The Perfect Day

Relisten.

I was less confused as to what was going on this time round and thus understood the ending. That was exciting. The first time I listened to this one I got to the end and had the feeling that the writer realized he was running out of time and then just wrote something. This time not so much.

I really like the premise of this story. I like the idea of a bunch of people choosing to live the same day over and over again. For their own reasons, but as per usual with these things not entirely bad reasons. They are reasons you can relate to. I always like the Sapphire and Steel stories where I can’t say I wouldn’t make the same choices as the people in them. Makes them that much creepier.

I really liked the idea that the passengers had trapped Time in a bottle. How fricken awesome is that? It is awesome. Then Time wasn’t trapped because It’d escaped and no one noticed.

Gold is of course awesome. I love Gold. I love his impulsiveness, his arrogance, and his giant crush on Steel. His giant crush on Steel is fantastic. He basically asked Steel to run off with him and Steel said no. It amuses me.

The ending still fell a bit short. Least I understood it this time. It still seemed a bit tacked on. Oh no Gold is dead! Oh no Sapphire is dead! Wait, Gold isn’t dead, Sapphire was sneaking and set him free of the bottle earlier off screen! Oh look Steel tricked Time into not only bringing Sapphire back to life but trapping Itself again!

Really the only reason to listen to this one again is Gold. And since I’m a huge Gold fan I’ll probably listen to this one again.

The Passenger

It’s the introduction to the Sapphire and Steel audios.

And such a good introduction it is. Two minutes in (after S&S have been introduced) and they haven’t told you anything about the characters, but in such a fantastic way as to make you think it’s brilliant. I was able to appreciate the Sapphire and Steel interactions a lot more this time as I understood what the hell was going on. As I was eagerly listening to it this time as opposed to be on a plane with nothing else to listen to. Thank you Comic Con once again for introducing me to the awesome.

I love the character of Burgess. He’s so tormented by what happened and unable to let go. *hugs him*

Also the introduction of Gold. He is lovely. Also Sapphire’s horror at running into him. She couldn’t believe that Steel asked him to come. It’s brilliant. Cause it’s done in that wonderfully prime and proper way of hers. Also the end where Gold takes care of Burgess and gets him home. Making sure he’s okay cause as much as I love Sapphire and Steel really don’t care about those things. But Gold put him through so much and for his own good and then he went and made sure he was okay. Gold does care about the stupid humans. /Gold!fangirling

And all the ghosts. Poor ghosties. Sapphire and Steel does ghosts so well. And I love how they just take it in stride that all these people are dead. Time is a right bastard.

Anyways, I love this one as it captures everything wonderful about Sapphire and Steel. After watching the show I love it even more, because I can see just how well it keeps to the show and makes it work wonderfully on audio.

I loves it. Loves it lots.