OK so first of all The Trap ending??? The Trap ending??? The Trap ending Explained? They’re just… trapped? There? Forever? I watched the entire last part embroidery hoop a needle in hand staring at the screen and not doing any sewing. Like this series has made me crazy.
So today I relistened to The Passenger on the bus. Which I also enjoyed all over again, if not more now that I am more well acquainted with my freaky weirdos who I love. I want to say that Susannah Harker and David Warner didn’t really bother me as different voices nnd this is true but also its just different innit? Like obviously they’re not the same people so they don’t sound the same, but I do think they play the roles really well and I think Harker manages to get across that sort of detached alienness that I really like about Sapphire.
Like Adventure Four on the television was the worst one because Sapphire was too normal. She is best when she is a completely freaky weirdo. I loved on TV when Lumley would do that very vacant kind of look, the sort of stare into the middle distance as stuff was going on around her like she was taking it all in and analysing it but not really reacting on an emotional level.
So you can imagine the kind of reaction I had to Daisy Chain. Which I just finished. My full reaction to this - as Delta can attest to seeing as I just said a lot of swear words in his DMs - was holy ■■■■■■■ shit. They really just did all that? And I was having fun singing furniture furniture and being like ha I totally would listen to this knock off 90s goth band that they’ve made up for this audio. And then they did all that! And because I am very well adjusted and normal, I enjoyed it so so so much. If enjoy is the right word.
Like, I really enjoyed The Passenger and I thought it was a very good opening story to the concept that the audios are trying to do, which is slightly different from the TV series because on TV you kind of never really got the sense that they knew what they were talking about with regards to who Sapphire and Steel were or where they come from or what their missions were, and it didn’t really bother me that there wasn’t any quote unquote lore, but the audios definitely seem to want us to believe they exist in a more cohesive world. Which is also good. On audio, Time itself seems to be more the villain, or rather the perpetrator of the mishaps that are occurring. Time as a force seems to be more the enemy that they are pushing against as they try to, I don’t know, weave the webs of the universe into presumably an order that presumably whoever is in charge of them is dictating. Which again I guess happened The Trap, which was you know too little too late and then they ended it on that cliffhanger and it’s like bro who are these guys?? Who are these other freaky freaky guys who are trying to trap Sapphire and Steel?? Like who are they? Where did they come from?
Sapphire in The Trap does mention that other people are jealous of them and their freedom, which I suppose is why they get trapped in their freaky void forever, but it also seems to me that these other three weirdos are sent from slightly different masters to the ones that are in control of Sapphire and Steel. Who are they??
Maybe the audios will give me these answers. Or maybe not. In fairness actually, because I am a glutton for misery, I quite like The Trap as the ultimate ending for S&S now I’ve had a chance to sleep on it. There’s something quite… I don’t know hideous about taking these two timeless beings who can go anywhere and do anything and have their freaky mind powers and locking them in a room for eternity. I guess I’m just the kind of person who enjoys it when endings are miserable. So in a way I won’t mind it at all if all the audios are implied to be before that point, because I will be intrigued if that is the supposed end goal to see kind of how BF interpret the minimal fragments of lore that we do get and sprinkle them into the audios.
Anyway Daisy Chain really ruined my day 
these freaky weirdos have bewitched me body and soul and I am obsessed with themmmmmmmmmm
Btw, this is interesting.