cyborgs

Alright so I wanted to talk about this idea of cyborgs a little bit. They confuse me and the lecture we had today confused me a little too. It's just a matter of the whole what separates us from them that I find to be a thin line. Like that movie that I had mentioned. If it's a cyborg of themselves, and you die if it dies then what's the difference? What is the point at all of having something else live your life for you? That's what I don't understand. However I don't think to say that if you have a false heart or a prostetic limb that that makes you a cyborg. I saw an episode of PopularScience something or other (I forget what exactly it was, I saw it a while ago) where it was talking about how we already have androids made and they're made to be connected to another person...so say that my boyfriend and I are separated for a bit, one of us is studying abroad, so this android thing is connected to the other person I believe emotionally and then I would have one and it's programmed to do things like hug and such. It was really neat but kind of odd at the same time. But that begs the question then as to what separates the person it's connected to into two completely separate beings if it's going as far as connecting to an actual person. I don't know, I kind of like the idea, it just doesn't sit quite well in my brain.

Buffy v. Aliens

I always completely forget when I have blogs and I never remember to write in them so since it looks like it's been close to a month since the last time I updated I guess now would be as good a time as ever.

I just wanted to point out a few things I noticed between watching Buffy and watching Aliens. I came to notice how both adaptions both did things in a bit of a stereotypical way.

Now I am the biggest fan of Buffy. I know the show inside and out left and right. I sat at a comic con for 12 hours (which anyone who knows me knows that something called comic con is not a place where I belong) in order to see James Marsters and spent all that time and the line got cut off 10 people ahead of me. Completely besides the point but my point is that in all honesty it's been a while since I've seen an episode of Buffy (a friend of mine borrowed all 7 seasons the moved to madison and had them for the past 2 or 3 years) but from what i remember and from watching that episode in class Buffy really is just a normal teenage girl (blonde at that) and Joss Whedon makes her into this killing machine basically and there is absolutely no evidence what so ever if you met this girl on the street that she could potentially be a slayer. You can see her innocence and niavety in the episode we watched as well. She's young she hasn't figured out her life yet.
But then you come to Aliens and have the main character of Ellen Ripley who is this super plain person who really has no super powers of any kind. And she's not suppose to have any super powers. That's not the type of movie it is. But it sort of comes down to even though she's not quite like Buffy's character she still has an innocence to her where she was more or less just thrown into this alien world and now has to pretty much save the planet. Now I've never seen the first Alien movie and obviously we've only watched part of it so far however if she has any training my guess would be it's just basic military training and isn't exactly alien friendly training. So even though these are both completely different characters they both sort of need to figure out what to do with their lives from this point on. Buffy is just starting out and Ripley lost 57 years of her life.

Left Hand of Darkness

Alright so I tried to do this blogging thing earlier and for some reason it wouldn't let me. Maybe because I was on my phone who knows, but this is besides the point. I'm going to try this again now and hopefully it works.

I would like to make my first blog post about Left Hand of Darkness as a whole. Obviously we haven't read the whole book yet but up to what we have read is what I mean.
Now I'll be completely honest, I've been having a hell of a time reading this book. I'm not really one for science fiction normally and subjects like this book confuse me. So I've been having to go back and re-read parts and so forth to try to figure out what exactly is going on in this book. But at the same time I find it to be a pretty decent page turner. Ursula K. Le Guin does a very good job of pulling you into the book. I've come to realize that I seem to be able to relate with Genly quite well. He seems to be a very isolated character and most of the time I feel bad for him. He's out of his own element living with a species unlike his own just trying to make it and do his job. I can only imagine how lonely of a person he might be. Then he gets thrown in prison and has Lord knows what done to him. I just feel horrible for him. It makes me think about how I would feel in his situation.
I also picture in my head everything on this planet being dark and gloomy. I know they mention there being a sun but for some reason it just seems like a very dark, foggy, overcast sort of place which in my head intensifies this feeling of isolation I have for Genly.
My third feeling that fuels this isolation is I feel like he's horribly misunderstood. Again he's in this place where no one knows his purpose which lands him in prison. In my opinion, Genly is just an honest worker trying to make his living and get by as easily as possible and he has all these people around him questioning his ethics (idk if ethics is the right word...but I can't think of the one I wanted to use).

In short I suppose if maybe I were to write a paper on this I would most likely chose isolation as my theme. Isolation, loneliness, such of the like.