| Falling in Love Again |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|12:22 am] |
I know I'm behind the times here but tonight I saw the first episode of "The Sarah Jane Adventures". The show is OK. Kinda meh and cheesy in some parts of the show (Sonic lipstick - give me a break!). What got my attention was Sarah Jane herself (well, actually, the actress who played Sarah Jane: Elisabeth Sladen). Man, she looked hot! I remember when she was on a new Doctor Who episode two years ago and I was not impressed. She looked like a middle aged news anchor. She had the newscaster helmet hair, the newscaster makeup and it looked like she may have had plastic surgery. I was not impressed. I was disappointed, in fact.
Not tonight. She looked a lot better. More natural and a lot prettier. I realized then that, two years ago, they did a poor job with her makeup and hairstyle. They've made up for it with this new show.
When I first saw Sarah Jane on Dr. Who some 25 years ago (when they re-ran the show on my local PBS station), I was enamored. She was and still is my all-time favorite Dr. Who companion. On the nights I watched her on Dr. Who, years ago, I would go to bed and pretend that I was in the TARDIS with her, having all sorts of adventures fighting Daleks and giant robots. That was a long long time ago.
Time for bed! :D
Welcome back Elisabeth (Sarah Jane)! |
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I suppose this'd be a bad time to point out that there are now action figures for The Sarah Jane Adventures in the UK...
I wonder if the makeup from "School Reunion" wasn't, perhaps, designed to make her look older and run-down - i.e. this is what waiting for the Doctor's return has done to her. Character-wise, the implication seems to be clear that she's had a burden lifted from her shoulders by the tenth Doctor's return, so maybe they're reflecting that visually as well.
One thing I can tell you is that SJA only gets better from here - I love it. It's a neat little show. It's a shame that they're apparently going to edit the two-part episodes together to arbitrarily create hour-long shows; with the cliffhangers as they were originally broadcast overseas, SJA is almost more like the original Doctor Who than the new Doctor Who is.
Actually, according to the schedule, they are going to use the cliffhangers:
4/18 8 pm Revenge of Slitheen Pt 1 8:30 pm DW
4/25 8 pm Revenge Pt 2 8:30 pm Eye of Gorgon Pt 1
5/2 8 pm Gorgon Pt 2 8:30 pm Warriors of Kudlak Pt 1
etc.
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