Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 4

[Cutter John]

What? A former show runner playing up the incredibly popular Doctor he hand selected and worked with for three years? Thats unpossible!


Didn't really see much in the way of 'promoting a political agenda' with Jo. Shes basically playing a character whos been stuck in the early 70's (when protesting was a popular activity as I recall) for the past 30 years, who married a scientist who was already a bit of a radical environmentalist when he was introduced.

Now, if she happened to be heavily into Gay Rights, I could see your point.

 

[The]

"Me fail English?" - Ralph Wiggum

Bones, I'm with you except for "Binman"/Eccleston and Tate. He was the best Doctor since Tom Baker, and she played Donna completely and utterly straight and devoid of her sketch shows. You are imagining things with those two. Everything else you listed is more or less spot-on, though...

 

[The]

Oh btw....what the FUCK is in Peru?? What is it about that foreign land that captures and holds The Brigadier anytime The Doctor is on Earth? Shouldn't that mean next year's Doctor crossover HAS to take place in Peru so we can see The Brig again?

 

[Shazam!]

Bones, I'm with you except for "Binman"/Eccleston and Tate. He was the best Doctor since Tom Baker, and she played Donna completely and utterly straight and devoid of her sketch shows. You are imagining things with those two. Everything else you listed is more or less spot-on, though...

Agreed.

 

[Starkers]

Oh btw....what the FUCK is in Peru?? What is it about that foreign land that captures and holds The Brigadier anytime The Doctor is on Earth? Shouldn't that mean next year's Doctor crossover HAS to take place in Peru so we can see The Brig again?

He's on the hunt for a supposed tribe of talking bears who eat only mamalade...

 

[The]

What? A former show runner playing up the incredibly popular Doctor he hand selected and worked with for three years? Thats unpossible!

You added things since my Simpsons tag.

Didn't really see much in the way of 'promoting a political agenda' with Jo. Shes basically playing a character whos been stuck in the early 70's (when protesting was a popular activity as I recall) for the past 30 years, who married a scientist who was already a bit of a radical environmentalist when he was introduced.

Now, if she happened to be heavily into Gay Rights, I could see your point.

That is a genuinely fair point, and one I took into account while watching the episode. For one, the gay rights thing, this is a kid's show. Like, really a kid's show beyond Doctor Who. So, they shouldn't dare get into sexuality either way. The "inference" that Luke found a boyfriend is, I think, a justified misinterpretation of the scene. Mainly, and probably really only, because RTD wrote it. Any other writer, and it's seen as the pre-teen/teen conversation it is, concerning such tangible things in your life back then as a "best friend".

As for Jo and her protests, I have a feeling RTD will pump all of that up as "glorious", or that she "changed the world" nonsense. I'd be very surprised if he were to be like:

"Jo, what are you doing wasting your time, effort, and life on things that have no positive effect on anyone, anywhere? All you're doing is prancing around with a self-righteous arrogance that you know right in an effort to make you feel better about yourself. Why not follow Sarah's lead and actually do something to help the world? Idiot.....who was the bureaucrat that assigned you to UNIT in the first place?"
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[The]

Oh btw....what the FUCK is in Peru?? What is it about that foreign land that captures and holds The Brigadier anytime The Doctor is on Earth? Shouldn't that mean next year's Doctor crossover HAS to take place in Peru so we can see The Brig again?

He's on the hunt for a supposed tribe of talking bears who eat only mamalade...

I'm seeing a 2011 Doctor Who Xmas Special in this.....

 

[Starkers]

Oh btw....what the FUCK is in Peru?? What is it about that foreign land that captures and holds The Brigadier anytime The Doctor is on Earth? Shouldn't that mean next year's Doctor crossover HAS to take place in Peru so we can see The Brig again?

He's on the hunt for a supposed tribe of talking bears who eat only mamalade...

I'm seeing a 2011 Doctor Who Xmas Special in this.....

I wasn't actually sure how universal Paddington was

On the Jo Grant front, I did at least like the reference to handcuffing herself to Robert Mugabe

 

[Lonemagpie]

Well, that was more of the same, but better. Yay!

Lesbo MILF action! And the new TARDIS set! Yay!

Vulture muppets were still rubbish, though.

OK< I'll up it to 8/10, a steady run of hits for this season.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Having watched it again with Lesley now that she's back from work, I caught the line about the other people at the funeral being old soldiers.

Something I meant to say: Clyde continues to be fucking great - I loved his "man I'm running out of reactions!" and "shuffle for your life!" Jo... Jo just wasn't Jo, really. That was Katy, not Jo. Still fun though!

But Joi was always Katy, so why should that be any different at...ah, 57 than 21?

Nah, Jo was a bumbling brave girl back in the day, but this was Katy the motormouth rambler...

 

[Lonemagpie]

Who didn't have Alien Bodies running in the back of their mind?

