It may also gain favour from people who mistake its fantastical element for something mysterious, or even sublime.
Near the end, the man talks about how his story started off as a fable, in which there was a one-for-one correspondence to real life — in which each fairy-tale element stood for something real — but has now taken on a life of its own.
With the core antagonist dispatched, the show unsuccessfully reinvented itself, trading fantasy elements (mystical pendants) for something hewing closer to sci-fi (nanobots) and ditching the cross-country odyssey format for drama localized in a Texas small town.
"The elements are there for something to occur," he said.
But with singers there is this totally new kind of expressive element for me, something very humane.
All the elements were in line for something special, if not necessarily earthshaking.
At first, Mr. Ziss had planned to demolish the 15-story condo currently on the site, leaving only its metal beams, concrete floors and foundation, and use those elements as the groundwork for something larger, thereby creating the maximum number of apartments permitted at the site.
Even when these new machines arrive, current speculation suggests they're going to be built from the same sort of off-the-shelf components you could jam into a gaming PC – except with a gaming PC you can switch the key elements out a year later for something more up-to-date.
Fans of Miyazaki will see clear autobiographical elements in this depiction of a man devoted to a dream at any cost, an obsession which he himself admits possesses "an element of madness… yearning for something too beautiful can ruin you".
In the words of the show's curator, Karen Shaw, "the elements are merely the building blocks for something so much more meaningful".
