04 December 2006
"THIS TIME WE'LL KILL SARAH JANE SMITH PROPERLY!"
"Sonic lipstick", a giant fold-out computer called Mr Smith, SJ whizzing around in a Nissan Figaro, a craze for fizzy drinks sweeping the nation ... the preview disc for The Sarah Jane Adventures has hit my desk, and it looks awfully good.
"When the programme-makers first contacted me," said Elisabeth Sladen in interview recently, "I thought they were calling me about Torchwood. 'Ooh,' I said, 'I'm going to be in the 9pm slot for once! I'm going to be grown up!'."
But, from the excerpt I've seen, this is absolutely, deafeningly a kids' show, with a lot of the action told from the point of view of the juvenile lead, Maria. Sarah is very much portrayed as "the other", a fantastic, mysterious person who chats to aliens (one of whom has, fittingly, dropped in from Torchwood) on her back lawn. The baddy - Samantha Bond - is just this side of a cartoon, and that's how it should be.
Word of mouth about this show is already good. Unsurprisingly, I'm excited.
"When the programme-makers first contacted me," said Elisabeth Sladen in interview recently, "I thought they were calling me about Torchwood. 'Ooh,' I said, 'I'm going to be in the 9pm slot for once! I'm going to be grown up!'."
But, from the excerpt I've seen, this is absolutely, deafeningly a kids' show, with a lot of the action told from the point of view of the juvenile lead, Maria. Sarah is very much portrayed as "the other", a fantastic, mysterious person who chats to aliens (one of whom has, fittingly, dropped in from Torchwood) on her back lawn. The baddy - Samantha Bond - is just this side of a cartoon, and that's how it should be.
Word of mouth about this show is already good. Unsurprisingly, I'm excited.
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Ooh, thank goodness for that. But then the first episode of 'Torchwood' was awfully good to. Then look what happened ...
"'Spin-off!' Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?" This series is going to be the straw that broke the Dr Who franchise camel's back. Torchwood has turned out to be so unlike what was promised, and also unlike anything resembling new, exciting and imaginative telly, I can't help but approach this next spin-off with expectations as low as the splinters underneath the bottom of the barrel. An Ian Levine-sized barrel, naturally.
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Have the production team said anything at all about the negative criticism that's been greeting them anywhere at all? I can't wait to see the letters in DWM ...
Gotta say that I think Torchwood seems so unrelated to its Doctor Who cousin (parent?) as to be entirely different entities. Ones poor performance will not impact the other in the slightest, so talk of "franchises" and "spin offs" may not be entirely on the money because I think comparissons are being made to Trek, CSI, Stargate and other such American fayre. The three shows from the Upper Boat stable all seem to be distinctly targetted at different audiences and it may be only a hard-core fanbase that will watch all three religiously. Sarah Jane's return is being eagerly anticipated by me for one.... my only concern being flashbacks to K9 & Company.
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