NewWho Eve
Mar. 25th, 2005 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniI just want to say, for the record, that I like the new TARDIS interior and console -- even though it is very different from the one I fell in love with..
Even though he walls are no longer gleaming white, you can tell that they probably were, at one point, having suffered the effects of several misadventures. The support beams, I guess they are, remind me of bones -- curved ribs -- which give the sense that the TARDIS is more organic and alive than other "mere machines" we may have met in our lives. The only thing that puts me off slightly are the steps leading in from the door, but I can see how they might add energy to a scene as the Doctor and Rose move up and down them.
And I don't think the console itself looks like lime jello in a bowl. That's the color of electricity -- I recognise it from when I've pet my cats in the dark.
The controls themselves include: an old brass sextant, lying on its side, what look to be scavanged innards of ancient computers, a miss-matched assortment of knobs, switches and levers, and a Holmsian-looking magnifying glass at the end of a coiling, gooseneck support. There are wires and conduits snaking all over the place, and steam rising out of the gel-stuff wherever there's a seam or joint that doesn't quite match up. In other words, it looks like an ancient piece of advanced technology that's had to be repaired and maintained by someone on the fly, in exile, held together with bailing wire, ingenuity, and an optimistic force of will.
In other words, it fits the Doctor's story as I know it, and his character.
So there!
Even though he walls are no longer gleaming white, you can tell that they probably were, at one point, having suffered the effects of several misadventures. The support beams, I guess they are, remind me of bones -- curved ribs -- which give the sense that the TARDIS is more organic and alive than other "mere machines" we may have met in our lives. The only thing that puts me off slightly are the steps leading in from the door, but I can see how they might add energy to a scene as the Doctor and Rose move up and down them.
And I don't think the console itself looks like lime jello in a bowl. That's the color of electricity -- I recognise it from when I've pet my cats in the dark.
The controls themselves include: an old brass sextant, lying on its side, what look to be scavanged innards of ancient computers, a miss-matched assortment of knobs, switches and levers, and a Holmsian-looking magnifying glass at the end of a coiling, gooseneck support. There are wires and conduits snaking all over the place, and steam rising out of the gel-stuff wherever there's a seam or joint that doesn't quite match up. In other words, it looks like an ancient piece of advanced technology that's had to be repaired and maintained by someone on the fly, in exile, held together with bailing wire, ingenuity, and an optimistic force of will.
In other words, it fits the Doctor's story as I know it, and his character.
So there!
