excuse the diversion from Robot's, but I must answer the Sky call!
Originally posted by MemberD:
It's really weird but I honestly think I'd forgotten about Sky til this very day, although he/it has obviously remained in some dark and dusty corner of my sub-conscious!
Ta much for the link to the article.
Looking at that photo of the golden Sky on the Lost Gems link he really looks contemporary in a Manga style, mask-like face, appealing eyes, flowing leonine hair, asexual look. There’s something blatantly renaissance period about him also, (it's a look similar to Tadzio in Visconti’s ’71 film Death In Venice).
I wonder how much Sky’s visage unwittingly influenced the pubescent Diana Francis Spencer, Green Gartsides big hair period, and Siegfried and Roy the Las Vegas Lion Tamers…
or maybe not!
He probably haunted my childhood subconcious deep down in the brain basement, as the show certainly had something of a surreal air about it, with its mix of post armageddon fantasy, alien encounter and mythological elements, and all arriving in the post flower-child years that it was transmitted during, and speaking of hippies:
”Sky is perhaps the most obvious example of a kids' show written by people on drugs”"Whether it was magic mushrooms, LSD or even peyote, TV writers were knocking back quite extravagant amounts of not quite illegal substances, giving them a new view on reality, writing and the creative process”True or not? The same has been said of Disney’s Fantasia, and its completely untrue, its just “pure imagination”, as Willy Wonka sings.
I love the comment that Sky is almost like avant garde theatre of the time, not that I’d pay to see any of that, but now I know where Ghost Box get all their hilarious film ideas from, (that was a cruel one on my part, I deserve a rap on the knuckles, ouch!
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