Your Own Digital Jesus: The Religious Subtext of TRON
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Users, and of the Flynn, and of the Master Control.
Yearly Archives: 2009
Overthinking The Fall 2009 TV Lineup: Community
Community may be the new show that I was most interested in. Glee is the one I was most excited about, but I pretty much knew Glee would be awesome. I hoped Community would be awesome, but I had my … Continued
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Episode 65: The Difference Between Real and Pretend
The Overthinkers court hate mail considering Roman Polanski, sex crimes, and the moral difference between reality and fiction.
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Open Thread for September 25, 2009
Is it just me?
Best Diss Track Prior to Hip-Hop [Think Tank]
Before Big beefed with Pac, who laid the nastiest rhymes?
Hogwarts is a Terrible School
If I were the wizard I were five years ago, I’d cast Incendio on this place!
The Smooze: Anatomy of a My Little Pony Villain
How do you write a villain for a hero who doesn’t do anything?
Podcast Supplement: Gossip Girl, Glee, and the Sex Lives of Teenagers
Sheely and Wrather tackle Gossip Girl, Glee, soft power and subversion in the pilot episode of a new podcast.
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The Musical Talmud: I Gotta Feeling
A series of non sequitur party-related cliches, or a treatise on power and predeterminism? (It can be both, I suppose).
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Overthinking Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries
Mlawski asks herself, “Do I really want to watch a show about how much humans deserve to die?”