Tim Bruening wrote:
> This series features about 80 people on a starship billions of light
> years away, which they boarded via a very high powered Stargate (a
> circular device which makes wormholes to other such devices), since
> destroyed.  They don't have enough power to get home via the ship's
> Stargate.  They can communicate with Earth via communications stones,
> which enable them to take over the bodies of people on Earth if said
> people are near such stones.

> Thus a young woman is able to transport her mind to Earth to tell her
> Mom that her Dad is dead.  She sees her Mom binge drinking alcohol.  She
> tells her Mom to stop, but her Mom keeps drinking.  What can she do to
> help her Mom?

whodunit wrote:
> Tim Bruening wrote:
> > This series features about 80 people on a starship billions of light
> > years away, which they boarded via a very high powered Stargate (a
> > circular device which makes wormholes to other such devices), since
> > destroyed.  They don't have enough power to get home via the ship's
> > Stargate.  They can communicate with Earth via communications stones,
> > which enable them to take over the bodies of people on Earth if said
> > people are near such stones.

> > Thus a young woman is able to transport her mind to Earth to tell her
> > Mom that her Dad is dead.  She sees her Mom binge drinking alcohol.  She
> > tells her Mom to stop, but her Mom keeps drinking.  What can she do to
> > help her Mom?

> Did they actually say that Chloe's mom is an alcoholic? Because all I
> saw was a worried woman who knew that her husband and daughter were MIA
> after an attack on a military base, then meeting her 'daughter' who had
> occupied some other woman's body (and NOT her husband who would have
> demanded to use the stones, as he did), take *2* drinks...that doesn't
> make her an alcoholic.

> Seems she would have already been drinking when Chloe showed up (not
> unexpectedly, the mom knew she was coming and had clearly been briefed
> on what to expect) if she were truly an alcoholic. She didn't seem drunk
> to me just very very upset because she had already figured out her
> husband was dead.

Tim Bruening wrote:

> whodunit wrote:

> > Tim Bruening wrote:
> >> This series features about 80 people on a starship billions of light
> >> years away, which they boarded via a very high powered Stargate (a
> >> circular device which makes wormholes to other such devices), since
> >> destroyed.  They don't have enough power to get home via the ship's
> >> Stargate.  They can communicate with Earth via communications stones,
> >> which enable them to take over the bodies of people on Earth if said
> >> people are near such stones.

> >> Thus a young woman is able to transport her mind to Earth to tell her
> >> Mom that her Dad is dead.  She sees her Mom binge drinking
> alcohol.  She
> >> tells her Mom to stop, but her Mom keeps drinking.  What can she do to
> >> help her Mom?

> > Did they actually say that Chloe's mom is an alcoholic? Because all I
> > saw was a worried woman who knew that her husband and daughter were MIA
> > after an attack on a military base, then meeting her 'daughter' who had
> > occupied some other woman's body (and NOT her husband who would have
> > demanded to use the stones, as he did), take *2* drinks...that doesn't
> > make her an alcoholic.

> > Seems she would have already been drinking when Chloe showed up (not
> > unexpectedly, the mom knew she was coming and had clearly been briefed
> > on what to expect) if she were truly an alcoholic. She didn't seem drunk
> > to me just very very upset because she had already figured out her
> > husband was dead.

> Scott, whose priest guardian died from drinking alcohol, spoke of his
> experience to Chloe and said he understood what she was going through.  I
> assumed that Scott's experience with an alcoholic guardian matched Chloe's
> experience with her Mom, making her an alcoholic.

> The two drinks came in rapid succession.