Yeah, but it's formed on just as much faith as anything else is. Unless you have personal, concrete knowledge of the absence of the divine and/or supernatural in all its possible forms, it's just a matter of believing something that, like pretty much any adherents, makes you feel better about the world.

I liked this episode as well, but I kinda wish that we'd gotten more of a full trip into Tascioni's head. If for no other reason than I like her more.

Good point, Hagmaier.

The only actual truth in anything is that we don't know one way or the other on God, the existence of souls, afterlife, etc. Any answer beyond absolute agnosticism has to be based on a certain amount of faith. In that sense, atheism is based on just as much delusion on any other form of religion, really.

Please. If Alicia did get elected President, her swearing-in will probably be intercut with shady guys with big packages of flowers or whatever walking up to Peter and all her other enemies on the show while they're getting massages, exiting a church, fishing in the middle of a lake…

The Dawkins thing was odd for me on a lot of levels. Granted, I'm skeptical of skeptics in general, but it's especially hard for me tot ake seriously an argument that's phrased something like "We don't have a way to congratulate someone when they give up their delusion and embrace the truth". Uh, what truth? The way I…

Exactly. There's a few feints towards that kind of self awareness here, but really it's just there to fuel her own selfish sense of superiority (It's okay for me to cheat because it was with Will! etc). What's most impressive here is how that sense of superiority is undercutting her motivations to run in the first…

What's really cool about this episode to me is that it gives us a breathtaking, natural and competely immersive trip inside Alicia's head, fleshes out her rich inner life fully in a way that few television characters get and helps to make her a deeper, more empathetic human character, while also pretty much showing…

Yeah, agree to disagree. I found the first season of TCW miles better than anything we've seen here. The Malevolent arc alone was proof positive they could tell better multi-episode stories and deliver a great balance of OT and PT styles of adventure. The show got much, much better as time went on, but it hit the…

Well, finally watched the last three episodes.

Alright, then. Although I have to admit— "helping to write and produce" sounds a little distanced.

Is Pen involved? Or any of the actual show staff? Because, to be honest, "The Lego Movie" doesn't really strike me with a lot of confidence for an "Adventure Time" movie. It's like being told there's going to be an "Evangelion" movie, but it's gonna be produced by the people who do "My Little Pony". Sorry, but fucking…

I always liked the inclusion of midichlorians, myself. Never really understood why it's seen as erasing the "magic" of the Force. It's always been an energy field created by living things— do people just think that meant it emanated from peoples' hearts, and not on a concrete cellular level? Anyway, I like the…

Like I said, the Dam Keeper isn't deep, but it's a better brand of cliche than Feast. Like somebody else here said, I really love how they built a complete little world under 20 minutes. The directors could scrape the ceiling of the cathedral Ghibli built if they really push themselves.

I agree that it has a nice slick style, but to pair it with something that empty, built on really nothing but vapid sentimentality, is why I'm always disappointed by Disney and Pixar. For all their praise at emotional storytelling, all their stuff really amounts to is the animated equivalent of a Hallmark card.

Best Animated Feature— Anything but "Feast". Please, dear God, anything but fucking "Feast".

Another reason for me to dread this movie— Apple!

Evangelion is on the list, so therefore I think it's a perfectly good list.

I was going to joke when I saw the link to the article and say "Is Space Jam really a 'Classic' movie?". But then I saw The Phantom Menace included here and nary a joke in its expense, so I'll let it slide.

Aw, don't blame Straczynski for "One More Day". That was pretty much Quesada's mandate, wasn't it? Didn't Straczynski have his name taken off the book for that issue?