"The Walking Dead"

The Walking Dead is a brand new apocalyptic zombie show on AMC that premiered on Halloween. My friend, Mike, is a huge zombie fan and asked if I wanted to watch it with him. The show begins almost exactly like the movie 28 Days Later. The protagonist, Rick, is a police man who is shot in the back by a criminal and he passes out, he wakes up in the hospital, but something isn't right. He looks around the room from his hospital bed and notices a vase full of dead flowers, the clock in his room has stopped, none of the hospital equipment was on, and there are no nurses running to his call. He painfully gets out of the bed and walks around the hospital, the halls are trashed and there are dead bodies every where. As Rick tries to find his way out of the hospital he notices a door with "DO NOT OPEN" painted on it.

They had finally done it, a super computer with enough brains to kill us all. The Generic Life-form and Disc Operating System, aka GLaDOS, was created by a group of scientists to work with them on their newest project, portal technology. GLaDOS had to power to control anything electronic, iPods were strangling people with their headphones, cellphones were exploding in pocket's, heavy machinery was destroying buildings with no driver, everything that was created to help us, was now destroying us.

My future compared to Ridley Scott's. My future's apocalypse was caused by technology turning against man, Scott's was caused by war. Scott's future world is fairly technologically advanced, while in my future no technology of the sort could be used, it would simply kill you.

The dialogue in the Deckard meets Rachel scene really stands out. I notice that Rachel's voice and grammar are very proper, almost "robotic." Deckard is much more casual with his words, and Tyrell seems excited. The next thing noticed was the lighting, the scene is very dark, it's hard to see anything at all really. The costume's worn were the next thing I noticed, Rachel's was very slimming, dark, and fairly formal. Deckard was dressed in his usual outfit, trench coat hardass. Tyrell's was harder to make out because of the lighting. This scene is important to the film because this is where the viewer learns that Rachel is an android, this is also were Deckard meets Rachel and their "romance" begins.

The dialogue, sound, and music are soft and faint in this scene, they are used to make the viewer feel sympathetic for Roy. The audience has been looking at Roy as a villain, but now he's next to Rick, both of them in an injured state. This is done to juxtapose Rick and Roy one last time before Roy dies. Deckard cannot cry, because he's a badass. Seriously though, I don't think that Rick is crying, he is just listening to Roy's speech and I think after hearing this, something about Rachel clicks and he realizes it doesn't matter that she's an android, he wants to be with her anyway.

Rick and Rachel leave from Rick's apartment, they know they are being chased so they get out of there and head to an off world colony. They find a man, Gordon Freeman, who can fix Rachel's life span problem, but he wants a very rare gem in return. Rick and Rachel set out to find this gem on their new off world colony, after months of searching they find one. Rick and Rachel return to Gordon, but he's broken his arm and can't preform the surgery. Rick gets infuriated and asks Gordon to walk him through the surgery. Gordon refuses because he doesn't think Rachel will survive without skilled hands. Rachel insists that it doesn't matter to her, she will die soon anyway. Deckard begins the surgery with Gordon over his shoulder, everything goes well...

My research about biofuels as an alternative to gasoline is going well. I've learned that biofuels are, as you may have imagined, more environmentally friendly and can be created from renewable resources, unlike the current standard, which is bad for mother earth and is created from expensive non renewable resources. The creation of biofuel as a new standard looks promising, it does however have it downfalls, which I haven't gotten into yet.