Her-minator: How Skynet and Samantha Negotiate Individuality, Collectivism, and the Human Condition
Nuclear weapons and killer robots aside, these two movie AI’s are different–and similar–in ways you might not realize.
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Who. Doctor Who.
What makes two of the longest running franchises of the last 50 years uniquely British.
You won’t believe what happens when a dozen real college students send their final papers to Overthinking It
Fenzel is one heck of a tough grader.
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The Overthinking It 2014 Reader Survey
A short survey questionnaire to let us know how we’re doing at Overthinking It, and what you’d like to see more of in 2014.
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Top Posts of 2013
Here are the Overthinking It posts from 2013 that our readers liked most.
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Doofenshmirtz as Gilgamesh: Mythic Bromance and the Humanist Ethic of “Phineas and Ferb”
How Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus from “Phineas and Ferb” reflect the humanism and the bromance of “The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
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Poké Monomania: The Consumer Success of Pokémon’s Ideological Self-Obsession
How Pokémon’s self-obsession influences and mirrors the obsession of its players with the game.
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Overthinking It Popfixers, Episode 5, “The Wet Bandits”
In this very special holiday episode, the Popfixers make plans to rob a fancy house in the Illinois suburbs, but 8-year-old Kevin McCalester, left “Home Alone,” stands in their way…
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Terminator: Genesis: A Biblical Analysis of the Next Terminator Movie’s Title
Did God create Skynet in his own image?
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P-Zombies, Zero-Sum Videogames, and the Problem of Free Will
How does “The Walking Dead” solve the conundrum of narrative vs. freedom in games?
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