SJA + Children in Need

[my_daroga]

I love Sarah Jane Adventures. Partly it's a matter of expectation; the stuff that doesn't add up doesn't seem so serious when it's "meant" for children. But it's full of lovely people who don't totally fail at family. And the potentially trite light-sf plots are also about family and optimism and friendship. And so far, it seems to be trumping New Who in terms of consistency.

Though I have no idea how Alan and Chrissie were ever married. He's just way too awesome.

I've thought before about the fact that Sarah Jane seems to have "stopped" after the Doctor left her. She has no family, no "history" beyond what happened with him. And she dresses "young." I wondered if the potential psychologial weirdness was a strange side-effect of giving her a series and requiring her to fit into the world they've made.

But then I met Andrea Yates. And what's interesting about her is how she really seems to be stuck at 13. Her stolen life consists of parties and age-anxiety and centering things around her. Next to her, Sarah Jane looks merely young at heart. In fact... sort of the way I imagine myself at her age.

"The Lost Boy"

Oh please. The Slitheen? Again?

Then again, Mr. Smith being evil is great.

ETA the CIN special

Okay, so I did get a perverse pleasure out of seeing them together, because I love that sort of thing, even if Davison is all floppy, but... He's also forgotten who his Doctor was. It seems to me. And he's really very slow about figuring things out. Hasn't he done this sort of thing before? Of course, last time he met himself he fainted a lot. Maybe he doesn't have such great memories of that.

And what was that nonsense about Five being Ten's Doctor? Isn't that really, really overt self-insertion on RTD's part? Would no one bring the word "subtle" into that conversation?

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[phantoms-siren.livejournal.com]

"subtle"...and... children in need. Like oil and water. Which is why I don't watch any children in need stuff usual (just managed to force my way through the CIN QI), I'm not a fan of pork and frankly CIN tends in contain more ham that a sausage factory set up to feed the whole of russia. Not that I'm objecting to charity... just to the 'entertainment'.

[my_daroga]

I'm completely without a frame of reference for CIN--all I know is, hey, new Who. I'd ignore it, but it seems to be canon, too. But I'm glad to know it's not necessarily DW that's in the wrong but that there's a flavor to the thing.

[phantoms-siren.livejournal.com]

Children in Need tends to be a time for actors and other performers to be a bit drunk and forget their lines for charity. For example imagine your countries top 16 most respected new anchors, all ages. Now imagine them dressed as the cast of Chicago blushing and stumbling their way through All That Jazz (this year) or dressed as Queen and howling their way through Bohemian Rhapsody (last year). The regular soap opera goes silly, the regular quiz shows get sillier still.

The whole ethos of CIN is to do silly things for charity like eat a tin of cat food, wax a guys chest, the ever popular bath full of baked beans, so I wouldn't take anything produced by the BBC that day seriously.

[my_daroga]

Wow. Fascinating. Thanks for the explanation--I really had no idea.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I am totally full of squee about Time Crash. It was epic levels of fun for me.

Apparently, PD's characterization is in sync with the progression of his Doctor's character in the audiobook adventures.

Did you watch the Confidential? :D

[my_daroga]

Oh, I haven't listened to the audiobooks. And I didn't watch the Confidential--I never do. Should I?