Comments | tardis_stowaway: A matter of great importance

tardis_stowaway

A matter of great importance

Jun 28, 2010 23:19

Greetings, wise f-list! I saw a description of Eleven's hair color in an otherwise wonderful fanfic that confused me, since it was vastly different from what his hair looks like to me. However, it occurs to me that I'm not sure I've looked at Eleven on anything other than my laptop screen, so maybe my colors are off. However, everything else ( ( Read more... )

hair, very important (or not), eleven, poll

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sahiya June 29 2010, 07:01:50 UTC

Definitely medium brown, as far as I can tell. What did the fic describe him as?

tardis_stowaway June 29 2010, 07:12:55 UTC

The fic described his hair as black. I'm still scratching my head at that.

kerravonsen June 29 2010, 09:42:35 UTC

There is NO WAY that Eleven's hair is black. Not in a million years, not unless he got stuck in a coal mine.

tardis_stowaway June 29 2010, 18:07:32 UTC

Ha, yes!

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tardis_stowaway June 29 2010, 18:17:13 UTC

Yeah. Lots of people have VERY dark shades of brown hair that still aren't true black, and I don't see Matt Smith's hair anywhere near that end of the spectrum.

dameruth June 29 2010, 14:34:49 UTC

I'd say medium-to-dark brown.

If you want to set up another poll, you could ask people what color they think his eyes are -- that's another thing that's all over the map on fanfic. I've seen blue, brown (!), green, grey . . .

tardis_stowaway June 29 2010, 18:27:13 UTC

Yeah, I considered adding eye color but decided that would be too divisive. :) He has those eyes that are an in-between shade, which look different depending on lighting. I'd call them blue, but I can sort of see where the other interpretations are coming from. Aside from the brown, which puzzles me. Even hazel would be a huge stretch, and brown just doesn't match the closeups I've seen.

skalja June 30 2010, 22:51:45 UTC

It says something about our fannish habits that I know EXACTLY which (very excellent) fanfic you're talking about. XD

I voted medium brown, but that's part "it looks sort of in-between to me" and part "it's never made an impression on me whereas I think I would register light or dark brown hair as such."

tardis_stowaway July 2 2010, 09:02:49 UTC

t says something about our fannish habits that I know EXACTLY which (very excellent) fanfic you're talking about.

Ha! That's funny.

"it's never made an impression on me whereas I think I would register light or dark brown hair as such."

Yeah. The color of his hair is just rather nondescript. Apparently his hair tries to make up for that with being very noteworthy in shape.. ;)

skalja July 2 2010, 10:11:44 UTC

Hee!

Actually, I bet I know why zie sees his hair as black -- this season is kinda dark, visually speaking. I mean, everyone's faces are lit just fine, but it doesn't seem as super-saturated as previous seasons and even the day scenes are kinda grey/cloudy. That could just be MY perception, of course.