See, I loathed Abyss with a fiery passion. Daniel, asended or not, wouldn't just hang around when his friend was being tortured and killed, he'd do something. Heck, he went nuts when he couldn't help random bystanders.

Actually, that's a lot of what I find interesting about it. Why was that situation different? What was going on in his head? I mean, I agree he's being a condescending git (and let's not forget that his original idea, before offering ascension, is pretty clearly "let's help Jack remember why he's there, so he can tell Baal and then get permanently killed). On the other hand, he's not exactly human anymore, and he thinks he's found the One True Moral Way, which is I think a relief for him. Plus, of course, he is externally constrained.

Anyway, I can see Abyss-Daniel as an extension of real traits he's always had, and showed more and more as the series went on. He always thinks he knows best. It's not unusual for him to choose abstract over personalized morality - look at Scorched Earth, where he's willing to advance the argument that maybe the folks on the ground should be left to die because the germ cells in the sky are the last of their kind, and gee, they're awfully *advanced*, aren't they?

By the time we come around to Changeling he's different, and frankly I think it's Abyss that yanked his head out of his ass, but that's just fanwanking.

=there's the story about how David Duchovny became so smitten with the dog that he adopted his daughter.

Am I the only one who is really confused by this sentence?

There was a dog. Dog had puppies. Puppy was adopted. Later there was a wife and children, but they were unrelated to the dog situation.

Thanks, Nutty. I thought Téa had come into the picture a little later, and their kids aren't adopted AFAIK.

(PLus, I've never heard "daughter" used to indicate an animal before. "Mommy/Daddy," yes, but it doesn't seem to go the other way.)

My mom used to refer to my dog as her granddog.

Whenever I visit my Mom, her dog runs to the door, and she says to him "Petey! It's your sister!"

My brotherdog.

The resemblance is spooky.

Mom has tried to refer to me as her cat's sister but I put my foot down, but she was determined to make us relatives so now I'm "auntie."

She refers to my cat has her "grandcat."

My mother referred to our dogs as "your problem". Given how she talks about us, that's just like calling them family, really.

My mother has a slight problem remembering names, so I've always been "Gladys-Janet-Sadie-Connie" to her in times of stress, but now she's appended "-Sylvia-Gertrude." Who are cats.