hvb wrote:I agree with your other comment about needing an actress tall enough to make Nimitz shoulder-riding her seem realistic. If need be scale Nimitz back by those extra 15% or more.
Evergreen and David have said pretty frankly that Nimitz will be doing very little if any shoulder riding, for the same dramatic & psycho-visual reasons that are behind the increase in size.
They need to sell Nimitz to the unfamiliar mass audience as a real sentient dramatis personae, indeed as the 2nd most important character, from the word go - not a pet, not a CIG doll, not cute, and absolutely not a somewhat less silly Jar Jar Binks. They do not think that they can do this in visual, without the benefit of reader involvement in text exposition, any more easily than non-Sphinxians would initially believe that the t'cats were more than exotic pets, if Nimitiz is generally riding around on Honor shoulder like a stole.
That's why he has been up-sized a bit, and that's why he will be portrayed less in constant physical contact with Honor than long-time readers might expect.
dreamrider