Anyone watching the Sarah Jane Adventures?

crazyeddie · Apr 23, 2008

I've caught the first two episodes, and I haven't decided if I like it or not.  It seems much less sophisticated than Dr Who, and geared more toward children.  I'm curious what other viewers, who knew Sarah Jane Smith from her previous adventures with The Doctor, think of this new series. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

Leovinus · Apr 23, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I've caught the first two episodes, and I haven't decided if I like it or not.  It seems much less sophisticated than Dr Who, and geared more toward children.  I'm curious what other viewers, who knew Sarah Jane Smith from her previous adventures with The Doctor, think of this new series. Posted by crazyeddie</DIV>I didn't realize it was on until I watched Dr. Who and the last minute of SJA got recorded.  What did I miss?  I'd like to catch the next episode but if it part 3 of a long-running story I'll not know what's going on.  <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

crazyeddie · Apr 23, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I didn't realize it was on until I watched Dr. Who and the last minute of SJA got recorded.  What did I miss?  I'd like to catch the next episode but if it part 3 of a long-running story I'll not know what's going on.  Posted by Leovinus</DIV>Good 'ol Wikipedia:The episode starts with a thirteen year old girl, Maria Jackson (Yasmin Paige), and her recently divorced father Alan (Joseph Millson) moving into a house opposite journalist and former time-traveller Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen). The night after they have moved in, Maria is woken by an ethereal light emanating from Sarah Jane's house, which she discovers, to her amazement and later horror, to be Sarah conversing with a butterfly-like alien species.The next morning, her neighbour Kelsey Harper (Porsha Lawrence Mavour) visits and welcomes her. She invites Maria into town, using the free "Bubble Shock!" bus to travel there and tour the factory. Once they arrive at the factory, they are lead to a security scanner, which surreptitiously collects their DNA to transfer to an "Archetype" (Tommy Knight) under the supervision of the factory's owner, Mrs Wormwood (Samantha Bond).Sarah Jane, having overheard the girls making plans, follows them to the factory and interviews Mrs Wormwood, and how she was able to get approval for the drink so fast, and why the Bane, an ingredient unique to the drink, was "resisting" analysis, to which she is told that all that Bubble Shock! is doing is satisfying the needs of the Western world. On Sarah's way out, she is almost killed by Wormwood's secretary.Kelsey wanders from the tour and attempts to phone her friend, but disturbs an unknown beast, the Bane Mother, to the annoyance of the staff, to which Wormwood orders the alarms switched off and Sarah Jane killed. Maria attempts to phone Kelsey, but sets off the alarms again, causing the Archetype to escape, transferring the focus upon him. Maria, while escaping, encounters him, who just mimics her, and they escape into a women's bathroom. Sarah Jane then enters, and although they are surprised to see each other, they manage to escape the factory, albeit without Kelsey. When they arrive back on Bannerman Road, Sarah warns Maria not to get involved as her life is too dangerous.Meanwhile, Kelsey is accosted by the factory guards, which causes her to rant about the treatment she has received. Wormwood subdues her by revealing her true form, and having discovered Kelsey and Sarah Jane live on the same street, uses her PR representative Davey (Jamie Davis) to escort her home. Once there, Maria realises upon sight of Kelsey that Davey had discovered Sarah and tries to runs into Sarah Jane's house. Eventually realising their intent, Sarah Jane brings them inside, with Davey, now as a Bane, giving chase. Sarah Jane is able to repel Davey and then, upon discovery of the attic by Kelsey, tells the teenagers about aliens: years ago, she met the Doctor, a man like no other, who took her through time and space. The adventures suddenly ended, but when they met by chance (in "School Reunion") not long ago, they realised they were still fond for each other.Once Sarah Jane has analysed that the Bane ingredient was sentient, she contacts Wormwood and politely requests that she leaves Earth. Wormwood refuses, and in retaliation takes control of the majority of the human race. Sarah Jane races to the factory, but cannot enter until she drives the bus into a wall. Wormwood reveals the Bane Mother, and explains the Archetype is a conglomerate of human DNA designed to be investigated so that Bubble Shock could be improved. The Archetype uses an alien communicator Sarah Jane had been given, realising that the signal would be strong enough to kill the Bane Mother, and Sarah Jane, Maria, and the Archetype escape as the factory explodes.The following evening, Sarah Jane agrees to adopt the Archetype and agrees with Maria to call him "Luke". The episode closes with a monologue by Sarah Jane that while space may be strange, adventures may be had on Earth, if one knows where to look. In a somewhat poignant moment, Sarah Jane briefly reminisces about her travels with the Doctor, whom she feels somewhat bitter over, obviously (I think he dumped her, to put it bluntly).  She decided that she had to keep on doing something to make her life meaningful after she lost him.  Her mechanical dog, K-9, is re-introduced, which is left guarding a microsingularity that Sarah has stashed in some kind of closet holding device....I'm sure we'll see more of him in later episodes.  And Sarah has some kind of sophisticated alien computer that assists her in her research, but it's not explained in detail just how she came about it.  Maria's dad is a real looker, and I'm wondering if they are setting things up for him and Sarah to eventually get together.  <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

