It may be less batshit than my memory! I just remember all the meticulous worldbuilding (which looks to me now like a direct descendant of Zamyatin's We (1924), which I wouldn't read until college) pulling up short with the ironic twist kicker that the deepest Levels themselves are just as vulnerable in the event of a nuclear accident
Ah, the inevitably peeled-back TV version can't have all of that, and so just feels like typically bleak apocalyptic anti-nuclear fare. (The ending was one of the things I liked about it; but maybe you will get to see it somehow. But basically, David Collings was right about everything in it.)
That's like watches stopping around Sapphire & Steel. Maybe David Collings just attracts metaphor independently.
I once tried to make a fanvid of David Collings breaking down, but it broke down and killed my memory stick and all that remains is an even earlier and rougher draft full of placeholders (but it does feature Bernard Archard feeding him to the invisible hyenas here.)
I downloaded the soundtrack from WikiDelia, but haven't had the chance to listen to more than the first few minutes in which David Collings is instantly recognizable and James Maxwell has an agoraphobic breakdown.
Ah, sorry, I think I've confused you: Paul Maxwell is playing Lije Baley. I mentioned James Maxwell because he was in another OOTU Asimov adaptation, and he is an obvious draw for me (if nobody else) in an expensive boxset! David Collings AND James Maxwell AND 1960s BBC SF *check*
I do not think I will have a problem with his music for The Lord of the Rings. To clarify, if it's all of this caliber, I'll probably try to find a copy.
I'd say yes. I'm not sure which is my favourite piece, but obviously the main theme is the first that comes to mind and I could find it online.
I think starting a niche on AO3 is something to be proud of, especially if people write for you.
:-D I oppress people into writing old telly things for me; I am a terrible person. (Actually, the Poul fic is almost as much Liadt's fault as mine, I realised afterwards. In fact, she's probably far more to blame for more RoD/Kaldor fic than I am! I just flirt with the Poul tag every now and then.)
And, aw, thank you! I'm glad you liked them. The Poul one is pretty old now, but I think quite a few years' worth of having RoD living in my head went into it.
And, yes, Poul was a ref to Poul Anderson; Uvanov is an even less obvious nod to Isaac Asimov. The full names come from Corpse Marker (Uvanov is Kiy Uvanov and Toos, Lish Toos - unfortunately the others didn't survive to feature in it!) I think the only name that I know was an in-joke was Grimwade's Syndrome, which was a ref to a director called Peter Grimwade, who did several DW eps, although not that one. (I'm not sure why!)
Sapphire in Assignment 6 taking Silver's face between her hands to make his memories visible: "Love to." He kisses her palm afterward. It is and is not what it appears to convey.
Oh, Elements, and their inhuman flirting that is and isn't! It clearly is serving a purpose; it clearly also is what passes for an intimacy with them. (I'm sorry, i'll start degenerating into incoherency and keysmashes or something. We'll save that for the eventual S&S post. But <3)
Oh, and I know I keep mentioning B7, and I'll try not to do it again, at least for a few comments, but it's rather hard not to in connection with RoD, and it was Chris Boucher that led me there from Doctor Who. In general, I would say that is a series to be watched in order, but perhaps you might find this interesting at some point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj7XEIdDY0E
It's Shadow S2, ep2, and Chris Boucher's first episode for the series (although he wrote large amounts of S1 as script editor, because Terry Nation always tended to pass in first drafts and swan off to the US to sell Daleks), and while it's by no means one of his best, it does have the right feel to connect it to Kaldor, and it's interesting and gives every regular something to do, even the often-neglected Gan. (Although it's hardly Vila's most shining episode! Poor Vila. He deserves what he gets in this one, though.)
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Ah, the inevitably peeled-back TV version can't have all of that, and so just feels like typically bleak apocalyptic anti-nuclear fare. (The ending was one of the things I liked about it; but maybe you will get to see it somehow. But basically, David Collings was right about everything in it.)
That's like watches stopping around Sapphire & Steel. Maybe David Collings just attracts metaphor independently.
I once tried to make a fanvid of David Collings breaking down, but it broke down and killed my memory stick and all that remains is an even earlier and rougher draft full of placeholders (but it does feature Bernard Archard feeding him to the invisible hyenas here.)
I downloaded the soundtrack from WikiDelia, but haven't had the chance to listen to more than the first few minutes in which David Collings is instantly recognizable and James Maxwell has an agoraphobic breakdown.
Ah, sorry, I think I've confused you: Paul Maxwell is playing Lije Baley. I mentioned James Maxwell because he was in another OOTU Asimov adaptation, and he is an obvious draw for me (if nobody else) in an expensive boxset! David Collings AND James Maxwell AND 1960s BBC SF *check*
I do not think I will have a problem with his music for The Lord of the Rings. To clarify, if it's all of this caliber, I'll probably try to find a copy.
I'd say yes. I'm not sure which is my favourite piece, but obviously the main theme is the first that comes to mind and I could find it online.
I think starting a niche on AO3 is something to be proud of, especially if people write for you.
:-D I oppress people into writing old telly things for me; I am a terrible person. (Actually, the Poul fic is almost as much Liadt's fault as mine, I realised afterwards. In fact, she's probably far more to blame for more RoD/Kaldor fic than I am! I just flirt with the Poul tag every now and then.)
And, aw, thank you! I'm glad you liked them. The Poul one is pretty old now, but I think quite a few years' worth of having RoD living in my head went into it.
And, yes, Poul was a ref to Poul Anderson; Uvanov is an even less obvious nod to Isaac Asimov. The full names come from Corpse Marker (Uvanov is Kiy Uvanov and Toos, Lish Toos - unfortunately the others didn't survive to feature in it!) I think the only name that I know was an in-joke was Grimwade's Syndrome, which was a ref to a director called Peter Grimwade, who did several DW eps, although not that one. (I'm not sure why!)
Sapphire in Assignment 6 taking Silver's face between her hands to make his memories visible: "Love to." He kisses her palm afterward. It is and is not what it appears to convey.
Oh, Elements, and their inhuman flirting that is and isn't! It clearly is serving a purpose; it clearly also is what passes for an intimacy with them. (I'm sorry, i'll start degenerating into incoherency and keysmashes or something. We'll save that for the eventual S&S post. But <3)
Oh, and I know I keep mentioning B7, and I'll try not to do it again, at least for a few comments, but it's rather hard not to in connection with RoD, and it was Chris Boucher that led me there from Doctor Who. In general, I would say that is a series to be watched in order, but perhaps you might find this interesting at some point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj7XEIdDY0E
It's Shadow S2, ep2, and Chris Boucher's first episode for the series (although he wrote large amounts of S1 as script editor, because Terry Nation always tended to pass in first drafts and swan off to the US to sell Daleks), and while it's by no means one of his best, it does have the right feel to connect it to Kaldor, and it's interesting and gives every regular something to do, even the often-neglected Gan. (Although it's hardly Vila's most shining episode! Poor Vila. He deserves what he gets in this one, though.)