Doctor Who & Sarah-Jane Smith Adventures

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...is it bad that I watched the Invasion of Bane holiday special of the Sarah-Jane Smith Adventures and liked it more than most of the recent Doctor Who episodes I've been watching? (K-9 notwithstanding...)

I really wish I were more excited about DW *slaps self* because it's great fun. I think it's David Tennant's fault. I was reasonably excited when I heard he'd be the 10th Doctor. I was disappointed Christopher Eccelston was leaving, but at least they got a good actor to replace him. I could really see Tennant being a great 4th or 7th style Doctor. And he is a good actor. But he doesn't act on DW. He just...yells and acts "zany". Feh. I think last season my lingering interest in Rose and what they might actually do with her story kept me watching. I quite liked Martha (especially the way she treats the Doctor in the few episodes I've seen), but I never really got a chance to get particularly interested as my apathy set in and I keep forgetting to watch.

I've heard good things about the most recent episodes, though. Perhaps I'll check that out.

Meanwhile *points at work and laughs with increasing hysteria*

I've...I've decided to find it funny.

*weeps*

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If I remember correctly it got something like 2.4 million viewers. Which was very disappointing compared to the viewers Who gets. But they did schedule it at early dinner-time on New Years Day with virtually no promotion.

That doesn't sound so terrible considering it's a spin-off aimed at younger kids... I mean a lot of people probably figured it was just for children and not worth watching; I know I had a very child-oriented image of it in my mind - much more so than for "Normal" Who. Plus 2.4 million means that roughly one person in thirty in the entirety of britain was watching it. Feh. Ratings whores, every one of them!

Would be odd if the two-parter rule is the case, but also if I may add to it, the early-season two-parters tend to be rank. Aliens of London was bad except for the Doctor/Rose character stuff. The cybermen two parter in S2 was pretty awful. And the Daleks In Manhatten 2-parter this season was really really shit.

*boggles* Good god, you're right! I didn't see the Manhatten two-parter. I know that at the time I thought that was a shame because the art-deco dalek sounded AWESOME, but then I heard how bad it sounded and...feh.

(I can't comment on Torchwood. I gave up in disgust half way through the Welsh countryside cannibals episode. I really wanted to like Torchwood, but everything about it I detested. Even Captain Jack.)

Oh, god, I almost quit halfway through the cannibals episode. That was just beyond insulting and horrifically bad. Especially since the first fifteen minutes or so were genuinely creepy... OH HOW BAD IT WAS GOING TO GET FROM THERE.

But I watched the next episode and...shockingly...it was pretty good, and it kept getting better. Until we hit "Combat" (The third from last episode!) which was just. Well. It wasn't as insulting to real live human beings as the cannibals episode but it was such. a. waste. of. space. It was a ripoff of Fight Club that missed every single point of Fight Club. Oh I'm angry just thinking about it.

And yes, really, the over-riding character point of Martha now is that she has fallen in LURVE with the Doctor, and pines away because he doesn't notice her or even remotely think of her in that way.

That's a total waste of Martha's character. Though quite interesting in terms of the Doctor since apparently the new series isn't going to quite go the way of having every companion be a romantic interest. Hmmm.

But in general...yes. Ho hum.