Sci-Fi: I See You Hiding There, Little Genre

  

Sci Fi YA

When I was in college, my girl friends and I would meet everyday for lunch. Like the Sex and the City girls, we’d pick a place and discuss whatever we wanted that day. Unlike them however, our conversations mainly revolved around literature and television rather than sex. As single lady nerds studying literature (library sciences for me though) in college, conversations about literature and pop culture came normally to us. During one of these lunches, a close friend of mine said something that has stuck with me. She said that she loved Sci-Fi and Westerns because they were, in her opinion, the only two genres that went well with everything. I agreed completely.

   Sci-Fi may not be the most popular genre in the market right now. Often, it gets misclassified or lumped in with regular fiction because of secondary elements. But it is still very present in all media. If you can dream up a genre and a medium, odds are you can find something that has somehow melded with it.

Supernatural: The Anime Recap - Episode 2 "Roadkill"

Join us this week as we continue recapping the Supernatural anime as we move on to episode two: "Roadkill".

 

So this week we start off with Jared Padalecki telling us that this episode is based on the season 2 episode of the same name "Roadkill", but that this version has a surprise twist at the end. Great, let's see what happens.

Reality TV: Are You Not Entertained?

Some time back, I spoke about role models for girls and how I thought that this new generation of girls and women didn't have good fictional heroines to look up to. Sure, talking about fiction is all nice and dandy, but what about when it's real? What are we aiming for with reality TV? What are we supposed to take from it?

I guess the answer is nothing. It is meant to be entertainment after all. But when you inject reality into the equation, we have to begin to question how disturbing is our desire to be entertained. What do we as a society consider too much in regards to our amusement?

Supernatural: The Anime Recap - Episode 1 "The Alter Ego"

Due to the semi-obscure nature of this anime and the fact that people have very mixed reactions to it, I proposed to the Pop Trends crew to allow me to run this feature in order to spare the Supernatural fans the trouble of watching it. Otaku K and Doctor Q have different opinions on it and since I covered it in a previous post, we decided to recap this 22-episode series.

The fact that I own it on DVD didn’t hurt my chances either. Though if you want to follow us by watching, I think YouTube has the full episodes.

So, let’s begin.