Viewing blog #1

Pyscho Pass
22 Episodes in the first season x each 20 minutes = 440min= 7.3 hours so lets just say 7 hours of viewing.

A quick summary of this anime is that it is set in the future where the government determines whether someone is dangerous or not. They crime force is split into three positions inspectors, enforcers, and analysis officers. The inspectors are detectives with a clean psycho pass, enforcers and latent criminals who help the detectives, and analysis do the computer work. If someone has a certain psycho pass number they are determined as dangerous to society and are put away for therapy. There are readers all over the city and the inspectors have guns that can read it. When on duty the gun can read how high the psycho pass is and determines whether to disable the person or kill them.

Its scary to think that we could live in a world constructed like that. In one episode a woman was raped and they read her psycho pass and it was high due to the stress levels and the gun ended up killing her. I wouldn't like to live a world like this because you never know what could happen. One day you could just be stressed or upset over something and a detector will read you and send you to therapy or to be locked away forever.

I would consider this science fiction because it is futuristic scenario. It is all technological the way they do things. I really enjoy this show and it has made its way into my top three animes of all time.

Blog Set #3

In “That Only a Mother” I feel as if the fact that they are in a middle class setting the mother expects nothing less of perfect from the child. That’s why I feel like maybe she went a tad bit crazy and didn’t realize or acknowledged the fact that her child had no limbs. That to me is very creepy and strange.  She maybe feel as if what is going on such as the toxicants can’t affect her because of her status.

The story may reflect also on humanity and how people can be blind to certain things because they choose not to deal with reality. The child clearly has no limbs but the mother may have noticed but suppresses that idea because she feels that this could never happen to a woman of her status.

This conforms to the genre expectations by creating an eerie sense of discomfort at the end when you realize the mother is insane and doesn’t acknowledge the fact that her baby has no limbs. Also in the regard of science fiction the story has a hypothetical situation in which there is a rise in babies being born with mutations.

In “We See Things Differently” The story follows after America’s fall of economics and culture. All the nations the United States have helped rise up will eventually turn on the U.S to tear us down. The Arab world comes together and becomes a power block. We find this out from the perspective of Sayyid Qutb and he is an Arab coming to America to figure things outs and as well to make sure no one gets out of line.

 this conforms to the genre expectations of sci-fi by creating this future dystopia in where we find out the things that led to such event and how they could be possible.  

Introduction | Blog Set 1

My name is Karina, I'm 20 years old and I go to Broward College for Communication Studies but plan to transfer to UM for web development. I've been a horror fan since around eight years old. My first horror movie was Child's Play, my mom told me I would like it. I did at the time but after that I started liking Nightmare on Elm Street and became completely and utterly in love with Jason Voorhees. I even have a tattoo of his mask on my left ankle because I really fell in love with the series over the years.  Other than that I’ve always had an interesting in supernatural things that no one else really likes to learn about.
I wanted to take this class so I could further more become educated with literature that involves supernatural elements, maybe find out some more horror pieces to read and such. Aside from other literature classes I feel like I would enjoy this topic the most seeing as supernatural things are my favorite kind of things to study. I am looking forward to ten hours of movies and/or shows we have to watch and relate back into our blogs. If there is one thing I like doing, it is watching shows so this should be easy.