I assume the series would eventually have introduced all the "medium atomic weights" listed in the credits (and with any luck a couple of unstable transuranics) and I'm sorry it never got the chance.
Yes - PJ Hammond had plans for A7 (which it would be spoilery to mention, but if your DVDs have the extras, there's a commentary on the very first episode and the very last, and the last is worth listening to particularly because that's where this comes from) and he intended it to have some of the other Elements in, and he sounds as if he really knew what they were all like (Copper, and Jet, and Mercury) & sad that he never got the chance, and so am I, based on the evidence of those we do see.
But that's not the same thing as being suddenly, crankily, desperately endearing, which that muttering about his origins is.
That is very true, although it wasn't the turning point for me; that was the moment where I went, "Oh, they don't understand each other, either!" And then I was all the more hooked by that - they mean a lot to each other, but they are themselves fascinated by the mystery, and there's also wariness and fear of other elements in there. I'm not sure why that really made me sit up, but it did.
He looks like he's wearing a toned-down version of Jordan's makeup from Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1977). That's great.
RoD was also 1977, and quite early, but the influence for RoD is very art deco - the society had robots with an art deco design and the humans painted themselves to look like robots. (I love RoD; it's one of my favourite Classic Who serials.) So the whole design is less punk and looks like this. But Poul was formative. As was Lord Dark and Charn, but buried under them somewhere is probably still Silver.
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Yes - PJ Hammond had plans for A7 (which it would be spoilery to mention, but if your DVDs have the extras, there's a commentary on the very first episode and the very last, and the last is worth listening to particularly because that's where this comes from) and he intended it to have some of the other Elements in, and he sounds as if he really knew what they were all like (Copper, and Jet, and Mercury) & sad that he never got the chance, and so am I, based on the evidence of those we do see.
But that's not the same thing as being suddenly, crankily, desperately endearing, which that muttering about his origins is.
That is very true, although it wasn't the turning point for me; that was the moment where I went, "Oh, they don't understand each other, either!" And then I was all the more hooked by that - they mean a lot to each other, but they are themselves fascinated by the mystery, and there's also wariness and fear of other elements in there. I'm not sure why that really made me sit up, but it did.
He looks like he's wearing a toned-down version of Jordan's makeup from Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1977). That's great.
RoD was also 1977, and quite early, but the influence for RoD is very art deco - the society had robots with an art deco design and the humans painted themselves to look like robots. (I love RoD; it's one of my favourite Classic Who serials.) So the whole design is less punk and looks like this. But Poul was formative. As was Lord Dark and Charn, but buried under them somewhere is probably still Silver.