I had another episode like dream. It must have been a netflix original because of how much swearing was in it but I digress the entire dream felt like an episode besides the beginning which was basically me playing a game very similar to Monster Hunter stories. There was a raptor monster with Boxing Gloves i was trying to catch but on to the part I remember the most.
The setting is a community college. (Or high school?) It’s a well established mostly black school where our main protagonist is transferring over being unable to finish in University. He has a particular literature class full of delinquents. Students that really don’t want to be there and a professor who just doesn’t care about teaching. I remember seeing familiar faces in shows that our very similar to the setting and humor. Both Tyler James Williams and Marque Richardson (Both played roles in Dear White People the movie and the netflix show but Tyler is mostly known for Everybody hates Chris) and Donald Glover and Danny Pudi (Troy and Abed from Community LITERALLY make a cameo in the first “episode”.) The kids hate him for trying to learn and basically brand him a nerd. He becomes and outcast.
The protagonist may have dropped out of uni but he has a distinct interest in graduating where his colleagues are rude and ignorant and disrespectful to each other as well as their instructor. The protagonist keeps finding himself in the same group of people in everyone of his classes and he has to deal with their behavior. Eventually the protagonist stumbles across a math instructors scores for a test they took. He didn’t do so well but the scores showed that all of the students were ahead of him scoring from perfect to high As. He realizes that these kids are actually prety intelligent. He plots to bring this out but he ends up losing the scores after a student known for bumping into people intentionally knock the scores out of his hand and they end up lost.
The main characters in their literacy class where (for whatever reason) the topic is lord of the flies. No one wants to read it and the teacher doesn’t care. The protagonist hatches a plan. Her moves up to the front and starts smiling at a group of students chilling in class. This conversation is still fresh in my mind and I can almost quote it directly.
Student #1: The fuck are you smiling about?
Protagonist: Imagine you’re on a bus and I come up to you. I sit next to you and I’m just smiling and staring. What would you do?
Student #2: I’d ask what your problem was.
Protagonist: Exactly. You’d want to distance yourself from me. You might even tell me to fuck off right? Now imagine being with that same person deserted on an island. He keeps following you and there’s no where to go.
Student #1: Bruh if he don’t leave me alone I might start swinging know what I mean.
Protagonist: Now imagine you’re surrounded by these types of people. Not all do the same thing but they’re all weird in some way. You’re trying to survive dealing with a bunch of weirdos. You would most likely try to ally with the less weird ones right? You would end up fighting the ones that annoy you the most. Now imagine all of that except you’re all kids. That’s Lord of the Flies.
The students really like that description and start conversing about it. Some make arguments about the book which shows they’ve already read it and the students clamor together and for once have a session talking about the book accidentally.
The students praise the main character and one of them suggests that he look into being a teacher and that’s basically it.
It was so episodic. It’s amazing.
