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Originally Posted by fjtorres
In LENSMEN you root for the Galactic Patrol and the Arisian camp as they hurl light-speed planets at the fortified bases of the Eddorian proxies or blow up their suns. Never mind the poor enslaved BEMS who had no say in electing their tyrannical leaders or even learned to sing Kumbaya.
Optimistic? Pesimistic? The good guys win... through genocide.
Uplifting for the Galactic Patrol kicking Boskone rears but definitely a downer for the Boskonians. But it's all in good fun.  |
While I don't agree with the derisive politicizing of this sort of thing (by some folks, not necessary in the quote above) it did remind of this, which I've always thought was funny:
