Last Minute Teen Wolf Pondering
Mar. 10th, 2014 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetIn the latest episode of Talking About Teen Wolf At The Last Possible Moment Before The New Episode Airs:
You know the big riddle for the episode? "Everyone has one, but no one can lose it"? And the answer is "a shadow"?
I can think of two situations in which someone or something does not have a shadow.
1) In complete darkness. If there is no light to block, nothing will cast a shadow.
2) In a total light environment. Or at least a near-total light environment. This one is more theoretical to me, but it seems to me that if something were blocking light from one direction, but there was light shining on it from the opposite direction, that thing would not cast a shadow. It's more difficult to achieve than total darkness, but still at least theoretically possible, IMO. (Also there was that Rugrats episode with "no shadow time" where shadows disappeared for a time when the sun was at its peak, but I'm not sure how accurate that would be.) Not sure how this would affect areas where light cannot reach (at some point, light is not going to be able to get all the way up your nostrils), but I think it works otherwise, and I'm not sure how well that really counts as "shadow" anyway.
So that's two ways in which one can, at least temporarily, lose a shadow. If you want permanent loss, that'll involve entering one of those environments permanently. But maybe temporary would be enough, especially if it's a light environment, and extra especially given the heavy-handed use of words related to light ("spark" and whatnot) within the series. If my writing wasn't slow as fuck these days, I might try to get a potential jump on the series.
Just some thoughts that I kept forgetting to record until now. Yay?
You know the big riddle for the episode? "Everyone has one, but no one can lose it"? And the answer is "a shadow"?
I can think of two situations in which someone or something does not have a shadow.
1) In complete darkness. If there is no light to block, nothing will cast a shadow.
2) In a total light environment. Or at least a near-total light environment. This one is more theoretical to me, but it seems to me that if something were blocking light from one direction, but there was light shining on it from the opposite direction, that thing would not cast a shadow. It's more difficult to achieve than total darkness, but still at least theoretically possible, IMO. (Also there was that Rugrats episode with "no shadow time" where shadows disappeared for a time when the sun was at its peak, but I'm not sure how accurate that would be.) Not sure how this would affect areas where light cannot reach (at some point, light is not going to be able to get all the way up your nostrils), but I think it works otherwise, and I'm not sure how well that really counts as "shadow" anyway.
So that's two ways in which one can, at least temporarily, lose a shadow. If you want permanent loss, that'll involve entering one of those environments permanently. But maybe temporary would be enough, especially if it's a light environment, and extra especially given the heavy-handed use of words related to light ("spark" and whatnot) within the series. If my writing wasn't slow as fuck these days, I might try to get a potential jump on the series.
Just some thoughts that I kept forgetting to record until now. Yay?
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Date: 2014-03-11 03:50 am (UTC)Or maybe it's Night Shade.
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Date: 2014-03-11 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-11 05:00 am (UTC)There is this Nightshade from DC Comics: "Her mother, Magda, was actually a visitor from another dimension whose denizens have the ability to transform into living two-dimensional shadows; she passed these powers on to her son and daughter." Which is also cool.
Either way, it sounds like it'd make a fantastic fic.
Definitely!