Yet again, a little something I did for school. In Sci Fi class (Societies of the Future) we had to read a book (our group chose "Ender's Game") and then do a project. Our group made a movie. Here's the script for it. My friend has the video somewhere. If I can, I'll figure out how to upload two of the sound files here, "Graff's Lines" and "Bernard's Lines" which I recorded in Audacity.
Keep your eyes open for some *subtle* references to famous works of fiction...
1st Scene: Shuttle
*Ender is standing around*
Ender: Hi everyone-
*Bernard comes in and punches Ender*
Ender: Ouch. Hi everyone, I'm-
*Bernard punches Ender*
Ender: Stop it! Hi everyone, my name's Ender Wigg- *grabs Bernard, throws him across the shuttle*
Bernard: Ahhhhh!
Ender: Stop punching me, jerk! Sorry everyone. Hi, my name's Ender.
Bernard: Oh god! Can anybody help me?
Ender: I'm a normal, 8 year old boy who grew up in America.
Bernard: Please? Anybody! I'm in an extraordinary amount of pain!
Ender: I've been enrolled in the International Fleet's Battle School because they think I can save humanity from evil alien bugs-
Bernard: Oh my god, I can't feel my toes! The bones are going through the skin and my abdomen looks like dogfooooooood!!!"
Ender:... Evil alien bugs.
*Bernard moans softly*
Ender: In order to do so I-
Bernard: Aaaaarrrrgh!!!
Ender: Can somebody help this guy, please!?
*Graff enters the screen*
Graff: What is this, you've been making trouble again Bernard?
Bernard: Goldenboy-Psychopath showed off his finishing move on me, Graff! I'm frikkin dyin' here, man! Oh god!
Graff: Quiet boy, 'fore I have to get out my stun gun!
Bernard: Screw you! Screw you! I'm frikkin' dyin' here! I'm frikkin' dyin'!
Ender: Could you maybe help him up or something?
Graff: You better not start anymore trouble, Berny. I got my eye on you.
***
2nd Scene: Battle Room
*Ender, Petra, Graff, Bernard, Alai, Rose, Bean, and Bonzo are all standing around*
Graff: Ok everybody, today I tell you how to fight in zero G.
*people cheer*
Graff: Ok. There will be two teams. Team one consists of Bernard, Bonzo, Petra, Rose, Mean Bean, and Alai the Annihilator. Team two consists of Ender.
Ender: Excuse me?
Graff: Team one will be armed with laser pistols, combat rifles, rocket launchers, plasma miniguns, and a Tank. A space tank. With a big gun on the front and lots of little guns on the side. Team two will be armed with a toothpick. It will be blunted before hand to make sure that nobody gets hurt.
Bernard: Isn't this... a bit dangerous?
Graff: You're right. Scratch that. Team two will be armed with a small round plastic bouncy ball. I don't know what I was thinking of with the toothpick. Someone could get hurt. Gosh, I'm such an idiot. I mean really... kids running around with toothpicks... it's total anarchy... I must be the most amoral, evil man on the planet... I belong dead...
Bonzo: I'm gonna grind you up into little bits, Ender. Then, I'm gonna grind up the bits and spread the fine gelatin they will then form on a large glass plate. I'll smash the plate on your earthly possessions, then roll it all up in a ball and burn it. While it's burning, I'm going to-
Graff: Ok, ok, save it for the battle.
Petra: Colonel Graff, I was wondering if we could trade in one of our rocket launchers for a sniper rifle? I only ask because I assume this will be a "License to Kill" match?
Graff: Good assumption, Petra, if inherently flawed. You will be required to pound members of the opposing team into bloody pulps for extremely long, violent periods of time. When finished, you must perform the victory ceremony by passing through the enemy gate. This is done to show you how to strategize. And because we at Battle School are the worst kinds of sadists.
Ender: Why is everyone against me in this situation?
Graff: Because, Ender, everyone is against you in every situation, forever. Everytime you step out of bed you can be assured that someone very near to you is planning to not only kill you, but do so in some insanely explosive and embarrassing manner.
Ender: But... I thought you were always going to be there for me, Colonel!
Graff: Hah! The kid trusts his teachers! Hoh, that is rich... hah. Whew. Just took a ride on the Lollercoaster. Strapped on my Lollerskates. Jumped from the Roflcopter. I was only doing my duty in the Lollercaust.
