I have an idea for an episode of my tv series that I am currently writing. For those of you who don't know it's called "The Adventures of Dragonia" and it is a superhero type story (based on Spiderman, Batman, Buffy and that kind of idea)

In this idea that I have, I want to write an episode where Dragonia and her arch enemy Mindwarp get their minds swapped around and they take over each others body. I know this idea has been done a lot, but I think this will have some very humourous moments. I know how I want the story to go, thing is, I can't think of anything that might swap their brains around. Once I work out that idea then I can get to writing the script. Can anyone give me suggestions? Should I create a new villain that can swap minds or should I go for another route?

Hmm, yeh, this has been done - I saw an episode of 'My Hero' recently (well, I glanced at it) where something like this happened, but what the mechanism of transfer, or metempyschosis, was I don't know.

Okay ... brainstorm here ... you can check your personality into a kind of 'left luggage' place while you go off and be someone else (like Hitler or Mother Theresa -like you were in a kind of 'Westworld' theme park type place) but when the 'holiday from yourself' is over .. damme, if two people don't pick up the wrong personalities on the way out ... and you're one of them (and so's the other) - you as the dramatist show both ...

Er, brain has stormed and 'shorted' - over to you! Good luck.

Joe

Think I get the gist of what you are saying. Thanks, Joe.

If the hero is young, say University age, it could be a psychological experiment he volunteered gor that went terribly wrong!
Brian.

Hey, that might work. Actually the hero IS at college, so that sounds about resonable!

Stargate had an episode on this basis where the agent was an alien artifact. It had handles at either side and swapped the two beings holding them.

The scenario was quite neatly set-up - the artifact was discovered along with an old senile man who mimicked the teams' greetings ("Hello, I'm Daniel Jackson", was replied to with "Hello, I'M Daniel Jackson", etc.). The man wasn't senile at all and he tricked Jackson into using the machine. Once swapped, the man could then pretend to be Jackson while Jackson (trapped in the old man's body) could only say "I'M DANIEL JACKSON" and was, of course, ignored.

It was a fairly weak story other than this little bit of design and I got the feeling it was mostly for the benefit of the actors who got to mimic their colleagues. Much humour ensued.

J

As a struggling student I used to volunteer for stuff like that till an experimental rabies vaccine made the whole group of us break out in a rash! Needless to say, the money saved seemed paltry then and I stopped volunteering for that sort of stuff.

Like the idea of the mind swapping artifact. Might have to try and work that in somehow.