BloodChild in-class response Miranda lee
1.
What is your reaction to the text you just read?
I was shock and
amused by the short yet thrilling experience. The visuals that were described
in the short story were like action movies: graphic and intense. I found myself
holding my breath every time there was a crucial moment of life and death, the
tension between the Lien and T’Gatoi and the new discover of how Tlic make
babies from a child’s point of view. I enjoy how realistic the reaction of the
girl and her family is dealing with situation. I feel this reflects very well
on how humans as much as we claim to be on top of the food chain can easily be
pull down from our pedestal to same level as herd of cows. I was surprise to
like this almost terrifying story.
2.
What is the connection did you make with the
story? Discuss the elements of the story with which you were able to connect.
This has an
interesting perspective of alien relationship with humans almost like Stockholm
syndrome mix with brain washing/ drugging. There seem to be a parasitism
relationship but the Tlic are using “humane” ways of dealing with humans
instead of using fear and dominance especially in the “Preserve”. I feel like
outside the “Preserve” it might not be so merciful for the Terrans aka humans
who may be fought and even kill over by the Tlic as they are high in
demand. This feels like it can get more
graphic and go into the horror theme really fast if T’Gatoi was to lose power
of how the Terrans are to be treated. The world the Terrans live in seems so
fragile of how the world can change so easily with by knowing too much. Seems
to have the “Matrix” 1999 of the aliens using humans to procreate life and brainwashing
the humans.
3.
What changes would you make to adapt this story
into another medium? What medium would you used? What changes would you make?
I would use adult cartoon
animation to adapt this story like an anime with the ink stylization. This would be 2-D cartoon with realistic
drawings of the human in a mix of comic book or graphic novel with heavy used
of ink Examples like “Kill Bill” when the back story of O-Ren Ishii and
“Samurai Champloo” anime. I wouldn’t make any changes to the story but since
the humans’ names are very diverse from around the world, I would give them physical
features of mix race like in Brazil. I would make the Tlic’s face a wide
version of humans and used the Avatar Last Air Bender’s “face stealer” the
centipede spirit as inspiration to how they move and the mysterious personality.
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