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<blockquote data-quote="Myrdin Potter" data-source="post: 8467760" data-attributes="member: 6843593"><p>As has been pointed out, WH 40K lore is all about why the models fight each other. I don’t find the Imperium to be bad guys in comparison to all the others that are being fought against. All the different factions are racists that hate everyone else and have their entire societies devoted to war.</p><p></p><p>The humans are a little easier to identify with, maybe, and they are at risk of being exterminated so maybe that is why the crazed leaders are in charge as they are keeping the humans alive (so far).</p><p></p><p>As for Starship Troopers, the director screwed up. He took a book written by a failed left wing politician where the bugs were his stand-in for communists and used the basic story and quite a bit of the dialogue without the director ever actually reading the book. So he made a direct satire and then screwed up because the source material was the opposite. I loved the movie because it proves how powerful the ideas that Heinlein presented in the novel really were.</p><p></p><p>The only unforgivable change for me that the director made was making the protagonist a white guy when the book clearly has him as Filipino. To see a book written when it was with a POC as the hero also had a big effect on me when I read it when I was 12 or so. (I am white and most of the foundation SF I was reading 40+ years ago had heroic whites as pretty much everyone in the books).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Myrdin Potter, post: 8467760, member: 6843593"] As has been pointed out, WH 40K lore is all about why the models fight each other. I don’t find the Imperium to be bad guys in comparison to all the others that are being fought against. All the different factions are racists that hate everyone else and have their entire societies devoted to war. The humans are a little easier to identify with, maybe, and they are at risk of being exterminated so maybe that is why the crazed leaders are in charge as they are keeping the humans alive (so far). As for Starship Troopers, the director screwed up. He took a book written by a failed left wing politician where the bugs were his stand-in for communists and used the basic story and quite a bit of the dialogue without the director ever actually reading the book. So he made a direct satire and then screwed up because the source material was the opposite. I loved the movie because it proves how powerful the ideas that Heinlein presented in the novel really were. The only unforgivable change for me that the director made was making the protagonist a white guy when the book clearly has him as Filipino. To see a book written when it was with a POC as the hero also had a big effect on me when I read it when I was 12 or so. (I am white and most of the foundation SF I was reading 40+ years ago had heroic whites as pretty much everyone in the books). [/QUOTE]
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