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Jack Graham
9 years, 8 months ago
I continue to round up my Timelash II stuff with these bits 'n' bobs about the McCoy years. There will eventually be separate posts on some of the 'big hitters' left out below.Paradise TowersVery
Whoish ideas. Lots of clever use of language, from the street names to the slang which incorporates degenerated formal rules, to the Caretaker lingo full of subsections and codes, etc.
It suffers from 'Mysterious Planet' disease in that the production looks
good but nothing looks
right.
Mel's apparently monomaniacal fixation upon the swimming pool is decidedly odd. But, if you approach this as
children's television (which is clearly what it thinks it is) then you can enjoy it as a surprisingly sophisticated story about social entropy.
Brings to mind Le Corbusier and his notion of houses as "machines for living in"... which always had a tinge of the authoritarian about it, amidst all the utopianism of early 20th century modernism (which also always had a hidden inner core of mysticism beneath all the pseudo-rational stright lines, etc). The insistence upon a buried notion of virtue (you had to be a certain kind of healthy, high-minded, thin, modern-minded, puritanical ...
