and helpless due to timidity or hypochondria rather than actual physical limitations
You don't consider OCD an actual physical limitation?
We'll be in our bunk.
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Jessica - Aug 16, 2006 8:43:24 am PDT #353 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
JenP - Aug 16, 2006 8:45:37 am PDT #354 of 10001
Gotcha. I think I like the actor enough that I'm predisposed to like his characters - I found Carl sympathetic.
Liese S. - Aug 16, 2006 8:47:02 am PDT #355 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
If you suddenly developed the ability to heal and regenerate yourself with your mind, would your existing scar tissue immediately revert, or would you have to specifically think all your scars away?
Jessica - Aug 16, 2006 8:48:56 am PDT #356 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
or would you have to specifically think all your scars away?
Since we only saw Carl healing injuries once he noticed them (the wound on his head didn't heal until he looked at it in the mirror), I think you'd have to think them away.
Nutty - Aug 16, 2006 9:14:04 am PDT #357 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
If you suddenly developed the ability to heal and regenerate yourself with your mind, would your existing scar tissue immediately revert, or would you have to specifically think all your scars away?
Really, isn't scar tissue something new? You'd be thinking the keloid tissue away, and then re-growing the old skin the way it was. Which, if you can regenerate, and you're kind of vain, I guess you might do. But it seems like a hassle to do that for every scar you've got. I think I'd only ever do it for new things right in front of me, you know?
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2006 9:18:22 am PDT #358 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You'd be thinking the keloid tissue away
Keloids are a specific sort of scar tissue. I'd certainly start with keloids, because they're pretty ugly, but why not fix everything?
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 16, 2006 9:33:32 am PDT #359 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
You don't consider OCD an actual physical limitation?
Was he OCD? I didn't see the beginning, just the parts around the explosion, the firing, and Jack telling his daughter that an unwelcome houseguest had mooched his way into their home.
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2006 9:34:53 am PDT #360 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know if they named it, but he certainly seemed that way, for the TV version of a diagnosis.
Nutty - Aug 16, 2006 9:42:19 am PDT #361 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'd certainly start with keloids, because they're pretty ugly, but why not fix everything?
Well, but you start with the ugly, right? (I've got a humdinger up one side of my leg.) You'd have to know anatomy pretty well to fix the rest, or even know what needs fixing. If you're not careful, you could grow a whole new leg out of an old busted kneecap!
...this is why I will never write Sci Fi television, isn't it?
§ ita § - Aug 16, 2006 9:43:54 am PDT #362 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You'd have to know anatomy pretty well to fix the rest, or even know what needs fixing
He knew enough to fix a wound--replacing scar tissue with normal tissue seems to be of a complexity.
And who knows? You need to know a lot about mechanics to design a robot that walks, and absolutely none to walk yourself.