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Science Fictions (Rick and Morty (Season 3, Episode 2 "Rickmancing…
Science Fictions
Aliens/Others
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The Story of Your Life
Louise's knowledge of the future, and her ability to see the past, present, and future all at once could be seen as a form of time travel. She presumably can't see outside of her own timeline (both temporally and spatially), but time isn't linear to her mentally, just as time isn't physically linear in the traditional idea of time travel.
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Relationship between the humans and the heptapods is neutral, a "non-zero-sum game" (0/0)
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis demonstrated: "Humans had developed a sequential mode of awareness, while heptapods had developed a simultaneous mode of awareness," page 31
Arrival
The Heptapod's gift to humans is their written language, and its ability to unlock time. Heptapod B embodies the heptapod's non-linear structure.
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Differences between the short story and the book revolve around creating more drama, specifically creating more tension between the heptapods and the humans
Knowledge, instead of ignorance, is bliss. Supported by an implicit sense of euphoria on page 36: "...I experience past and future all at once; my consciousness becomes a half century-long ember burning outside time.."
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Narrative of the story ignores linearity in time and tells the story as if everything is happening simultaneously
Alien
Aliens have a negative impact on humans, using them as hosts in order to progress onto their next life stage (-/+)
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- Main character, and the only non-feline crew member to survive, is a woman(Ripley), showing that women are just as capable as men
- Lambert, the other female crew member, does not take the situation well, showing a spectrum
- Pornographic images of sexy ladies can be scene as Ash attacks Ripley, suggesting some disparity between genders
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Special order #937: " Insure return of organism for analysis. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable.
Places the highest priority on studying a new organism despite how dangerous the organism clearly is. Potential new discoveries and subsequent innovations are more important than the safety of the crew
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Ash, an android, is almost indistinguishable from a human, but he follows commands without question or moral regard and attempts to kill Ripley when she jeopardizes his mission
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Androids have mechanical nerds, bleed white, and exhibit superhuman strength
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The ship's computer is called "Mother," which follows the trend of humans giving nature and technology female characteristics
Sci-Fi Poems
"Women will be women, but the distinction will be empty. Sex, having outlived every threat will, will gratify only the mind, which is where it will exist
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Sci-Fi transports the reader to a new world where we can observe the characters and social implications of the new situation in the comfort and safety our reading nook
Time Travel
The Time Machine
Influences
Darwin's "Origin of the Species," especially his degeneration theory, as shown by the new environments and creatures that the time traveller encounters in his journey
An interest in class relations, as shown by the time traveler's theory that the Morlocks and Eloi evolved after the humans were completely separated by their class
Genders are equal, as there is no distinction between genders of the Eloi: "In costume, and in all the differences of texture and bearing that now mark off the sexes from each other, these people were alike." The whole idea of a family structure has also disappeared.
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The Time traveler and Lyubov are both anthropologists. They want to explore the new world and understand the humanoids that live there. While Lyubov seems interested in understanding the Athsheans, he still sees himself as superior to them just as the Time Traveler sees himself as superior to the Eloi and Morlocks. The Time Traveler also approaches these beings with a lack of interest because of their simpleness.
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Morlocks (Lower class, Laborers, Ranchers) vs. Eloi (High class, rulers, livestock)
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Kindred
Rape of black women by white men, especially between slave and master.
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Not interested in the science of time travel, which puts it in stark contrast with The Time Machine
This could be to heighten our own sense of chaos and historical/personal trauma in order to sympathize more with Dana
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Displays a spectrum of racism, from the reactions of Dana and Kevin's relatives over their marriage in 1976 to slavery in the antebellum South.
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The book continuously makes us question who is responsible for slavery: the individuals or the institution?
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Rufus refuses to take responsibility for any of his actions, especially Alice's death
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Dana, Alice, and various other slave push back against Rufus, his father, and other whites
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Dana must act like a slave in order to survive on the plantation, but she still has her limits (as shown be her cutting her wrists) and isn't afraid to break the rules (teaching Nigel to read)
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Post-Apocalypse
Station Eleven
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The prophet and his followers, who believe they are "the light" use religion and their theology as a way to empower themselves and justify their immoral actions against other people
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Objects, such as the paper weight and comic books, hold extreme important for the individuals who possess them. Objects also act as a bridge from the world before the pandemic to the world after
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Station Eleven revolves around art:
- Arthur and Kirsten's love for acting
- Miranda's comic book
- The travelling symphony risking their lives to perform music and Shakespeare
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Frank, who is wheelchair-bound, uses his limited agency to take his own life because he knows he couldn't survive after the pandemic and he doesn't want to live in a war-zone again
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The question of whether a memory is your own or a copy of a memory told to you by someone else is repeatedly shown through Kirsten: "And they had light inside as well as cold, right? I'm not just imagining this?"
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Kirsten tells August after his first kill "it is possible to survive this but not unaltered, and you will carry these men with you through all the nights of your life," p. 296
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Rick and Morty (Season 3, Episode 2 "Rickmancing the Stone"
When it is time for the robots of Morty, Rick, and Summer to shut off and allow the real Morty, Rick, and Summer to come back, robot Morty starts to retaliate. He questions why he need to be shut off and argues that he feels true emotions and that he wants to live
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Implies emotions are the biggest difference between AI and humans, as said by Robot Morty earlier in the episode: "Your feelings are not only forgivable, they are the very meaning of life that only pre-silicon carbon-based entities can ever grasp"
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Before being killed by Morty, the prince declares that "Slavery was a family business. I didn't ask to be born into it. If anything I'm the victim here."
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