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Sapphire & Steel Assignment 1 (second half)
First half is HERE
Starting up again at 1:16
Steel is telling Sapphire how the transuranics don't count. This feels like deja vu (checks), yup, it is deja vu - that line of dialogue is the exact place I paused last month.
Rob is pretending to be a zombie or something? (it took me forever to remember what his name was. I thought he was "Tom" for half the episode until Steel started shouting for him)
There's a knock at the door. DRAMATIC MUSIC!
Steel has apparently nodded off again. Convenient. "It's just us three"
Except it isn't.
This is Lead. Cool, another element. Steel is less than impressed. Lolwhat, did he just pick Steel up? (and the actor was clearly standing on a chair)
Creepy music! Dramatic lighting!
Steel has shed his blue blanket. This is sad, because he was adorable in it.
Did Steel and Lead have an awkward break-up at some point in the past? Because their interactions are hilarious.
Why does Lead keep laughing at nothing?
There are a lot of fairy tale books in this house.
Seriously, what is he laughing at?
Is Sapphire burning books? This is not okay. Even if it is to save the universe.
Ah, they did have a bad break-up on board the Mary Celeste (I wonder if the time breakage had anything to do with Daleks?) (I also wonder if there is fic about this, because if there isn't there should be)
Flying burning fairy tales!
"It couldn't be the Mary Celeste, because Steel said he sank it." / "I sank the real one, yes."
This is incredibly creepy.
Steel is a jerk, but Sapphire knows how to handle him.
RETURN OF THE FLASHLIGHT MONSTER! And it's all grown up. Awww. There's two of them now. Two adorable little flashlight monsters.
Damn, my watch alarm went off and in conjunction with the creepy music and opening-closing doors it scared the crap out of me.
Okay, the music is no longer creepy. It's kind of jolly. Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Oh, crap, Ring-a-round-the-Rosie
That's not your Dad, Rob… I get that you're traumatized and lots of strange things are happening, but you're not really going to fall for this obvious ploy, are you?
Apparently you are.
"The clocks are working again!" / "Of course they are; I make all clocks work."
"Why doesn't she look at us?" HOLY CRAP! Why am I watching this by myself at night? With friends in daylight I'd probably laugh so hard at that face it would hurt, but alone and in the dark it is genuinely terrifying and I'm probably going to have nightmares for a week.
There's only seventeen minutes left. In most shows that would be loads of time, but things move so slow in S&S that I'm scared that they won't be able to rescue Rob before the episode ends.
Three flashlight monsters!
"All we need is a nursery rhyme. And someone as bait." Gee... I wonder who that might be...
Seven minutes…
Four minutes…
Crap, that was intense. And now everything is back the way it was at the beginning with Rob doing his homework and Helen upstairs being read bedtime stories. Or not. Where's Helen and parents? Oh, there they are. AND SCENE!
… What did I just watch? And how was a man off-stage shining a flashlight on a stairwell so creepy and compelling for two hours?!
Tonight is apparently a night for watching old scifi, so upon finishing Assignment One I tried watching Lexx, which is a Canadian-German scifi show from the 90s which I'd never heard of before yesterday but looked intriguing... I could not get through a single episode.
The only entertaining characters were the dragonfly bomb (who died), and the love sick robot head on a skateboard. I also enjoyed the space pirate in a sparkly pink sequined kilt. These are awesome things, but they were not enough to redeem the confusing muddle of a plot and the Ben Steed levels of fail.
... has anyone else on the flist watched this show? It got good reviews on IMDB. Is it just the first episode that's terrible? Should I persevere? Or should I ditch it and watch more S&S instead?
Starting up again at 1:16
Steel is telling Sapphire how the transuranics don't count. This feels like deja vu (checks), yup, it is deja vu - that line of dialogue is the exact place I paused last month.
Rob is pretending to be a zombie or something? (it took me forever to remember what his name was. I thought he was "Tom" for half the episode until Steel started shouting for him)
There's a knock at the door. DRAMATIC MUSIC!
Steel has apparently nodded off again. Convenient. "It's just us three"
Except it isn't.
This is Lead. Cool, another element. Steel is less than impressed. Lolwhat, did he just pick Steel up? (and the actor was clearly standing on a chair)
Creepy music! Dramatic lighting!
