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Dear English 110.01 Student,

Get ready to experience a quarter of science fiction and more science fiction. I know it sounds like an awful class topic and it will be awful if you don't give it a chance. Especially when it comes to blogging! I am the last person to ever blog, but this class forces you to. I found out that it is not the end of the world and it is a good way to communicate with your classmates.
While I would much rather be watching ESPN or something, by giving sci-fi a chance, I learned a lot. I got a taste of numerous sci-fi shows and I found out that some shows are pretty good and relate to my life now.
In regards to this class, I recommend that you do not procrastinate! At the beginning of the class, you are required to watch episodes of shows and blog about them. Make sure you pay attention to the episodes because you are responsible to write an 8 page Analytical Research Paper on an episode. Also, do every piece of homework to the fullest because everything builds on each other. If you only give half effort on an assignment, you will eventually have to finish the other half of it. The only difference is you won't get a better grade once you finish it.
When you watch episodes of shows, I would jot down some notes of the episode. I found that to be very helpful for me because when I went back to write my Analytical Paper, I could instantly go to the section of the episode I wanted and get the information I needed.
All in all, this class will be fun as long as you put the work in. If you slack off, I wish you the best of luck.

Sincerely,
Mack Hoban

Farscape

I was not a fan of Farscape. The idea of the black hole was definitely different from most ideas, and I liked the concept; however, I did not like creatures in the show. I thought they were very weird and a bit annoying. It did get me thinking about how weird and scary it would be if that ever happened to me. John handling the situation a lot better than I would have.
This episode relates to none only than Dollhouse. John reminds me of Echo who has to find out everything for herself. They were both on their own and did not have many people that could look out for them. John had his dad and others back on earth and Echo has Ballard who was on "earth" meaning he was not an active. Also, this episode relates to Star Trek in the way that it took place on a different planet. The creatures had a crew just like the crew in Star Trek.

STNG

I found this episode to be similar to that of the Dollhouse. Data is very much like the actives in the sense that they are all basically robots. The actives act like robots and Data is a robot. STNG called to attention the importance of life. Dollhouse did not value human life by changing a human into a zombie-like being.

In my opinion, I thought the episode of Star Trek I watched was better than STNG. I liked how the original star trek used an episode of history and incorporated it into the episode. I would not know much about the Clantons and Earps if it wasn't for the episode I watched. With that said, I did not feel like I learned anything from STNG which was a turn off. I did notice that the plots seem to be pretty relevant and timely even though they were made so long ago. I have to give kudos to the writers for that.