Comment preview: Neat, I like the red earth and I feel the angel wings make a wee bit more sense the the demonic looking ones. For those interested, [heres a link to the original Dor ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paradise_Lost_12.jpg) which was originally in a 19th c ....

Comment preview: Who is to say that the gun didn't fire? Are you sure you are looking at the right weapon? What if this wasn't about Uriel falling from grace. Michael is a good man, Uriel's grace was never at risk. But you know what was at risk... Uriel's mind. Uriel is ....

Comment preview: > To play devil's advocate: I really should just stop you right there but I'll bite. >European culture is superior because European culture is dynamically progressive It's not. >European culture evolved from peasants eating shit into the world's w ....

Comment preview: Not at all. His work and this piece in particular is full of depictions of common mideval cliche's about sin and virtue. The painting itself is a triptych depicting a perfect eden on the left, man's fall from grace in the center and sin's reward in hell on ....

Comment preview: > Schaub's fall from a solid-pro bowler to shithole is still confusing to me Me too. I'm not the greatest at evaluating QBs and I didn't pay much attention to the Texans till they got good in 2011. But I suspect he really hasn't actually gotten a who ....

Comment preview: It is classic good storytelling though. The best stories follow a fall from grace -> utter destruction -> struggle -> triumph pattern. The thing with GRRM is that he is a master of each of these sections. **The Fall:** This focuses alot on Eddard ....

Comment preview: >"Wow, I get a free game with that $499 piece of tech." and "The Xbox One must be superior in some way for it to warrant being $100 more expensive." If it really worked this way then the PS3 would have done amazingly well. The truth is that it's going t ....

Comment preview: Thank you, I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. When I first read the script, I immediately was fascinated by this kind of character - somebody in the Secret Service who has had a fall from grace, and taken away from the one thing they want to do i ....

Comment preview: > I think the prequel trilogy would have been better if only one film was focused on Vadar. Personally I think one of the fundamental problems with the prequels is that Lucas (and his team, I guess) are much better at depicting events than characters. Y ....

Comment preview: Spoilers abound, but I don't see why anyone else would be in here: I read the manga chapter by chapter as it was coming out, and personally I enjoyed the series as a whole. the story of Light's fall from grace(?) is brutally truthful and you can pretty muc ....

Comment preview: The Raiders were feared in the 70s and 80s. And 15 years ago they were good as well (played in the Superbowl AKA the championship once, and almost got there a 2nd time as well). These days, the Raiders are one of the laughing-stock teams of the NFL. Terrib ....

Comment preview: On the one hand, stock markets do practically everything by computer. Undoing all of the changes made by Bane and his cronies would take some time, regardless of whether or not it was legal or not. And in that interim, you have people with shares and mon ....

Comment preview: I'd probably run it as finding himself in spiritual turmoil ("You go to your quarters to pray, but the peace of mind you usually find during your communion with Pelor is nowhere to be found. Instead, you find your mind constantly wandering toward the woma ....

Comment preview: I think you missed the strongest point- that women had a valued status as virgins, "pure", and "good with God". Note there was no strong public emphasis on how wonderful it was that a woman was married and thus virtuous. So inherently there's a sudden fal ....

Comment preview: The history conspiracy theory that drives me nuts is the Knights Templar/Jesus Bloodline stuff. The theory came out in [*Holy Blood, Holy Grail*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail) in the early 80s. No, Dan Simmons did not in ....

Comment preview: The lore was brilliant because the main villain of that expansion was Arthas - one of the most (if not _the_ most) iconic character in Warcraft. His fall from grace started in WC3 and in Wotlk we finally got to fight with him. The Icecrown questlines made ....

Comment preview: Arian Foster gets exactly as much love as he deserves. He is clearly one of the best running backs in the league, has fantastic hands, vision, shiftiness, and ability. No one says he's average or mediocre. But it is difficult to call him the best back in t ....

Comment preview: Character is from a movie but I want a tv show about the guy in Star Wars who told the laser gunner to hold fire on C3PO and R2's escape pod. No life signs? You are literally standing next to a droid right now. A show focused on his fall from grace and esc ....

Comment preview: The grand finale of WoWS is at the very end, when we look into the eyes of the hungry audience and realize that they are us and we are them. We have spent the last 3 hours being sold a narrative by the one person we should be wary of, the salesman himself. ....

Comment preview: Past their prime? Seriously? If anything, Spoon are maybe the most consistently impressive rock outfit in the past twenty years. They've plateaued in a *good* way. Even if their new records aren't revelations at this point, they're all sufficiently differe ....

Comment preview: It's called the hero quest. Look up Joseph Campbell. The idea of LotR isn't about the ring, it's about the people. The actual catalyst did not matter, it's the events that happened that matter. If the ring was encased, it would not weaken the call to t ....

Comment preview: Another **huge** part of its fall from grace that I don't see people mentioning here is the exodus of Infinity Ward. You might have to do some googling but essentially Activision saw replacing the studio heads as a cheaper alternative to actually paying IW ....

Comment preview: Genesis 2 (the Adam & Eve story) is actually completely distinct from Genesis 1 (The "days"), and the two stories likely had their origins hundreds of years apart. People often think of the bible as a book, but it's actually a collection of books with ....

Comment preview: Is anyone else starting to think that Lance is just a supreme narcissistic asshole? He denies it for decades, attacks friends, colleagues anyone who can be seen as challenging his "im clean" narrative while cheating out of his ass. Then as soon as he is f ....

Comment preview: Nope. The point isn't that you know today who will most likely end up winning the league this year. That's fairly easy in every big league, it's in the nature of the game. The distinction comes when you look 5 or 10 years into the future. Or, because we ca ....