I'll call this part 3 of my epic tale. And at the end I'll review Ender's Game, so spoilers ahead.
Waking up in a strange place is weird, and it is even strange when you become conscious from being slid from an ambulance bed thing to an ER bed. I have bits of memory from this rough transition. The first noteworthy one is when I woke up in the actual ER room surrounded by people poking my hand. In fact, it was the pain that woke me up. I asked them to please stop poking me, and that got a laugh or two, then I passed out again.
The next was another pain-induced awakening. I looked down at the source and some guy was putting a catheter in. I said either "This is uncomfortable," or "This is uncomfortable for both of us." I just have to keep them laughing. The next memories are of begging for water. A bipac or whatever its called really dries out your throat. It is not pleasant.
The final awakening was in my ICU room. This is not a memory I like to recall. Talking is hard when you have oxygen constantly blowing in your throat. My dad was next to me and told me what happened. The strange thing is I knew I had died. I knew where I was, but I did not know the details. I lost control after he filled me in and the monitors started screaming at me, then I passed out again.
Now, on to something (only) slightly less depressing: Ender's Game. I have easily read this book more than 100 times, and I've studied it more than most study the bible. I even tried memorizing it once. Now that I have established my credentials here's what I thought of the movie.... Spoilers
Spoilers Ahead!
Kay. I didn't like it. It was visually stunning but they changed too much of the actual story, some of it in the name of diversity (see Anderson and Dap), and some for no apparent reason. Bonzo was supposed to die dammit! There never was any sort of romance between Ender and Petra. Ever. Dragon started at #1 and stayed at #1, and they combined to battles into one which pissed me right off. I really hated the entirety of Battle School. It was too rushed and the butchered the Fantasy Game. Bean wasn't on his flight and Bernard didn't go to Command School with them. On that note, there wasn't enough of Dink of Hot Soup, and no Crazy Tom. I did enjoy the simulator, but that required ignoring the fact that they were all in the same room. Bah. Objectively it was a good movie, but because I have such an intimate relationship with the book I cannot separate the two. In the future I'll make a list of every detail they got wrong, if you want more on that then text me and I have a pretty decent list already. So now I have two reasons to hate Gavin Hood. Even though he didn't write Origins: Wolverine, I still blame him for the horrendous portrayal of Deadpool.
Waking up in a strange place is weird, and it is even strange when you become conscious from being slid from an ambulance bed thing to an ER bed. I have bits of memory from this rough transition. The first noteworthy one is when I woke up in the actual ER room surrounded by people poking my hand. In fact, it was the pain that woke me up. I asked them to please stop poking me, and that got a laugh or two, then I passed out again.
The next was another pain-induced awakening. I looked down at the source and some guy was putting a catheter in. I said either "This is uncomfortable," or "This is uncomfortable for both of us." I just have to keep them laughing. The next memories are of begging for water. A bipac or whatever its called really dries out your throat. It is not pleasant.
The final awakening was in my ICU room. This is not a memory I like to recall. Talking is hard when you have oxygen constantly blowing in your throat. My dad was next to me and told me what happened. The strange thing is I knew I had died. I knew where I was, but I did not know the details. I lost control after he filled me in and the monitors started screaming at me, then I passed out again.
Now, on to something (only) slightly less depressing: Ender's Game. I have easily read this book more than 100 times, and I've studied it more than most study the bible. I even tried memorizing it once. Now that I have established my credentials here's what I thought of the movie.... Spoilers
Spoilers Ahead!
Kay. I didn't like it. It was visually stunning but they changed too much of the actual story, some of it in the name of diversity (see Anderson and Dap), and some for no apparent reason. Bonzo was supposed to die dammit! There never was any sort of romance between Ender and Petra. Ever. Dragon started at #1 and stayed at #1, and they combined to battles into one which pissed me right off. I really hated the entirety of Battle School. It was too rushed and the butchered the Fantasy Game. Bean wasn't on his flight and Bernard didn't go to Command School with them. On that note, there wasn't enough of Dink of Hot Soup, and no Crazy Tom. I did enjoy the simulator, but that required ignoring the fact that they were all in the same room. Bah. Objectively it was a good movie, but because I have such an intimate relationship with the book I cannot separate the two. In the future I'll make a list of every detail they got wrong, if you want more on that then text me and I have a pretty decent list already. So now I have two reasons to hate Gavin Hood. Even though he didn't write Origins: Wolverine, I still blame him for the horrendous portrayal of Deadpool.
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