Ender's Game Re-watch

Petra is remote piloting the “Little Doctor”. MD 500 -molecular detachment device.
Decomposed everything

Unbeknowst to Ender and his staff, the simulations are REAL.
This is the war.

The “simulations” continue for weeks and months , increasing in difficulty.
Many missions Ender wins, some Ender loses.

This next battle is the final “simulation”.

Graduation battle on the morrow.

Come on Ender Graduation Day

The “simulation” is staged around the Buggers’ home planet.

The Formics are waiting.

“The enemy’s gate is down”

Ender is brilliant.
The way to the planet is clear.

Ender sacrifices most of the fleet, to get to the planet and destroy it.

Ender is relentless and determined.

The Formis planet is destroyed. All life on the planet is extinguished.

Ender: “Game over”

Ender still thinks it was a simulation.

Ender is finally told the truth.
Ender is destroyed when he realizes he has destroyed an entire species.

Ender the Xenocide.

The novel is so much deeper.

Graff: “We won. That’s all that matters.”

Ender: “No. The way we win matters.”

Ender sees so much more about the Formics.
He can “think” to them.

Ender run out to the landscape to find something he guesses at.

Inside the Formic structure Ender finds the larval queen.
To make amends for the future he has stolen from them,
Ender will take the queen to a safe place to protect her.