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Post by mrperson on Apr 15, 2018 16:00:38 GMT
It's just so overdone for me and far too 'magical'. It's the American TV executives (not Americans themselves) version of what the TARDIS should be. I prefer the more stripped back approach of the original console - distincitly alien, but inviting, the promise of the unknown. I think the modern consoles have kind of struck a nice balance between them - going for the big visuals for today's kids and yet still honouring the past. Well, it is supposed to have potentially infinite space. There's no reason the console room cannot be of some thoroughly transparent but shielded glass, orbiting a planet in an entire solar system contained in one room (provided it was an uninhabited ones), for example; but because it's "dimensionally transcendental", various exits from the console could go into corridors, outside, etc. (In one of the BF stories, McCoy mentions something about having an entire galaxy tucked away somewhere inside). If you can literally tweak the spatial dimensions, you could build any imaginable shape. Or sitting under a vast fishtank, but yet strangely perched above a landscape, again with all sides transparent. Or simply sitting in a garden, with the entrance to various surrounding buildings leading into other corridors, outside, etc.
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Post by Hieronymus on Apr 15, 2018 19:33:45 GMT
It was written as if it were continuing the series and prepping for another, so it carried a huge weight of continuity, without considering the need for the story to properly stand on its own.
Also, you can't take the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco to Berkeley, because that's not where that bridge goes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 23:19:10 GMT
It's just so overdone for me and far too 'magical'. It's the American TV executives (not Americans themselves) version of what the TARDIS should be. I prefer the more stripped back approach of the original console - distincitly alien, but inviting, the promise of the unknown. I think the modern consoles have kind of struck a nice balance between them - going for the big visuals for today's kids and yet still honouring the past. Well, it is supposed to have potentially infinite space. There's no reason the console room cannot be of some thoroughly transparent but shielded glass, orbiting a planet in an entire solar system contained in one room (provided it was an uninhabited ones), for example; but because it's "dimensionally transcendental", various exits from the console could go into corridors, outside, etc. (In one of the BF stories, McCoy mentions something about having an entire galaxy tucked away somewhere inside). If you can literally tweak the spatial dimensions, you could build any imaginable shape. Or sitting under a vast fishtank, but yet strangely perched above a landscape, again with all sides transparent. Or simply sitting in a garden, with the entrance to various surrounding buildings leading into other corridors, outside, etc. But, you can overdo it. Having a blue box lead into the unknown kind of covers that sense of wonder for me, as well as The Doctor teasing out the TARDIS capabilities from time to time. Or the organic feel of the Ninth Doctor/Tenth Doctor's TARDIS console room. Less is more.
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