I am torn between two ideas for my final project. My first thoughts were to take a piece of our group project we had talked about and dive deeper into the Toy Story world. I would write a fan fiction preview story of Toy Story 4 in which Sid has grown up and become the trash man, still haunted by the night he saw the toys come to life. A group of broken toys gathered together at the dump, of which Sid s the owner and where he lives. These broken toys see what life has done to Sid and want to find a way to help him through his fears and live a happy life. The broken toys would be a chance to create new characters in the Toy Story world as well as possibly bringing back older characters who have been thrown out. My other idea would entail rewriting Serenity or writing the next piece in the Firefly world to renew the franchise not hinder and put it in limbo like Serenity did. The story would either jump off from the end of the show and fill in the gap between the show and Serenity or it would avoid that storyline and branch off into a new story about the crew and their future. I am not sure which one I want to do and would love some feedback as to which do you think would work better in terms of connecting it to fandom, fan fiction, or obviously Whedon himself. I think that Toy Story 4 could be another chance for Whedon to show what he could do with a diverse group of characters and with broken toys the character ideas could be endless. While firefly represents a world created by Whedon with such a following and rabid fans that the want for more from this style, this creation is endless.

I think it may have been just the title card alone that drew me in, but the summary made me read it. This story on Archive of Our Own called Domestic Ultron. I had an idea that there were erotic fan fiction sections out there for the Avengers, from no more place than the actors being extremely good looking people, and there are not to many people who don’t think about Scarlett Johansson. I mean come on. But I digress.

It wasn’t the sexual nature of this first person account only described as, “Basically, you’re living with an eight-foot robot, who cannot crack eggs for the life of him”, but the visual space this person out you into waking up in bed to crashes and sounds coming from the kitchen, investigating and finding only Ultron, which of course seems of no surprise as you call him what I assume to be a pet name, Ron. This person put your emotional standing in that of one for whom the artificial intelligence created to bring about peace on Earth, by destroying the Avengers and cleansing the world of humans, knows how you like your eggs and wanted to make you breakfast.

It was not only funny how the writer gave Ultron a childish disposition, just as it seemed at the early moments in the movie as he emerged. It is truly this sense that AI would be like computer with the temperament of a child. The story was humorous, witty, and definitely not something I was expecting to emerge from the Age of Ultron film.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3923752/chapters/8786536

uploaded at 12:06 AM, sorry for the tardiness

Having not been acclimated to the Buffyverse separated my relationship between the characters in the show and the lives the have led and because of the killing of the ascended mayor, will continue to lead. I enter with no misgivings about their character flaws, no judgment on their past actions, but fresh eyes on a culminating moment in the world of the show. The first minute that drew my attention was the conversation between Buffy and Faith through their minds as they lay broken and bloodied in the hospital beds after their epic fight. The interconnected relationship they share not only as slayers but as women cut from the same cloth, binds them and Whedon is able to share a consciousness among them. They talk the same way, the camera moves between one another, same angle, medium close up. He puts Faith in a position of power or even on a platform at this moment for not only the next parts of the episode, by telling Buffy the mayor’s weakness, but to control part of the extended universe of the show, hinting to a countdown for “Little Miss Muffet” and “730” days. This is a rare moment in film, characters usually give a dying wish or last words of advice but not all spoke already from the grave, or from a coma. The music plays on, grandstanding for a moment to show the importance of this exchange. I believe Whedon, as we discussed in class, unsure of the extended life of the series, but confident in the fandom relationship to the show was able to present an “Easter Egg” or sorts to blossom the relationship between the world of the film and the fans that search tirelessly for answers to riddles and hidden gems within not only the storytelling but the encapsulated world that is the Buffyverse.

Jacob Sam

5/17/15