And a decent sequel. That's about it. He's been churning out rather reprehensible drivel ever since, and if you look at the list of authors he calls paradigms of the field, you'll know what I mean....
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I guess that Mr. Card is pissed that his books have not sold so well recently. He has to resort to such things in order to try and trump up ANY attention for himself. I guess that the television medium has taken away some of his readership (all ten of them), and now he has a chance to rant and rave now that Trek is off the air for a few years. And trashing a great piece of SciFi to promote your own (ala JMS & B5) is shameful.
I found the "Any" key.
Also, anybody who disapproves of Blacks is really just scared of them. Don't dignify their positions by saying that they disagree or that they don't approve. Instead, accuse 'em of having a phobia. That way was can totally ignore their point of view without having to feel bad about doing it
Congratulations. You've surpassed countless hot grits down the pants references to post the most asinine comment ever to appear on slashdot.
Strike a blow for bigots! What a noble and brave stand. How oppressed are the poor independent thinkers with thoughtful, reasonable reasons for blanket disapproval of an entire race. Kudos!
"Disapproves of Blacks." WTF?
A writer that can write something that isn't:
* Full of latent desire to fuck boys (Ender's Game)
* Endlessly droning and excessively philosophical (Xenocide, CotM, etc.)
* Painfully reactionary (everything else he wrote)
Of course, I suppose JRRT being an angry, xenophobic, atavist crank didn't keep him from becoming popular.
Let's be honest here... lots of people like you are desperately slagging off Card because he dared to voice an opinion on homosexuals that wasn't in line with their liberal agenda. When are you damned liberal thought-police going to learn to think for yourselves and not just knee-jerk react with smearing and character assassination of anyone who thinks/say something un-PC?
Fucking fascists.
Anyone who was influenced in their youth by Heinlein needs to be sterilized and confined for everyone's safety.
I think it more has to do that he's sinking deeper and deeper into Mormon orthodoxy as he gets older. Members of a normal religion going orthodox is bad enough, but when you're a member of a wonky cult and you start making sure all your opinions are in perfect line with the cult dictates, then it starts becoming easier to insult you.
No shit, fuckstick. And what were the fucking Crusades then? Peace and brotherly love? Your post just proves how fucking dumb and blind you Christians really are. Enjoy your stay in the dark ages, morons. The rest of the world will send you a postcard every century or so.
Fuck you you hypocritical coward. Too fucking scared to post your username, but, typically, real man enough to make a big noise. You must be a Christian american bigot fuckprick.
Literary Criticism, I still can't believe they teach that in college. Liberal arts majors already have lots of choices when it comes to avoiding having to study anything useful.