Actually, I will take that back- a little bit. Tron is not a good movie, by any stretch. However, even within the limits of its technological capacity for special effects and animation, it still really does look stunning. Sark's battleship is full of such wonderful menace. The solar sail, not so much, but it still…

Agreed- the truth of it is that if the audience sees a special effect, it wasn't actually that special. You don't want them thinking, "Wow, that T-Rex looks really impressive!" You want them going, "Holy shit, that T-Rex is going to eat those kids!"

Look at Jurassic Park. That movie is old enough to drink, and it still looks great. Oh, the sets and lighting look very 90s retrofuture. The Thing still looks amazing (at least until the finale, but by then it's roped you in)- and I say that as someone who didn't see The Thing until last year.

Hey, Marvel made Heimdall black. Actually, I now kinda want to see a version of LOTR where Merry and Pippen were played by Chris Rock and Chris Tucker.

Niethah do I, ah, know what is being leffeled to.

It has quite a bit to do with it. If deities exist, then how do they interact with those physical laws? How do we reconcile deities with the Big Bang? Can deities gather/transmit information at the speed of light? If they're omnipotent, how does that relate to the Beckstein Bound? Can the gods peek beneath the shield…

That's simply not true. Theological statements are statements about the world. A universe governed by deities who meddle in human affairs is a fundamentally different universe than one where this is not true. We can take a post-modern, Jungian approach to theology, where we admit these statements are not true, but…

No, it's not okay- it's lazy hack writing. The difference is that when those characters were chucked in the fridge, the trope hadn't been worn thin yet. I'll also grant that one element of fridging that we're not discussing is the importance of shock value. None of those characters were killed to shock the audience-…

If the scripts weren't painfully boring, I don't think anybody'd dislike #6. Yeah, he's a bit of an arrogant jerk, but he isn't wrong. The problem is just that he got some really, really crappy episodes.

Eclair? What's flavor's your filling? ***KERZAAAAAAPPPP*** Lightning flavored!

No, but when a female character dies solely to advance the story arc of a male character, that is fridging. Shado was fridged. There was nothing about Shado's story in her death, nothing about her character was advanced or resolved. Even in this episode, Slade and Oliver debate over who she belonged to. That…

Consciousness is not a prerequisite for identity.

I don't even believe consciousness exists. Prove consciousness before you prove its mechanisms.

YAY HELENA. More sugar topped Jello!

Stories where the key problems are relationships between the characters and not the end of the world? We can't make a movie based on that!

How about the part where he gets his second chance at life by stealing someone else's. That's the part that bugs me the most. That's terrible!

I've been on a bit of a Bob Ross binge lately, and I can confirm: he did once paint a person in his forest. This was before he started beating "the devil" out of his brush.

I'm Remy Porter. Once in awhile, I bump into people and they ask, "Wait, are you the Remy Porter?" Yes, yes I am.

unmeasurable belief that there would be some continuity or connection of consciousness between two systems of identical construction

But is it a ship because of an inherent feature that defines it as being a ship, or is ship simply a category invented by human beings. I'm drawing a line between the semantic ("this is a ship") and the essential ("this thing is inherently a ship"). Being sailable is a feature that puts something in the class of being…