The Old Hack

The linked scene isn't saying they're doomed, it just shows that Grace had figured out that Elliot was dating someone in his martial arts class, and was taking Sarah with him to break the bad news.  It did kinda break Sarah's heart until Nanase broke up with him and he went after Sarah.
I'm a little more worried about Grace thinking Elliot dating Ashley was happening too soon, but maybe her relaitonship senses aren't so perfect after all....
 

Dancing soccer, of course.

If the world is rich enough, it effectively becomes a character - or even several characters - that OCs can interact with.
And fanfic can also feed on fanfic.

This may very well explain why I seem so attracted to Pandora.  She's hot and seems to have the same mental issues I do.  While I know that two bipolar people having a relationship, is at best, a marginal idea, it doesn't stop the "I get you" feelings.

And what have female toads done to you to make you want to do that to them?  I mean, really, isn't being a toad bad enough with out asshole male toads showing up?

Actually, trying to get her grand-godson's father to commit murder is one of the most insane things she's done, given the high value she places on family and how protective of Tedd she's been.  Surely she's smart enough and wise enough to know that Tedd would be harmed by it!  Whether Edward went to jail, or lost his job (rather than the lateral transfer he got for simple police brutality), or even just had to live with the guilt and regret....Tedd would surely be negatively affected.  Not exactly consistent.  Not exactly sane.

It depends on the kind of story you are writing. Is there somehow a death quota to meet? I always felt that the flaw in TOS was not necessarily the fact that only Redshirts died but the fact that they had to die at all. It were as if the assumption was that the audience would not get that a situation was dangerous unless someone got killed.
I am a great opponent of death for death's own sake. If you kill off a character, do it for better reason than merely shock value. The worst character deaths are those where someone gets killed purely to shock the audience (as my late grandmother rather nastily put it, 'making a big boom to wake them up from being sound asleep') and then the effects or consequences never get examined or explored. No, if someone has to die, do it with great care and respect for the character and the consequences. And last but certainly not least, for the audience as well.

They got good enough that my suggestion of an Illithidracolich got turned down as cruel and unusal. (This was a dragon with mind flayer and Lich templates added onto it. In my opinion it would not have been impossible as the game has dracoliches (undead dragons with a load of magical power), illithiliches (undead mind flayers with a load of... well, you guessed it) and illithidragons (dragons subjected to aberrant 'hostile takeover', resulting in a dragon with a buttload of mental powers and face tentacles that swallow brains.)
Or maybe it was just my DM being unreasonable. I still haven't gotten her to accept giving my paladin a half-Axiomatic Dire War Dromedary as a mount. Grumblegrumblemutter.

I just spent half an hour or so playing with the various tablets at Best Buy, trying to decide what kind to get.  To test their speakers, I opened up YouTube and searched for Murray Gold's "I Am the Doctor," which has a grear range if highs and lows and different volumes of music.  I was especially impressed with the speakers on the iPad Pro (the little one, not the big one), which sounded the best both sound quality and volume.  I happened to be wearing a T-shirt of the Doctor taking a selfie (all of him together), and one employee commented in passing, "Guess I don't have to ask if you're a fan!"
Still no decision about Apple vs Android vs Windows, but it was fun!

I still have a T-shirt they gave away at GenCon when they announced the third edition was going to be happening.  It has a checklist of all the changes, like no THACO, and one of them was about how dragons were actually going to be badass -- that one got the most cheers from the audience when it was read out! :-D

It depends on the kind of story you are writing. Is there somehow a death quota to meet? I always felt that the flaw in TOS was not necessarily the fact that only Redshirts died but the fact that they had to die at all. It were as if the assumption was that the audience would not get that a situation was dangerous unless someone got killed.
I am a great opponent of death for death's own sake. If you kill off a character, do it for better reason than merely shock value. The worst character deaths are those where someone gets killed purely to shock the audience (as my late grandmother rather nastily put it, 'making a big boom to wake them up from being sound asleep') and then the effects or consequences never get examined or explored. No, if someone has to die, do it with great care and respect for the character and the consequences. And last but certainly not least, for the audience as well.

Without question. Everybody in the story are all catspaws of the single most manipulative being in Moperville.

In my opinion that only makes him more admirable.

It depends on the kind of story you are writing. Is there somehow a death quota to meet? I always felt that the flaw in TOS was not necessarily the fact that only Redshirts died but the fact that they had to die at all. It were as if the assumption was that the audience would not get that a situation was dangerous unless someone got killed.
I am a great opponent of death for death's own sake. If you kill off a character, do it for better reason than merely shock value. The worst character deaths are those where someone gets killed purely to shock the audience (as my late grandmother rather nastily put it, 'making a big boom to wake them up from being sound asleep') and then the effects or consequences never get examined or explored. No, if someone has to die, do it with great care and respect for the character and the consequences. And last but certainly not least, for the audience as well.

I know a reset is likely the only thing that will cure Pandora's madness, but I still find it unsettling for it to be referred to as medical treatment, since resetting for an Immortal is their equivalent of death.

No, Jerry didn't mark Sarah not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't. He stated, on the page you linked, "You've realized things that negate what would have allowed me to give you the spell in the first place." Also, he wasn't looking for fun (though that certainly would have been a plus), he was trying to be helpful. If Jerry could have given Sarah that spell, she could have used it a lot and eventually been able to awaken and potentially get cool, awesome, useful spells, but he couldn't because she realized things that caused her to grow a little as a person, which unfortunately negated her potential for that spell. A person's growth and maturity can significantly influence what spells the person can be given by an Immortal. The Immortal doesn't get to choose what spell a person can get and for many may not even be able to give the person a spell. They just get to choose whether or not they want to grant the spell that the person might be able to receive.

In my opinion that only makes him more admirable.

A mouse and a real keyboard almost make a larger Android tablet act like a real lap to, with MicroSoft Office and every thing.
Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v work, which is just wonderfull.

In my opinion that only makes him more admirable.

Yes

Ah, me. That reminds me of the time I played a paladin in a rather silly campaign way back in First Edition AD&D (which wasn't called that, it was just AD&D). We all kept making various silly jokes, meta and otherwise. My own most successful one caused the DM to throw a pillow at me and was based on the fact that paladins were so snobbish that they would only adventure at most once with people that they weren't sure was of good alignment.
We'd been on three adventures. At the end of each adventure, my paladin had sold his horse and bought a new one. At last the DM gave in to his itch and had the horse trader ask me, "Why do you keep coming back for a trade? Is there something wrong with the horses I'm selling?"
And my paladin replied, "Yes. They aren't Good enough for me." (Due to horses automatically being Neutral in the game.)
Cue pillow to the head.

In my opinion that only makes him more admirable.

Without question. Everybody in the story are all catspaws of the single most manipulative being in Moperville.

In my opinion that only makes him more admirable.

Without question. Everybody in the story are all catspaws of the single most manipulative being in Moperville.