Looks interesting, book sounds better from the comments. Science and Religion fighting for her soul. It sounds like a riddle from Lord Varys’, “It’s the end of the world and three men vie for the hand of the last woman on earth: a common scientist, a man of faith, and a healer... who lives and who dies?” She’d be…

Agriculture maybe the only and single most important and lasting technology in human history. Completely took us out of age-specific mortality, the surplus allowed for specialization that then produced all other technologies, and truly was the mote in God’s eye.

Prelude to a Zombie: if magic is the source of their reanimation, doesn’t that make them more traditional zombies? Puppets for puppet masters, the White Walkers, versus our more modern zombies who are driven by viruses (not saying viruses are unintelligent puppet masters; I think we’ll find someday soon they’re the…

One of six million problems with those abominations.

Amen. The missed a lot of opportunities had they moved the relationship forward. Think of all the lost sexual techniques that Fry could have introduced to Leela and vice versa.

“I imagine that therapy with him was much like being a participant in an extended performance piece.” Awesome! I think the thing I love about Jung is dialogue with the inner world. To treat it with respect.

Had most of those early texts and it was my “evil” step-mother who tossed all the Hot Wheels, Star Wars toys, miniature army sets, DINKY toys (Space 1999 Eagle is still missed to this day) and all the D&D books, lead figures, maps, and character folders. If there is such a thing as “heaven” I’ll get to spend hours…

That one in particular got me into anthropology.

To be fair, Jorah did see Daenerys walk into a funeral pyre and walk out with three baby dragons. Love the Faceless Men. And the end was second best battle scene of the entire series.

And to be priapic for a moment... Imagining Sera Beak in a Wonder Woman costume brought a spring in my step. :-)

Thanks for the book recommendation. One click away. No love for Jung? His later work he seems to transform into a wonderful anthropologist. That’s how I discovered him. I find the Jungian Triangle invaluable in my work, so kind of partial, but interested in your thoughts on his ideas. Very cool way to explain Ancient…

The problem with our post-modern interpretation of the Greek Pantheon is that we treat the gods and goddesses very literally, concretized, and like they’re children. I’m thinking Christianity has something to do with this, but I’m not looking for a villain and want to avoid the Jungian Triangle of Villain, Victim,…

My article on why we love dystopian films... http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/5-reasons-love…

Leeloo.

Splice, Teeth, and really any of the films from the Alien universe.

To my mind anyway, Wonder Woman has the potential to be the very best comic book character and subsequently produce the best movies, but as I’ve said before, someone needs to truly deeply understand what the Greek Pantheon is all about in terms of Western thought and tradition. To go spend weeks with James Hillman to…

It’s metaphorical. Armor versus the worn cloth of Luke, Han and Leia. It’s David versus Goliath. It’s Beowulf versus Grendel’s mother. You’ve got to drop the “armor” and trust that vulnerability is a strength.

Maybe I should first apologize for the heteronormative comment I’m about to make, but since the death of Ygritte and Talisa Maegyr the show has desperately needed some kind of romance to counter-balance this very dreary and love starved world and Tyene Sand provided the perfect antidote. I kept thinking, “They’re…

No Jack Shaftoe?