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Dear English 110.01 students,


Get ready, because you're in for a stressful yet rewarding ride! I know that sci-fi might sound like a really boring topic to study, believe me, that's exactly what I was thinking too. But after I found out that I could watch a show that I actually liked (because it was considered "sci-fi") I got excited. When I found out I had to write an 8 page paper on it, I got a little less excited. When the paper was finished, I got excited again. That has to be the most stressful part of this class: the writing. Thankfully you guys will have an awesome teacher in Leslie who really helps you improve your writing, she really does everything to help keep you from writing a crappy paper!
The best part about this class has to be the blog writing that you do. For someone like me who is really shy and doesn't talk a whole lot in class, the blogs were a way that I could get my ideas out there and acknowledged by my classmates. Plus it's really cool getting feedback from everybody on what you're thinking and on what they were thinking about.
The best advice that I can give all of you is to keep up with your blogs and don't procrastinate on your papers. Trust me, these things take time to complete and if you're rushing it at the last second, they won't be nearly as good as they can be!



Good luck to all of you next quarter, you'll have a fun time in this class. :)

Farscape

Before this class, whenever I'd thought of the term "sci-fi," this show would have been the epitome of my thoughts. It has everything: aliens, space travel, robots. The only thing missing is dinosaurs. This episode, to me, was really entertaining to watch for those reasons. In this series, the "humans" (the peacekeepers, I'm not too sure if they're human or something that just looks like a human) are the heels and the aliens are the baby faces, which is a really neat idea in itself to reverse the point of view so that the audience can see what's going on from the "monster's" (the alien's) POV. The episode starts off with a human getting sucked into a wormhole (I personally think it would've been neater if it were a black hole, that way we could get someone's opinion as to what happens after being sucked into one) and he is in this alternate universe of sorts, where the aliens are odds with the peacekeepers.


In comparison to the other sci-fi episode that we watched in class, I like a dislike this series more than the others. I like it because it's more than just humans flying in space sorting out problems in their lives and the lives of everyone else on board their ship, but it's another race doing those same things and trying to coexist with different races and learning from each other. I dislike it because the plot (in this episode) didn't seem as thick as it was in the other series.' Again, switching it up so the audience sees what we might have perceived as the bad guy's point of view is something that the other shows didn't have. We always saw the good guy, what they did, and why they did it, but we never saw what had motivated the bad guys to fight back. I think that, with a better plot line, this show could have the potential to be better/ more entertaining than the other episode that we've watched.

STNG

There's one thing in this episode that stuck out, and that when the judge can't determine if Data has a soul. When they were trying to figure out whether or not Data should not be opened up and figured out, the judge stated that she cannot determine whether or not he has a soul. This goes along with Angel in both Buffy and Angel because Angel has a soul and does good things and Data, who may have a soul, does good things. Neither are killed/ examined because of this fact. even though neither are human, both are praised for being human-like.


The episode as a whole was actually pretty interesting. It was the first one I've seen of "The Next Generation" and, at first, I thought it was going to be pretty lame, but I was wrong. It was really intriguing and I wouldn't mind watching another. I actually think that way about the original Star Trek too and came really close to watching it last night. I think it's safe to say that this class has definitely given me a few more shows to watch on TV.