Maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention, but I was also a little mystified by how you can save the universe by opening a "portal" or "gateway" to ULTIMATE POW-ORR and then knocking the bad guys through it. Wasn't that what they wanted?
Have to say, based on preliminary viewing, I think SJA Season 2 did a bit of an inverse Torchwood: after a surprisingly great first season we've settled down to something that is fan-watchable but, really, even at the best of times, no better than it should be. I'm as happy as anyone to see Nick Courtney earning a paycheck into his fifth decade on the show, but as you have correctly implied already there was really no point at all to the Brig's cameo (which I suppose does have canonical precedent in Mawdryn Undead). I quite liked the finale episode, especially Mrs Wormwood doing her Narnian Ice Queen impression, but then I'd just watched the first ep of "The Web Planet" in advance so any pretence towards acting, budget or scriptwriting was going to look good by comparison. A couple of good lines amidst a sea of unabashedly CBBC-grade plotlines (MUMS AND DADS = GOOD!) and nonsensical posturing, that was most of this season. But probably I'm still just sore about "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" being nothing more than a blow-by-blow remake of Father's Day, except sh$%.
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Have to say, based on preliminary viewing, I think SJA Season 2 did a bit of an inverse Torchwood: after a surprisingly great first season we've settled down to something that is fan-watchable but, really, even at the best of times, no better than it should be. I'm as happy as anyone to see Nick Courtney earning a paycheck into his fifth decade on the show, but as you have correctly implied already there was really no point at all to the Brig's cameo (which I suppose does have canonical precedent in Mawdryn Undead). I quite liked the finale episode, especially Mrs Wormwood doing her Narnian Ice Queen impression, but then I'd just watched the first ep of "The Web Planet" in advance so any pretence towards acting, budget or scriptwriting was going to look good by comparison. A couple of good lines amidst a sea of unabashedly CBBC-grade plotlines (MUMS AND DADS = GOOD!) and nonsensical posturing, that was most of this season. But probably I'm still just sore about "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" being nothing more than a blow-by-blow remake of Father's Day, except sh$%.