Though I'm not sure that's *why* he did it.

I'm curious to know how well this film appeals to those born in the 90s and onward. To me, the story and visual aesthetics, both of which I adore, worked so well on film because of the retro-futuristic style it used, a style which happened to mirror a lot of what was actually used in the 80s. Analog controls,…

I feel like this belongs here. One of the better ways I've seen magic and tech in the same setting.

It is indeed.

It is indeed.

I don't know that this is anything other than tongue-in-cheek humor, a "the Disney princesses are still ridiculous but let's have fun and make them be real role models" kind of thing.

It's been a while since I read about the occlumency lessons, but the impression I got was the Snape did it extremely grudgingly and took the opportunity to belittle and humiliate Potter. While is, really, what he did all of the time. How I see it, Harry didn't have much reason, especially early on, to *not* think…

Absolutely. My favorite missions were almost always the smaller, more personal ones. Rescuing Tombs. Investigating the wreckage of the ship Jacob's father commanded. Heck, even talking an Asari into dating the Krogan who had been going after her. Those were the moments which cemented me into the universe and made me…

That's what I thought about Halo 3, and look what happened :p

Part of the revolutionary ideology was that those in power would not give it up except through violent revolution. Which was, actually, probably true in most cases. Couple that with the disregard for life which existed in that time (and still exists some places today), a government structure where fanaticism was…

As brutally as he pursued his goals, I can't help but sympathize for Roy's plight. His creators were just as terrible as he was, in their own way, as was the system which literally hunted them like animals.

That's part of what I mean. Snape's motives always seemed . . . selfish. He had a terrible life, to be sure, and he did a great deal of brave and difficult things, but at the core he still seemed a bitter, broken man.

Harry was never a bully to the extent James was. And besides, Harry didn't know any of the history between Snape and his parents until they began working with the pensive—when, by the way, Snape made sure to humiliate Harry as much as possible during their training sessions training. Snape was brave, dedicated, and…

I'm not sure that your motives need to be "pure," but in my mind heroic implies acting for some greater good or cause. I didn't get that from Snape; he was brave and willing to sacrifice everything, even his life, but it was to ease his own conscious, not because fighting Voldemort was the "right" thing to do.

Scar was one of my favorite characters from Fullmetal, as it happens, along with Lust. Wonderfully tortured and nuanced characters.

To an extent.

Well, approaching biology without evolution would be like trying to teach literary criticism while saying that you shouldn't read literature.

Absolutely. IMO, knowledge is useful in as far as it alters the behavior of people, be it they they change lifestyles after discovering the deleterious effects of some foods or simply are able to think more coherently on a particular topic. Perhaps the biggest problem in academia is that those who are most…

Imma just leave this here:

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