Steel has shed his blue blanket. This is sad, because he was adorable in it.
Did Steel and Lead have an awkward break-up at some point in the past? Because their interactions are hilarious.
Why does Lead keep laughing at nothing?
There are a lot of fairy tale books in this house.
Seriously, what is he laughing at?
Is Sapphire burning books? This is not okay. Even if it is to save the universe.
Ah, they did have a bad break-up on board the Mary Celeste (I wonder if the time breakage had anything to do with Daleks?) (I also wonder if there is fic about this, because if there isn't there should be)
Flying burning fairy tales!
"It couldn't be the Mary Celeste, because Steel said he sank it." / "I sank the real one, yes."
This is incredibly creepy.
Steel is a jerk, but Sapphire knows how to handle him.
RETURN OF THE FLASHLIGHT MONSTER! And it's all grown up. Awww. There's two of them now. Two adorable little flashlight monsters.
Damn, my watch alarm went off and in conjunction with the creepy music and opening-closing doors it scared the crap out of me.
Okay, the music is no longer creepy. It's kind of jolly. Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Oh, crap, Ring-a-round-the-Rosie
That's not your Dad, Rob… I get that you're traumatized and lots of strange things are happening, but you're not really going to fall for this obvious ploy, are you?
Apparently you are.
"The clocks are working again!" / "Of course they are; I make all clocks work."
"Why doesn't she look at us?" HOLY CRAP! Why am I watching this by myself at night? With friends in daylight I'd probably laugh so hard at that face it would hurt, but alone and in the dark it is genuinely terrifying and I'm probably going to have nightmares for a week.
There's only seventeen minutes left. In most shows that would be loads of time, but things move so slow in S&S that I'm scared that they won't be able to rescue Rob before the episode ends.
Three flashlight monsters!
"All we need is a nursery rhyme. And someone as bait." Gee... I wonder who that might be...
Seven minutes…
Four minutes…
Crap, that was intense. And now everything is back the way it was at the beginning with Rob doing his homework and Helen upstairs being read bedtime stories. Or not. Where's Helen and parents? Oh, there they are. AND SCENE!
… What did I just watch? And how was a man off-stage shining a flashlight on a stairwell so creepy and compelling for two hours?!
Tonight is apparently a night for watching old scifi, so upon finishing Assignment One I tried watching Lexx, which is a Canadian-German scifi show from the 90s which I'd never heard of before yesterday but looked intriguing... I could not get through a single episode.
The only entertaining characters were the dragonfly bomb (who died), and the love sick robot head on a skateboard. I also enjoyed the space pirate in a sparkly pink sequined kilt. These are awesome things, but they were not enough to redeem the confusing muddle of a plot and the Ben Steed levels of fail.
... has anyone else on the flist watched this show? It got good reviews on IMDB. Is it just the first episode that's terrible? Should I persevere? Or should I ditch it and watch more S&S instead?
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and definitely not one which overlaps with The Chase, which there should be. The fandom is waiting for you!!
Don't encourage me! I've got far too many (mostly B7) fics on the go already... Including that Dayna+Ace+Sapphire in a haunted house thing you were speculating on your flist (that was supposed to be your stocking present, but it's being difficult).
Lexx is so far... not anything I would recommend. It makes me sad. I want to be patriotic and like it, but there are shows where they're surprisingly good and intelligent if you can ignore that bad sfx, and then there are shows where the hilarity of the bad sfx is literally the only thing going for them... Yeah.
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:lol: Wait till you see her effortlessly managing two male Elements at once... (By the end I swear they're almost more scared of her than everything else.)
Including that Dayna+Ace+Sapphire in a haunted house thing you were speculating on your flist (that was supposed to be your stocking present, but it's being difficult
(I'm not making incoherent noises that I can't transcribe properly because dfghjkafd). Anyway, I'm only teasing - I know your muse is being hyperactive enough as it is. (Not, of course, that a Chase/S&S Mary Celeste fic wouldn't be cool.)
Hmm, yeah, Lexx doesn't sound good. And never mind, every country has its rubbish shows. It happens, and patriotism doesn't really justify watching things if they're making your brain leak out of your ears.