Subject: Weird question, but...
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Posted on: 2016-05-30 02:11:00 UTC
...is anybody here familiar with the (now rather antiquated) fandom known as Sapphire and Steel? Not that there's much of a fandom, really, but...
Never actually seen any of it, but I... have at least heard of it? So that's something. I'd have to give it a binge, but it always did sound like my cup of tea. =]
. . . but they made it look rather intriguing. What's it about?
—doctorlit thought it looked like a soap opera at first, until the weird sci-fi stuff started happening. Rather caught him off guard!
It's... really not anything like a soap opera, honestly. It was on at the same time as Classic Doctor Who was, and was basically a great little show about time, consequences, and grown men being attacked by floating pillows. There's a rather good TVtropes page over here.
It was basically about a mysterious man and woman (named Sapphire and Steel, respectively) who showed up whenever Time began to break through into the real world, and basically beat it back by glaring at it and occasionally freezing it using Steel's weird powers. It's... surprisingly hard to describe, actually. I really like it for some reason.