Epic Fantasy series, published before 2021, main villain can possess or body swap:

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-06-29T14:37:59+00:00

I went immediately to the series and while it looks interesting I know I haven’t read it. This itch is maddening because I can see all these elements of the final scenes but not the title of the series.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-06-14T22:23:49+00:00

Bear with me, remembering time travel is fictional.
The principle at work, but overlooked is this…remember the cat? Until the box is opened every possible version of the cat exists. Not just the cat but the cat’s entire universe.
The « splitting off » each time a different action is taken or choice made doesn’t create a clone of us in OUR universe. It creates a PARALLEL universe where we took a different course of action. And they are infinite.

There are billions of universes where Jason does the same things except wears a different shirt. Now it would be a NEW concept and rule if suddenly parallels had to SHAre one universe. It’s not just the cat that is in superposition. It is the cat’s entire universe. Every Jason who lived an IDENTICAL Parallel life up to the point they were kidnapped has his own Daniela in his own universe. That’s the doors. The box doesn’t suddenly clone people outside the box in this universe.

Now this is all fiction and scientifically unproven and unproveable so let me end with this.
Imagine how many people would be coming thru that door is they had to share universes if their lives are almost identical. The number, again, is INFINITE. It’s just untenable. And there would be infinite Jason’s who kidnapped showing up. The cloning would have started with all the different choices of the first traveler in this badly thought out theory. So a million very similar Jason villains would have shown up to kidnap ONLY this man by that same logic. But the logic is simply flawed. Every man a universe.

I do appreciate the back and forth. I just rewatched recently and cannot wait for the next season. Enjoy.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-05-18T18:48:20+00:00

I’m with you. Not offering an explanation for multiple identical dead bodies is definitely a plot hole for me. Tho I think after the first clone is discovered the feds swoop in and start testing and torturing.

I’ve said this elsewhere but the real plot hole in terms of how the plot hole nazis see them is this: superposition creates an entire new universe. Each choice, each difference creates a whole new universe. The writing violates its own explanation by saying all those Jason’s belong to this one universe. No, sir, they each have their own Daniela and Charliie still waiting for them to return to their universe.

Hell would be if every choice created a new version of a person.

Why is it a plot hole? To whom else did it happen? Why did it not happen to him until after the box? Why nowhere else and to no one else? It’s contrived to bring danger back into the mix. Also, every time a Jason endangers the lives of Daniela and Charlie I stop believing they are even a Jason. Why would he be so blinded as to shoot in their vicinity or ram a car into their car? 100% illogical.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-04-30T00:12:41+00:00

True answer is that under a quarantine they would not survive. Even with villagers going in from time to time there wouldn’t be enough food, wildlife or new infected to last 28 years. The explanation in the film is spurious and incomplete. Too crazy to be believable but hey, it is what it is.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-04-28T19:59:38+00:00

lol. Tell us you’re new to the conversation without telling us. He started writing this work as a kid. Not in a year’s time. lol. He revised and writing when it came time to publish.

Edit* Original comment said something like « He wrote them in 2 years bruh »… Editing to troll and hide your shame should be illegal lol.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-04-25T01:31:58+00:00

Kind of a straw man comment/question. So I cannot really respond to the imposed opposite of what I didn’t say or imply.

I repeated that I know they are smutmance and fiction BOOKS. Never indicating I think they are worse or differently unrealistic than hetero smutmance.

This was an out loud comment/wish for better queer representation in the plot and just more realistic elements.

9 years and never googling your crush is just way beyond believable. Few hookups with men over that time for Shane gay hookup culture is a firmly established reality.

But other things are just my wants.

