SailorFini's Media Reflection Blog

Compared to many of the other shows I've reflected on Community is one I haven't seen before, so modern warfare is my first experience of the show. Personally, I wouldn't say this episode is one of the best episodes to show a newcomer to the series since it's pretty hard to get a grip on who the characters are and what's going on. The episode mainly revolves around the school having a paintball fight about who should win the prize, with the prize being a Blu-Ray DVD player, but that was stolen so it was changed to 'TBD' (later revealed to be priority registration). The genre that the episodes represent is very clearly action with multiple references to other action movies such as Die Hard and The Matrix. Whether the episode slots in with another movie genre I'm not quite sure. One of the movie references I picked up while watching the episode was the Die Hard reference (although it was thanks to the Brooklyn 99 character Jake Peralta's love fo...

I've talked about Brooklyn 99 before on this blog, but I haven't yet talked about the pilot episode of the series. The pilot episode of a show is one the most important episodes, it's meant to set up the show and get viewers interested and the pilot for Brooklyn 99 does exactly that (it's what made me want to watch the rest of the show so clearly it did a good job). The episode was mainly structured to set up for the rest of the series. It introduced to all the characters with short descriptions of each and it showed two different crime scenes to show the crew working together. I think it was very important that they introduced all of the characters, as without the knowledge of who everyone is, it makes the show feel a bit empty. All the characters were introduced quickly with memorable scenes (that are all in the opening so you can remember them). This made it quick and easy to remember everyone and to choose a favourite. Rosa is easily one of my favourite ...

On May 5th Childish Gambino released his new song This is America. The music video covers such themes as gun violence, racism and many other big issues in America. It explores the flaws within the country, without ever explicitly stating the flaws. The biggest and most important message in the music video is, of course, showing the state that America's in. That's why the music video is called This is America, it's showing you what America is. A country that likes to believe it doesn't have any flaws. The dancers show the carefree nature of the country while everything going on in the country is happening behind is everything they choose to ignore. So gun violence, racism, police violence, being a bystander by just recording a video, gangs, and most likely some other things that I didn't pick up on that the video shows. I found a lot of the issues that were shown in the video interesting, but the most notable one was the people with masks taking videos o...

The Halloween episodes of Brooklyn 99 are undoubtedly some of the best in the show (if they aren't then they totally are to me). The first one starts the long saga of the Halloween Heists. In this one, Jake promises Holt that he will be able to take Holt's Medal of Valour. While this one isn't my favourite of the Halloween episodes it certainly started the legacy of amazing Halloween episodes. I like to think that the purpose of these episodes is to have something fun and very different in the series. All of the Halloween episodes seem to have a very different vibe to all of them. It's like we see a different side to some of the characters, especially Holt. It's very strange to see Holt acting differently to how he normally is, but I guess that's part of the appeal of these Halloween episodes. It also gives us a break from the normal episodes, where sometimes the plot can be a bit heavier. After this first episode, the purpose of the Halloween episode is, o...