Large-scale sociology experiment?

What I came away from it was a hint about fate... he started by talking about the gods and their justice being demonstrated by a fight to the death between two people, and ended with a suggestion that the gods are basically just crushing beetles (by which he means, human beings) and we will never know why; we just…

How terrible! I hope you're doing okay.

You're probably looking for TV series, but a comic series is the one that comes to mind for me. This was nihilistic to the core: we tend to put our hope in humanity based on our intelligence, but in The Watchmen, brains are ultimately just another kind of brawn, best used in asserting your dominance.

I can think of lots in Doctor Who. Here's a for-instance: in 'Waters of Mars,' the Doctor goes all "Time Lord Victorious" in one of the truly memorable, fearsome moments of the recent show's history... and then less than five minutes later he gives up after being defeated by an event he could totally thwart with his…

FYI, you have misgendered Joslyn, as did the author of the DFP article.

Oh good, I finally have a nemesis. *steeples fingers*

Not that it was a *great* movie, by any stretch, but we enjoyed this a lot more than we expected to.

You and me both, Number One.

I'm really excited about this. I'm even excited about J. J. Abrams. The storytelling aesthetic that he brought to Star Trek which didn't necessarily work so wonderfully there will work really well for Star Wars.

Kinda surprised not to see this.

I'm kinda glad to read that actually, because the trailers have been reducing my interest in seeing this movie.

They always get the Cajun accent wrong in movies. Let's hope if they make this, they at least get the geography of New Orleans right (unlike in the Wolverine movie).

He was THERE and he doesn't know. What hope do we have of figuring it out?

Cenobites in Space. So many possibilities, and they took the easy way out.

Even just in the part of the map in the screenshot - New Zealand is in the mid Atlantic, and Turkey, Crete, and Africa seem to be completely missing...

Yep, just in the bit shown in that screenshot - where's Turkey? And also, New Zealand is in the mid Atlantic.

The Affront from the culture novel "Excession" were pretty appalling. One character describes life in their society as "a never ending, self perpetuating holocaust of pain and misery."

Welp, let's see. You reap the benefits of GPS, right?

250 Sardian horses, given as a gift from an empress.