Sorry, but your reading only works because you keep talking about the Forces of Evil and because you want the human participants to be be important to the universe.
There is no Evil in Saphire and Steel. It is Time trying to break through, and Time is indifferent, which is why the desires of Rob and George are utterly irrelevant and why Steel can choose (with Saphire's acquiescence remember) to pay Time a danegelt.
A pyschological twist such as you propose would give the stories meaning, but their very effectiveness, their devastating nature is rooted in the essential meaningless of human desire and anguish in a very cold universe. As a kid I found them terrifying because they told me that *i didn't matter*.
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There is no Evil in Saphire and Steel. It is Time trying to break through, and Time is indifferent, which is why the desires of Rob and George are utterly irrelevant and why Steel can choose (with Saphire's acquiescence remember) to pay Time a danegelt.
A pyschological twist such as you propose would give the stories meaning, but their very effectiveness, their devastating nature is rooted in the essential meaningless of human desire and anguish in a very cold universe. As a kid I found them terrifying because they told me that *i didn't matter*.