Alai: Can we start now? I mean, I like Ender as much as, maybe a little more than, the next guy... but I also can't wait to paste him.
Graff: Okay. Ready... aim... *pause* Wait for it... Fire!
*screen goes black, Ender screams*
***
3rd Scene: Living Room
Peter: Why hello there. My name's Peter Wiggin. I'm Ender's older brother. You know, there's a lot of great stories I could tell you about Ender, growing up. Hah. I remember I once hung him upside-down from a powerline above a rabid dog that I'd starved for a week. Hah. Those were good times...
*Valentine walks in*
Peter: And this is Valentine. The IF didn't want her. She's a wimp.
Valentine: Who are you talking to?
Peter: She's Ender's older sister, my younger sister. She was always trying to protect him. Like that dog story I told you? She sprayed the dog with mace. Seriously. I don't even know where she got the mace.
Valentine: Peter, you're being a schizo. Listen, Ender hasn't responded to any of my letters! What do you think happened to him?
Peter: Like I care. I'm gonna take over the world using an internet connection and my massive intel... intell... my smartness, Ok?
Valentine: Sounds fun. Can I join?
Peter: Sure. Hey, let's pretend to be opposites, then we can take over easier because you're nicer and know longer words and I'm meaner but people like me more.
Valentine: Ok, but let's make my person mean and yours really nice, because it's ironic.
Peter: Yeah! That's the spirit. *taps on keyboard* Ah, Machiavelli, I have trumped you once again!
***
4th Scene: Shower Room
*Ender, Alai, Bonzo, Rose, Bean, and Peter are all standing around*
Ender: Peter, what are you doing here?
Peter: There weren't enough puppets to make it feel like a full room.
Bonzo: I suppose you know why I'm here, Ender.
Ender: Not really. Aside from you and Peter, everyone in here loves me.
Rose: To be honest, I was always kinda ambivalent about you.
Alai: I'm here for the same reason Peter's here.
Ender: So why are you here, Bonzo?
Bonzo: It's Bonzo, not Bonzo. I'm here for one reason, and one reason only *jumps back and makes karate noises* your untimely demise!
Ender: *jumps back and makes karate noises* So that is how it is, then?
Bonzo: At last, we meet again, for the last time!
*Mortal Kombat Sequence*
Announcer: Ender... versus... Bonzo!
*Ender punches Bonzo, before moving around in midair*
Ender: Hadooooo-
*Bonzo jumps back and seems to move around in midair for a moment before launching at Ender and knocking him across the screen*
Announcer: C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
*Ender gets up and attacks Bonzo. Bonzo attacks Ender. Ender attacks Bonzo and juggles him in mid-air*
Announcer: 2... 3... 4... 5... 6 HITS!
*The words "Limit Break" appear over Ender's head*
Ender: Hyaaaaaaaah!
*Bonzo falls and stays*
Announcer: Finish him!
*Ender kicks Bonzo in the head, we see Bonzo's head torn off*
Announcer: Fatality! Ender Wins!
*End Mortal Kombat Sequence*
*Ender lifts up Bonzo's head with his spine dangling from it*
Ender: Is he gonna be okay?
*Graff comes in*
Graff: Hi Ender, hi Bo- Oh my god what have you done you vicious little Demon-Child?!?!
Bean: You know... Bonzo doesn't look so good...
Alai: He should have quit while he was ahead.
*Everyone laughs in a cheesy manner*
Bernard: Seriously, though. Should we do something?
*Graff takes Bonzo's head from Ender*
Graff: No, no... he's fine... See? Tell everyone you're fine, Bonzo... *manipulates the skull* Oi, Si Senor, Muey Bueno!
Rose: Since when does he speak Spanish.
*Graff looks around in the sudden silence, then sinks into the floor*
5th Scene: Battle Room
*Ender, Graff, Rose, Alai, Bernard, Bean, Petra, and the Crowd Puppet are all standing around*
Graff: Okay, today we will be performing a full scale battle. At least eight of you will certainly die, and the rest will be promoted to fleet command. There, you will command humanity's last hope against the alien scourge.
Bean: It's only our third day!
Graff: Suck it up, short stuff.
Alai: How will we be divided up this time, Colonel Graff?
Graff: That's an excellent question, Alai.
*Pause*
Bernard: You gonna answer it?
Graff: Ehhh... sure. You will be divided into two groups, or "toons", and commanded to fight one another. You will be in pitch black darkness. You will be required to attack each and every person, including the people on your team, at least once.
