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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Fate 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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Overthinking Lost: The Fate/Free Will Showdown
What we talk about when we talk about fate.
No Fate But What We Make: The Greatest Terminator Lie Ever Told
“No Fate” did not spring fully formed from James Cameron’s skull. It’s a messy doctrine from a narrative point of view, and from a meta-narrative point of view, it’s the undoing of the franchise.