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re: Yes do. - Alcaray, Golly that's good!

I looked at the screenplay and I hope it makes it.

["The only criticism I have about the Bean books (and I guess it's a criticism of Card in general) is the easy way a genius can game out a battle or a war (or a social movement, or the effects an anonymous essay will have on the populace and the government, etc, etc, etc)and have everything go exactly as they plan it. It's a theory of warfare that requires an author's hand, basically, to cheat for you. There's never any fog of war for the geniuses. Opponents never do what you do not expect."]

However, I wouldn't call it 'cheat'. True, opponents never do what you expect, but authors DO think for you.

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