Class Discussion: Bloodchild
1) What is your reaction to the text you just read?
I thought it was a very interesting concept, the thought of what happens to people and Earth generations after an alien invasion (at least that what I thought it was). It was also very disgusting and graphic, however, and really made the concept intriguing and believable. I was confused at first what exactly the relationship between the Terras and Tlics but after a while it became clear that Tlics were kind of the caretakers of Terras and watched over them so one day they could be the host to their parasitic offspring. I also through it was really cool how they went about making this giant centipede character motherly and not monstrous. The way the main character perceives this giant bug like creature that lays eggs inside people as not a threat is an interesting concept on how people might adapt to being taken over after several generations.
2) What connections did you make with the story?
I made the connection of how people might adapt possibly hundreds of years after an alien invasion and how people will no longer know what being free from the aliens will be like. How people will take the status of people second in the food chain and not even question being almost pets and used as cases for the aliens eggs. In many sci-fi/horror stories this idea is given about laying eggs in people but its always shown as this horrifying ordeal that ends with the person dying. But this story takes that idea and flips it into being normal, even though its still as dangerous, it's now seen as something that has to be done.
3) What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make?
I think I would adapt this story into a comic if it were to be put into a different medium. Comics specifically are very good with sci-fi stories, while movies they can sometimes come off as cheesy and unrealistic. At least in my experience, when I read comics I'm more likely to accept outlandish concepts and a strange world can seem more believable because it doesn't have to rely on good special effects to seem believable. T'Gatoi would have to be animated perfectly to come off as believable and non-menacing as she is portrayed in the story. In a comic, the lack of movement and not needing to make her 100% realistic to fit the real people would make the world more believable.
I thought it was a very interesting concept, the thought of what happens to people and Earth generations after an alien invasion (at least that what I thought it was). It was also very disgusting and graphic, however, and really made the concept intriguing and believable. I was confused at first what exactly the relationship between the Terras and Tlics but after a while it became clear that Tlics were kind of the caretakers of Terras and watched over them so one day they could be the host to their parasitic offspring. I also through it was really cool how they went about making this giant centipede character motherly and not monstrous. The way the main character perceives this giant bug like creature that lays eggs inside people as not a threat is an interesting concept on how people might adapt to being taken over after several generations.
2) What connections did you make with the story?
I made the connection of how people might adapt possibly hundreds of years after an alien invasion and how people will no longer know what being free from the aliens will be like. How people will take the status of people second in the food chain and not even question being almost pets and used as cases for the aliens eggs. In many sci-fi/horror stories this idea is given about laying eggs in people but its always shown as this horrifying ordeal that ends with the person dying. But this story takes that idea and flips it into being normal, even though its still as dangerous, it's now seen as something that has to be done.
3) What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make?
I think I would adapt this story into a comic if it were to be put into a different medium. Comics specifically are very good with sci-fi stories, while movies they can sometimes come off as cheesy and unrealistic. At least in my experience, when I read comics I'm more likely to accept outlandish concepts and a strange world can seem more believable because it doesn't have to rely on good special effects to seem believable. T'Gatoi would have to be animated perfectly to come off as believable and non-menacing as she is portrayed in the story. In a comic, the lack of movement and not needing to make her 100% realistic to fit the real people would make the world more believable.
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