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Dan -- I deleted your post as it is a casting spoiler.

Said casting spoiler is addressed in spoilers lite.

I'm more with Suela's definition--it's about two things for me--the author's apparent relationship to her (very unreliable to tease out), and the degree to which she's a black hole twisting the fabric around her.

And not all Mary Sues are badly done, either. There's an old Star Trek novel, Uhura's Song, with a character who's a classic Mary Sue, and people love her. For me, the problem with Mary Sue is the way she personifies the author's emotional relationship with the text: I don't want to know that much about the writer's id.

And I say that as someone who has most certainly written a Mary Sue or two in my time. It's just that some of them are better camouflaged than others...

Most of what I've written has been Mary Sue of the most deliberate sleeps-with-the-dreamy-guy, fights-like-a-badass type.

And it was fun to write, but I don't expect anyone else to enjoy it.

Most of what I've written has been Mary Sue of the most deliberate sleeps-with-the-dreamy-guy, fights-like-a-badass type.

I'm not sure it counts as a Mary Sue when you actually *are* the sleeps-with-the-dreamy-guy, fights-like-a-badass type.

HEEEE (Doctor Who related Tumblr post): [link]

A FB friend said this is happening.

John Barrowman is going to be at the Skokie Public Library on October 30th. He will talk about dr.who, torchwood and his new children's book.

I need to revise everything I ever said about Lost Girl. Well, not everything. But many. Because TiVo captured a few of the early S2 episodes, and I remember jackshit about them. So any overall opinions I have--not sure what they're grounded in. I know I've watched them all, but I'm clearly not retaining shit.

The episode that brought this home was the Brotherfae of the Wolves. With the little Norn-setup in there and everything, not to mention the Chiara explanation. Der. Why did I not remember any of that?

Anyway--why does Dyson make the decision to give up his wolf the second time round? Because the stakes are higher? Because he loves Bo more? Because he doesn't want to make that question twice? I'm not clear, and I'm not clear if that's hidden in another episode I'm forgetting.

I'm now watching the one about the doorman, but that seems marginally more familiar. Good god--between meds and age, I don't even know.

However, the bit where Kenzie rocks hard? Still intact. No matter how much foot soup she drinks on the down low, she will still rock.

However--her alcoholism...I'm on record as a big fan of Dean's addiction, so it's not the principle. But we know why Dean's drinking. a) It's SOP for hunters and b) he is self-medicated a larger than life, larger than death, otherwise untreated case of PTSD. It's not lampshaded, but it's acknowledged, and it plays into the plot every now and again. Maybe Kenzie's working up to a big reveal, but it's still a whole lot of episodes with just a bunch of cute-girl-drinking and only a couple mentons, and not enough integration or ramification for me.

The difference between the snarly animalistic wolfy Dyson and what we have now is kinda depressing. I wonder if the actor has preferences? I know as a viewer I definitely do. This guy with the big hole inside is too cardboard cutout.

I just randomly wondered--is this world's lycanthropy catching? Have they dealt with that?