The Darkest Timeline? Fate and Free Will in “The Man in the High Castle” and “Community”
From Greendale Community College to Nazi Occupied America, everyone must make a choice to weather the storm of randomness, or to fight it.
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Free Will on Overthinking It
Terminator 2: Did The T-800 Really Learn the Value of Human Life?
At the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, does the Terminator transcend his machinelike nature and gain free will?
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Hannibal as Therapist; Hannibal as Transformer
Hannibal considered as a therapist, and as a transformer. (Not the Michael Bay kind, thank you very much.)
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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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The Apotheosis of Joseph Fiennes
If you can see the future, you can change the future; ergo Joseph Fiennes is god.
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Overthinking Lost: The Fate/Free Will Showdown
What we talk about when we talk about fate.
Just How Deep DOES The Rabbit Hole Go?
If The Matrix was the deep, philosophical action-flick that professors wanted us to think it was, then what philosophy did its sequels contain?