page 34 – The Increasingly Strange Story of Avatar and the Comparatively Plain Tale of Blip
Original note – Mar 28, 2008
Dang, how would YOU like to pull over, look under the hood, and find a little girl lodged in your engine? I’d give her a free ride too.
Also, note the brilliant manner in which I turn the fact that I really have no idea why Cap’n Crosby made an exception for Avatar from bad writing on my part into an interesting quirk for a mysterious character!
…eer, I probably shouldn’t have admitted to that…
(HISTORICAL NOTE: I actually DO know now. Lord knows when we’ll actually get around to seeing it, but I really do know.)
Before offering such a girl a free ride, there would need to be some questions answered, like whether she needed to go to the hospital (obviously not a problem for Avatar, though the captain probably didn’t know that when he first met her), whether the engine was still working, and whether she got in there intentionally.
Oh, I’m sure there was an extensive array of tests and precautions and hosing downs we didn’t get to see before The Cap’n let her past the airlock.
Did we ever get an explanation of what kind of propulsion the ship uses? I’m having trouble coming up with one that would have a grille like that for Avatar’s hair to get caught in.
The ship is powered by Plot Convenience 🙂
But seriously, I think at one point I said those vents were actually on the “fins” on the back of the ship, and they sucked up some kind of wibbly wibbly scifi whatever from open space to help with the whatever reactor that makes the ship go. Obviously, I can’t remember what technobabble I used at the time, not that it really matters in this context.