A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Strega, I don't see any reason to believe he doesn't think those tropes are overused and it pisses him off
now
when he sees them. I've also got no reason to assume he hasn't seen movies with them in that he's enjoyed.
Call it a misapplication of Ockham's razor, call me an unsophisticated reader, but that's where I'm at.
if there's a hellish realm, even if it's called Shrimplessness, it kind of has to be balanced out by an opposite, don't you think?
No in the big picture, and for the Winchesterverse, also no. And at the very least in the Winchesterverse it might very well exist and it be something that this family, or even most hunters give no thought to, because of who they are, how they look at things, and the choices they made.
eta: About the actual show I just watched...I was so very creeped out by Hudson's wife's face getting all stretchy. That was nasty. Strength of my reaction took me by surprise too.
Nutty, there's more than a few religions that don't necessarily believe in a life after death. For instance, the Navajo believe that the bad parts of your personality remain hanging around as ghosts, but otherwise gone is gone. Some religions believe in an eventual resurrection, which means that the good souls might get saved in memory (so to speak) until Judgment Day which doesn't preclude Hellish torment until such time.
The fact that there's a Reaper doing
something
with souls argues that yes, there is an equal-and-opposite fate for good souls....
This is all prefaced by a lack of memory for the details of the Reaper episode.
The fact that there's a Reaper doing something with souls argues that yes, there is an equal-and-opposite fate for good souls....
Why does it argue for equal and opposite? Why does it argue for more than different?
Would "tend to support a suppostion that" read better to you?
I don't think it tends to support anything other than different, myself. I think if we didn't come from such a culture of duality, we wouldn't be assuming that different implied opposite.
Naturally, the writers come from the same culture--that's why I might argue for 180°, but they may also be working to mix things up a little.
I think we'd be subconsciously (at the very least) dissatisfied with the idea that there's no large reward in a system that has such large penalties. But that's entirely metatextual reasoning for me.
Doctor Who: I'm looking forward to the creature. I hope it's a balrog -- you know given the digging too deep aspect of things.
Oh, this is a great episode. So damn creepy.
BSG!
I'm thinking we might be seeing Tigh again. Looking forward to the guest/new guy.
Yay, welcome Bulldog.
Random BSG happies, I had to put together a bunch of pretend physicians and patients for a demo thing I use at work for training doctors and I used various favorite character names. Most of the time nobody notices. Last week one of the doctors got excited when he read the names. Hee, either they don't notice at all, or they're fans.
Ooh, they increased the population by one for this week: 41,421.
