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Not without breathing room to develop your own autonomy, you can't.

Wow, at first I was like, "They never admit what they're doing like this."

This theory is mega-valid. In space and time plus pocket universes, bubble universes, and whatnot, "original location" is a vague term. Oh! Oh! (spoilers for, err... let's say Day of the Doctor through Series 9)

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Really? I mean, he signed up for NaNoWriLife.

Alfa hinna onna wooncha Onna wooncha Onna wooncha oh HOW. ...That means you win.

I'll have you know my allegiance is already with Happy Fun Ball.

Yeah, well, those clandestine PR checks from the Dark Alley all bounced, so... have your people spike my people and we'll spike lunch.

Do you have any of that Spiked Cookies & Cream ice cream?

So, essentially, the plot of the Mistborn trilogy is:

These aren't absolute categories - there's fuzz around the edges, and human experience is basically human experience. The "energy" concept is a generalization. With more specific details, a description can get more accurate, but apply to less people, or cover people less in one self-labeled category. For instance, if you're at a party and a conversation is underway with people you know who have different points of view, most people choose their words carefully. The typical introverted way of looking at this can be that it's exhausting - you can't go all the way with a line of thinking, or cross boundaries of taste that some of the people would love, but others would be genuinely disgusted or disturbed by. Plus, more people means more implied pressure to interact, to accept sudden changes of subject or tone, etc. The typical extrovert view of this is that "Oh, it's fun - everybody's happy." If that's what you enjoy more, it's just gonna be good brainbuzz, you know? Even extroverts can feel pressure from this sort of thing (check out Sia's "Chandelier" for a condensed example with alcoholism thrown in).

Absolutely. Capaldi is a champ! Twelve rocks!

He turns into a car, a giant robot, and a spaceship.

Alien biology blurs the "child" thing quite a bit - if all the children in a schoolyard were adult-sized and able to fry you instantly with their hands, the distinction would be moot. This is something that happens a lot with fantasy/sci-fi elements - the mutants of X-Men, for instance, are unknown in number and have random, sometimes mass-destruction-level powers. Within X-Men stories, it's usually at least acknowledged that fear of them is understandable (they're better than humans). With shapeshifters, there's a legitimate "they could be anyone" threat that's good for horror stories. The thing that disturbed me about how the first episode framed all this was linking it contextually to fears of Islamism, and in the context of the UK, immigrants especially. They included that disclaimer at the beginning about all races being capable of war or peace, good or evil, I think precisely because the rest of the episode makes the Zygon splinter group look like a genuine sneaky threat on the danger level of, say, Communist propaganda scare movies of the 50s or 60s. Muslims, of course, can't shoot electricity out of their hands to vaporize you even when they're kids. It's troublesome mixing different levels of metaphor in this kind of story. The second episode changed the framing entirely from a "fear of infiltration and sabotage from within" to a broader "revolutionaries who just want to focus on the kill-now part." The Zygons switched from Al-Qaeda/ISIS to more of a Che Guevara thing. In neither episode did you get much of a sense of how the majority of the Zygons relate to the "Truth or Consequences" splinter sect. In The Day of the Doctor, the resolution of the Zygon plot was left a bit short, considering its implications, since it wasn't the real point of the special. There have been many cases in the show's history where The Doctor has chosen a spot to leave on a happy note, and left the cleanup to attend to itself. That cleanup has gotten messy many times (The Face of Evil, especially).

I didn't like the first part (which to me left an impression that exterminating the Zygons might be a good idea), but then this second part gets to the real meat. Totally redeems it.

Hmm - characterizations I remember: Sazed sounded Indian in my head. Zane was Brandon Lee's version of The Crow.

If you want to go food-based, work out what kind of mechanics you want the magic system to work with. Simple each-group-is-better-than-the-last? Classic. Rock-paper-scissors? Hey, Magic: the Gathering operates on a variant. Every type of food is more or less the same? Easy. (Easy isn't exactly a bad thing for something you're making yourself.)

That's funny. No, this is a pretty literal description. He fights on the side of kids.

An artist foils a major drug-running operation by turning into large machines.

Franz Ferdinand has a question for you: Doo doo, do ya wanna necro? Doo doo, do ya wanna necro this old thread: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/24115-17th-shard-the-song-shake-it-off/ A-like it never, ever was dead?

I can make irritating noises without consuming delicious sugar.

The Magnificent Seven?

The Three Amigos!

2: It has the best fight scene of all time that doesn't include lightsabers Which scene?

Order seconded. Motion passes. This is the official List of Order of Quality.