fandomhigh | Philosophy 102- Monday- 1st period- Class #1

And once again, the Danger Shop theater was a go, with Jaye at the front of the room. To be honest, she'd missed it. Not because she liked the work or teaching or dealing with kids or anything, but she liked being totally able to boss people around.

"Welcome to Philosophy 102, or as I like to call it, 'No, really, we're just going to watch movies,'" Jaye said. "I'm Jaye, and... I guess you can tell me your name if you want? And like if you believed the class description when you signed up because last time I did this class no one did."

And after any and all introductions were done, and Jaye looked slightly less bored listening to people, she said, "And for our first class, we're going to watch a movie. It's called ~~dear lord the meta for~~ Arachnoquake. Enjoy." She was just about to head to hear seat at the back of the theater, and then stopped. "Oh, and at the end of the class I want you to write a short, paragraph-long essay on what you think the filmmaker was trying to say. You know, from a philosophical standpoint."

Welcome to the very first class of the new semester, boys and girls.

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Like it's a brand new school year!

Jack Carter

Dave Nelson

Jim Kirk

Juliet Darling

Olve Penderghast

Arietty Clock

Jeremy Darling

Petra West

Your name, and whether you thought this was a real class. And anything else you want to say, really.

"I'm Jack," he said with a grin. "I thought this was a real class and I think the is the best FREAKING class ever."

After two semesters of weird classes... Jack was very happy.

He was never much of a student. He also hadn't seen the movie yet.

"I'm Dave," Dave said. "And I wasn't sure, but I figured I'd give it a shot. Worse case, I'd learn something."

"I'm Jim," he introduced, even waving at his fellow students because he was just that kind of guy. "And I just kind of closed my eyes and pointed when I picked my classes so I didn't really even think about it. Guess my finger pointing skills are better than even I thought."

"Hi, I'm Juliet," Juliet said. "Jeremy's twin and Jim's fake sister." The two boys mentioned got a little wave there ~~assuming they were in class~~. "I knew this was a movies class, but I wanted to do that. I like movies. And what's senior year for if not a couple blow-off classes?"

Juliet had actually been taking blow-off classes since she started at Fandom. But now she had a better excuse.

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"I'm Olive," she said, waving a little, "and I thought it was real but I'm totally okay with it being movies. I can buffer my GPA a little. It's like how no one fails gym, either."

Arietty stood up from where she was perched on the back of one of the seats and held up a tiny megaphone that looked like it was made out of a rolled up piece of a box of jujubees. "Hi!" she called through it. "I'm Arietty Clock. And I was hoping the description was true, because I love movies."

"I'm Petra West," Petra said, "and I took 101 so I was pretty much banking on this being a movies class."

Watch the movie, talk, work on your essay...

Well that wasn't very good at all. And Dave kept itching because it felt like something was crawling on him. It was Bad on two levels.

This...was a pretty stupid movie which made it all the more entertaining for Jim. He recognized pretty much no known starring in the film and just wondered if they'd all gotten into debt or something and needed a paycheck because this was just awful.

And that just meant Jim was laughing (sometimes loudly) every ten minutes or so. The attempts at seriousness in this movie were very funny.

Arietty had come prepared. She pulled two large kernels of popcorn from her backpack, dropped one on the floor for Eggletina, and set about munching on the other.

The single kernel could easily last her the whole movie, yes.

What do you think they meant to say with Arachnoquake?

This one was easy.

The filmmakers were trying to say that they had imbibed a lot of drugs before trying to make anything good or reasonable. And possibly while filming. And editing.

For a second, Jim considered what to write here. He figured (or maybe he hoped) that the teacher wasn't looking for anything serious so being a smartass in the essay was probably going to happen.

Eventually, he just drew a really big spider eating a really badly drawn stick figure with cowboy boots (just for flair there). Underneath that he wrote:

I think they were trying to say that spiders are gonna be our future kings and queens so prepare now. Also, they wanted to let us know that a lot of these people needed paychecks desperately.

Juliet spieled out something relatively convincing about how the fear of spiders was actually fear of death and decay, and the film played on those universal feelings by turning death and decay into giant monsters.

What? She had depths.

Arietty's essay was about how the filmmakers were clearly trying to put together anti-spider propaganda, which was absurd since spiders could be really very friendly creatures and served many purposes, especially pest control.

She really cares about you and what you want to tell her.

For those who were watching me livetweet on Saturday a few months ago, this is totally the movie with the flaming Jesus spiders.

...SyFy?

Some indie art house flick, believe it or not!

It's totally Syfy.

Judging yo~ou.

You can judge me for a whole semester.

A whole. SEMESTER.

If you don't tackle the SyFy cinematic masterpiece that is Sharktopus, I'm going to be so disappointed.

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