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{{quote|You can't have him be a little man like [[the Mekon]]. It has to be dynamic, fluid, and fit in with the script. My original thought, which sadly won't work, is he'd be different every time that you saw him. He could be male in one picture, Chinese in the next, female in the next and all the permutations of that. But the readers would need to understand this is what was happening, without wondering why there were so many different characters.|John Ridgway}} | {{quote|You can't have him be a little man like [[the Mekon]]. It has to be dynamic, fluid, and fit in with the script. My original thought, which sadly won't work, is he'd be different every time that you saw him. He could be male in one picture, Chinese in the next, female in the next and all the permutations of that. But the readers would need to understand this is what was happening, without wondering why there were so many different characters.|John Ridgway}} | ||
[[File:Brian Blessed Omega.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Omega as portrayed by [[Brian Blessed]] for the [[Omega (Cutaway audio story)|audio adaptation]].]] | [[File:Brian Blessed Omega.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Omega as portrayed by [[Brian Blessed]] for the [[Omega (Cutaway audio story)|audio adaptation]].]] | ||
In the end, Omega was depicted in [[Oxirgi]]'s vision as a hazy humanoid figure seemingly made of pure light — thus obviating the need to give him any particular physical features.<ref>''Meet the Creators: John Ridgway'' in [[OMEGA 1]]</ref> However, he was given a much more human appearance when portrayed by [[Brian Blessed]] on the [[Omega (Cutaway audio story)|audio adaptation]]'s cover. | In the end, Omega was depicted in [[Oxirgi]]'s vision as a hazy humanoid figure seemingly made of pure light — thus obviating the need to give him any particular physical features.<ref>''Meet the Creators: John Ridgway'' in [[OMEGA 1]]</ref> However, he was given a much more human appearance when portrayed by [[Brian Blessed]] on the [[Omega (Cutaway audio story)|audio adaptation]]'s cover. Blessed previously appeared in ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'' as [[Yrcanos]] the "[[barbarian]] [[king]]", a epithet also used to describe an [[Omega (Remembrance of the Daleks)|incarnation of Omega]] who appeared in [[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|the novelisation]] of ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''. | ||
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