darth-biomech asked:

Regardless Infinity Train - Tulip had some interestingly complex lines in the pilot. Wanted to ask, is it is just a character quirk to make her appear "nerdy", or the plot of the show will have a relationship with some scientific concepts?

I don’t really know what people are talking about when they say “these lines are just to make her look nerdy.”

Every line that every character says in everything is to make them be like their character. That’s how writing works. If they aren’t saying something that matches who they are as a character, then what are they doing? Just being exposition? That’s bad writing.

If a character knows a lot of stuff, then they say things that show they know a lot of stuff. If the character is dumb as hell, then they say things that are dumb as hell. If they’re evil, they say evil things.

Here are a bunch of things no one says:

“They had Han Solo say ‘better her than me’ about the princess just to show he’s selfish”

“Robocop says ‘dead or alive, you’re coming with me’ just to show he’s a tough cop”

“Batman says ‘A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended’ in Dark Night Rises just because they wanted him to seem heroic and strong.”

Tulip says things the way they made sense to me for her to say them. Same with One-One and Atticus, because their characters speak, think, and act certain ways.

Tulip is logical person, so she says things logically and tries to make sense of her world in a way that feels logical. That’s why she’s the perfect foil for the train. The train doesn’t make sense, so if you want conflict in your story then the best character to have to interact with something that is completely illogical and doesn’t make sense is someone who is logical and wants things to make sense. She doesn’t know everything, but she certainly knows words that are outside her peer group.

My mom went to school for science and one of my dad’s degrees was in mathematics. I was brought up in a very scientifically literate household. In some ways, I was very similar to Tulip when I was 12. I read a lot, I was learning programming and 3D computer art, all kinds of stuff. She doesn’t know anything I didn’t know when I was 12. She’s more assertive in her approach to things, but I understand the core of where she’s coming from.

As far as scientific concepts in the show would go, I mean the show is science fiction, it’s gonna use some things here and there as a jumping off point but I won’t strictly adhere to it. People love Star Wars but spaceships don’t move like airplanes in space. Having a show be entertaining is the most important thing. Making sure your rules are consistent within the universe helps to that end, but those rules might not always be the rules of the real world.