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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[jaxomsride]

I must have a cracked brain because they made sense to me! Mind you I have read fairly eclectically into ghost stories and the Paranormal. Some of what they do has a solid? grounding in the understanding of paranormal energies at the time.

Yes Steel is adorable and he gets more like Avon because, apart from Sapphire, there is no one he wouldn't sacrifice to deal with the current nasty. He can be ruthless, cynical and bitingly sarcastic, just like our favourite man in Black.

[astrogirl2]

I dunno. It certainly borrows a lot from ghost stories and paranormal ideas, but it never seems to me to string those concepts together in any way that makes sense even according those those paradigms. Frankly, I would have found it much less engaging if I simply saw it as more of the same "paranormal energies" stuff. Most stories along those lines, if they work for me at all, do so despite, not because of the fact they reflect the way people actually think of the paranormal. I have no idea what the writer(s) were thinking (and don't especially want to, as I suspect any explanation of what the heck was going on in their minds is bound to be disappointing), but if I'd gotten the feeling that the show was genuinely trying to offer me any sort of coherent mystical worldview, I'm pretty sure I would have quickly judged it a failure and tuned out. :)

And, heh, yes. There was one point where, talking to the TV as I so often do, I found myself asking the guy, "Geez, where are you from? Planet Cynicism?" Oh, I'd love to see Steel and

[jaxomsride]

Now that would be one hell of a X-Over!

[vilakins]

I thought you might be interested in azdak's post on five characters including S&S here. She says a lot of similar things about it, and also does masterly character analyses on four others.

[astrogirl2]

Cool! I'll check that out, thanks!

[gair]

this thing seems to have elevated lack-of-sense-making into something approaching a transcendent art form.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

And Steel! And there is actually one bit (I can't remember where now, but it can't be in the adventure you haven't seen because I haven't seen that one either) where he basically admits out loud to Sapphire that he brings nothing to the team and she is the only one with skillz or powers or anything. I love him.

And Deva is in it as a suave cosmic agent who makes Steel sulk even more than usual!

[hooplasugarlump]

I haz s&s audios, and they're pretty fabuliscious. One in particular, Daisy Chain, scared the hell out of me.
Wannit?
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[astrogirl2]

Well, I wouldn't say no. :)

[astrogirl2]

Well, I've seen them all now! I don't know if it's the scene you're thinking of -- probably not -- but I was amused by the bit where a guest character smirks at him about how it seems to be Sapphire who has all the power and how he can't do much of anything, after Sapphire stops a record player without touching it. Steel sulks, of course. And then apparently he does stop the record player, but he does it while the character's and the camera's backs are turned, so I'm convinced he just walked over there and lifted the needle. :) Admittedly, he also disappears suddenly before the chachter and camera look over, which is a nice trick, but apparently they can all do that.

The fandom writeup on crack_van claims that "Steel's superpower is Being Bossy." Hee! Too true. But he is good at it!

And Deva is in it as a suave cosmic agent who makes Steel sulk even more than usual!

Ha! Yes! Although for a "suave cosmic agent," he's awfully goofy. :) But Steel's sulky reactions to Silver and Sapphire flirting are adorable.