High School is Hell

I just read High School is Hell. First off the name pretty much hits the nail on the head.  I HATED most of my high school experience.   Not so much because of the people but more because of teachers and waking up early!  Anyways this article talked about how the villains in the series, Buffy, were metaphors for what really goes on in high school today.  After reading this I thought about the episode I watched and how this came into play.  Then I realized that when the “dork” (I can’t remember her name) was being hit on by a vampire, was representing her shyness and how badly people actually hurt her.  I have seen this a lot through out my high school career.  It is really a very sad thing and I hated being around that everyday.  So this lead me to thinking, why do people let this go on?  Have movies such as Mean Girls lead young children to think this is what high school is going to be like?  Do they realize it doesn’t have to be that way?   I
 think that the media has transformed the youths minds into thinking there always has to be a “pretty popular girl” who is mean to everyone and is better than everyone and there has to be the “dork or geek” who gets made fun of and practically tortured by her or in some cases them.  I don’t know that’s just my though on this.  You see all this stuff on the news about children killing themselves because of bullying from the popular kids and it has to stop.  Sorry that was a bit depressing!!  

Episode 3

Hello :) Ok, so I just watched the third episode of season one of Firefly and it was a pretty good one!  There were a lot of interesting parts and new information about the characters that I picked up on.  There was one quote that really stood out to me though.  Captain Mal said something like, “ how do you deal with something like that, you don’t you become it”.  I have given this a lot of thought and I don’t know if I can accept that as true or not.  Pretty much he is saying if you go through something where someone has hurt you or people around you in some way, the way you deal with it is to become like it.  There was this man who witnessed his whole ship get murdered by people who have lost touch with society.  Later on in the show he goes crazy and begins trying to be like those people.  So my questions are, does the same thing apply in reality?  Would people be more lenient towards you if they knew your back round?  How did he come to this conclusion? I have had some friends go through some pretty scary things and they haven’t changed like that, for them this did not apply at all.  I think on this one I’m going to have to disagree and maybe research it a little more.  I’m very interested in seeing if there actually is a theory out there like this! 

The Train Job

Hello fellow Bloggers!  So today in class we had to give more in-dept thought to this episode of Firefly.  The person I chose to write about was Mal.  The scenes that I out together was when he stole the medicine returned and then proceeded to kill Crow.  Even though he returned the medicine, he still stole it to begin with and then killed Crow, which I see as steeling a life.  So do we still consider him as “good” or “moral”?  In episode nine Jayne completely turns on the crew and gives out information to the Alliance.  Even when Mal found this out he gave Jayne another chance.  I feel like somewhere in on of the other episodes he had done the same thing, even in the first one he was considering turning on the crew.  Regardless Mal still let him live after making him think he was going to kill him.  So why is it ok for him to kill Crow?  Even if he said he was going to hunt you down still he wasn’t going to do anything right then.  I am not seeing where Mal is going to draw the line here.   Yes Crow was a bad guy but so are a lot of people and he spared their lives? I don’t know if this is making much sense to anyone but it’s just what I think.  I don’t know after having this discussion if I see Mal as “moral” anymore.  You can’t just do something good and then turn around and do something bad and think you are still “moral”.  

Buffy?

Hello Bloggy! Today I watched the first episode from the first season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.  I had never heard of it before so it was all new to me.   Ok the acting was absolutely horrible not the mention the clothes were horrific.  I can definitely tell this show was not made recently.  The “vampires” look so fake its unreal, I thought they would be like the ones in Twilight but I was so wrong.  But other than all of those things the story line was actually ok!   The thought of there only being one Vampire slayer on the entire earth is weird to me though.  I mean if you think about it there is going to be way more vampires other than the town she is in, there were some in her other town too!  So the fact that there is only one person who can save everyone is very unfortunate, she obviously can’t save everyone.  I don’t know maybe I heard wrong but that is how I took it while I was watching this episode.  Oh and the “popular girl” is super annoying to me, in my high school it wasn’t like that at all which is awesome.  I mean there were really bitchy girls but you didn’t just hang out with one clique and one person doesn’t run everything in our school.  Wow there I go rambling again, sorry!   But anyways I think I might like Firefly more, which is super weird!  I don’t know I’ll have to watch this season some more. J Bye Bloggy!

