Either version just delights me, and I admit that I sort of wish I knew which was the one that happened.
They are both pretty delightful. I think a lot of the design actually does come from plywood and paint--like, practically every light source on the station is pretty much a florescent tube stood on its end behind a rectangle of frosted plastic, with some painted wooden strips over the top of part of it in the same checkered pattern as on the council chairs. If they'd gone for Star Trek-esque futuristic, they'd have been shelling out for lots of molded, rounded, plasticky stuff.
I have a little bit of an angry determination that the glowy pastel erector set Delenn plays with through the first season was meant to be crystals... they're just so hideous, I couldn't help but ret-con them here.
Bwahaha. I think they probably were meant to be crystals as well. They do definitely look like a kid's toy, though.
Your method of separating Nouveau and Deco is pretty much the same as mine. I've heard that much of Deco, especially early Deco, is Nouveau streamlined for mass production, which seems as good a comparison as any.
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Date: 2010-08-15 10:30 pm (UTC)They are both pretty delightful. I think a lot of the design actually does come from plywood and paint--like, practically every light source on the station is pretty much a florescent tube stood on its end behind a rectangle of frosted plastic, with some painted wooden strips over the top of part of it in the same checkered pattern as on the council chairs. If they'd gone for Star Trek-esque futuristic, they'd have been shelling out for lots of molded, rounded, plasticky stuff.
I have a little bit of an angry determination that the glowy pastel erector set Delenn plays with through the first season was meant to be crystals... they're just so hideous, I couldn't help but ret-con them here.
Bwahaha. I think they probably were meant to be crystals as well. They do definitely look like a kid's toy, though.
Your method of separating Nouveau and Deco is pretty much the same as mine. I've heard that much of Deco, especially early Deco, is Nouveau streamlined for mass production, which seems as good a comparison as any.