So, my CD of Zero arrived and I listened to it last night. Re-listened to part of it again this evening. A very good story with nice development of the characters. Very dramatic and tense. It's good to finally get a full cast of Elementals, so to speak. Parts of the audio had a similar feel to the Doctor Who Memory Lane story.

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and some interesting information about elementals who don't appear

That was interesting! We first hear about Copper & Silver having trouble back in Assignment I of the TV show. Now we find out he's "Dour" and had difficulties training Silver.

I want to see Paul McGann as another element, since the rumour-mill says he's dating Susannah Harker (Sapphire). Perhaps as Mercury, who is in competition with Silver for Sapphire's affections?
"It's your move."

Falling foul of the swear filter there.

Though, intriguingly, if you want to see what's been covered over, just quote my reply!

You could say a Chocky Ceekney maybe?

I like that idea, it's too bad someone beat you to the punch in making an effort to define him.

Is there any kind of directive about the abilities of each element? What I've noticed:

Silver - Machines
Ruby - Music
Gold - Vehicles

Hi - was gold simply "vehicles"? I thought that his powers had something to do with how objects interacted with one another - i.e. he could control friction, inertia, that kind of thing. Was I over-complicating it?

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Anybody know why Play.com still don't have this in stock, but have the subsequent play in stock?

And in The Passenger. He couldn't affect the engine of the train, but he could speed it up and slow it down by affecting the friction between the wheels and the tracks.

Controlling friction doesn't sound like a lot, but it would make you very powerful.

I suspect that it's used more as a device than a power.... It explains how they get from assignment to assignment and stands in for extreme ninja stealthiness when you want one of them to appear surprisingly.

I hadn't really thought too much about it as I suppose that having S&S teleport about and then find everything they need to via telepathy would make the show really boring.

In the audios, Silver has referred to the "telepathic communicator" in a way that suggests it's technological, though that distinction may be somewhat irrelevant. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, after all. Or it may just be that Silver, being a technician, sees everything in technological terms. It may be a POV question.



This is a good comparison, especially in how each is so different, but I've also thought of the wizards in Lord of the Rings, who were manufactured entities, in humanoid form. They were created for a purpose, but they could be trapped or hurt or killed (or seduced away from their intended purpose).



Me, too. It does seem that, whatever may be true about the rest of their abilities, their transportation is external to them in some way, since, as RayBayley1 indicated, if they could teleport around all the time at will, the stories would be really short and uninteresting. That's why, on Star Trek, once the transporter was established, there had to be all sorts of limitations, malfunctions and other interference to bring tension to the stories.

BTW, here is a mention in All Fall Down of them (or at least Steel) walking to get there, and then both of them walking away together at the end, which is a nice image.