Try explaining Sci Fi to a child

[charliesmum]

Not too long ago I was watching Torchwood, and it involved a Weevil.

Charlie was curious about what, exactly, it was, not having watched too much Sci Fi in his life, he wasn't quite sure what to make of this odd looking man.

"It's a Weevil." I told him. "It's just a pretend creature."

"But why doesn't he have a nose?"

"Because he's an alien, and they look different."

A few moments of contemplative silence and then Charlie said, I swear to God, "Then how does he smell?"

I refrained from saying 'awful'.

Fast forward to just now. I'm sitting in my lounge, knitting one of the endless squares for his eventual blanket, and watching Star Trek, TNG. Worf is lying in Sick Bay, wangsting in his Klingon-y way over a spinal cord injury, and discussing it with Alexander, his son.

Charlie wanders in. "Is that a child?" he asks.

"Yes. It's a Klingon child."

"What's a Klingon?"

"It's an alien. A pretend alien."

More contemplative silence and then, "Why does he have a nose?"

"What?"

"I thought aliens didn't have noses."

Comments

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Sounds perfectly logical to me. I wonder what Charlie will make of the concept of alien meaning "not a citizen of the country we're in right now."

[enchanting-ella.livejournal.com]

rolling round in fits of laughter on the floor.
i seems perfectly logical to me. And you are mum you are meant to have an answer for everything! didn't you know that!!!???
must admit always found it odd i was an alien and my kids wernt. (lived in japan)