Overthinking It Book Club: Slaughterhouse Five
The Overthinking It Book Club is back! This summer, the OTI community will be breaking down Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.”
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Posts by Ben Adams on Overthinking It
The Curse of the Mimics’ Claw
In “Edge of Tomorrow,” the aliens are here. They’ve invaded Earth and they want just one thing: To escape the curse of the Mimics’ Claw.
The Case of the Week Quotient
On TV, you can’t just tell a story and stop—which is why we have the “Case of the Week.” But can we quantify it? And what does it look like when we do?
Top Gun-ovision
It has come to our attention that the Chinese military has mastered, combined, and weaponized two of the West’s most valuable technologies. OTI Defense Correspondent Ben Adams has the story.
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The Madness of Frank Underwood
Frank Underwood is possibly the least crazy person on television. So why does he keep talking to people that no one else can see?
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The Empire Business
How Anakin became Darth Vader, and how Walter White became Heisenberg.
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Archer, How I Met Your Mother, and Comedic Reinvention
How I Met Your Mother and Archer have reinvented themselves for the 2013-2014 TV season. Why would a comedy change courses so drastically?
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Do the Hunger Games Actually Work?
Do the Hunger Games actually work to control the citizenry of Panem? Or do they just fan the flames of revolution?
Enderthinking It: So This is the End. Er.
Why the Ender’s Game move was a decent translation of the book, but a terrible adaptation of it.
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EnderThinkingIt: The Adaptation’s Gate is Down
Ben Adams Overthinks what to look for in the Ender’s Game movie adaptation this weekend.
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