"The Empty Planet" (Sarah Jane Adventures 4.7/8)

[unfeathered]

Just re-watched "Empty Planet" (SJA) which has to be one of my very favourite SJA stories. No annoying Luke, no annoying Sarah Jane, just Clyde and Rani, my two favourite characters, carrying an awesome story between them with absolutely no problem.

Have to admit, I thought the "Sun and air"/"son and heir" misunderstanding was a much bigger part of this, but presumably that's because I just love the idea of it. Also interesting this time that I was going, "But what about all the planes, and why aren't the streets filled with crashed cars, like in the Snap?" - right before Clyde and Rani explained it by saying all the 'moving parts', i.e. cars and planes must have been stolen too!

Ironically, chatting afterwards with my son, who is still my viewing companion on occasion, he mentioned we should watch "Flux" again and I was like: I was literally thinking about DW today and didn't even remember there was anything between the Captain Jack new year episode and last year's Sea Devils episode! I'd forgotten all about "Flux"!!! Probably for the best, really, but we decided we should probably re-watch all the Thirteenth Doctor episodes again (he's only seen them once) before next year's 60th. (Yes, I know there's one more new ep on 23 Oct. Can't say I'm holding out much hope though.) Anyway, that'll give us plenty of time then, to fight the boredom and make ourselves watch the Thirteen era episodes. After we've finished the awesomeness that is SJA.

P.S. I've been so busy lately I just realised I haven't checked in here for, like, at least a month or something. Have I missed anything important?

P.P.S I need an SJA icon. Clyde or Rani or younger Sarah Jane, preferably. Any suggestions???

Comments

[shivver]

That is totally one of the best SJA episodes! My husband and I have been talking about a full rewatch of that show, and I need to remind him as our rewatch of Stargate Atlantis is coming to an end.

I had the same reaction during the heart attack scene in "The Power of Three": where were all the crashed cars and planes? But that episode didn't bother to explain it away.

We've been meaning to do a full rewatch of 13 as well, but probably won't by the regen ep.

[unfeathered]

It really is! To be honest, I love all of S4. The show was really coming into its own and I can't help feeling that getting rid of Luke helped too. Fewer, stronger characters to focus on, and some really great stories. S5 is great too, despite the unnecessary (to me, as an adult) shoehorning in of Sky to appeal to the younger audience. Especially "The Curse of Clyde Langer" - again, a story focussed on Clyde. Such a shame the show had to end as and when it did. I gather there's a new Big Finish thing with Rani (and some Clyde) which I might have to look into, though great as those are I don't find them any real substitute for more TV! :-(

Interesting point about "Power of Three" - it's years since I watched that as we skipped over it on our last rewatch, but I guess that marks the difference between RTD and Chibnall/Moffatt, and one of the reasons why I prefer RTD!