What-If Scenarios

I know what you're thinking.

Oh no, you think. I bet this is just another boring blog about something that authors do.

Well, fortunately for you, that's not what this is about. This is about what-if scenarios in stories that can never and will never happened. But they're still fun... for us at least. *Evil grin*
For example...

Last night, my sister Crista and I were playing the most fun game ever. It goes like this:

1. We each randomly select a character. Neither of us knows the other person's choice.
2. We reveal our choices to each other.
3. One of us randomly selects a quest/task this pair of character must complete.

We did it four or five times last night, and a couple of times this morning. Here are our top favorites:

• Gaea (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) and Pippin (Lord of the Rings) must learn to drive a car together.
• Drew (PJatO) and Legolas (LOTR) must cross the Misty Mountains together.
• Flynn Rider (Tangled) and Tom Bombadil (LOTR) must build a car... together.
• Merry (LOTR) and Cluny the Scourge (Redwall) must stay in a cage together for three days without harming each other.

So, yes. We also do 'What would happen if...' a lot, though I must say most of them are totally unrealistic. Crista and I really like the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (and you can see my review of it here)... so a lot of our what-if scenarios end up like that. We seem to have a strange obsession with disco balls and Irish jigs... so take any scene in The Hobbit and add a disco ball/Irish jig. That's what we like to talk about after bed. Once we turned the final battle at the end of The Hobbit into a party with a disco ball (of course), a waitress, fireworks... and a bunch of cats from warriors.

Just picture Warriors and The Hobbit combined with this.

But, on the more serious side, sometimes we also talk about what we'd like to see in the two upcoming Hobbit movies. Here's a scene I'd like to see:

• So Thorin has just been captured by woodland elves and dragged into the throne room of their king, Thranduil (who happens to be Legolas's father). In the course of his interrogation, Thorin insults Thranduil. Legolas takes offense at this and challenges Thorin. Thorin takes Legolas up on this challenge, and Tauriel is forced to break up a potential fight.

Fascinating, eh?
So what 'What would happen if...' scenarios do you think about? Do you wonder what's going to happen in upcoming movies? I love hearing from you!