S&S

[ceebee_eebee]

So, I'm listening to the Sapphire & Steel audios again and I just had a thought that's really bothering me. Obviously I'm not the first person to wonder this, but I kind of want someone to help me think it through.

Why are we so sure the Elements are doing the right thing? Why are we so sure that Time really is evil? Is it just because we're seeing these stories from the Elements POV? Because S&S tell us Time is evil? Because honestly, S&S always seem to end up fucking over everyone they get involved with and sacrificing a lot of innocent people.

So, what am I missing? What evidence did we get that Time is evil? Help!

Comments

[amaresu]

They told us so?

The personifications of Time that we've seen have been pretty awful. Mr. Face from Assignment #4, the child-thing from Mystery of the Missing Hour and Wall of Darkness, the watch one. All of which could be seen as just rather psychotic members of a race, like judging humans from a couple of serial killers.

On the other hand the darkness from Daisy Chain seemed malevolent and let's not forget Zero in which the goal was to destroy Earth.

So, I guess you could postulate an argument based on it's only the psychotic members that break through. It would probably make an interesting fic.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

So, I guess you could postulate an argument based on it's only the psychotic members that break through. It would probably make an interesting fic.

It most certainly would! But then I want to know how the Transients fit into all this. Aren't they supposedly fighting Time too? They try to recruit Elements but just using different tactics? It does my head in.

[amaresu]

I think the Transients are fighting Time on an any means necessary front, such as in Zero when the plan was to destroy all the humans.

So I think the Transients and the Elements have the same end goal in mind, but two different methods. Cause the Elements like to not kill people if it can be avoided, it just often times can't. They do try to keep the body count down though.