I suspect I could get in fights about discuss ST for decades. It's embedded in Heinlein's assumptions and the moment in history those assumptions come from. ST lays Heinlein's agenda out very clearly, so there's no fishing for the point you nebulously and completely disagree with. No, one can just read it, consider it, and articulate the points one agrees and disagrees with. For bonus points, one can attack the underlying assumptions and do the same thing, but there isn't much subtext to fuss with.
At some point, I will read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for the third time, because it holds up. Just not yet, because I feel I've put in my Heinlein time for a while.
I could not tell Aragorn and Boromir apart
Oh good, I wasn't the only one who had to stop and think about that! And, of course, the "backup hobbits" Merry and Pippin, who I distinguished by waistcoat color and accent. I could make up something about the artwork in V as an artistic choice to show the facelessness and complicity of the regime's spear-carriers, except I don't think that's the story Moore and Lloyd were telling. I think it just was an experiment in style that didn't pan out at all.
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get in fights aboutdiscuss ST for decades. It's embedded in Heinlein's assumptions and the moment in history those assumptions come from. ST lays Heinlein's agenda out very clearly, so there's no fishing for the point you nebulously and completely disagree with. No, one can just read it, consider it, and articulate the points one agrees and disagrees with. For bonus points, one can attack the underlying assumptions and do the same thing, but there isn't much subtext to fuss with.At some point, I will read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for the third time, because it holds up. Just not yet, because I feel I've put in my Heinlein time for a while.
I could not tell Aragorn and Boromir apart
Oh good, I wasn't the only one who had to stop and think about that! And, of course, the "backup hobbits" Merry and Pippin, who I distinguished by waistcoat color and accent. I could make up something about the artwork in V as an artistic choice to show the facelessness and complicity of the regime's spear-carriers, except I don't think that's the story Moore and Lloyd were telling. I think it just was an experiment in style that didn't pan out at all.