I always was rooting for the Daleks to kill Sarah Jane. My god, the shrieking. Or for Leela to show up and slap her.
Or Ace to do it.
Mmm, Leela.
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Connie Neil - Nov 18, 2009 8:13:18 am PST #10934 of 30001
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Tom Scola - Nov 18, 2009 8:18:15 am PST #10935 of 30001
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I always was rooting for the Daleks to kill Sarah Jane. My god, the shrieking.
And yet, less of a whiny bitch than Harry Sullivan.
Polter-Cow - Nov 18, 2009 8:25:04 am PST #10936 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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Even cheaper at Best Buy. Now on backorder, I see. I am so very tempted, but it's not a necessity right now.
tiggy - Nov 18, 2009 8:41:30 am PST #10937 of 30001
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Even cheaper at Best Buy. Now on backorder, I see.
probably not cheaper because i think BB charges tax and shipping, doesn't it? plus, yeah. backordered.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2009 8:52:40 am PST #10938 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
she didn't really interested me, as a character
I think it's a really well done first season (they haven't aired past that in the States, and I never got around to acquiring it), and for one that's targeted at the youngest demographic still managed to work up a decent sense of peril.
And I always like seeing good parenting on TV. Parents saving the world--cool.
Tom Scola - Nov 18, 2009 8:57:40 am PST #10939 of 30001
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Last week's Sarah Jane, the "Mona Lisa" serial, was pretty camp. I'm worried that it's commenced with the shark-jumping.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 18, 2009 9:17:03 am PST #10940 of 30001
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BBCA is only tangentially part of the BBC - it's part of BBC Worldwide.
Ah, thanks. That explains that. I'm still a bit surprised no one is doing it. Then again, if everything that survived is on DVD, it may not be cost effective. I would guess that's why no one airs The Avengers, either. It doesn't explain why you've been able to see The Prisoner on TV pretty easily the last few years or so.
Frank, I don't think they ever explicitly said that Sarah Jane's feelings for the Doctor were more than platonic friendship back in the day. But it felt absolutely true to the character in "School Reunion" that she'd never married thanks to having met him.
OK, that was the impression I had as well, but as I said, it has been a while.
Fiona - Nov 18, 2009 9:46:10 am PST #10941 of 30001
But the old Who episodes are never shown on the BBC proper either. I think they're scared of what they might do to their franchise.
(The new series, on the other hand, is shown over... and over... and over... and over....)
Frankenbuddha - Nov 18, 2009 10:18:07 am PST #10942 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
But the old Who episodes are never shown on the BBC proper either.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me as much (and agree on the reasoning you mention). It's just there are probably a ton of fans of the current iteration who've never seen any of the old ones in the US, so you'd think it would be a market. Bad as the special effects could be, I don't think they were that much worse than Trek: TOS. That may be the distance of time (heh) talking, though.
Jessica - Nov 18, 2009 10:19:17 am PST #10943 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's just there are probably a ton of fans of the current iteration who've never seen any of the old ones in the US, so you'd think it would be a market.
They were on PBS round the clock when I was a kid.