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Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures really hasn't been adequately plugged to the non-child demographic, which is unfair given what a push Torchwood got (bus-side ads, for instance), and unfortunate given it's mostly very good. Yes, starting the series proper with Slitheen was unfortunate, and we've all seen the Laserquest-as-alien-troop-recruitment story a hundred times before, but the gorgon tale was quite effectively chilling and moving, and 'Whatever Happened To Sarah Jane?'...![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
myfirstkitchen plugged the first part a couple of weeks ago, and sure it was good, but this week's closer was even better. The villain was basically the Black Guardian done right, the moral was 'hey kids, your best friend? They'll screw you over if the price is right, you know', and even the slightly bolted-on parents of SJ's kid sidekick got to do something vaguely interesting for once. And all this in a kids' show whose budget looks to be more like oldskool Who's than the new series'!
In other geek TV news: is everyone aware of the forthcoming Joss Whedon/Eliza Dusku reunion? On a show whose concept sounds distinctly Grant Morrison? Of course, it'll have to wait until the US writers' strike is done. Now, I've been thinking about this strike. There's already been discussion on the comics sites of whether it will lead to more film and TV writers adding a comics string to their bow (consensus: probably not). But given the dollar's current status as the nancy boy of international currencies, wouldn't it make more sense for the writers to get work overseas? Right now, doing one Pot Noodle ad would probably make you a dollar millionaire. So get an episode on a big British TV show, and you're laughing. Now, consider how many British TV shows are run by people who've come up in the shadow of USTV - and it's an understandable attitude, even if I don't always agree with their choice of shows to idolise. They'd feel they were getting bargains, wouldn't they?
I'm ambivalent about whether this would be a good thing - it could be a real kick in the face for a lot of British writers who are just getting a foot in the door, like the better Who contributors. But is there any particular reason for it not to happen?
(Of course, I'm also ambivalent about the whole dollar situation. Yes, obviously there are many major ways in which it is a bad thing that an appalling president and an uncontrolled corporate class have beggared the US and according to the IMF, left bloody China as the main stabilizing force in international economics, thus ending the centuries in which economic power and social liberty have tended to advance hand in hand. But, on the other hand - cheap stuff! The exchange rate makes the new Jason Webley album a bargain. And when I found that Gosh can't get League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier after all (as a result of DC political p1ssing contests of which Alan Moore himself said "it could be an almost unbelievable pettiness and malice that was behind this, or it could be an equally unbelievable incompetence. Or it could be some heady and dizzying blend of the two") - well, it turns out that even with shipping it's cheaper to go via US Amazon anyway, so I can't be too irate.
myfirstkitchen plugged the first part a couple of weeks ago, and sure it was good, but this week's closer was even better. The villain was basically the Black Guardian done right, the moral was 'hey kids, your best friend? They'll screw you over if the price is right, you know', and even the slightly bolted-on parents of SJ's kid sidekick got to do something vaguely interesting for once. And all this in a kids' show whose budget looks to be more like oldskool Who's than the new series'! In other geek TV news: is everyone aware of the forthcoming Joss Whedon/Eliza Dusku reunion? On a show whose concept sounds distinctly Grant Morrison? Of course, it'll have to wait until the US writers' strike is done. Now, I've been thinking about this strike. There's already been discussion on the comics sites of whether it will lead to more film and TV writers adding a comics string to their bow (consensus: probably not). But given the dollar's current status as the nancy boy of international currencies, wouldn't it make more sense for the writers to get work overseas? Right now, doing one Pot Noodle ad would probably make you a dollar millionaire. So get an episode on a big British TV show, and you're laughing. Now, consider how many British TV shows are run by people who've come up in the shadow of USTV - and it's an understandable attitude, even if I don't always agree with their choice of shows to idolise. They'd feel they were getting bargains, wouldn't they?
I'm ambivalent about whether this would be a good thing - it could be a real kick in the face for a lot of British writers who are just getting a foot in the door, like the better Who contributors. But is there any particular reason for it not to happen?
(Of course, I'm also ambivalent about the whole dollar situation. Yes, obviously there are many major ways in which it is a bad thing that an appalling president and an uncontrolled corporate class have beggared the US and according to the IMF, left bloody China as the main stabilizing force in international economics, thus ending the centuries in which economic power and social liberty have tended to advance hand in hand. But, on the other hand - cheap stuff! The exchange rate makes the new Jason Webley album a bargain. And when I found that Gosh can't get League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier after all (as a result of DC political p1ssing contests of which Alan Moore himself said "it could be an almost unbelievable pettiness and malice that was behind this, or it could be an equally unbelievable incompetence. Or it could be some heady and dizzying blend of the two") - well, it turns out that even with shipping it's cheaper to go via US Amazon anyway, so I can't be too irate.
