The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith

[meddow]

This week on the Clyde LangerSarah Jane Adventures, the Doctor continues to be bad at weddings...

This serial had the potential to be as bad as The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (which was so bad it's been hard for me to love the show as much as I did back in series one) and I was watching it wondering if at any moment it would announce that Sarah Jane could not possibly be happy without a husband etc, etc. Thankfully it successfully managed to not make me ragey or cringe at all, or turn Sarah into Rose like it did in Temptation, and Lis Sladen pulled off the heavy scenes for the most part.

Anyway, thoughts (with bullet points this week):

• Poor Sarah. Not only heartbroken, but publicly humiliated. Again.



• I've been looking forward to the Doctor making a guest appearance on SJA since the series began. Now he has, I have to say that the Doctor's presence didn't add all that much. Tennant was great and all, but I think it was the lack of character development made the Doctor's presence, altough welcome, somewhat superfluous. Although, that last scene of the door closing on him, that made me all a bit sad for what is to come.



• I wonder where RTD's Whoniverse's obsession with weddings and brides stems from. To date we have: Father's Day, The Runaway Bride, A Day in the Death, Something Borrowed and now The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.



• Just when I don't think I can love Clyde any more, he goes ahead and decided to taken on the Trickster all by himself. It's gotten to the point where Clyde just steals the whole show, and managing to do that in an episode with the Doctor in it is a bloody impressive feat. Why has he not made a shift to the mother show and become a proper Companion again?



• I think we have official confirmation that poor Luke is the tin dog of SJA, what with being left behind with K9 to watch for the TARDIS while Clyde and Rani go off with the Doctor. Is Tommy Knight only working part time? Because it's been this way the whole of series three so far



• The everyone-meets-Peter scene with an alien slug on the loose and K9 trying to be covert was utterly hilarious.



• The Luke-bonds-with-Peter bit was done so incredibly well. There wasn't all that much time devoted to Sarah and Peter's romance, but if found it believeable that she and Peter would be happy together.



• I like poor doomed Peter. I love that he was naive rather than evil, and his bonding with Luke was done so incredibly well. And yes, Post-naivety!Peter/Sarah – I ship it. They are actually quite adorable and I could imagine him hanging about offering tea for whatever lost alien Sarah's brought home this time.



• On the other hand, a mind controlling engagement ring is a terrible idea, and yay for Sarah getting suitably pissed off about the whole thing.



• Of the three serials of this series so far, Sarah's been either possessed or mind controlled twice. Please move away from the Hinchcliffe era, writers.



• Yay for an explination about the Sarah vs Sarah Jane name thing, or at least an acknowledgment that Sarah was Sarah to the Doctor and not Sarah Jane.



• Clyde gets anothe bullet point because I want to mention just how much I love this character. I remember back in the first series when he was the wise-cracking comic relief kid with little screen time or development. Now he's still the wise-cracking comic relief kid, but he's also self-sacrificing, just a little bit over-protective of Sarah and Luke and so incredibly mature beyond his years. He strikes me as incredibly Donna-esq, in that he appears rather superficial and on the surface and not considered 'special', but scratch the surface as the show often does and the character's complexity, stength and heart really comes through, and that makes him special. And Daniel Anthony gives the character so much life. Clyde has really become the highlight of SJA for me. And he wasn't mentioned last week in Rani's future, so I wonder what happens to him in the future.

Anyway, I love this series so much.

Comments

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Is Tommy Knight only working part time? Because it's been this way the whole of series three so far

Apparently he had exams when filming was on, so they wrote around him a lot. Which is a shame, but they would have been a bit screwed if he'd left outright like Yasmin Paige did.

[meddow.livejournal.com]

Ah, that explains it. It's good that he's hung around because, yes, they would have been screwed if they had to write Luke out.

[shadowturquoise.livejournal.com]

To date we have: Father's Day, The Runaway Bride, A Day in the Death, Something Borrowed and now The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.

And to a lesser extent:Family of Blood and Forest of the Dead. Not to mention the upcoming Christmas episode spoilers.

Clyde has suddenly become my favorite character. Even his outfit in this episode make him look like a Little Doctor. Has anyone heard if that was intentional?

[meddow.livejournal.com]

I have been wondering about those Christmas episode spoilers and wondering what is going to happen with that wedding. Donna seems to be particularly prone to ending up in a wedding dress.

I forgot to mention Clyde and his made of win sneakers + suit combo. I don't know if it is intentional, but he did look like mini!Ten.

[cavgirl.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the video diary where Danny and Tommy prance around in the Doctor's coat? It's funny 'cos Tommy can just about get away with it, but Danny is so short (bless him) that the coat quite literally pools around his ankles and that with the costume really makes him look mini!Ten.

Can someone tell me if SJ and Luke *are* going to be in one/two/all of the final DT Who eps? I thought they were, but now I can't find any references and it's driving me nuts.