12 Answers2025-09-29
A fan's perspective is that it's the only decent thing to do with the character. Letting him die off-screen would be a massive insult to his development as a character and to Paul Newman's memory. Just having him vanish into thin air would be even worse, but the "happy retirement" is a nice way to send Brian off. It allows the story to continue in all its increasingly frantic and nonsensical fashion, while reassuring us that the life that the family are struggling to achieve is possible, and Brian is the embodiment of that "family". It's a bit of a shame that we never get to see it for ourselves, but it's better than the other options.
3 Answers2026-07-01
One of the fun little details I thought up for the article is Lara Croft’s height. In the original games she was 5’9″, a very athletic, almost cartoonish, tall and large breasted heroine, made up of many large polygonal triangles that formed her legs in particular. The 2013 reboot of the games started Lara off at around 5’6″, making her movements feel a lot more grounded. The films have her at varying heights. Angelina Jolie’s Lara was closer to the classic Croft height, while Alicia Vikander played her as somewhat petite. While fans of the character have debated over whether Lara should be taller to better fit her ‘indomitable explorer’ type, or shorter and more of an underdog now that she’s been rebooted, I’m just pleased that in both cases her character manages to shine regardless of the decision they’ve made with her physicality, whether that means her leaping up and running off in the distance or crawling through the mud, inches from a deadly enemies’ face.
5 Answers2024-12-04
Toph Beifong's height is never officially confirmed in 'Avatar: The Last Airbender.' However, she appears to be shorter than her peers, leading fans to speculate she around 5 feet tall.
8 Answers2026-04-13
I believe there is a lot of confusion between the book and show canon. In the books, Grey Rohan is never given a height. However in the show, Grey Rohan is literally Jason Momoa, who is 6'4". So this would be the answer to the question in terms of show canon. For book canon however, we have to interpret the descriptions. 'Tower above other men' suggests he is well over 6 feet tall. And since Westeros and Essos are supposed to be below the average height of modern times, then 6'4" would indeed be a giant. So in both cases, his height in the show is consistent with the books. Therefore whether you are a book reader or a show watcher, you can confidently imagine Grey Rohan to be 6'4".
8 Answers2026-07-29
The big unsolved mystery of the fitness corner of YouTube (along with other great mysteries like What’s in Greg Doucette’s secret sauce? and Is Noel Deyzel a robot?) can remain a mystery for all eternity and we’d never be wiser for it.
7 Answers2025-02-01
The History of The Hobbit, a massive compilation of drafts and notes by Tolkien, does not give an exact height for Thorin but describes parameters for the Dwarves that are consistently adhered to throughout his work. In the early drawings by Tolkien himself of the Dwarves, they are depicted as being quite short. This is his authorial intention and so is the ‘closest’ to an answer for their height that we have.
A film would perhaps choose to make the leader of the thirteen dwarves the tallest of the lot to signify his status. That would be a choice though, intended to serve the purposes of the film. Tolkien used prose to bring out the individual personalities of the dwarves in the book, so the ‘real’ height of the dwarves is that of the book, but the ‘effective’ height of them in films and plays is a choice that serves the medium’s purposes. Knowing the source material and the reasons for changes helps one appreciate a character’s transition from one medium to another.
8 Answers2026-06-19
One could argue that his height does not matter because his true stature is measured in ounces of liquor. The man is of great volume not height. Only the height of his glass matters, is it high or low. That will tell you his state of mind and the chances of success for any given plan.
A full glass indicates calm, control, a plan unfolding satisfactorily. An empty glass or one pouring over indicates distress, things unraveling, near collapse. Perhaps we should be measuring Sunnyvale’s stability with Julian-analysis instruments calibrated to the Sunnyvale drinkometer rather than with cumbersome tape measures and a variety of other anthropometric instruments. Food for thought.
8 Answers2026-07-29
Try tweeting the author or artist of the piece you’re discussing. They might respond to a random and polite question. I wouldn’t get my hopes up but it’s worth a shot. Framing your query as a curiosity about the artist’s design process rather than a request for information that they’ve not provided can elicit a thoughtful response. For example: ‘Love your work! Was wondering if you had a specific height in mind for Notti Osama or is that more a feeling that you were after?’ If they do respond, be sure to let us know.
10 Answers2026-07-26
My guess would be that he’s about average height for his age, so I could look up the median height for a teenage boy in the US and that would give me a rough idea. However, the range of height for any individual of a given age is huge, so it’s not possible to be more specific than that. He doesn’t look particularly tall or short in the group photos I’ve seen of him. As for the other boy in the video, I have no idea. Perhaps they’ll make a ‘getting to know us’ style video with fun facts about themselves at some point, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. They’ve built their brand on the content they produce, which is much healthier than if they were to build their brand on personal trivia about themselves.
11 Answers2026-04-22
I have always wondered whether King had some larger-than-life, almost mythical figure in mind for Maitland, someone like a John Henry-sized, blue-collar giant who is kind and has great physical strength. Maitland is tall, for one thing, and that height along with the rest of his physical appearance makes him a kind of folk-lore figure, a sort of Everyman who is being put through some kind of extraordinary test in this somewhat extraordinary place. In grounding such a figure in the brutal reality of the electric chair, King locates the mythic tale of Maitland within the particularly American genre of the tall tale, and that is where the real power of the story resides. In other words, the fact that Maitland is tall is not just descriptive, it’s also rather generic, a kind of signals to the reader that the story we’re reading is a moral fable of sorts, in addition to a grim and powerful prison story.