Brief 2 outline.
- swatsontayler
- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min read
For brief 2 I have been asked to talk about 10 different media items with a common thread between them. The thread I have chosen is different forms of life and they treat each other, particularly in science fiction.
The Fourth Ambit, The Fourth Ambit is a Cyberpunk audio series, it follows the story of Gilles and he uncovers a conspiracy to cover up a species of Artificial Intelligence known as The Walders and the threat they pose to the entire world and humanity, which leads to him in a way becoming a Walder.
X-Men: Days of future past, the movie, this shows a very cynical world view that implies humanity will always destroy whatever the other is, even to the point of destroying ourselves.
The Animatrix: The Second renaissance, in this story humanity's desire for underclass of slaves, robots, ironically leads to us becoming an unknowing underclass of slaves, after declaring a war we could never hope to win.
Transformers: More than meets the eye. In this comic series we are shown a caste system where in one's body decide's the entire life, career and social status, leading to a revolution and then a war that lasts millions of years and thus serious tensions between the factions after the war's end.
Robotech. This series opens with war between humanity and an invading alien force, The Zentraedi, however this war ends in peace, understanding and love between many Zentraedi and humans, a much more optimistic outlook.
District 9. Inspired by the apartheid era of South Africa, in this film an alien species arrives on earth and is immediately sent to internment where they are mistreated and abused by humans constantly.
Mass Effect. Following Commander Shepherd the Mass Effect series is about an alien race known as The Reapers attacking our galaxy, in order to wipe out all organic life in it, however all the race of the galaxy band together to fight back to stop The Reapers and putting our differences aside for this greater good.
American Gods. American Gods takes place in a world where all the gods that people have ever believed in exist, however this results in a group of new gods, of media, technology etc, coming to be, who do not believe that they can coexist with the old gods of religion and because of this both sides are manipulated into war with each other.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Umbara Arc. This story revolves around clones being seen as lesser and thus being considered expendable pawns in the machinations of others and them fighting back against being used and killed for no reason.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. FMA B takes place in a world where an entire nation, it's people and culture were wiped out by another country in a military occupations as the result of many years of racial and religious tensions.
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