blog 74

This blog is about how this class has made me think differently about science fiction. Before this class, science fiction was slightly interesting in mainstream horror movies and crazy documentaries. However, it didn’t really make much impact on me. When I thought science fiction, I thought of the Sci Fi channel and how I can’t stand watching it anymore because they only ever play ridiculous low budget monotonous horror films that are completely unrealistic and predictable (wow that was a long sentence). After I did the analytical research paper for this class it made me analyze science fiction a little more closely. I wrote that research paper about an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was parallel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. So I did all of this research on resuscitation and re-animation and found some crazy stuff! I found out that doctors are forced to resuscitate even when it is hurting the patient more and unneccesary, and I also found out that a soviet doctor actually brought a dog back to life. I mean, this dog was dead AND decapitated! It was dead for a while, not recent, and it had no body whatsoever! It definitely really made me think about what’s out there and what the government’s top scientists could be doing. This soviet built a heart/lung machine and was able to make the dog blink, sneeze, lick its nose, try to wiggle its head, and move its ears…with no body. After this class I realizes science fiction is less “fictional” than I thought it was.