Category: Life at Warp 10
Do We Need to Be A Little More Old-Fashioned?
If you woke up one day to find that 70 years had passed, would you be excited or would you mourn for lost friends and family and the way of life you’d known? When we meet Steve Rogers again in The Avengers, he’s still struggling with this very thing. Back in 1942, a special serum [...]
Read moreHow Do We Know If Someone Has Truly Changed?
How can we tell if someone has truly changed? How many chances should we give someone before saying “no more”? The knotty nature of authentic change is a theme Once Upon A Time comes back to again and again. Sydney Glass has the chance to change from being Regina’s spineless, love-sick toy to a man [...]
Read moreDo You Ever Feel Like You Don’t Fit In?
If you’ve ever felt like you don’t fit in, you have something in common with a Viking teenager named Hiccup. Hiccup is the scrawny, clumsy, yet creative son of the Viking chieftain in the Dreamworks movie How to Train Your Dragon. No one quite understands Hiccup’s unique ways of doing things. More than anything he [...]
Read moreAre You Struggling to Control Your Inner Centaur?
I’m afraid I might be part centaur. And it’s not something I’m proud of. Centaurs in the ancient Greek world were nothing like the stargazers on the grounds of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts or the wise, noble creatures in Narnia. The most common origin legend says centaurs are descended from King Ixion of the Lapiths and [...]
Read moreWhat Groundhog Day Can Teach Us About Contentment
Important life lessons don’t usually come in the form of a large ground squirrel predicting the weather and a day that literally never ends. But Groundhog Day, a 1993 movie starring Bill Murray, weaves three of the most important lessons for contentment around the story of a cynical weather man trapped in a time warp [...]
Read moreCould You Be An Evil Person?
We all have evil within us. In “Water,” the second episode of Battlestar Galactica’s first season, a saboteur blows up their water tanks, forcing all the ships in the fleet to ration their water. If they don’t find water quickly, the approximately 47,000 people who are all that remains of humanity will die. They send [...]
Read moreThe Missing Hunger Games Line
Even though I loved The Hunger Games movie that released Friday, I couldn’t help but notice that the screenwriters left out one of the most important lines in the book. The night before the Games begin, Katniss finds Peeta on the roof of their hotel, watching the Capitol celebrate. Peeta tells her, “I keep wishing [...]
Read moreTop 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy My Little Ponies
I’m excited to bring special guest poster Rebecca Enzor to you today. She’s a nuclear chemist who writes young adult and new adult fantasy and magical realism, and each Sunday has a Custom Pony of the Week feature on her blog where she highlights customized My Little Ponies based on books, TV shows, movies, or [...]
Read moreOne Thing Magneto Got Right
I’m very excited to have Jessica O’Neal visiting today. Jess’ blog, The Sexy Little Nerd, is one of my absolute favorites. From her Harry Potter series, to her more recent posts on Robin Hood, fantasy book reviews, and vlogs on everything from The Hunger Games to Game of Thrones, visiting her site is like going [...]
Read moreThe Most Underestimated Key to Success from The Matrix
Of all the cool parts in The Matrix, the one that many people remember is the “there is no spoon” scene. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) takes Neo (Keanu Reeves) to meet the Oracle, whose purpose is to help The One who will finally bring down the Matrix. While waiting for the Oracle to see him, Neo [...]
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