That's such an unbelievably appropriate thing to have happen in a Borges class that one almost wonders if it was Deliberately Arranged (whether by the teacher, fate or the ghost of Borges, I leave as an exercise for the reader).
I'm so glad you're giving Sapphire and Steel a go! There is nothing else quite like it in the history of TV (I don't think it matters that it doesn't make an awful lot of sense, because, as you say, it always works at least one level, even if the levels don't map always onto each other - the plots definitely follow dream logic rather than earth logic). Unfortunately, the first two assignments are the best - the fourth has some gratifyingly creepy bits but suffers from the inability to do special effects. Although, thinking about it, you might enjoy the third one, if ony because it is so hysterically 1970s in its vision of what humanity will be like in the future.
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Date: 2008-10-02 06:03 pm (UTC)I'm so glad you're giving Sapphire and Steel a go! There is nothing else quite like it in the history of TV (I don't think it matters that it doesn't make an awful lot of sense, because, as you say, it always works at least one level, even if the levels don't map always onto each other - the plots definitely follow dream logic rather than earth logic). Unfortunately, the first two assignments are the best - the fourth has some gratifyingly creepy bits but suffers from the inability to do special effects. Although, thinking about it, you might enjoy the third one, if ony because it is so hysterically 1970s in its vision of what humanity will be like in the future.