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Posted 2015-01-29 7:49 PM (#9396 - in reply to #9393)
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jwharris28 - 2015-01-30 8:02 AM

I was hugely let down by Old Man's War when the main character was rejuvenated. I thought the story was going to be about an old man. I thought that was a very cool perspective. And then he became an ordinary normal horny young man, and the story lost its novelty for me.

For me, if Scalzi had left him in a failing body to go off and fight in an interstellar war, it would have pretty much trashed any suspension of disbelief.

I'm curious why you no longer think of him as an "old man". His essence is still the same; he's still got the same personality, and his many decades of experience and wisdom. He's still an old man -- and far from ordinary. He's just been put into a different container.


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