Hannah's HON 255 Blog

      I have enjoyed watching the Star  Trek series' in class over the past two weeks! The main thing that stuck out to me in Star Trek: Discovery was that they included women as captain and commanders! This representation is so important in film and TV, and I really admire how they portrayed these important crew members as women of color. Both Captain Georgious and Commander Michael are portrayed a strong, smart, and powerful women who are fully capable of leading the U.S.S. Enterprise. Michael is part human and part Vulcan, so she always provides the most logical point of view, but her human emotions tend to get in the way of her rational thinking sometimes. Michael has a personal vendetta against Klingons because they killed her parents. When she sees the Klingons, she has more of an emotional response than a logical response which goes against her Vulcan nature. The entire episode is about Michael overcoming her emotions in order to work more efficiently as a cap...

    Watching the very first episode of the series Star Trek  was incredibly interesting! I love watching older television and film because of the simplicity of it. It isn't overloaded with special effects or CGI, and I feel that it's much more organic. Although the ship in this episode is much less advance as the Enterprise depicted in the movie, they were still very similar and I liked seeing how the film kept many ideas the same as the original series. The spaceships both had central captains chairs which highlighted the captains power, they both had the "beaming" teleportation technology, ray guns, and they were wearing the same iconic outfits. It was very interesting seeing the characters have to play their own main characters, and their characters disguised as Ms. Crater. It showed different sides to each of the actors and it made the episode much more engaging. The sets on the different planet and in the ship were incredibly detailed and were super interesting t...

    I thought Star Trek was a really enjoyable movie. I liked the humor, the action, the awesome sets, and the cast. I thought the technology displayed throughout the movie was really cool, and was depicted well. Almost everything in these massive spaceships had facial and voice recognition to allow crew members into specific areas throughout the ship. The most interesting form of technology was the "beaming" form of teleportation that was used throughout the movie. The characters would stand on top of a portal and "energize" themselves to another location outside of the ship. When Spock beams to the Vulcan planet to save his planet, beaming was the only way he could have gotten to his family in time before their planet was sucked into black hole. Without the beaming technology, Spock would have lost his entire family. Also when James Kirk and Sulu have to deactivate the device that was drilling a hole into the core of the Vulcan planet, they would have fallen ...

      I would personally take the red pill because I am the kind of person who pushes for change and wants to help other people. I fully recognize that taking the red pill and discovering that your body is being used as a battery to power artificial  intelligence and seeing the human world completely destroyed is a very traumatic experience, like the blue pill argued in class. I know some people would not be able to take it and are not prepared to see the truth, but is anyone ever truly ready to know a dark truth? Many of us experience traumatic experiences throughout are lives, and no one is ever prepared for trauma. When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was not prepared to receive that information whatsoever. Although that was an extremely traumatic experience, I would not have been able to provide the support and care for my mom if I wasn't informed on the severity of her illness. Taking the red pill or blue pill opens up the possibility of trauma, but a...

      Our idea was to create a collage with layers separating and classifying characters into specific groups in order to put the characters in certain perspectives to reveal certain themes throughout the film. We put Tyrell in the center because he is the creator of the replicants and the creator of this battle between humans and replicants. He is the pupil because we view him as the source of the central conflict of the film. We surrounded Tyrell with the replicants because he is their "father" and we shaded them in red. The red iris represents how the replicants eyes would glow red throughout the movie, and we also shaded the replicants red to represent the evil the replicants are capable of. They became violent beings because they were forced to live in the human world restricted and with an expiration date. They are very capable of evil, and show this while being hunted by Deckard. We placed blade runners, police officers, and Rachel on the outside bec...

      I really enjoyed watching the Matrix, I have never seen anything similar to the concepts and the cinematography presented in this movie. I had so many questions about what was truly going on in the movie and as the plot unfolded I could have never guessed what was truly going on with The Matrix. Overall I think this is a very interesting story that takes a new form of movie exhibiting artificial intelligence taking over the human world as we know it.     The concept of humans creating artificial intelligence which end up being their demise is perfectly ironic to me. I believe that the end of the human race will be self-inflicted because humans will always believe that they are  superior. This motivates humans to do incredibly stupid things, like continually damaging and putting hard things into the environment. It is terrifying to think about how much potential power humans granted artificial intelligence because now they have humans in a complet...

      It was very interesting reading the original story of Pinocchio and seeing how different it is from the classic Disney film I watched when I was a kid. I also didn't know much about the story of Pinocchio at all  and I was pleasantly surprised by the very eventful story of Pinocchio questioning his existence as a marionette and becoming a real boy by maturing and learning several lesson while making countless mistakes.      The Adventures of Pinocchio  essentially is a story warning kids about not listening to their elders. Pinocchio get robbed, almost killed multiple times, and lost throughout the story because he always ends up not listening to what his father or the maiden with Azul hair tells him and instead acts on his own selfish agenda. The story reveals to readers how children do not know what is best for them and have a tendency to choose light hearted things over the correct choice in many scenarios.      I...

       Artificial Intelligence was not one of my favorite movies that we have watched this semester, the movie moved very slowly and David's story was extremely sad. The movie is focused around David, a robot child that can be programmed to love, devoting his life to becoming human so his mother will truly love him and allow him to live with her again. I noted how it seemed very bizarre that David desired to be a human so badly when humans had mistreated him his entire life. He is mistreated by his brother and manipulated to do bad things by him, he is made a spectacle of by his peers, is almost tortured and killed by strangers, and is disappointed by his own creator telling him he isn't unique. After a life of being exposed to the human potential of being evil, why would David still want to become a real boy? This is why I found the movie incredibly sad. David maintains this child-like innocence that makes him almost blind to the fact that being human poses more pro...