I was hoping for something more. I don't know why I even bothered…

It's like X-Files was never cancelled. We pick up exactly where we left off, and even the Mulder and Scully relationship is reset back to season one. UFOs, check! Government/alien cover-up, check! Cigarette Smoking Man, check! Everything's the same, and nothing's changed…

I'm not about to argue which episodes were the best because… well, I have better things to do with my time. Sorry. But I agree with you about the basic setup.

I honestly couldn't watch it. It was so dull. And I tried to like it, I really, really tried…

I'm not saying it holds together, and I agree that it kinda falls apart around season 4. I was only pointing out that the story arc on Fringe was much more pronounced than on X-Files. I think that, in the case of X-Files, a strong arc probably would not have worked. The reason is because, while Fringe was making up…

Twin Peaks is the exception to the rule. It was a groundbreaking show for a reason. X-Files had arc stories and stand-alone episodes, just like Fringe. The only difference, as I said, was that the arc on Fringe was much stronger and more extensively worked-out than on X-Files. If anything, Fringe, in this regard, was…

I thought Genisys wasn't as bad as everyone was saying. In fact, I actually enjoyed it for what it was: a dumb action film. It was certainly better than Salvation. As for it's contribution to the mythos, well, I pretty much just ignore everything that came after T2. I like to imagine that all subsequent sequels take…

X-Files did it first. Plus the Mulder/Scully dynamic is second to none. And while Fringe had the wonderful Walter Bishop, X-Files had The Lone Gunmen. But, yeah, you're absolutely right, the arc was much stronger on Fringe. But in X-File's defense, it was produced in a simpler time, before arcs were a thing…

I don't think it's possible for me to put into words just how much I agree with you. Get out of my brain.

I bet that this petition was signed almost exclusively by Star Trek fans. I can't explain how anyone who's had to endure the torturous experience of living through the prequels would want Lucas to return any other way.

That Avatar doesn't have a strong fan base is no great mystery. It's a story about natives having their natural resources exploited by greedy corporate assholes, except the assholes are us and the natives are aliens. It's like making Independence Day with humans as the genocidal invaders and the aliens as the heroic…

Now that I hadn't heard before. Although, I guess, I shouldn't be too surprised, especially after how he behaved with Ahmed Mohamed. I'll never understand what could possibly possess an old man of Dawkins stature to go after a high school kid with that amount of viciousness…

Ah, then I apologize. My bad, DDB9000…

Nietzsche didn't have health insurance. Thanks, Obama…

Atheism wasn't unknown in the ancient world. The Sophists and Epicureans, for example, had atheistic tendencies, and the philosopher Socrates was accused of atheism. Many varieties of Buddhism also make no theistic claims. And in India, Jainism and the Carvaka philosophical tradition were also atheistic. Dawkins may…

Yes, you see, Nietzsche invented the flux capacitor way back in the 1880's, put it on a steam train, traveled to the 2000's, heard Ricky Gervais's comedy routine, returned to the past, wrote a letter (to be delivered to me in 2015) in which he said just this. It's all perfectly reasonable, yes indeed.

If anybody could have done it, it would have been Christopher Hitchens. Dude was anti-everything at some point or other seemed like…

That's one interpretation. Another interpretation of Cleese's opinion of Jesus is given by the Rev. Prof. Richard Burridge, Dean of King’s College London, and a member of the Church of England's General Synod.

Dawkins has said that Jesus was "a great moral teacher," and that "Somebody as intelligent as Jesus would have been an atheist if he had known what we know today." Which is a far cry from being anti-Jesus, as far as I'm concerned. And, like Nietzsche and Gervais, he's contrasted Jesus with the more distasteful aspects…

Actually, Nietzsche was anti-Christianity, not anti-Jesus. His position was similar to Gervais's position. Nietzsche certainly didn't have anything nice to say about St. Paul, though, who he blamed for perverting Jesus's message. As far as Nietzsche was concerned, the only real Christian died on the cross…