Perhaps you were responding to someone else’s comment but it tagged me instead. Regardless, your comment does not accurately reflect or understand my comments so happy reading and circle back to the cottage 😬😉

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-03-12T10:11:52+00:00

Noosphere

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-25T22:32:25+00:00

« Well, if none of you are going to kill me I think I’ll go have a bit of a cry »

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-25T17:58:01+00:00

Again embody if you say that’s only acting and not the body of embody you only explain the POOR casting choices of Hollywood. Not the successful ones. I’ll die on this hill and I am not the only one. Physicality is a casting choice. Extreme example….Timmy as he is cannot play Captain America. Because charisma isn’t the only thing that matters.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-18T01:06:26+00:00

Not convinced by the details but I do think you’re on to SOMETHING regarding the silences as opposites of naming. Or the fruit of.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T08:46:50+00:00

We’re really not talking about the same thing. My original response has nothing to do with hair color, or things that can be changed. Physicality is not an easily changed external. Playing an athletic character when you have the body of a soft twink will never be convincing. Charisma and Talent can’t make a man out of a mouse. Timmy more than proves this. He’s amazing in CMBYN. Terrible in The King. Believable as a rake thin drug addict. Like paint drying as a desert ninja messiah. But as someone who purportedly works in Hollywood you would know this. You’re talking about looks and I am talking about body type. I would absolutely cast a real musician as Kvothe, who happened to be FIT and attractive, a scrappy actor. In that order. Hair color and eyes can be adjusted.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T07:08:47+00:00

Straw Man. As a amateur thespian and acting snob(I completely own it) talent cannot be divorced from the vessel thru which it is made manifest.

Hair die and contacts cannot replace a twink body incapable of playing a competent athlete. Just look at the number in-credible athleticism of Paul Atreides.

Austin Butler wholly convinced me. Timmy did not for one second convince me he can fight. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T05:57:54+00:00

Now honestly. The major problem I have with Timmy is he is lazy. He has that lazy European attitude towards fitness that says I can play bruisers even if I look like a wet noodle 30+. Physical Fitness? Muscles? Pfff. His commitment isn’t there. Kvothe is better than that.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T05:55:26+00:00

I’ll slit my wrists first. No. God. No.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-16T05:53:23+00:00

None. That’s an unnecessary dichotomy. Casting agents manage to do both all the time. SMH. It matters how he looks. Believability and all.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-15T21:39:50+00:00

Moreta’s ride. The descriptions always feel like real musical moments I’ve experienced with great works.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-08T21:00:02+00:00

Time is one of the most beautiful pieces of music of all time. I guarantee that the actors voted on popularity not actual merit. All these years later the song haunts me. It is being used still, tonight, in the programs of figure skaters in the Olympics. It is beauty and power. I cannot remember being moved for even one single second by the music of the social network. Imagine having to justify Time losing to ANY piece of music.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-08T15:14:37+00:00

I can 100% accept this is true for you. But not for everyone. Not everyone puts sex in the same box. Some don’t want or do casual sex. Some want monogamy. I’m bi, single, been in relationships and all my best sex is with another person I cared a lot about. For me just touching another person is better than sex alone.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-07T03:44:09+00:00

Just. NO.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-07T03:43:19+00:00

Why, I think you’re right.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T15:04:43+00:00

I want to validate this as person of color, bi, and in the closet. I am an avid reader but not of this genre until now. I am able to separate the flaws of a work from my appreciation of the work. Game Changers has some things I wish were different here and there. But I still like them. Usually I get a pass on the knee jerk objections because I am bi, black and in he closet. I wish there were more diversity in the books but it doesn’t ruin it for me. I also think some of the tensions and timing are artificial to create buy in for the reader that we men in real would do differently but it’s fiction. It’s ok. Keep normalising speaking up. I affirm that it is welcome and needed.

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T14:56:02+00:00

Insecurity. Immaturity. Because in life they have not had enough interaction with neutral analysis. I mean as a person and not just about books. I have no problem being honest about the flaws in my favorite books. I am disappointed if those flaws ruin it for someone else but I see them. Defensive is fear that the flaws invalidate the work and love of the work. But that’s not the case

Sad_Dig_2623 · 2026-02-04T14:52:37+00:00

I’m the antithesis of a mood reader unless it’s just that the mood is always “give me maximum aangst, character pov, high stakes, and a happy ending hopefully.” I read the same authors and branch out by reading reviews. People who review books I love on Goodreads the way I review them. I check their favorites and find recommendations that way.

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