How tall are various companions then?
Nov. 19th, 2007 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI has a plot bunny that depends on relative heights. Like, the Doctor is quite tall lately, and his companions relatively aren't. Also in my head there's a new companion that looks a lot like Oz from Buffy, only I suspect nobody wants to read about that.
I has a plot bunny already where there's this society that's not had first contact in person yet, and the Doctor and his human companion land and oops, they're a couple days early. Lalala, ignore us, write down the history with the other humans in, okay? Alright. So they're wandering around looking at the art exhibition and they find these terrorist types who want to keep the humans from visiting because they're afraid of, well, it isn't globalization when it's many planets, but that whole coca cola eats the world cultural imperialism bit. They're very small already, compared to the human empire, and they reckon they'll just get eated. But while trying to blow up the spaceport they nearly blow up the exhibition hall, which contains all the remaining cultural treasure of both sides of the war they've just survived, all the things everyone left thinks are important. And it's lke the art exhibition is a history of the war, because both sides were trying to say with sculpture and music and light what they were fighting for and why. And eventually they realised if they didn't stop fighting they'd lose all of that, so there's a big yaay the war ended lane down the middle. Only then they realise that all this in the exhibition came about through a conflict between two cultures that at the time each saw the other as terribly foreign invaders. And now they're united in trying to protect it all. But the one human visitor sees it all and wants to make his own art in response to it, so they can see that the visiting is going to create new, not destroy old. But trying to shut the planet off from outside help would probably destroy old cause the war left them so trashed. So they let first contact officially happen and all is well, lalala, yaays etc etc.
So, in my head there was this thing where all the people living there are visibly alien, humanoid but with not-human bits and patterns and suchlike. And they're all about five feet tall, and so's the Doctor's companion. But the Doctor is like a foot taller and keeps bumping into the ceiling. It was a funny visual metaphor about small worlds or something.
So just now I thought it would be even funnier if, when the human delegation arrived, they're all about 3ft tall like Willow (from the film, not from Buffy). Because (a) it's a bit like when the fear demon turned out to be tiny, these big humans that cast huge shadows and scare everyone on the way there turn out to be teeny tiny, and (b) what is with always using the small people to be a different species? They're just as human as the rest of us! Have them represent humanity to the stars! I mean, it's an obvious saving with any propulsion method where weight/height are a factor anyway, just send smaller people. So.
I think that would be cool. Would that be cool? The equivalent of Captain Kirk journeying to new planets, boldly going where no one has gone before... just happens to be three feet tall and quite a big lad by his crew's standards.
Has anyone done that before?
... probably.
I has a plot bunny already where there's this society that's not had first contact in person yet, and the Doctor and his human companion land and oops, they're a couple days early. Lalala, ignore us, write down the history with the other humans in, okay? Alright. So they're wandering around looking at the art exhibition and they find these terrorist types who want to keep the humans from visiting because they're afraid of, well, it isn't globalization when it's many planets, but that whole coca cola eats the world cultural imperialism bit. They're very small already, compared to the human empire, and they reckon they'll just get eated. But while trying to blow up the spaceport they nearly blow up the exhibition hall, which contains all the remaining cultural treasure of both sides of the war they've just survived, all the things everyone left thinks are important. And it's lke the art exhibition is a history of the war, because both sides were trying to say with sculpture and music and light what they were fighting for and why. And eventually they realised if they didn't stop fighting they'd lose all of that, so there's a big yaay the war ended lane down the middle. Only then they realise that all this in the exhibition came about through a conflict between two cultures that at the time each saw the other as terribly foreign invaders. And now they're united in trying to protect it all. But the one human visitor sees it all and wants to make his own art in response to it, so they can see that the visiting is going to create new, not destroy old. But trying to shut the planet off from outside help would probably destroy old cause the war left them so trashed. So they let first contact officially happen and all is well, lalala, yaays etc etc.
So, in my head there was this thing where all the people living there are visibly alien, humanoid but with not-human bits and patterns and suchlike. And they're all about five feet tall, and so's the Doctor's companion. But the Doctor is like a foot taller and keeps bumping into the ceiling. It was a funny visual metaphor about small worlds or something.
So just now I thought it would be even funnier if, when the human delegation arrived, they're all about 3ft tall like Willow (from the film, not from Buffy). Because (a) it's a bit like when the fear demon turned out to be tiny, these big humans that cast huge shadows and scare everyone on the way there turn out to be teeny tiny, and (b) what is with always using the small people to be a different species? They're just as human as the rest of us! Have them represent humanity to the stars! I mean, it's an obvious saving with any propulsion method where weight/height are a factor anyway, just send smaller people. So.
I think that would be cool. Would that be cool? The equivalent of Captain Kirk journeying to new planets, boldly going where no one has gone before... just happens to be three feet tall and quite a big lad by his crew's standards.
Has anyone done that before?
... probably.
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Date: 2007-11-20 12:52 am (UTC)As a fiend for crossovers, I do wish there was a huge database of the heights of all characters, and the characters' birthdays (not the heights and birthdays of the ACTORS), so I could determine if Firefly's Inara is taller or shorter than HLOTS' Sergeant Howard, for example.