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The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Stolen Llama

16:04 / 19.09.07

Ostensibly, it's going to be a children's drama, but with some of the best talent of Doctor Who, including Gareth Roberts writing and Graeme Harper and Torchwood's Alice Troughton directing, it'll be worth tuning into. It's going to be on for ten weeks at 5pm on Mondays, which is admittedly on awkward time for bigger, adult shaped children, but there's always Sky plus and good old VCR.

The Christmas pilot, "Invasion of the Bane," showed promise. Liz Sladen is doubtlessly a top tier companion, up there with Romana and Rose and the pilot tapped into what makes her such a fascinating character. Her loneliness and ennui at being abandoned by the Doctor is given more room to breathe in Bane with her behaviour positively anti-social at times. It's great to see her brought out of her shell by the strong cast of characters, who seem to rekindle the child-like wonder that traveling with the Doctor must create.

So. Will people be watching this?

sleazenation

17:32 / 19.09.07

I will probably watch it, but not sure when.

I'd like to see it, but it is gonna be shown in a kid friendly afternnon slot.

It will probably be rebroadcast on CBBC at some point - are people planning to download ?

MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!

18:55 / 19.09.07

I liked it! The premise was a blatant lift of The Stuff, but at least it was done with love. One of the more hilarious meta-jokes about this is seeing people freak out on message boards about how "they stole the idea from Futurama." Ah, youth.

Unlike New Who, which is written with grown-up Who fans very much in mind, SJS seems to actually be a kids show, which rocks. Plus, a kids' show starring an independent, brilliant woman in her 40s who favours nonviolent conflict resolution. Which double rocks.

So, watching it and trying to keep my "kid eyes" on, I thought it did a bang-up job. Sympathetic protagonist in the girl, who does a good job at being clever but not irritating as hell, enough kinda-scary stuff to give me some goosebumps, a decent sub-message about rampant trend-following and consumerism, and some decent special effects.

Whether real kids will like it or not is another story, obvs. Has there been any reaction to it?

uncle retrospective

14:59 / 06.02.08

I just started watching this over the weekend and only have one ep left to go. I just want to say, watch it. It's brilliant. Starts off a little shakey but by ep5 it's almost as good as Doctor Who. It's just a pity that the main girl has a voice like nails on a black board. It's getting a second season, so, Yea!

sleazenation

16:17 / 06.02.08

I watched this and really enjoyed it - much more ambitious and, often just plain better than Torchwood.

The even do Hellraiser for kids at one point!

DavidXBrunt

14:05 / 07.02.08

I didn't get the time to watch it very often but my eldest niece and nephew loved it. Perhaps more so than Who.

The recurring villains from Who were used very well, glad to see them return and I have to say the Black Guardian Redux figure in Whatever Happened to may be creepier than anything from New Who.

If you liked this run the 23 episodes they're making soon will be welcomed, I expect. It's unclear whether the run will be two seasons filmed at once or whether it's going into a larger phase of production to co-incide with Whos gap year.

uncle retrospective

16:37 / 07.02.08

I jsut finished the last ep. Damn it's such a good show. The really evil twists were just amazing and if K9 isn't the coolest robot dog in the world I'll eat my hat. Can't wait for more of this.

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