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[loneraven]

If you wanted to be charitable, you could say I spent this week doing grown-up, house-hunting assessing-relationship things - or you could just say I spent this week lying on Shim's bed watching Sapphire & Steel. (And occasionally taking a deep breath and closing the laptop and not watching it, especially just before bed

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[curuchamion]

I haven't actually been following georgiesmith's journal of late, but I know she's written Sapphire/Steel. (I don't know if it's anything like what you'd be looking for... *shrugs* I am such a genfic reader.)

The motherlode of all S&S fic is at sapphirensteel - just a heads-up in case you hadn't found it yet. ;-)

[loneraven]

Thank you! I shall go and see. :)

[highfantastical]

Just curious: what do you think of Blakes 7? It's one of my all-time favourites, but I am not generally a classic scifi person at all, so I wonder if B7!love correlates or inverse-correlates or is unrelated to wider preferences...

Coincidentally, I am looking at your article E'EN NOW. :)

[loneraven]

I have never seen it! I actually meant to mention above that it's the part of the whole old-Who/Sapphire & Steel/Blake's 7 trinity that I haven't touched, and then forgot. Do you think I would like it? (I find I can't tell you if you'd like Sapphire & Steel, because of the things you like and I like, I can't actually figure out what they have in common.... :P)

[highfantastical]

Generally I think of you as someone with rather cheerier tastes than I (all my favourite media are my favourites because they shred me), but then again you are a big fan of S&A, which is devastating despite its humour. It depends what you go to the classic scifi for, I suspect - if you need some happiness, then B7 is not for you (there is comedy, both intentional and unintentional, but the basic set-up is unrelentingly grim). OTOH, it is really quite wonderful, if you can bear the misery! It sounds from this review as though the "warmth and sweetness" you get from some scifi is not actually a prequisite, so I'd probably give a qualified recommendation that you try it out. B7 very much benefits from being watched in order, and in large quantities.

(I know what you mean; the overlapping bits of our interests are diverse, but not easily explicable.)

[loneraven]

Hmm. Well, it's definitely worth a try, sounds like. And re: S&S, one of its themes does seem to be the immense illogic and inhumanity of existence. So, you know. :)

[parrot_knight]

Sapphire and Steel (and I have just watched the first few minutes of Assignment One) drew its stories in tighter location settings than Doctor Who or Blake's 7 did. ATV were a company who generally did grand scale adventure on film through their sister firm ITC; ATV itself was usually for smaller scale productions. Sapphire and Steel took what could be told on one or two sets representing a confined location to extents ordinarily associated with the single play, but added minimalist sound effects, absolute star presence, and scripts where so much has to be inferred by the viewer from chosen words and gesture.

(I am, as I like to tell people, a child of the 1970s, and I had a zip-up cardigan very like Rob's in Assignment One.)

The Caves of Androzani is difficult to follow - there's almost too much incident and cutting between different settings and it's a challenge to work out who is working with who at any given time. Since 2005 I've been struck by how incredibly bleak it is.

[loneraven]

The funny thing is, the one show that reminds me of is Frasier, of all things! Another show I absolutely adore, but for what I thought were completely different reasons. That said, television that pulls down to writing and acting, like a stage play - that always works for me.

(I am, as I like to tell people, a child of the 1970s, and I had a zip-up cardigan very like Rob's in Assignment One.)

awwwwww!

[cscottd]

I love Sapphire & Steel!

[loneraven]

yay! I wish to know why my entire flist has not told me how much I'd like it.

[cscottd]

To be honest, it never even occurred to me that you might not already be watching it.

[loneraven]

A fair point, my friend. I mean, it does seem to have actually been written FOR ME.

[ghostrunner7]

Okay, so I read this whole thing because I got hooked in by the fact that you were listening to The Civil Wars and now I am tentatively interested in watching Sapphire and Steel. So, you know, well done with this post.

[loneraven]

Heee! I have just discovered the Civil Wars, too, and have been getting acquainted with them at the same time as Sapphire & Steel. They go together surprisingly well. :)

[ghostrunner7]

I'm seeing them in concert soon. Should be a good time.

Just finished Assignment One. God, this is a harrowing show.

[loneraven]

Oooh, lucky! I found out too late about the London show a couple of days ago.

If harrowing is good, and we like harrowing and we're on board with the harrowing, well, hurrah - but if not Assignment 2 may not be the very best idea. Y'know. It is.... yeah. :)