EuanMar 14

Watched the first episode of Sarah Jane Adventures for the first time in a while! Turns out yes I still love this show very much. There kept being lovely little morsels of RTD's flavour, very funny and very fun. (And Samantha Bond is absolutely devouring the scenery.) I'm sad that when Maria leaves the show, so will her dad, cuz the guy playing him is kinda great.

I'm really grateful I had this show growing up. It feels so cozy. It's just like, kinda perfectly judged to be the loveliest possible thing. Like, it's for little kids, and also Classic Who fans, and I was both. And Elisabeth Sladen feels like she's rightfully graduated up to essentially being the Doctor, but her Tardis is an attic, which idk to me just feels like the safest loveliest possible place for a kid. A cool attic with a talking alien computer you can play Miniclip on. And Sarah Jane, like from Doctor Who, is there.

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Show threadEuan6d ago

Watched Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen and Eye of the Gorgon. Even though the Slitheen are kinda even worse in this than they are in Doctor Who, I'm still riding high revisiting these. Seems like the hammy villain dial is turned up to the max a lot of the time, which I am very here for. And the Classic Whoness is on point, especially in Eye of the Gorgon. Totally could've been a 70s Who premise, a group of menacing nuns enacting a ritual for an ancient alien evil.

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Show threadEuan5d ago

Keeping my Sarah Jane Adventures rewatch going, just watched Warriors of Kudlak. That was... far and away the best episode I've watched so far! Like, holy crap? The story is great, and incredibly dark for a kids show, but somehow not in a way that ever feels too edgy or out of place. The writing is stellar, with a bunch of interesting scenes and standout bits of dialogue. The performances, especially Kudlak and Grantham, are great. The effects on Kudlak's alien face, especially his constantly asymmetrically twitching insect eyes, are awesome. The laser tag setting feels unique and particular to what's relatable and interesting to a younger audience. Just really excellent TV all round. It's interesting, I didn't remember this as an above average episode from when I watched it as a kid. I don't think I appreciated at the time how much it was doing.

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Show threadEuan5d ago
Also this is apparently writer Philip Gladwin's only contribution to Doctor Who, ever! It's a shame, cuz it really has a spark to it to match RTD's level in the first episode.
Show threadEuan3d ago

Just got to the bit in Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane where she says "there was some Graske activity on Earth a couple of years back"

and literally I thought "hehe that was me, that was when I helped the Doctor that time"

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Show threadEuan3d ago
If you've played Attack of the Graske you are canon to Doctor Who henceforth
Show threadEuan3d ago

Sarah Jane just mentioned having defeated "The Patriarchs of the Tin Vagabond" off-screen. Had a little look on Tardis wiki, and apparently they've been mentioned one other time ever, by the Doctor in The Satan Pit as one of a list of examples of religions.

Never heard anyone bring that up before. That's fun.

Show threadEuan3d ago

Finished Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane! Wasn't so keen on the first part, felt like too much of Maria in the bad timeline going "No this isn't right!" over and over, but was fully brought round by the second part. Feels like a lovely level of respect for the show's young audience, all the heavy moments it doesn't shy away from.

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Show threadEuan2d ago

Very funny line in Sarah Jane Adventures: The Lost Boy:

"Paper said it was a temporary reversal of the earth's magnetic something-or-other."

Show threadEuan2d ago
and by very funny I mean Doctor Who fans will say this kinda shit and then look at you like
Show threadEuan2d ago
lmao I had no memory of this Crazy Frog cameo! Crazy Frog is canon to the Whoniverse! I think I *owned* this exact toy.
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@Euan Honestly, I was distracted by all the Chelsea posters on the wall, because *of course* the aliens would think that all human boys would be into football and that they would support the team which had won the Premier League twice in a row
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