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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[liadtbunny]

Martin Jarvis & Josette Simon would be perfect. When I saw the top of Plutonium's head I thought it was....Ian McShane. I want an elemental couple played by him & Jacqueline Pearce (both are in 'Sky West & Crooked')now. S&S could have been their replacements; origin fic alert.

[lost_spook]

:lol: See, you'll be fic-writing before you know it!

And thanks. :-)

[jjpor]

Some nice fantasy casting there - Martin Jarvis and Saeed Jaffrey in particular look absolutely perfect in those pictures. And not just because they're both in grey suits! Jarvis in particular, there - something about the attitude.

Hmm - are Iron and Carbon (whoever Carbon is - Diamond is a form of carbon?) Steel's "parents" - or would that be too literal? ;D

I want to read the fic with Plutonium in it, because I'll admit to being a bit fascinated by the idea of the Transuranics - Simm!Master-like complete monsters on the loose or poor misunderstood "lepers" shunned for their unwittingly deadly natures?

[lost_spook]

Martin Jarvis and Saeed Jaffrey in particular look absolutely perfect in those pictures

Yes, they do, don't they? Martin Jarvis was particularly Elemental in that role (although less so once you factored in the slight fake Swedish accent, but happily, that cannot be seen in a pic and I know what he sounds like normally).

My brain implodes at Elements having babies, okay. ;-p

The Plutonium fic was my Yuletide assignment - it's sort of Silver vs a Transuranic (my recipient was curious about Transuranics and also said that Silver was always a delight to read. It was a terrible assignment, truly) - and it's here if you really do want to take a look.

[jjpor]

Well, you know, parents in some sort of weird metaphorical, not-really, and almost certainly never actually explained "onscreen", sort of sense. ;)

Thanks for the link - I'll bookmark it and peruse it at my leisure. As I say, I find the Transuranics fascinating too, because so little is said about them, but just enough to make them sound ominous and dangerous. And plus the fact that they'd all have names like Plutonium and Neptunium and Ununpentium and stuff. ;D

[lost_spook]

:-)

[emeraldarrows]

Wow, awesome casting! I don't know very many of these actors, unfortunately, but they definitely have the right look, especially Copper!

[lost_spook]

Thanks! And they're mostly really obscure, found in my epic watching of old TV of late. But then, I think it might be distracting if they were too familiar perhaps.

Copper is James Maxwell, and, weirdly, he has a very S&S story attached to him. I saw him in something, looked him up to see if he was alive or dead, and apparently people think he's a ghost. (One of the many haunting the Royal Exchange Theatre, which could totally be an S&S setting from reading its background of Victorian suicides and Blitz bombings.) Anyway, it's not what you expect when you ask the internet a simple question. :-)

[emeraldarrows]

I really need to watch more old British tv now that I've run out of American. :P Makes sense.

Haha, that's pretty cool.

[spikesgirl58]

This is a fabulous collection! You have done much more research than I ever did!

[lost_spook]

Thank you! And, not really, it's just sort of grown up gradually from each time I've ended up putting a different Element in a fic. It kept me from going mad with boredom while I was particularly ill! :-)

[spikesgirl58]

Oh, I didn't know you hadn't been well! I'm so sorry to hear that! Better now?

[lost_spook]

Much better than I was, but not better yet - I'm enjoying a relapse of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and it's a long road. But definitely better than it was, thanks. :-)