Today in class we talked more about how Spock was the overall best sci fi character. We talked about how some people got really upset over their sci fi character losing the bracket. Everyone invested so much time into trying to convince everyone in the class that their character was the best character, so when they got voted out of the bracket, it felt like they had wasted all their energy and time that they put into their argument. We also talked about the results of past sci fi brackets, and it turns out that our class was probably the most civil. In the last bracket that was exercised, there was a lot of controversy over the results. And in the bracket before that, the results were a big joke.
The whole exercise for who was the best sci fi character made a big circle back to the book Fahrenheit 451. The people in the book don’t question the society they live in. They trust the government when they say that reading books is detrimental, which is kinda what happened in the bracket. After we voted and found out that Spock was the best sci fi character, we had to conform to what would only be beneficial towards Spock. We had to explain why Spock was so much better than our original character, we drew Spock defeating our character, and we even had to repeat a pledge that explained that Spock was the best character. All while doing this, most of the class went along with it, even though we were bashing the character that we had spent months convincing ourselves was the best sci fi character of all time.
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