In Which My Head Continues To Remain In Small Fandom Land

[astrogirl2]

OMG, it turns out that Sapphire and Steel is complete crack. Or some kind of drug, anyway. Probably some sort of hallucinogen mixed with barbiturates. All I know is, it's bizarrely addictive, and whatever it is, I've been downing it like candy. I don't think it's gotten any faster paced or anything, either but somehow I've stopped noticing its

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[kerravonsen]

it turns out that Sapphire and Steel is complete crack.
But it's the good crack. 8-)

I was grinning at the start of this post, but this: Sometimes I want to pat his cheeks and floofle his hair and go, "Awww, who's a cute little uptight Agent of Cosmic Order, then?" made me cackle out loud.

It just bravely refuses to ever acknowledge the existence of Earth Logic, or indeed, any sort of logic at all.
Oh it has logic: it has Dream Logic.
One friend said to me that S&S is actually science fiction, but the science they're using is a science we know nothing of.

[astrogirl2]

made me cackle out loud.

A reasonable enough reaction, as I was chuckling a lot when I wrote it. But it's true! :)

Oh it has logic: it has Dream Logic.

It really kind of does. It's a fair bit more coherent overall than dreams usually are -- or at least than mine are -- but it frankly makes less sense than a lot of dreams. And yet when you manage to click into the right mindset for it, that way you just sort of roll with the irrationality is a lot like the way you just accept the weird logic of dreams. Only you're more aware, in the back of your mind, that it is nonsense. So maybe it's sort of like lucid dreaming. :)

One friend said to me that S&S is actually science fiction, but the science they're using is a science we know nothing of.That's actually pretty much how I'm thinking of it, too, although I'm surprised that I'm able to do that, really. Indistinguishable from magic is one thing, but that level of sheer gobbledygook tends to snap my suspension of disbelief pretty much immediately. I do think, though, that they get

[kalypso_v]

Incidentally, I noticed McCallum was 75 yesterday!

And Joanna Lumley was marching on the High Court with the Gurkhas this week.

[astrogirl2]

Hey, happy birthday to him!

[hafren]

And good for her! It's appalling the way those old gents are being messed about. Some things should give you automatic citizenship of a country, and the most obvious is wearing its uniform in battle. Doubtless if they were Saudi terrorists or Albanian people-traffickers, the courts would be assuring us we couldn't legally get rid of them....

[penprickle]

I've only seen a couple of episodes of that, and couldn't really figure out what was going on--seemed like Doctor Who on hallucinogenics, really--but I was interested to see that they gave Ms. Lumley high-heeled boots that actually made her taller than Mr. McCallum. Wasn't that kind of unusual for the time?

[astrogirl2]

Trust me, no matter how many episodes you watch, you will never figure out what is going on. Eventually, you either come to accept this as a feature or just give up. :)

Lumley does actually seem a bit more imposing of a figure than McCallum, somehow. Not sure if it's due to the boots, though, as most of the ones they have her in are flat, IIRC. She's by far the more useful of the two, though.

[entropy_house]

But OTOH, on more than a few occasions she seems to want to give up 'oh, I can't do this' and Steel nags her 'TRY' into doing what she said she couldn't. So maybe that's why they work well together- she's more powerful, but needs a nag now and again.

[astrogirl2]

Heh. Yeah, shouting at people really does seem to be his main skill, as far as I can tell, but he's good at it. :)

[stoplookingup]

You've made me really excited, because I just received volume 1 from Netflix today! I can't wait til the kids go to bed. (Any chance this is at all kid-friendly, or will they probably just get confused and wander away?)

[rydra_wong]

It doesn't show anything beyond a PG rating, but I suspect a lot of it would be pure nightmare fuel for kids (if they hadn't got bored and wandered away by then). It's pretty creepy for adults, and it's got that dream logic thing ...

[stoplookingup]

Thanks for the warning -- we don't need the nightmares. After bed it is, then.

[lachli]

Used to watch them with my mom when I was about 12 and it freaked me out big time. Although I do wonder whether todays children would be quite so bothered by it as most of it is very psychological and the pace was so much slower than most programmes are now. I expect my kids would be bored by it before they got scared.

I think it's one of the most amazing shows ever made. I wanted to be Sapphire, I thought she was so beautiful and elegant *sigh*

[entropy_house]

It really is the good crack. When it got to the end (not counting my reaction to the ending itself) my main emotion was 'awww, they didn't maybe make a few more episodes somewhere?'

[astrogirl2]

It's the insane crack! :) Anyway, I just got the last disc in the mail, so I know what I'm doing today (especially as I've had far too little sleep and may not want to do too much that doesn't involve lying on the sofa). I'm already pouting a little about running out, which is interesting considering that once I finished Disc 1 the most I was hoping for was that making my way through the rest of the series would be tedious, but worthwhile.

There are some audio plays, apparently, which are supposed to be pretty good, but I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[entropy_house]

I don't know about the audio plays-- I'd be hesitant about them matching the sheer level of inspired disconnect from reality that is the heart of the show.

Fic about it might be fun, though. I only read one- a crossover with Man from Uncle, which sorta made sense (but would have been spoilery if I hadn't seen all of Sapphire & Steel first.)

[astrogirl2]

I saw a comment somewhere in which someone said they were disappointed by the audios because they made too much sense. Only with this show, man...

I am definitely intending to check out some fic. Like I mentioned in the previous post, it was featured on crack_van recently.