Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 2:34 pm
I thought a while about this; could this solve the riddle of the letters and numbers in Tara King’s flat?
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There's little realism to Steed's 3 Stable Mews flat either. He has the front door and then even though his apartment is not at the end of the building, but more in the middle, his kitchen door lets in outside light, instead of leading to the hallway, as it should. (That reminds me of a Doc Martin episode whereby a patient leaves his urine in the bathroom under the staircase and an impossible to exist window showing outside sky changes its color. But, DM episodes have LOADS of total impossibilities like that).Rodders wrote:I don't think realism is really the point. This is what I wrote about the apartment last year:highflyingbird wrote:I've always found Tara's flat to be a curious design. There are two doors, both of which seem to lead out into some sort of passageway/landing area, despite being on opposite sides. Why have the high door, and the staircase/fireman's pole, at all, since their only function is as an entrance to the flat, when there's a perfectly serviceable entrance already at ground level? Has the designer of this set ever explained his/her choices? Or does anyone know any real rooms that are actually like this?
Our first glimpse of Tara King’s apartment reveals a set designed for action, from its two separate entrances, its ‘frilly’ white twisting staircase with room to hide underneath, to a fireman’s pole one just knows will be employed on a regular basis. It resembles an indoor adventure playground.
In addition, there is an eclectic collection of aesthetic objects: a pair of spectacle-shaped mirrors, a penny farthing attached to the wall, a post box (drinks cabinet), some bizarre telephones, loud floral curtains with matching sofa, psychedelic stag heads mounted on a pink background, and a collection of daggers. We can already guess that some of these will become ‘active’ props in future episodes. (These accessories would be playfully altered as the season went on, as is the case in Have Guns – Will Haggle with the bizarre, ugly, porcelain heads bearing Tara’s wigs.) Its owner will be less cool and refined than Emma Peel, but younger and funkier, perhaps.
Are you absolutely sure about that? Why does Tara do her cake decorating in the living room if she has a kitchen?Rodders wrote:Tara's apartment has a kitchen, it's just that, as with Emma Peel's colour one, we never go into it!
I think their flats were meant to have kitchens but they never bothered to build the set. Emma's colour flat has that opening from which Steed brings his slap-up feast at the end of "The Winged Avenger" - that's meant to be the kitchen, surely? Tara's is probably meant to be (beyond) downstage - i.e. behind the camera, so we never see it.Mona wrote:The fact that some apartments in London don't come with kitchens astounds me. Truly, truly astounds me. I'm surprised it's even legal.
Intriguing, ischtar! It seems an overly complex idea but you never know it might be it.ischtar wrote:I thought a while about this; could this solve the riddle of the letters and numbers in Tara King’s flat?
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