Mars Adventure

Based on I Robot and Flash Gordon, I thought that this would be stories about the wonders of space, not stories about people dying all the time and mass extinctions.

  First topic is the story where the astronauts were thought to be insane and then killed. Then the psychiatrist killed himself. My line of thinking was similar to the astronauts, "wow they finally got recognized". When the 'reporters' started talking about how they were from other planets, I was starting to get confused, then the explorers finally figured it out. Smh cant believe all my earth homies got popped like that. smh. I started thinking about how we would react if people popped up on Earth, we would probably lock them up and study them, or maybe be polite and invite them into our homes, provided they don't exhale fire or something. Or provided they don't burn up our bodies with chicken pox the same way we burned theirs. Which made me sad, but it was also an interesting parallel to the way that European diseases killed all the Natives. At least now they didn't have to deal with all their expeditions being killed off. Which was also weird because you would think that they would have like radio connection to earth or something. Or maybe they would be like live streaming it on Facebook. That kind of stopped me from being into the story because I was way to confused as to why it was even an issue.

Robots, Capitalists and other Amazing tales

I remember watching this movie in some other class, but I can't remember which.

Anyway, this was Metropolis, the movie about a robot that use the innocence of a pure young lady to take over the people's minds and destroy the city. I'm kinda confused as to why the big boss man, (Joh? was that his name) told Rotvang to make the robot look like the girl. If he hadn't done that and the people would've gone on longer without destroying the heart machine. She was the only reason they hadn't done so already. (It turns out you cant tab on here, now my post is gonna look like a big blob).
I really want to know how they did the special effects for this movie, for today's standards they're awful but considering movies were still barely beginning they're pretty cool. I thought the ending was nice how they tied it all back to the "mediator prophecy". But what about the new city? How will they rebuild it, will everyone help, or will it be the same people with nicer conditions. I'm still curious as to what happened to the newborns. They probably all died, thanks to the dumb mob. smh @ the mob. smh. I like how they all just mindlessly went to kill the problem without thinking. I'm glad they killed the robot and not the real Maria, that would have been tragic. Imagine leading a people and giving them hope for years, watching ad caring for them, and then they burn you at the stake. How did she even get down there anyway, was she already a worker there, but then she ascended to prophet character or what. That was weird.
I didnt like the whole "down with capitalism" thing, it seemed really forced down. But the factories were probably worse than I can imagine, and the poverty that bad, so idk.