Alright, let us start the semester off right with a blog that will bring my nerdiness into the limelight. My blog topic is about the original redshirt, created by Homer. But, for those of you that aren't complete and utter nerds, I first need to expound upon what exactly a redshirt is.
How many of us watched Star Trek as a kid (or now)? Well a Redshirt is "the color of shirt worn by the nameless security personnel on the original Star Trek series. Their only job was to get eaten, shot, stabbed, disrupted, sped up and killed, frozen, desalinated, or turned into a cube and crushed. Their death would give William Shatner and DeForest Kelley a corpse to emote over, and Leonard Nimoy a corpse to, well, not emote over (Tvtropes.org)." After this happens, they are normally sworn to be remembered forever, and promptly forgotten, never to be mentioned again.
With that said, let us turn our attentions to Homer, or more specifically to Hector and his charioteers. Hector's charioteers, the two that are mentioned anyway, both die in the exact same manner and Hector 'greatly mourns their loss, but must keep going without stopping for their bodies.' Hector's charioteers are the epitome of a redshirt, merely there for Hector to briefly have someone to lament over, and never to be mentioned again.
This just goes to show that there is no such thing as an original idea, merely one that has been forgotten long enough to be recycled and claimed anew...or something like that.
P.S. I commented on Alexandra (a.k.a.) Captain Awesome's post
P.P.S. (This is Alisha)
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