{"id":29,"date":"2007-04-12T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/04\/12\/thoughts-on-science-fiction-and-love\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T18:43:15","slug":"thoughts-on-science-fiction-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/04\/12\/thoughts-on-science-fiction-and-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Science Fiction and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">I agree with this blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/royalewithcheese\/2007\/04\/11\/the-disappearing-act\/\">post<\/a>. I was, and still am, confused by Jennie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s existence. I know that she is not a ghost, because Nathan was upset by that part of the film, but is she really? This is where I feel like <em>Portrait of Jennie<\/em> goes Sci-Fi on us. Now, not Gene Roddenberry (<em>Star Trek<\/em>) Sci-Fi, but Octavia Butler (<em>Kindred<\/em>) Sci-Fi. Is Jennie time traveling? Is she aware of the fact that she is in the future when she is talk to Eben? That also brings us to different theories in regards to time travel. Is this time type of time model where the past and present and happening simultaneously, or is it the sort of past and present that are separated linearly, and are there two Jennies when she time travels, or is there just the one?<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Frankly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if all of those things even matter. Our unit is all about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love and its Discontents.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So where does love play into all of this? So Eben and Jennie are in love, presumably. However, they cannot be together. Why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they be together? I thought that the idea of love was supposed to surpass time and space and all that jazz. Apparently not in this unit. Maybe what Nathan is saying is that it can exist, because it did before Jennie died, but that it is fleeting, and no one person can understand it. Maybe. I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. What are your guys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 thoughts on love?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with this blog post. I was, and still am, confused by Jennie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s existence. I know that she is not a ghost, because Nathan was upset by that part of the film, but is she really? This is where I feel like Portrait of Jennie goes Sci-Fi on us. Now, not Gene Roddenberry (Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portrait-of-jennie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}