Ender: Uh oh. I think I know where this is going...
Graff: Toon one will consist of Rose, Alai, Bernard, Petra, Bean, and that big crowd of armed children right there.
Ender: Oh no.
Graff: Toon two will consist of Ender.
Petra: That's unfair!
Rose: Yeah! You should be on our team, too!
Graff: You're right. Ender, not only will you be facing off against all of us, you will have to do so without the use of your legs.
Ender: I don't even have use of them now! A stick does all my walking!
Graff: I'm sorry, Ender, but when you're out there in the cold blackness of space, you're going to have to face the fact that you won't have any legs, and your enemy will outnumber clear into scientific notation. They're going to have better weapons, better training, and, if we don't do a good job here, better tactics than you. And, they'll have a home field advantage.
Bean: You mean we're attacking them?
Graff: Huh?
Alai: We thought this was all to stop the invasion fleet they're sending!
Graff: ... yeah, uh, that's what I said. We'll be defending ourselves.
Ender: But you said-
Graff: Enough! I am the Teacher here! This is not a democracy, it's a Graff-tatorship! Now! Everyone grab something sharp and attack Ender!
Ender: I don't wanna fight!
Graff: Ok. You graduate.
Ender: What?
***
6th Scene: Fleet Command
*Ender walks on screen*
Ender: Hello? I was told to come to Fleet Command School to learn strategery! Is anyone here?
*Mazer Rackham floats up from the ground*
Mazer: Hmmm. Please, enter my domain you must.
Ender: Pardon?
Mazer: Why are you here?
Ender: To learn from a great Warrior.
Mazer: Oh ho! Wars not make one great!
Ender: I don't know. This guy was pretty famous. His name was Mazer Rackham.
Mazer: Rackham, it is, moron. Rackham. Like a kind of pork, hmm, yes.
Ender: Are you him?
Mazer: Yes, my child.
Ender: And you're going to teach me how to strategerize?
Mazer: So it is written, yea, so it shall be done.
Ender: Where to we get started?
Mazer: Okay, this terminal to the fleet connects you. On the other side of these walls your friends are. Soon, the invasion, begun it shall be. Battles, everywhere they will take place! Your friends, brilliant strategists they are, commanding squadrons and whatnot under your command they shall.
Ender: Wait... Ok, the terminal-
Mazer: No time! No time is there for my speaking patterns to wonder about! Each ship has a Dr. Device, a gun that anything it hits it blows up, hmmm, and likewise anything the blast hits, yes! Take out scores of enemies simultaneously!
Ender:
*Some sort of comical wipe to show that time has passed*
Mazer: Now, Ender, for you it is time to pass your final test!
Ender: I don't think I can, Mazer! I'm losing sleep, my vision's blurry, I haven't kept anything solid down for months, and I'm peeing blood with increasing regularity.
Mazer: Care, I do not. If you pass this, you'll go on to actually command the actual fleet instead of just doing the simulations.
Ender: You know, these simulations are pretty realistic. I mean, how can I tell the difference between the simulation and reality?
Mazer: You can't, silly. How else would switching to reality have been last week, otherwise, hmm?
Ender: Huh?
Mazer: Nothing. Oh by the way, the final assault on the Bugger Homeworld this one simulates. A planet there shall be.
Ender: Can we blow it up with the Dr. Device?
Mazer: Probably you should not.. Not in good form, would it be.
Ender: Ok, here we go!
***
Last Scene: Peter's Palace
Peter: Well, it all turned out all right in the end. Ender killed all the bugs and blew the heck out of their planet. Valentine became the chief driving force behind the pioneering into space. Graff was sent to court for his actions, but acquitted of all charges based on the fact that everyone who died was totally asking for it. Ender went with Valentine to become a civil leader somewhere out amongst the stars. Additionally, he wrote a book called "Hive Queen" under the pseudonym "Speaker for the Dead", and is currently trying to resurrect the whole species. Good luck with that.
And as for me? Well, I do alright. I'm god-king of Earth. That really makes me happy. But sometimes I miss Ender. He was always at such a convenient kicking height.
Take care of yourselves, and each other.
*Money rains down on Peter in an orgiastic rap-video slow-mo close-up fashion*
-The scenes of Valentine and Peter were both cut out (though Peter still appears in the shower room) as well as a battle scene not in the script that showed the destruction of the Bugger Homeworld. Furthermore, Mazer's Yoda-vioce was dropped halfway through production because... well, it's hard to talk like that. It sounds terrible anyway.
