is it a kind of dream?

I havent dumped icons in a while.

Mixed fandom icons. Some Sapphire and Steel, some David Warner from Tom Jones (1963) when he was 22 (!!) to Battle for Rome (2005), when he was 64!

Enjoy!

( Cut for 8 David Warner and 10 S&S icons! )

David McCallum's dead cute in S&S. OMG. The more i watch his cuteness, the cuter he seems.

I love his eye colour, same as PD's, which really are deep blue close up. I love his curly little bottom lip and his dramatic overbite, yes.

But its his ears that are the cutest. *headdesk*

ACK. Like i needed another crush, no.

903 words today, just now. Will probably write more before bed.

My first S&S fic, omgyay!

Did physical descriptions sort of a combination of Lumley&McCallum and Warner&Harker. Tried not to voerstate Steel's height as McCallum was only 5.8, but Warner is 6'2... Harker is blonde but nowhere as thin as Lumley, that kind of thing.

Tried to keep the dialogue as real as I know they do, serious, fast, hard dialogue...

So, who wants to be my beta? lol

And my poem about madness and fire, adapted from the one posted in my last thread? Here it is:

As i sat atop my bed

I met a man inside my head

He talked of fire and pain and death

And how they'd come and take my breath

He wasn't really in my head

I wasn't really by my bed

But there he was again today

Oh how I wish he'd go away

I hope to use that in different parts of the story. As for a title, i've yet to come up with one that's suitably spooky.

I finished the rest of the original assignments. I really liked the one at the train station, and the one about the virus. Not so sure about Lead in the first one, but of course I love Silver.

I take back what i said about Joanna Lumley being detached, but i think Susannah Harker's Sapphire is more emotional/involved. Lumley's a great actress though, taking very seriously what had to be difficult acting circumstances.

I also think Steel needs to be used better in the audios, and was used better in season 2 than season 1, but McCallum's Steel is superb. What a hard bastard he is.  Warner's is the one that sticks in my mind, of course, being my first Steel, but i will always see McCallum, even when I listen to Warner talk.

I think both the audios and the show are superb in every way, and such a contrast to New Who and such shows. And yet just as interesting and engaging, if not more so!

edited: I even made a S&S logo icon that's a mix of the old show's sapphire and steel ball thingys, and the new logo and Big Finish on it. Yay me. Totally gankable if anyone wants it.

The new Big Finish audios series Sapphire and Steel is what i've been listening to as I walk, lately, having finished Nebulous and all of Rigor Mortis a long time ago. And Circular Time (i love Summer, i love hearing it over and over).

I'm impressed. It was a bit rocky at first but David Warner and Suzannah Harker soon settled in, and i REALLY enjoy the time related stories, which really proves to me that I mainly like Doctor Who because of the time travel, same reason I like the Back to The Future movies. And because I really like Peter Davison, as well as David Warner.

So, Sapphire and Steel. Very interesting premise, and I'd heartily recommend getting episode one, The Passenger, and then getting a few of the later ones in series 1, and Water Like a Stone from season 2. They're really quite good.

I wasnt really a fan of the original tv series, and I suspect that HELPS, not detracts, from enjoying the audios - no preconceived notions, no 'hang on a minute, that's not Steel at ALL' feelings, etc.

Good stuff, all around. I recommend, yes.