I swear, at times I've thought that RTD sleeps with Lawrence Miles' oeuvre beneath his pillows at night...

Well, we know *Lawrence* thinks that anyway...

 

[Jax]

Yeah, I'm a Doctor Who fan. Doesn't mean I have to like that talentless hack RTD, his binman Doctor, his prancing tit Doctor, his fuckwitted chav love interest, his no-dimensional excuse for Catherine Tate to inflict her sketch show schtick on a wider audience, or his pathetic attempts at stories that are more about getting teenage girls to wet themselves over Tennant as he pulls out the crying towel than plot logic or satisfying storytelling.

Yet Bones watched RTD era, which makes his so called hatred either a lie or really sad. He hates RTD because he dare to change Doctor who from what it was in the 60's/70's and 80's. The fact that a whole new generation myself included took to new Who really rubs him up the wrong way. Critics and fans in mass have praised Doctor Who since its return, which am sure drives him crazy.

Chav...well we've all tried to explain what a Chav is because he doesn't understand, personally I blame the Daily Mail.

The whole Tate arguement is a joke, he believes because she did a sketch show she can't act. The fact that Tate won over most critics and the fanbase in general means little to him because well the masses are wrong of course.

teenage girls to wet themselves over Tennant comment, well it just shows Bones pays little attention to the show since Martha was not a teenager and pretty sure Rose was 20 at least by the time we saw the 10th Doctor.

simple fact you find a few people like him on every SCI FI board or forum in general really.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

Christ alive. I'd say take it elsewhere, but the Bones-bashing is pretty much fucking everywhere nowadays, regardless of whether he ever says anything positive (which he does). You all know full well what he thinks of the last Doctors and companions, you haven't got to respond every single time he pulls one of his hyperbolic statements out about them.

Jesus fucking wept.

On topic, part one was shite but the whole affair got better the instant Eleven told Jo she looked like someone had baked her face. Absolute brilliance whenever he was onscreen once again. You must have a problem if you think Ten had more screen time: a) he didn't, and b) it was all wordless flashbacks anyway. Should we all be up in arms Two only got one brief look-in? Political agenda? Also nonsense - god forbid anyone should mention any kind of cause. I notice no one's whinging about all the companions mentioned at the end all being world-saving do-gooders as well - it's either wrong for one or wrong for them all. And Ian and Barbara were rumoured to be as good as immortal.

RTD's other trademark was present and correct too: poetic event/planet naming. The Scarred Monstrosity, anyone?

Oh, and no one whinging about Eleven's oh-so-slightly different shirt yet? I'm astounded.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah, I'm a Doctor Who fan. Doesn't mean I have to like that talentless hack RTD, his binman Doctor, his prancing tit Doctor, his fuckwitted chav love interest, his no-dimensional excuse for Catherine Tate to inflict her sketch show schtick on a wider audience, or his pathetic attempts at stories that are more about getting teenage girls to wet themselves over Tennant as he pulls out the crying towel than plot logic or satisfying storytelling.

Yet Bones watched RTD era, which makes his so called hatred either a lie or really sad. He hates RTD because he dare to change Doctor who from what it was in the 60's/70's and 80's. The fact that a whole new generation myself included took to new Who really rubs him up the wrong way. Critics and fans in mass have praised Doctor Who since its return, which am sure drives him crazy.

Chav...well we've all tried to explain what a Chav is because he doesn't understand, personally I blame the Daily Mail.

The whole Tate arguement is a joke, he believes because she did a sketch show she can't act. The fact that Tate won over most critics and the fanbase in general means little to him because well the masses are wrong of course.

teenage girls to wet themselves over Tennant comment, well it just shows Bones pays little attention to the show since Martha was not a teenager and pretty sure Rose was 20 at least by the time we saw the 10th Doctor.

simple fact you find a few people like him on every SCI FI board or forum in general really.

I think the girls he was refering to are in the audience.

Not that I agree with Bones.

 

[Samurai8472]

So the tenth doctor visited everyone before "dying"

 

[TyberiusDeAngelo]

How many times did The Doctor say he could regenerate in part two? I couldn't make out what he said.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

How many times did The Doctor say he could regenerate in part two? I couldn't make out what he said.

507

 

[Samurai8472]

I hope Smith makes another appearance on SJA. His first time there was practically a tribute to Tennant/Ten.

Half his dialogue was concerning his last self.

 

[Tom]

I think the 507 is RTD jokingly trying to throw Moffet a bone and see what he will do should the subject come up. i really could not tell what has changed with the tardis set as it was only 2 quick wide shots.

 

[Captain Crow]

"Death of the Doctor" is about what I would expect from RTD. A mediocre story that almost gets shoved into the background until the end and the overuse of soap style emotion to try to make two-dimensional characters seem like they're rounded characters.