Thursday, January 28, 2010

Unrelated idea for a show

So this doesn't relate to the next post I'm about to write, or at least not directly. But imagine if you will a young girl. Kept in her room because since her mother died her father has been overprotective and locked her in there to keep her safe. It's a normal room with normal furniture, except for the window. The window is one of those really nice big bay windows, sticking out over the house, and this is how she gets to see the world. Trick is that the window is mecha-magical and there is a control panel at the ledge. She can not only look out on her street, but any street, Anywhere. Adjust a nob or move the stick and the window flies along to where-ever, now she's looking over a stream in the middle of Colorado, next she's looking at a street corner in Tokyo, etc.
This isn't just an image of that street or etc. The outside of the window physically moves to that location. So if you were a backpacker out near that Colorado stream you'd see a strange bay window floating above the stream with apparently nothing to hold it up. She can open her window and smell the breeze an yell down to the people, if she wants to. But turn around and she's still in her room at home.

I'm pretty sure that if someone could reach up to the window they could climb through and they would be in her room. Her father would probably put bars on the window to prevent that in some way (thinking of lions and bears possibly jumping through) but I can't decide if the bars would be on the outside of the window or inside her room.

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