the first episode

Hi!  All right I’m just going to come out and say it, I am starting to not really like this show so much. Today I watched the first episode of Firefly and it really cleared some things up! I wasn’t really following the show very well when I watched episode nine first (not smart thinking on my part). I wish that they had given us back round on the characters though!  I want to know why and how people ended up together on the ship.  I think it would be interesting to know how they met and ended up together.  But anyways, the different elements that come together to make this show really doesn’t make sense to me what so ever.  Like some people wear normal clothes and then some wear clothes that remind me of star wars and then there is the “ambassador” who dresses like an Egyptian.  I don’t know I just find that to be really weird.   I did find out that River is actually worth something, which I don’t really get. She just seems to be causing trouble and even in the ninth episode she still was causing trouble not to mention she was getting worse.  Oh and the guy with facial (can’t remember his name for some reason!)   Once again is considering turning on the captain and the rest of the crew.   I still don’t like him and I have lost respect for him on the show.  I'm excited to see what happens with everyone though i guess..

Episode 9!

Hi fellow bloggers!!  Ok so I just watched episode nine of firefly and I was pleasantly surprised! The show does not suck as much as I thought it would!!  I really like the doctor and the captain, but the guy with the facial hair (I didn’t catch his name) is one I did not care for, I was glad he got caught selling the crew out though.  Seeing as this is my first experience with Firefly because my computer wouldn’t let me watch the first episode for some reason, I’m still learning who people are.  But the western elements along with futuristic time period was very weird to me, I didn’t quite care for that.  There were also some bloody scenes that almost made me pass out (I’m no good with that kind of stuff, medicine will not be an option for me as a career).  I did think it was cool that River knew about things before they happened, that is something I wish I could do!  Anyways the feds were definitely very sketchy people, I don’t know what their problem is but they are ridiculous.  I really want to know why the alliance stripped part of her brain! I can’t figure out why they would want her to feel everything all of the time and not be able to repress any of her feelings.  What good or does that do for anyone?? Hopefully the next episode will clear that up but I’m betting that it won’t!   

umm fail.

Ok.. so I live in the middle of nowhere and my internet sucks something awful. I had to come home for the weekend, so I have been sitting here for the past 2 hours trying to get this scifi video “Firefly” to load onto my computer. As you can guess it’s not working and it proceeded to completely freeze my laptop.  We recently graduated form dial-up to high speed wireless (which isn’t any better at all… still super slow).   We live so far out away from civilization that no Internet providers were available. This detail escaped me as I settled in to download this episode and begin day 2 of my blogg.  Frustration quickly escalated until I have had to resort to blogging about not being able to watch this show which I’m sure was very interesting from reading all of your bloggs.

            My past experiences with scifi are limited.  This in not a genre that I would normally choose to watch at my leisure.  I do not like Star Wars, I do not like Star Trek,  I do not like The Twilight Zone; the only thing that I truly enjoy that is anywhere close to any of these is Twilight.  I think its probably the romance side of that story that I like the most (Even though Edward and Jacob are pretty easy on the eyes).  Please be looking for my opinion on this episode of “Firefly” when I get back to campus tomorrow morning when I have access to a faster Internet. Thanks! 

about me

Well hi! My name is LeeAnn Channell, I am in your English class!  I am from a very small town in Ohio, it goes by Trenton and I wouldn't be surprised if you have never heard of it.  I chose to come to Ohio State because I wanted to get the full college experience, at least by my book.  I knew this would be a diverse campus, and I am so ready to meet people from different backgrounds and cultures.  Let's face it, everyone I know has a gun under his bed for hunting and a closet full of camo.  Yes, I needed to get away from Trenton.   As you can clearly see, I tend to ramble.
 I feel as though I am an outgoing and friendly person.  I haven't met anyone here that I haven't liked meeting and getting to know.  I seem to have so much in common with everyone,  and this is something I didn't expect ( People really do have more in common than not).  I have learned in the past year that I tend to tell people the truth even if they don't want to hear it, but only if they ask.   I am a procrastinator, as much as I have been denying it for years, I know it is true.  I love football and OSU is my favorite team.  I have grown up around the sport my entire life, my father is a high school coach.  I haven't missed a Friday night game since I was born, until now. . . .