Silly thought

[kerravonsen]

I was considering how completely hopeless a companion I would make -- I'd be limping away from the monsters, rather than running, and I'd probably die in the first five minutes. Then I got this image in my mind of a particular person I know in fandom, who uses a motorized wheelchair to get around in, one sees her whizzing around at conventions... and I was thinking, okay, how fast can that wheelchair go? Could this lass out-motor the monsters?

Well, I thought it was an amusing image, anyway.

Comments

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Why out-motor them? Why not just run them over? beep, beep. zrooom! squish

I know what you mean about being a failure as a companion for real. I'm much the same. But then when I got my walking stick (which I no longer need), I read an old paper on Self-Defense with a Walking Stick, and I realised that it's just a matter of working to your strengths. An ability to scream at volume, for example, at spiders, for example, would be useful in a Sarah-Jane type situation, as an alarm system for the Doctor.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

No actually I love the idea of a Companion in a wheelchair, wizzing along, and some of the jelly-spagetti-and-bubblewrap monsters lumbering after her... she'd probably have to stop a few times to let them catch up :)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

And she could upgrade the chair with bits of Dalek casing, not too much but the getting up stairs bit would come in handy. Then she does Doctor rescues by coming over at head height.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Could this lass out-motor the monsters?

In a heartbeat - after the good Doctor had finished tinkering with it. using his sonic screwdriver :-)

[kerravonsen]

Good point. He could probably also fit an antigrav unit for stairs...

[kerravonsen]

Why out-motor them? Why not just run them over? beep, beep. zrooom! squish

I think you overestimate the size and power of the wheelchair, and underestimate the size of the monsters... 8-/

read an old paper on Self-Defense with a Walking Stick

Now, that would be useful!

An ability to scream at volume, for example, at spiders, for example, would be useful in a Sarah-Jane type situation, as an alarm system for the Doctor.

Yeah, but I'm not sure that I'd scream at spiders. Okay, if they were huge, giant spiders... but they might be friendly huge giant spiders...