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[katamuro]

Well at this point I hope they do one of two things if they are going to reboot or restart it.

 

A)Blend the endings creating one that has the best aspects of all three. (dead reapers from red, alive edi and geth from blue and....frak green, its useless)

 

whatever they do, set it after the reaper war

[dreamgazer]

Well, except that Speaker for the Dead also had Ender as the main protagonist and the events on Lusitania were his way of atoning for what he saw as his failure in Ender's Game.

True, but Ender's also become a very different individual than the child in Ender's Game, and the universe has three-thousand years of change under its belt. He doesn't even appear in the story for quite a while, in which Lusitania thrives with context from the universe without Ender's presence.

The events on Lusitania also aren't purely his way of atoning for his failure, but a secondary benefit to his empathetic answering of Novinha's call for a speaker. They coexist. You could swap Ender out for another speaker seeking atonement for past transgressions, and the story would more or less play out the same way, addressing the same themes. Ender being the original "speaker" just adds more intrigue.
 

In fact, the very title "Speaker for the Dead" was the pen name he used at the end of Ender's Game when he revealed the truth about the Formics.

Wouldn't be anything wrong with that kind of reference in the next Mass Effect, either. At that point in the story, it's a millenniums-old label that has taken on a different purpose.

[Iakus]

Wouldn'the be the same story at all, really. Ender'so not just a speaker, or even the Speaker, he'said also the Xenocide. He'said the one responsible for the extermination of the only other species known to be sentient. And he was potentially seeing the same thing happening again. If it was a different character, it would have been essentially a science fiction murder mystery Shrouded in a first contact story. But making him Ender gave it a whole new meaning.

[dreamgazer]

Wouldn'the be the same story at all, really. Ender'so not just a speaker, or even the Speaker, he'said also the Xenocide. He'said the one responsible for the extermination of the only other species known to be sentient. And he was potentially seeing the same thing happening again. If it was a different character, it would have been essentially a science fiction murder mystery Shrouded in a first contact story. But making him Ender gave it a whole new meaning.

Sure, it would. None of that couldn't also be accomplished by another wounded speaker empathetic with the Xenocide's internal conflict.

[katamuro]

i have read both books and frankly in Ender's place there could have been anyone, literally anyone. sure he ephasized the story more but his role as ender was literally only significant because he was still carrying that egg. Everything else could have been done by someone else.