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  1. Feb 2021
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    1. AutumnMoore 02 Feb 2021
      the repeated vaginal openings in Alien’sset design and special effects (Creed 1986, 129–30), the ‘tech noir’ sets and backgrounds of The Terminator (Penley 1991c, 64–6), or the masturbatory rings that stroke up and down the metallic body of the robotic Maria in the transformation scene in Metropolis (Dadoun 1991, 144 (Figure 2.1)).

      I do not disagree that the science fiction genre has a fascination with conception, birth, and sexuality (specifically the differences between men and women). However, my mind does not think that way when it comes to looking for deeper themes. When I watched Alien, I never once thought that the set design and special effects were "vaginal openings". Maybe it's me, but sometimes I think people read too much into some things.

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    1. AutumnMoore 02 Feb 2021
      He collects their scattered parts in order to construct apatchwork body, unaware that the prostitutes’memories and identitieslive on in their remains. Although the new Elizabeth feels‘so strange’atthere being‘so many different women inside’her, she does not expresshorror or reject them.

      This reminds me of the science fiction novel series, Unwind. In the books, a procedure called "unwinding" is a way for a person to essentially have all of their body parts be able to be used as donor parts. (Literally everything.) The thing that is creepy though, is a part of that person's memories lives on in whatever is donated.

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  4. Jan 2021
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    1. AutumnMoore 26 Jan 2021
      As ThomasGieryn argues,‘“science”is not a single thing’and its‘boundaries...areambiguous,flexible, historically changing, contextually variable, internallyinconsistent, and sometimes disputed’

      It is so easy to get wrapped up in the scientific facts we know now and say that they are forever. But I think we forget despite all the studies science is not a constant. Theories are changing, new things are being discovered, and nothing is consistent. I really just liked this quote because it shatters the thought of something being constant. (I don't know why I like that though...)

    2. AutumnMoore 26 Jan 2021
      why privilege the accuracy rather than thefictionality of the science in sciencefiction? What does it mean for specialeffects to be successful? Are special effects really that central to the genre?–has many precursors. For example, H.G. Wells’sreviewofMetropolis(1927)berates thefilm for ignoring‘the question of [the] development ofindustrial control [and] the relation of [the] industrial to [the] political’infavour of‘furlong after furlong’of spectacular

      You know I never thought about it like that. Obviously there needs to be some sort of truth in the science part of science fiction, but personally I have always focused on the fictional aspects. Although I do agree that the special effects in most sf films are very important. Part of why people consider Metropolis so good is because of it's ground breaking special effects.

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