Here because of lost_spook. Ahh, I like this write-up.
I had heard about S&S since the 1980s, but it took me many years to finally track it down on DVD, and then years more to settle down to watch it. Finally saw it last year!
I read a description of it last year as "It’s Doctor Who if the Doctor was two people and they really, REALLY weren’t here to save you." Which is kind of true. In a way, they're what Time Lords should actually be, alien and indescribable and inexpressible.
What startled me was how much McCallum's Steel's voice sounded like Kerr Avon in "Blake's 7" (which ran 1978-81), and there's a lot of Avon's attitude in him, so maybe a combination of Avon and the Doctor at his most alien and difficult. But very much ineffable.
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I had heard about S&S since the 1980s, but it took me many years to finally track it down on DVD, and then years more to settle down to watch it. Finally saw it last year!
I read a description of it last year as "It’s Doctor Who if the Doctor was two people and they really, REALLY weren’t here to save you." Which is kind of true. In a way, they're what Time Lords should actually be, alien and indescribable and inexpressible.
What startled me was how much McCallum's Steel's voice sounded like Kerr Avon in "Blake's 7" (which ran 1978-81), and there's a lot of Avon's attitude in him, so maybe a combination of Avon and the Doctor at his most alien and difficult. But very much ineffable.