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re: As gold as it still is, could Starship Toopers be remade and improved?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:16 am to mattchewbocca
Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:16 am to mattchewbocca
I don't know if improved, but you could make a hell of a limited sci-fi series out of it if they played it dead serious (as was intended by the author of the book). Turning a serious novel exploring a variety of important ideas about service, government responsibilities, and societal values into a satire was kind of insulting, though I liked the move. This is not likely to happen, as Heinlein unabashedly embraced now right-wing ideas like citizenship and voting rights based on military service (though he also believed in "free love").
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 10:18 am
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Posted on 4/29/24 at 10:24 am to dcw7g
What's wrong with those ideas?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 11:18 am to dcw7g
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right-wing ideas like citizenship
For fear of turning this into a debate that belongs onto another forum, I don't think citizenship is a 'right-wing' idea. And I don't think voting rights are a right-wing idea either. Heinlein certainly expressed some very peculiar views on those subjects in this novel though.
He also had some very strange interpretations of the concept of militarty chain-of-command, not just in this novel, but in several. I'm not sure if he either never completely understood the meaning properly, or just took artistic license to purposely twist the concept to fit the specific theme of whatever story he was working on at the time.
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 12:05 pm
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