Hard question. It's too big an ask, there are too many dimensions of perfection and no show hits them all.
I'd make it a genre course, and I'd make it about Faithpunk. The syllabus would be as follows:
I'd make it a genre course, and I'd make it about Faithpunk. The syllabus would be as follows:
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1. Watch The Matrix movies and the Animatrix shows around it and pay attention not to what happens but simply to what questions they raise. In this exercise we're not interested in a critique, we're performing an audit.
2. Watch The Leftovers on HBO, all three seasons. Your assignment is to ask yourself, after every episode, what you think happened to the 2% and how your theory relates to the theories of the other characters.
Notice how you are a tourist whereas the characters are not.
Notice how you are a tourist whereas the characters are not.
3. Watch The Good Place! Enjoy it, it's funny and heartwarming! After each episode, ask yourself how this show relates to The Leftovers and The Matrix. Ask yourself if taken as a set you start to see a pattern emerge. Consider that pattern -- how would you describe it, name it?
4. Watch HBO's perfect season of Watchmen.
After each episode consider the ways in which different characters have reduced the complexity of reality into a manageable slice. Consider how those slices relate.
What is Doctor Manhattan's role, here?
After each episode consider the ways in which different characters have reduced the complexity of reality into a manageable slice. Consider how those slices relate.
What is Doctor Manhattan's role, here?
5. Watch Wandavision.
Ask yourself: if reality is a story, then who do you trust to write it? Whose perspectives are being left out? Whose motivations are being hand-waved as unknowable?
How might the stories we tell relate to the power of magic?
Ask yourself: if reality is a story, then who do you trust to write it? Whose perspectives are being left out? Whose motivations are being hand-waved as unknowable?
How might the stories we tell relate to the power of magic?
There are other ways in, #faithpunk is still new and there aren't THAT many works in the field but if you open the door to past efforts that defied genre convention you'll find that a lot of them fit here.
Oh I'm halfway through Everything Everywhere All at Once and like, right?
Oh I'm halfway through Everything Everywhere All at Once and like, right?
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