Keep your eyes open for some *subtle* references to famous works of fiction...
1st Scene: Shuttle
*Ender is standing around*
Ender: Hi everyone-
*Bernard comes in and punches Ender*
Ender: Ouch. Hi everyone, I'm-
*Bernard punches Ender*
Ender: Stop it! Hi everyone, my name's Ender Wigg- *grabs Bernard, throws him across the shuttle*
Bernard: Ahhhhh!
Ender: Stop punching me, jerk! Sorry everyone. Hi, my name's Ender.
Bernard: Oh god! Can anybody help me?
Ender: I'm a normal, 8 year old boy who grew up in America.
Bernard: Please? Anybody! I'm in an extraordinary amount of pain!
Ender: I've been enrolled in the International Fleet's Battle School because they think I can save humanity from evil alien bugs-
Bernard: Oh my god, I can't feel my toes! The bones are going through the skin and my abdomen looks like dogfooooooood!!!"
Ender:... Evil alien bugs.
*Bernard moans softly*
Ender: In order to do so I-
Bernard: Aaaaarrrrgh!!!
Ender: Can somebody help this guy, please!?
*Graff enters the screen*
Graff: What is this, you've been making trouble again Bernard?
Bernard: Goldenboy-Psychopath showed off his finishing move on me, Graff! I'm frikkin dyin' here, man! Oh god!
Graff: Quiet boy, 'fore I have to get out my stun gun!
Bernard: Screw you! Screw you! I'm frikkin' dyin' here! I'm frikkin' dyin'!
Ender: Could you maybe help him up or something?
Graff: You better not start anymore trouble, Berny. I got my eye on you.
***
2nd Scene: Battle Room
*Ender, Petra, Graff, Bernard, Alai, Rose, Bean, and Bonzo are all standing around*
Graff: Ok everybody, today I tell you how to fight in zero G.
*people cheer*
Graff: Ok. There will be two teams. Team one consists of Bernard, Bonzo, Petra, Rose, Mean Bean, and Alai the Annihilator. Team two consists of Ender.
Ender: Excuse me?
Graff: Team one will be armed with laser pistols, combat rifles, rocket launchers, plasma miniguns, and a Tank. A space tank. With a big gun on the front and lots of little guns on the side. Team two will be armed with a toothpick. It will be blunted before hand to make sure that nobody gets hurt.
Bernard: Isn't this... a bit dangerous?
Graff: You're right. Scratch that. Team two will be armed with a small round plastic bouncy ball. I don't know what I was thinking of with the toothpick. Someone could get hurt. Gosh, I'm such an idiot. I mean really... kids running around with toothpicks... it's total anarchy... I must be the most amoral, evil man on the planet... I belong dead...
Bonzo: I'm gonna grind you up into little bits, Ender. Then, I'm gonna grind up the bits and spread the fine gelatin they will then form on a large glass plate. I'll smash the plate on your earthly possessions, then roll it all up in a ball and burn it. While it's burning, I'm going to-
Graff: Ok, ok, save it for the battle.
Petra: Colonel Graff, I was wondering if we could trade in one of our rocket launchers for a sniper rifle? I only ask because I assume this will be a "License to Kill" match?
Graff: Good assumption, Petra, if inherently flawed. You will be required to pound members of the opposing team into bloody pulps for extremely long, violent periods of time. When finished, you must perform the victory ceremony by passing through the enemy gate. This is done to show you how to strategize. And because we at Battle School are the worst kinds of sadists.
Ender: Why is everyone against me in this situation?
Graff: Because, Ender, everyone is against you in every situation, forever. Everytime you step out of bed you can be assured that someone very near to you is planning to not only kill you, but do so in some insanely explosive and embarrassing manner.
Ender: But... I thought you were always going to be there for me, Colonel!
Graff: Hah! The kid trusts his teachers! Hoh, that is rich... hah. Whew. Just took a ride on the Lollercoaster. Strapped on my Lollerskates. Jumped from the Roflcopter. I was only doing my duty in the Lollercaust.
Alai: Can we start now? I mean, I like Ender as much as, maybe a little more than, the next guy... but I also can't wait to paste him.
Graff: Okay. Ready... aim... *pause* Wait for it... Fire!
