Sapphire and Steel: Favourite Moments Assignment 2

[sarlania]

I had a very hard time deciding my favourite moment in this story - there were just way too many! In the end, I decided to cheat (well this episode is much longer than the others) and so here are three of my favourite moments for your enjoyment

Comments

[kievianrus]

Thank you for the screencaps. You've picked out three of my favorite scenes too.

I've always thought that Tully's death causes great resentment from Time itself. Tully isn't supposed to die for another five years, so Time resents having its time-line messed with, or something like that. I read a fic once where the author brilliantly postulated that Tully called Pierce to the railway station (Tully does say that the station wasn't haunted until after he got there) and Pierce's resentment calls the darkness, so the whole mess is Tully's fault, and he has to pay for his error. I like that explanation because it makes sense.

[sarlania]

You've picked out three of my favorite scenes too.

Oh that's good! The bad thing about such a good story is that there's just way too many bits to choose from! =)

RE: the theory. It's a great theory, and explains a lot. However there's just one problem: what attracted Tully to the station then if Pierce wasn't there first? Does the station have a reputation for being haunted? Or was it just Tully's presence that made Pierce, manifest, as it were? Hmmmm....

[azdak]

If you don't mind random strangers butting in on your conversation, I'd like to join in. Tully picked the station because he thought it was a likely place to find supernatural activity, not because there'd already been sightings, and he does seem to have Issues - he feels useless and unappreciated (and possibly resentful because of this - exactly the motion that the Darkness feeds on) and he didn't fight in the War himself. The first thing he tells the ghosts is that he wants to "help". He clearly has a gigantic need to be needed

[sarlania]

Not a random stranger. =) I have seen you around the MFU comms.

It is very possible that the railway station was random. Afterall, it was abandoned and seemingly far from civilsation of any kind. Perfect place for would-be ghosts to inhabit.

Even Steel recognizes Tully's need to be needed and useful - he uses the words "I need you" and "We can't do this without you" to persuade a spooked and frightened Tully to stay around after he'd confessed that he'd "made a promise" to the Darkness. I must've missed it, but when did Tully say he didn't serve in the war? (Would he have been old enough to do so anyhow?)

It's plausible that the Darkness has to jump ahead of Time to keep him there, because without his energy to feed on, it would be powerless, and that's why it stops conecntrating on Sapphire and Steel.You know, I've always wondered about that, and this is a very good explanation. After all, having Steel and Sapphire live would mean more problems to deal with - as events proved. But if Tully was always the source of the Darkness's

[hoshinekoyasha]

These are gorgeous!

[sarlania]

I assume you mean the pictures? =) If so, thank you!

[elmey]

I love what you do with these pictures, they are just beautiful.

Very good choice of scenes too. The one in the buffet is amazing isn't it? As you say, on the surface it's a normal Sapphire and Steel conversation, but it very quickly becomes clear just how wrong it is. And how cleverly ambiguous it is when Steel says "if you're the Sapphire I know and love" because we know he's testing the false Sapphire but at the same time...

[sarlania]

Aww thanks... I love photoshopping the pair of them, they make very pretty subjects =)

The one in the buffet is amazing isn't it?
Yeah if I have to choose between the three scenes I think the scene in the buffet will be my choice for top honours. Its got so much in it emotionally, and is quite spooky, especially when intershoot with the clips of the Darkness encroaching on the railway station.