"You could have settled for Oranges and Lemons..."
This third episode just increases both the timey-wimeyness (as they certainly wouldn't have said in 1979) and the weirdness. Sapphire and Steel is superb.
Last episode, after the massive ideas of the first, calmed down a bit. Here we ramp things up. Yes, the Roundhead ghosts with Goosey Goosey Gander (presumably some kind of Stone Tape-like recording?) may be just another variation of the Ring a Ring o' Roses theme, but this is used as a springboard for some wod stuff- the house is a century younger than the Civil War, so has history gone wrong? And why is Steel apparently so ignorant of history that isn't "his"?
Even cooler is that Sapphire is suddeny trapped in a painting where she is to fatally reenact the hanging of a young girl in the Civil War, a harbinger of a future episode of Torchwood. P.J. Hammond seems almost to be in danger of using up all his ideas in his first serial. This is quite simply awesome.
And yet it's visually very simple- limited casts, limited sets and the main "monster" is a torch shone on the floor. I'm loving this.
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