*screen goes black, Ender screams*
***
3rd Scene: Living Room
Peter: Why hello there. My name's Peter Wiggin. I'm Ender's older brother. You know, there's a lot of great stories I could tell you about Ender, growing up. Hah. I remember I once hung him upside-down from a powerline above a rabid dog that I'd starved for a week. Hah. Those were good times...
*Valentine walks in*
Peter: And this is Valentine. The IF didn't want her. She's a wimp.
Valentine: Who are you talking to?
Peter: She's Ender's older sister, my younger sister. She was always trying to protect him. Like that dog story I told you? She sprayed the dog with mace. Seriously. I don't even know where she got the mace.
Valentine: Peter, you're being a schizo. Listen, Ender hasn't responded to any of my letters! What do you think happened to him?
Peter: Like I care. I'm gonna take over the world using an internet connection and my massive intel... intell... my smartness, Ok?
Valentine: Sounds fun. Can I join?
Peter: Sure. Hey, let's pretend to be opposites, then we can take over easier because you're nicer and know longer words and I'm meaner but people like me more.
Valentine: Ok, but let's make my person mean and yours really nice, because it's ironic.
Peter: Yeah! That's the spirit. *taps on keyboard* Ah, Machiavelli, I have trumped you once again!
***
4th Scene: Shower Room
*Ender, Alai, Bonzo, Rose, Bean, and Peter are all standing around*
Ender: Peter, what are you doing here?
Peter: There weren't enough puppets to make it feel like a full room.
Bonzo: I suppose you know why I'm here, Ender.
Ender: Not really. Aside from you and Peter, everyone in here loves me.
Rose: To be honest, I was always kinda ambivalent about you.
Alai: I'm here for the same reason Peter's here.
Ender: So why are you here, Bonzo?
Bonzo: It's Bonzo, not Bonzo. I'm here for one reason, and one reason only *jumps back and makes karate noises* your untimely demise!
Ender: *jumps back and makes karate noises* So that is how it is, then?
Bonzo: At last, we meet again, for the last time!
*Mortal Kombat Sequence*
Announcer: Ender... versus... Bonzo!
*Ender punches Bonzo, before moving around in midair*
Ender: Hadooooo-
*Bonzo jumps back and seems to move around in midair for a moment before launching at Ender and knocking him across the screen*
Announcer: C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
*Ender gets up and attacks Bonzo. Bonzo attacks Ender. Ender attacks Bonzo and juggles him in mid-air*
Announcer: 2... 3... 4... 5... 6 HITS!
*The words "Limit Break" appear over Ender's head*
Ender: Hyaaaaaaaah!
*Bonzo falls and stays*
Announcer: Finish him!
*Ender kicks Bonzo in the head, we see Bonzo's head torn off*
Announcer: Fatality! Ender Wins!
*End Mortal Kombat Sequence*
*Ender lifts up Bonzo's head with his spine dangling from it*
Ender: Is he gonna be okay?
*Graff comes in*
Graff: Hi Ender, hi Bo- Oh my god what have you done you vicious little Demon-Child?!?!
Bean: You know... Bonzo doesn't look so good...
Alai: He should have quit while he was ahead.
*Everyone laughs in a cheesy manner*
Bernard: Seriously, though. Should we do something?
*Graff takes Bonzo's head from Ender*
Graff: No, no... he's fine... See? Tell everyone you're fine, Bonzo... *manipulates the skull* Oi, Si Senor, Muey Bueno!
Rose: Since when does he speak Spanish.
*Graff looks around in the sudden silence, then sinks into the floor*
5th Scene: Battle Room
*Ender, Graff, Rose, Alai, Bernard, Bean, Petra, and the Crowd Puppet are all standing around*
Graff: Okay, today we will be performing a full scale battle. At least eight of you will certainly die, and the rest will be promoted to fleet command. There, you will command humanity's last hope against the alien scourge.
Bean: It's only our third day!
Graff: Suck it up, short stuff.
Alai: How will we be divided up this time, Colonel Graff?
Graff: That's an excellent question, Alai.
*Pause*
Bernard: You gonna answer it?
Graff: Ehhh... sure. You will be divided into two groups, or "toons", and commanded to fight one another. You will be in pitch black darkness. You will be required to attack each and every person, including the people on your team, at least once.
Ender: Uh oh. I think I know where this is going...
