The Last Sontaran (Parts One & Two)

[meddow]

It's time for the Earth-bound (for the most part) adventures of Girl!Doctor

Most important things first: Sarah's hair doesn't look half as bad as it does in the publicity photos! Hallelujah! Coz that promo hair is bad.

Also, the promo people seem to have learnt from last season and have stopped giving away the cliff-hanger resolution in the promo for the next week. Not like they would have actually killed of Sarah, but surely there's got to be at least one kid out there worried for her.

Maria's leaving was done just right. No angst-fest, Sarah admitting what the audience already knew and wanted to hear, and neither Sarah or Luke taking it very well initially.

So much Old School in this episode. But then how can there not be, Sontarans are Sarah's monster. Unfortunately this caused groaning and moaning from flatmates who don't like Sontarans for reasons I don't understand (something to do with them being short).

Has SJA has a budget increase, because the special effects seemed to have improved since last season. Sontaran's were reused like the Slitheen were, but that was a whole new prosthetic, and the ship was built and the Sontaran got a cooler helmet than on the mother show.

I liked Lucy. Is it me or did her dad look just like Alan Rickman?

I think this show has one major flaw in that it seems in capable of having Sarah notice more than two of the kids at a time. This episode Maria and Clyde got all the attention and Luke was left in the cold. But I'm not complaining because last season Clyde was left in the cold nearly the whole season and it's fantastic Sarah is now acknowledging he exits (particularly since Clyde is my favourite and has being doing an excellent job of raising Luke for Sarah), never mind taking a freaking laser-blast for him.

Chrissie = Donna in this episode. Except she didn't, because even though I like her, Chrissie doesn't hold a candle to Donna. But the whack the Sontaran in the back of the neck with the heel of her shoe was what Donna was originally going to do with the Sontaran in The Poison Sky until Catherine Tate put her foot down about wearing heels. And then they pulled the 'she won't know she saved the world' stunt, which I hated until that final scene with Sarah, which made it all better. I'm still upset about Donna's exit in Journey's End and I could not have put up SJA pulling it for laughs. But, as I said, that last scene with Chrissie and Sarah saved it.

Things I didn't like:

*Crickets chirp*

That was a much stronger season opener than the Siltheen two-parter last season. Congratulations to SJA doing a Companion leaving story just right.

I love this show so much. *Huggles it*

Comments

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I got all weepy when Maria left? Or that I got some serious Maria/Luke vibes when she told him she was leaving? Or that I am praying that there's some reason that Alan got this job in the US for a reason other than JUST Yasmin taking time off to take her exams? I dont know what, but I'm hoping there's a reason for it storywise that we find out since it seemed awfully odd that he just got offered this job out of nowhere.

I love Clyde, btw. Really love him.

[meddow.livejournal.com]

It's interesting how Alan ended up with a job in Washington DC, which sits just below New York in cities most likely to be invaded in a sci-fi movie. Having an ally located there could come in handy.

I didn't really get any Maria/Luke vibes, but I'm glad Luke had a strong reaction, because Maria was the first person he ever met.

You know, I had a thought: as much as I like them, the show could do away with Maria(/Rani) and Luke, so long as they keep Clyde. I adore that kid.