On "Frankenstein's Bride"

   Hey guys! Happy happy belated Valentine's day to all of you. I'm so apologetic right now that I made this video for all you girls out there.
   Whether you were out on a date with your loved one (or ones, ehem) or were locked away in your room, eating ice cream, reading internet posts and watching anime, I hope you had fun on that day, on your own special way. Though, "survived" would probably be the operative term considering what happened during my Valentine's day. Traffic was awful, didn't you think so? I spent around an hour commuting from UP to SM North. Luckily our cousin was there and treated us at Tokyo Tokyo (hurray!). Anyway, how was your V-day experience? Comment it below! :3 Anyway, don't you think calling it V-day is like similar to D-day? Makes it scary when you think about it.

   Anyway! Enough with the chitty-chatty long intro. That's enough effort, I guess. This is a blog anyway. Even our old friend Frankenstein's monster got a bride for a gift. I'm sure we can't have mail-order brides here (or can we?) so he really has that going for him. But maybe he doesn't since he scared the crap out of his surprisingly fashionable wife. It's like screaming that women, as society dictates, whether organic or synthetic, are scared of ugly, disfigured men. The giant nuts and bolts probably just amplifies the terror it experienced. I'm having a dilemma here anyway. I already called it "it", but should it be called a "she"? Should only organic lives be addressed in a gender-sensitive manner? Calling it "it" is discrimination, but I'm not really sure if it has the same rights that we have. To begin maybe, we should determine if it can be categorized as a human being or some other creature. I can see a lot of arguments that could come from both sides. Unless the Church enters again with their rock hard ideologies, telling the masses that something synthetic and, what more, is developed from rotting carcasses/cadavers is an abomination and should not be called human. Seriously. They're like old, white, senile women. Once they have a stand, they will readily cast it into rock and start feeding it to people, especially onto the non-consenting ones. They will tend to ignore the facts and get mad at  and persecute people who got the logic perfectly, but whose principles and theories do not align with their ideologies. But anyway, this CAN be an INTERESTING debate in class. It's not like I'm implying anything. *wink wink* Just saying. LOL.

   That was all ranting up there. Don't worry about catching my train of thought. I purposefully ingested an icy chocolate milk box as a fuel for the train. Can't catch it myself. You can try if you want. Anyway, aside from the fact that Frankenstein's monster and her bride were parts from different people just stitched together, I was more curious about the little creatures that Victor's mentor created. Totally miniature beings. They're more exciting and appealing to me since they were apparently more perfect and capable of good reasoning and speech. In contrast with the monster that only knew a few nouns + good and bad and the bride who just screamed her lungs out in protest about the whole idea of being given a hideous monster as a friend. Anyway, interestingly, the miniatures humans have been given various roles already. I do not understand how that even happened. More importantly, how were they created? I can't imagine gene splicing as a part of the process, considering that at the time, even gene splicing was still inconceivable. Still, it is commendable that they were able to have wild imaginations, which surely inspired scientists and writers of future generations.

   Anyway, if there was any monster that would gain any favor from the audiences, it would probably be this guy. Yes, this is the monster. This is the monster from the movie (Now Showing in Theatres Nationwide) I, FRANKENSTEIN. Contemporary society has this MegaTrend going on. They're trying to make scary monsters (and nice sprites, get it?) of the past look attractive by turning them into eye candy. Take for example, witches, who for centuries have been burned and persecuted. They have been turned into beautiful maidens by movies and animations. Special mention, *drum roll* tuturu! HARRY FREAKIN' POTTER. Witches, you say? I see EMMA FREAKIN' WATSON. That's who. Blame Rowling for all this. Actually, no. Don't. Rowling is actually a great person. She introduced us to the wonderful wizarding world. Anyway, witches are still people, so who are we kidding? It's those fairy tales that tell us that ugly people are evil, since they're usually witches. That's why when we grow up, let's keep everything fair. Let's not describe witches as ugly. That's RACIST. You wanna blame someone? Blame Meyer. Yeah. That's who. The creator of Twilight and 108 year old white hot sparkling virgin vampires. I mean, man, seriously? 108 year old vampires are supposed to be scary, blood-sucking creatures and all. And she just ruined our childhoods by adding the "white, hot, sparkling, virgin" series of implicit descriptions. I mean, white and hot should probably be okay, since that's part of our MegaTrend right now, but seriously? Sparkling vampires? What, is he the descendant of Tinkerbell or something? Get it straight Meyer. Not to mention that he's a virgin. Now he's got some issues there. Maybe he's a sociopath. Make sure he doesn't get your number. If you're Bella-like. Or if you actually inject perfume into your bloodstream. He probably won't accept your offer of sex, but he'd probably shower you with his glamorous sparkling skin to death. Or carry you off to forests like King Kong in New York.

   Anyway, back to Frankenstein's monster. This is probably reflects our view of our current scientific capabilities as a species. Back then, at the time of Shelley, they just thought of patching him up and running really high voltages through him with the help of lightning charges. Now, they had a good job of patching him up, maybe with some plastic surgery or tissue reconstruction. His superhuman strength and immortality (since, well, he's already dead, what's the point of dying when you're dead) was retained. I don't know why, but monsters usually possess superhuman abilities, and that's usually annoying. Vampires, for example. They drink other people's blood. Big deal. It's not like drinking blood will make you stronger. But maybe it's connected to the fact that they're already dead. Yeah. That's probably it. Since Frankenstein's monster is already dead, speaking of his body at least, he probably doesn't experience the normal restraint of force that live humans experience. See, we always just use 1/3 of our full strength, even if we seemingly exert our greatest effort. But, with the help of adrenaline, the limit is lifted, allowing is to at exert a force of at least a ton on objects. With the lack of impulses to restrain this, his body is probably always working at full force. Thus, enabling him to have superhuman capacities. If this was not the explanation, I don't know what is (yet). Since getting the energy or strength out of nowhere would actually be out of the realm of science, and we all know that Frankenstein's monster was created using science and should therefore abide by the laws of science. Considering all that anyway, and his unbelievable fortitude + his really tough skin, he might have been able to survive the explosion in the climax of the movie. If he did, what do you think happened to him? That's a question for another time. ;)