Torchwood again: last night's episode (2.3)

[avevale_intelligencer]

First reaction: instant pathos, just heat and serve. Have these people got no self-control? Aren't any of them remotely monogamous? (Apart from Rhys, and I'm sure when he has his episode next week he'll be overcome by love or lust at least twice.) The story would have worked just as well, and Tommy been just as tragic, without the pseudo-romance. We're still just a bit behind the bike sheds, where discussion of "adult themes" is not only possible but compulsory.

With that out of the way, it didn't seem quite that bad to me.

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Oh! I remember Sapphire and Steel! I LOVED that programme so much - was totally glued to every episode. The one about the girl being haunted through photographs of her really stuck with me - it was so creepy.

[tattercoats.livejournal.com]

Aargh! The man with no face! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I'd forgotten that for the last ... twenty years! Now I have goosebumps all over again!

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Ah, but does the music curl your back hairs every single time you hear it?

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I have no recollection of the music. Perhaps if I heard it again, it would. Indeed, probably, as I was so hooked on the series.

P.S. Are you saying I have a hairy back? ;-P

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Good grief. You don't remember it?

This (http://www.nyrond.co.uk/tunes/s&s-main.mp3) was the beginning and this (http://www.nyrond.co.uk/tunes/s&s-end.mp3) was the end (poor quality recordings dragged off the web somewhere but you'll get the idea). I've seen it derided as "bombastic" and reminiscent of 50s sf films, but for me it underlined the basic facts about Sapphire and Steel; that they are far more powerful than they appear, and that they are agents of order, definitely not of good. They do not care about us or want us to feel better; they just want things tidy.

The icon literally popped into my head as I was reading this thread last night, which is why it was a bit of a rush job.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Blimey - that rang no bells at all. I seem to have a largely visual memory of the series. The other one that really haunted me was the WWI story.

It was one of the strengths that it wasn't about good/evil but about order/chaos.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I seem to be more affected by music than some people. This is not a bad thing, either way. :)

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

P.P.S. I love your icon.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Thank you kind lady. :)

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

The voiceover ... the voiceover ...

"All Irregularities will be handled -- "

and the roll-call: "Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet -- "


Those *were* the days.