Once again, there’s a difference between believing what was preached, and believing in the preacher. These are people who, I cannot stress this enough, WOULD HAVE BEEN ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME AS JESUS AND THE APOSTLES. While it’s true you can get people to believe anything, someone had to get the ball rolling.

I never said that Christianity is based on anything real (at least in the sense that I’m religious, I’m not). But come on, those two situations aren’t comparable at all. Hubbard made up an entire religion from scratch, he didn’t form a band of a pre-existing one. As such, most of the stuff he made up had to do with…

Tacitus’ reference to Jesus is actually not thought to be a forgery - it’s widely believed to be authentic. It’s only Josephus’ that historians have doubts about.

Also, it can be argued that the existence of an established cult of worshippers a mere 30 years after his presumed death already gives indication that he…

Aside from this contest, which is pretty damn Black Mirror, I think the most Black Mirror moment of 2017 was the launch of Zhima Credit in China. https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/

It basically was a Black Mirror episode, in that this concept was somewhat explored in the episode Nosedive. Basically,…

It’s an old one, and I never gifted it to anyone, but I found out that many of my friends had ever seen the original Blade Runner. I ended up converting a few fans in the back half of the year.

“I’m going to blow up the planet in five minutes!”

And it was so strenuous that Luke died immediately after.

He’s not just a dark, force sensitive individual, though. He’s a dark, force sensitive individual who is completely unconnected to the Sith, is either impossibly old or came of age at a time when there were no Jedi, looks similar to a human but isn’t quite human, and is so powerful that he’s able to manipulate the…

I’m seeing the movie Sunday and am avoiding forums for now. What types of fans seem to disapprove?

If Netflix can’t control costs at their current size, what makes you think they’d be able to afford 21st Century Fox or Fox Television, or that they’d have the capability to manage that massive portfolio?

We’re not talking about the bad customer service. We’re talking about the idea of them being owned by an ISP - a content supplier owned by a content distributor (and I don’t mean that in the usual sense of movie distribution), and one that actually DOES rival Disney in size. As Jrobert548 says, they have a near…

Of course I do, but I’ve never been there. But you didn’t specify which park. Although I was speaking about the parks in general, the conversation up till then had concerned Orlando (the reference to Disney World, and to Florida).

Uh, what are you talking about? Universal Studios in Orlando (the one that was indirectly called out here) still has E.T. Adventure.

First up, we don’t know what the details of Marvel’s contract with Fox is. It could be that no matter who Fox sells to, they have to offer the rights to Marvel first before handing them over to the buyer.

Second, don’t dis Universal’s theme parks. Although their Marvel area is dated, you make it sound like they’re…

I’m disappointed that there’s no Uncle Sam in this,and that they chose to go for original DC characters like Red Tornado and Citizen Cold to fill out the team, rather than using old Quality Comics characters. That would have been cool.

EDIT: I’m actually seeing in some places that Uncle Sam IS in this series. If so,…

Lucifer and Gotham are the only shows I see being immediately affected by this. Legion and The Gifted will probably be allowed to continue as long as they’re profitable, but would probably not be given much leeway when a show featuring some new MCU version of mutants could be slotted in their place (although Legion…

It probably wouldn’t. Legion would still be airing on FX - the channel has a history of “mature” programming, and there doesn’t seem to be any immediate reason for them to rebrand. Marvel Television, already owned by Disney, is partially behind Legion anyway (it’s a Fox/Marvel co-production). Disney has a history of…

Fox is selling anyway. They made the internal decision to refocus their company. The other largest bidder, other than Disney, was Comcast. Would you rather see 20th Century Fox’s film and TV division go to Disney? Or an ISP like Comcast?

A photographer in their senior year of high school, two former best friends reconnecting, lingering guilt over one friend abandoning the other, a small town, supernatural elements, quirky teen dialogue, geeky nostalgia, LGBTQ subtext... what is this, Life is Strange?

Obama being a one-term president is a fan theory crafted when Luke Cage started dropping Obama references. The problem is, that theory also flat-out contradicts the movies - the Smithsonian exhibit in The Winter Soldier shows that Ellis was already President when Cap was de-thawed - also, Iron Man 3 takes place the…