Graff: Toon one will consist of Rose, Alai, Bernard, Petra, Bean, and that big crowd of armed children right there.
Ender: Oh no.
Graff: Toon two will consist of Ender.
Petra: That's unfair!
Rose: Yeah! You should be on our team, too!
Graff: You're right. Ender, not only will you be facing off against all of us, you will have to do so without the use of your legs.
Ender: I don't even have use of them now! A stick does all my walking!
Graff: I'm sorry, Ender, but when you're out there in the cold blackness of space, you're going to have to face the fact that you won't have any legs, and your enemy will outnumber clear into scientific notation. They're going to have better weapons, better training, and, if we don't do a good job here, better tactics than you. And, they'll have a home field advantage.
Bean: You mean we're attacking them?
Graff: Huh?
Alai: We thought this was all to stop the invasion fleet they're sending!
Graff: ... yeah, uh, that's what I said. We'll be defending ourselves.
Ender: But you said-
Graff: Enough! I am the Teacher here! This is not a democracy, it's a Graff-tatorship! Now! Everyone grab something sharp and attack Ender!
Ender: I don't wanna fight!
Graff: Ok. You graduate.
Ender: What?
***
6th Scene: Fleet Command
*Ender walks on screen*
Ender: Hello? I was told to come to Fleet Command School to learn strategery! Is anyone here?
*Mazer Rackham floats up from the ground*
Mazer: Hmmm. Please, enter my domain you must.
Ender: Pardon?
Mazer: Why are you here?
Ender: To learn from a great Warrior.
Mazer: Oh ho! Wars not make one great!
Ender: I don't know. This guy was pretty famous. His name was Mazer Rackham.
Mazer: Rackham, it is, moron. Rackham. Like a kind of pork, hmm, yes.
Ender: Are you him?
Mazer: Yes, my child.
Ender: And you're going to teach me how to strategerize?
Mazer: So it is written, yea, so it shall be done.
Ender: Where to we get started?
Mazer: Okay, this terminal to the fleet connects you. On the other side of these walls your friends are. Soon, the invasion, begun it shall be. Battles, everywhere they will take place! Your friends, brilliant strategists they are, commanding squadrons and whatnot under your command they shall.
Ender: Wait... Ok, the terminal-
Mazer: No time! No time is there for my speaking patterns to wonder about! Each ship has a Dr. Device, a gun that anything it hits it blows up, hmmm, and likewise anything the blast hits, yes! Take out scores of enemies simultaneously!
Ender:
*Some sort of comical wipe to show that time has passed*
Mazer: Now, Ender, for you it is time to pass your final test!
Ender: I don't think I can, Mazer! I'm losing sleep, my vision's blurry, I haven't kept anything solid down for months, and I'm peeing blood with increasing regularity.
Mazer: Care, I do not. If you pass this, you'll go on to actually command the actual fleet instead of just doing the simulations.
Ender: You know, these simulations are pretty realistic. I mean, how can I tell the difference between the simulation and reality?
Mazer: You can't, silly. How else would switching to reality have been last week, otherwise, hmm?
Ender: Huh?
Mazer: Nothing. Oh by the way, the final assault on the Bugger Homeworld this one simulates. A planet there shall be.
Ender: Can we blow it up with the Dr. Device?
Mazer: Probably you should not.. Not in good form, would it be.
Ender: Ok, here we go!
***
Last Scene: Peter's Palace
Peter: Well, it all turned out all right in the end. Ender killed all the bugs and blew the heck out of their planet. Valentine became the chief driving force behind the pioneering into space. Graff was sent to court for his actions, but acquitted of all charges based on the fact that everyone who died was totally asking for it. Ender went with Valentine to become a civil leader somewhere out amongst the stars. Additionally, he wrote a book called "Hive Queen" under the pseudonym "Speaker for the Dead", and is currently trying to resurrect the whole species. Good luck with that.
And as for me? Well, I do alright. I'm god-king of Earth. That really makes me happy. But sometimes I miss Ender. He was always at such a convenient kicking height.
Take care of yourselves, and each other.
*Money rains down on Peter in an orgiastic rap-video slow-mo close-up fashion*
-The scenes of Valentine and Peter were both cut out (though Peter still appears in the shower room) as well as a battle scene not in the script that showed the destruction of the Bugger Homeworld. Furthermore, Mazer's Yoda-vioce was dropped halfway through production because... well, it's hard to talk like that. It sounds terrible anyway.