Steven Gonzales

We infer that symbolism from the novel, but Bradbury never meant for those things to take precedence. He meant for his novel to address television ruining our nation.

Well to be fair, he did write the novel on a typewriter that he had to pay to use. He also never meant for his book to be anti-nuclear, or anti-censorship. It was about how television would destroy our world.

I wasn’t completely aware that there was this difference in MFA programs, even though I’ve been pretty close to several graduate students and professors throughout my university experience.

Although I agree that the type of fiction we see being mass produced on bookstore shelves should be the type of creativity taught in college courses, I believe college courses should distinguish between what is acceptable and not acceptable; what I mean by that is, there are plenty of young adult novels that should be thrown backwards into the drafting phase.

I can see why some professors would find pause with the idea of teaching how to become a writer of the caliber of books such as Harry Potter or Percy Jackson – once you take a good long look at them, you realize they’re not that good. There’s a high lack of creativity among authors who write young adult literature such as the Immortal Instruments series which reads like sloppy fan-fiction that should have never hit the shelves; I don’t just say this because of my own personal distaste for the series, but after looking at the novels objectively, they just have too many plot mistakes, poor pacing, and poor character development.

I’d like to see professors taking a serious crack at throwing modern novelization into their course repertoire, but they should take caution not to crank out mediocre writers for the sake of giving them new avenues.

I can’t say I agree. The show reveals that Decim always had emotions, so any emotion he’d shown previous to episode 9 would not have been odd. Chiyuki showed a range of emotion throughout the show even though she’d had her memories wiped, which would account for any lack of emotion that might’ve been inferred.

While they both seem one dimensional to begin with, I’d say it’s only to build the tension that forms in later episodes where we begin to see more than just the Death Games, and we start getting a clear vision of how Decim and Chiyuki came to their situation at the beginning of the show. I believe it was Tachikawa’s goal to have the episodic, “fleshed-out” characters have a dramatic effect on the two main characters for the specific purpose of developing their characters.

The setting for the most part is in Decim’s bar. Other episodes move around other areas of the purgatorial world where his bar resides; since there are other Arbiters, there are also other “game rooms.” Any other setting change only happens through the memories and flashbacks of characters.

As much as I dislike several things in the Star Wars movie-verse, the prequels are not one of them. I believe the rise and fall of the allegedly most powerful Sith Lord is an important part of the series. Do I wish they had done things differently? A bit. But c’est la vie.

As I’ve heard it, the extended director’s cut helps clear up some of the movie’s plot holes such as Superman and Batman’s hostility towards one another.
BvS is DC’s way of throwing paint at the wall and hoping it makes a self portrait. Yes, the fighting is fun and dramatic, but Luthor seemingly losing his mind, “Martha” being Batman’s safe-word, and Lois seemingly understanding all that is the universe and knowing that she needed to grab the Kryptonite spear Batman has made from the pool she’d thrown it into without anyone telling her to retrieve it absolutely blow the movie into the gutter.
There are redeeming moments, such as the helplessness of a god in the courtroom scene, but overall, DC is trying much too hard and rushing things too soon.
Hopefully they’ll figure that out before it’s too late.

Heroes was and is by all accounts one of the greatest television shows that will ever have been made, with the exception perhaps of season 4. Recently the Netflix produced show entitled Sens8 rediscovered a legacy left behind by Heroes, and took over the mantle as the show with the group of weird people linked by destiny.
What both of these shows try and tell us is that these people are linked through destiny, fate, evolution, or God, but it is the first steps taken by Peter and Hiro to “save the cheerleader, to save the world.” As with the characters in Sens8, they make the choice to change the world, to do what they feel is right. So they both pose the question of destiny and intertwined fates while boasting a cast of characters who jump right into the middle of everything rather than stepping away and finding a quiet corner to hide.