Leovinus · Apr 24, 2008

I found episode 1 on YouTube (in 7 parts).  I liked it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

Leovinus · Apr 24, 2008

It looks like they made the decision to erase K-9 by putting him on that never-ending mission.  I looked forward to having him around, but I guess the writers thought it would be too hard to explain how K-9 makes it up stairs.  I guess he was too 1970s.I have a hard time figuring out where SJ got the supercomputer Mr. Smith.  And I'd hate to see her electricity bill.  Maybe she has an alien nuclear power plant the size of a walnut in her basement. In episode 1, why did she suddenly tear off and head to the drink factory?  Did she have suspicions and saw an opportunity to get in?   If she had the sonic lipstick, she could have gotten in any time day or night.  And you'd think that aliens would post guards at the gate to protect themselves rather than leaving it to something that can be left unattended and opened with a garage door opener.Ok, so there are some plot cracks.  As I recall, the first Star Trek Next Generation was truly awful, but it got much better over time.  Maybe SJA will be like that. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

CalliArcale · Apr 24, 2008

Replying to: <DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>It looks like they made the decision to erase K-9 by putting him on that never-ending mission.  I looked forward to having him around, but I guess the writers thought it would be too hard to explain how K-9 makes it up stairs.  I guess he was too 1970s.I have a hard time figuring out where SJ got the supercomputer Mr. Smith.  And I'd hate to see her electricity bill.  Maybe she has an alien nuclear power plant the size of a walnut in her basement. In episode 1, why did she suddenly tear off and head to the drink factory?  Did she have suspicions and saw an opportunity to get in?   If she had the sonic lipstick, she could have gotten in any time day or night.  And you'd think that aliens would post guards at the gate to protect themselves rather than leaving it to something that can be left unattended and opened with a garage door opener.Ok, so there are some plot cracks.  As I recall, the first Star Trek Next Generation was truly awful, but it got much better over time.  Maybe SJA will be like that. Posted by Leovinus</DIV>I think they put K9 on that mission due to not being able to get Leeson (the voice actor) for more than a short bit.  That happened on the old series, and they coped with a new voice actor and a half-assed story about him contracting computer laryngitis or something like that.  It was pretty stupid.  I think they're trying to avoid a repeat of that embarassment.  (Leeson came back to voice K9 for the first three serials of the following season, after which K9 was written out of the series.)Personally, I really like the Sarah Jane Adventures.  It doesn't have that gawdawful theme song that K9 And Company had, for one thing.  But more importantly, my four-year-old daughter loves it.  She gets nightmares from the new series, but loves Doctor Who otherwise, so this is very good for her.  It's quite clearly aimed at young kids.  And it's a heck of a lot better than the rest of the stuff aimed at that age range.  I mean, "Power Rangers" has a certain corny fun about it, but it's pretty vacuous. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff." -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink" </div>

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