"Fantastic Voyage" plots
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Out of curiosity, do fantastic Voyage plots trigger your fantasies? Like where they shrink to micro sized and enter someone’s body.
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@BryTheGuy Yes and no. I like the idea of the micro-sized shrinking, but once they enter the human body, it kind of kills the potential for interaction. Tinyness without interaction seems like “theoretical tinyness” rather than “tinyness in practice.” It’s like being a parent…if I’m the father of a child who I’ve never met, and I don’t even know my child exists, does that make me a parent? Technically, yes, it does. In theory. But not in any real practical way.
When the tinies are actually inside someone’s body, it doesn’t really “feel” like they’re tiny. It feels like they’re explorers on an alien planet, because the stuff they’re interacting with isn’t stuff that we recognize from our everyday lives. It’s alien. If the tinies are thumb-sized, we have a reference point for their tinyness, because ordinary objects like pencils are now significantly larger than they are. But when the tinies are inside a human body and surrounded by giant red blood cells, we don’t have an obvious reference point for their tinyness. It’s like the question about the tree falling in the forest…
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@protect-tinies what if they’re in a penis?
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Shrinking yes but once they out of eyesight not so much but I will admit the Captain Planet episode where dr Blyth shrinks most of the team and has the final member drink them was not lost on my desires.
