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bantha_fodder June 18 2009, 10:01:31 UTC
OH GOOD

THEY'RE MAKING A MOVIE VERSION OF THAT BOOK

WHERE THE YELLOW HORDES FROM THE NORTH INVADE AUSTRALIA

AWESOME

:o(

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bantha_fodder June 18 2009, 10:02:27 UTC
(i hope the young gentleman who plays lee is hot and actually at least asian)

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the_grynne June 18 2009, 10:15:49 UTC
Ah, Lee. :) I remember reading this in my teens and laughing at the image of his fried-egg nipples.

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the_grynne June 18 2009, 10:19:05 UTC
The old Yellow Terror never get old, at least on this continent. Wasn't it written during the Keating years, when improving relations with East Asia were starting to threaten our national "white" identity?

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calculare June 18 2009, 10:49:59 UTC
Oh! Wow. Really? I...must have missed that entire aspect of the series while I was busy giggling at the angstiness of the whole thing. I AM SO DENSE. *hides*

No, I mean...seriously? I thought they never actually specified in the novel who the invaders were. And from memory (admittedly, dim and distant) I don't think any specific country actually fit the description/bill? Aside from character speculations, I mean.

Ugh. WHO CARES. *shakes fist at series and movie and inevitable spin-off stuff*

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the_grynne June 18 2009, 11:25:40 UTC
I thought they never actually specified in the novel who the invaders were.

I only read the first couple, and I think you're right in that they're unspecified (because Ellie never saw them clearly anyway? and most of what they knew was rumour?). But I remember it being heavily hinted that the invaders came in from the north, and I always thought that they were meant to be either Japanese, Chinese, or Indonesian.

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calculare June 18 2009, 12:41:42 UTC
Well, either way: someone read them too often.

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the_grynne June 18 2009, 13:47:26 UTC
They should TOTALLY be French. ;D

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bantha_fodder June 18 2009, 14:18:06 UTC
Yeah, it was written then.

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