Oh how I do like to be fannish about the periodic table...

[lost_spook]

It's a side-effect of obsessing about Sapphire & Steel.

I made this post a while two months ago, partly for me, partly to share, but then again, it does feel weird going on about "my" Elements and mental casting sometimes seems a bit odd too. However, I have this post, I did cast actors (it's such a visual show; it seemed a logical step if I was

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[persiflage_1]

I take it you haven't heard any of the Ruby audios from Big Finish - where she's played beautifully and entertainingly by Lisa Bowerman?

Sadly your pic of Martin Jarvis isn't showing up for me. :(

[lost_spook]

No, as I've said, I meant to wait to write Ruby until I could listen to those, but then my own version turned up! You know how it is with these things! :-)

Yes, well, either LJ or Photobucket is being odd - I can see Iron, but it won't let me see Lead. They're both there, though - when the internet can get its act together.

[persiflage_1]

Oooh there he is! :D

Heh, yes I do know...

[lost_spook]

Yes, I thought you were familiar with the concept of plotbunnies and impatient characters etc. ;-p

[singeaddams]

I might have to watch this to see how Joanna Lumley does. She's one of my favorite comedians/actors. Hell, she even did a documentary on the Nile that I loved.

[lost_spook]

Oh, if you like Joanna, you should see it. S&S visually consists of close-ups of Joanna, close-ups of David McCallum and Scary Stuff (like pillows and flowers and books and torchlight and photographs and...).

It's all on YouTUbe - there are Six assignments, the equivalent of six DW serials. And it is SLOW. But it uses its slowness deliberately and once you get used to it is one of the weirdest and most original and freaky TV shows ever made.

eponymous_rose did a brilliant intro here if you want to know what you might be getting yourself into.

But all the close-ups of Sapphire, basically. Sapphire is truly amazing.

It also has David Collings in two of the Assignments, hence me being adoring of Silver and OT3ing Silver, Sapphire and Steel even though I never really had an OT-anything before.

I might like it just a bit. It is weird, though. And slow. The weirdest and slowest TV show anyone's ever made - well, that works. It's not going to be to everyone's tastes, but... yes. LOTS of Joanna Lumley. LOTS.

:-)

[singeaddams]

Great! Thank you. I don't mind slow and I loved Eponymous Rose's intro. I'll check into it soon.

[lost_spook]

:-) Sorry if I was a tad overenthusiastic. It stole my brain and hasn't given it back yet. (It's very inconvenient - several shows are sharing pieces of my heart while S&S has my brain and... what's left of me, I don't know.)

It's not just old TV slow, though, it's old TV that deliberately decided to be slower than other slow TV slow. Sapphire and Steel don't run. They stand very still and look alarmed and then walk slowly in unison towards the source of trouble (or away from it.)

:-)

[swordznsorcery]

Interesting. I like Mercury. Good choice. Jet is perfect, and I like the look of Cerium (your drawing is very good, incidentally). It's all a bit mixed up though, as most of them are from the seventies, so poor Gold and Antimony are still in school! I suppose that's the beauty of fantasy casting.

Ruby looks a bit like Helen Baxendale. Cerium is really reminding me of somebody too, but I can't think who it is. I know you say she's too cute, but I quite like the idea of one of the Elements looking like she'd break easily, and Cerium is a soft metal (but one with a lot of zap).

I can see all of the pictures, by the way. Hopefully whatever the problem was has now cleared up.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! :-) And what you say about Cerium is exactly why I created her - I was going to write a fic where it was a plot point that I needed a more unreliable Element (but not in terms of which-side-are-they-on, merely their nature). I just never wrote it, but still kept her.

I think LJ was being odd yesterday. But then, it could be Photobucket... :lol:

As for timing, none of them really fit together - Josette and Martin Jarvis are exactly the right time, Saeed Jaffrey and James Maxwell are c.1970, Nicholas Chagrin must be c.1990 and, as you say, Gold and Antimony positively modern. Luckily it doesn't matter with fantasy casting. Or with Elements. I'd imagine they only age if they feel like it, or if something really horrible happens to them.

[dimity_blue]

everyone: we can see you've been watching lots of David Collings, you can tell it's him.
me: but it isn't David Collings! It was supposed to be JAMES MAXWELL.

I think part of the confusion comes from James Maxwell having a lot of hair. Lots of hair + Lost Spook = David Collings. It's a natural progression.

I hope that helped a little bit. I like your sketches. I also like all the actors you've chosen for your characters. And, yes, I can picture Mark Gatiss as Gold. :oD

[lost_spook]

:lol: But it doesn't have enough hair for David Collings, or at least, it should be curlier if it's that length! (I dunno, doesn't everybody study David Collings's hair in great detail or is that just me? ;-p)

Anyway, thank you. :-)

[dimity_blue]

(I dunno, doesn't everybody study David Collings's hair in great detail or is that just me? ;-p)

It might be just you. Sorry.

But, on the plus side, you're probably the world-wide expert on David Collings' hair. :oD

[lost_spook]

Aw. I should have a printed out version! I just have a Wikipedia link (and might have picked up a dictionary of chemistry second hand, and a dictionary of geology). I think it's perfectly reasonable to be fannish about the periodic table. :lol:

Who says they need to be British? Lead is played by Val Pringle, who was American. I just amused myself by using people from the old TV I'd been watching, so that explains most of these. I just sort of let them turn up, really. I'd love to see any you came up with. But feel free to snaffle mine if you so wish - I don't think anyone could lay claim to an Element, or certainly not to knowing all about one!

Judi Dench would always be v cool as anything. I have vague notions for Diamond, which are quite different - but that doesn't stop you! :-)

[lost_spook]

Fancasting is a bit strange, isn't it? I did isurrendered a couple of years back - a meme where you had to make up your own TV shows (and cast them) from prompts and that got me thinking - it was very useful.

I just sort of... snaffle people while I'm watching stuff though, rather than going out and hunting them down like a casting director. :-)