As someone working in the mental health field, here is an important step to helping the guy on the corner with severe mental illness -

I'm not overly familiar with the Star Wars Expanded Universe but it just seems like putting a wrecking ball to the whole thing is really, really unnecessary? This is a huge universe with a huge timeline; I don't understand why they can't just start new stories with new characters on parts of the timeline that are less…

I feel like that's just decent storytelling advice in general, and it seems like it should be common sense, partially because it's so simple - yet I think a lot of people out there need to hear it.

I was just about to say that.

Argh. I clicked the publish button once, so I don't know why it double posted.

It makes me kind of sad that the body hopping concept is more or less relegated to Freaky Friday clones, which ends up being a kind of rote "spend some time in another person's shoes!" morality lesson - while there are some Japanese comics out there that have used the premise to issues such as sexuality, gender…

I was pretty sold before but you're right, that sealed the deal.

I don't understand why people are setting this up as maybe they planned everything ahead, when it seems equally likely to me that they decided, while developing Infinite, to recycle a previous track - either because they were intentionally creating a connection, or because they had a previous track that fit so well.

They do have a lot in common, enough that you know Rowling saw it at one point, and probably the greatest story "twin" that I can think of, but I think Harry Potter is sprawling enough and good enough - although YMMV in that respect - that it's solidly its own thing.

Don't want to be the party pooper, but how is this not massively illegal?

If we stopped doing concepts that had already been done before...

Also the book I'm talking about is Twilight. I have no idea what the process was like for The Host.

Yes, Animorphs is one of my favorite book series! I should nostalgia rewatch the live action at some point.

Yes, it's not easy, which is why people are annoyed that someone like Meyer gets a lot of attention when there are others out there who have worked harder and done better and won't receive a 1/10000000 of the attention that she does.

I'll have to check it out because, unlike the Twilight franchise, this kind of interests me - maybe because I have a thing for alien possession in my own fiction...

Yeah, I agree. It *does* look creepy, but it's pretty clear that's only because the image is so fuzzy that it has deleted key areas of his face. Hence why he "shape-shifts" when he's farther away from the camera.

A lot of the characters you listed don't have Moffat as the writer for those episodes, so I'd be hesitant to give him credit. Although I admit that it might be hasty to generalize *all* his female characters that way - but I still think there's enough of a trend to show a problem.

I highly recommend Rosemary & Thyme for great lady detectives. It's on Netflix!

That's what bothers me about him, more than the female characters losing their agency or whatever, which I know people love to talk about. His female characters are all essentially the same person, while the male characters enjoy a much wider range of personalities. And his insistence that a female character *must* be…

So basically you don't think that transgendered women are actually women.