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SJA in Just Over a Week
Sep. 16th, 2007 11:45 pmI’m freakishly excited about the Sarah Jane Adventures (look: pretty pictures from the trailer). And damn it, I don’t care if it’s a kid’s show.
I’ve been thinking about it, the main character whom the show is named after is a middle-aged journalist who’s just a little bit unhappy with the way her life turned out, who has over the years isolated herself from the rest of humanity and become knows as a crazy lady on her street, never quite managed to get over one hell of a weird relationship she had in the seventies with an amazing man and is struggling with motherhood for the first time with a odd teenager whom she adopted.
It is me, or it that a recipe not for a kids show, but potential for a proper full-blooded adult drama? Except you rarely if ever get characters that interesting in an adult drama show these days. Sure, you get characters with drug problems, or who accidentally sleep with their boss and the like, but there are so many of them out there it’s boring. Everything's trying to be edgy, and everything’s trying to push the boundaries but really, there’s only so many boundaries you can push before you have no boundaries left and I start yawning because I saw it on another show a week ago. Plus after a couple of years of hang out in Harry Potter fandom, do you really think anything surprises me these days?
Thing is, it seems to me that one of the edgiest things you can do in TV these days is cast a woman above forty as the main character, which is really illustrates the sad, sorry state of affairs that is modern entertainment. And strangely enough, it’s a kid’s show that happens to have the guts to do exactly that. So I shall get excited about a children’s show, and I reserve the right to do so when I kids show allows me to see something new and different.
Plus: Sarah Jane Smith saving the earth from her attic with the help of an alien supercomputer and sonic lipstick. It’s going to be so much fun!
I’ve been thinking about it, the main character whom the show is named after is a middle-aged journalist who’s just a little bit unhappy with the way her life turned out, who has over the years isolated herself from the rest of humanity and become knows as a crazy lady on her street, never quite managed to get over one hell of a weird relationship she had in the seventies with an amazing man and is struggling with motherhood for the first time with a odd teenager whom she adopted.
It is me, or it that a recipe not for a kids show, but potential for a proper full-blooded adult drama? Except you rarely if ever get characters that interesting in an adult drama show these days. Sure, you get characters with drug problems, or who accidentally sleep with their boss and the like, but there are so many of them out there it’s boring. Everything's trying to be edgy, and everything’s trying to push the boundaries but really, there’s only so many boundaries you can push before you have no boundaries left and I start yawning because I saw it on another show a week ago. Plus after a couple of years of hang out in Harry Potter fandom, do you really think anything surprises me these days?
Thing is, it seems to me that one of the edgiest things you can do in TV these days is cast a woman above forty as the main character, which is really illustrates the sad, sorry state of affairs that is modern entertainment. And strangely enough, it’s a kid’s show that happens to have the guts to do exactly that. So I shall get excited about a children’s show, and I reserve the right to do so when I kids show allows me to see something new and different.
Plus: Sarah Jane Smith saving the earth from her attic with the help of an alien supercomputer and sonic lipstick. It’s going to be so much fun!
