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Re- Avengers
May 17, 2012 | 07:21 PM
Regarding your comments on the implausibility of the Avengers...
Mr. Card, you do write science fiction, don't you?
Science fiction is full of implausible situations. One might consider the arrival of hostile aliens to be implausible, or the training of very young children in advanced tactics, or telepathic control of a young girl by an alien bent on impregnating her, for instance.
In science fiction, or in fantasy for that matter, it's not always about how plausible the situation is. Authors often use those situations to examine how people act when they are placed in them, or illustrate how people should act. Is it likely that a psychologically scarred man will end up on a world where pigs turn into trees? Hardly, but that's not nearly as important as how that man grows as he comes to understand the situation around him, and finds that because of his own experiences, he is the best person, indeed the only person, who can resolve an impossible situation.
I have the highest hopes for the movie of Ender's Game, and though I may disagree with your viewpoints, I'll always enjoy your implausible situations and the very plausible humanity of the characters that you put through them.
Faraday
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