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remindmeofthe) wrote2008-10-06 06:49 pm
remindmeofthe) wrote2008-10-06 06:49 pm
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Oh, Sarah Jane Adventures. I am so pleased with how this season is shaping up.
Clowns! I have never exactly grasped the full-on-creeping-shudders thing that people get from clowns, but this episode made me understand. (Much more so, may I add, than the Supernatural clown ep. It seems strange for SJA to be scarier than SPN, but there it is.) I think this is because it didn't just stick with the typical big red smile clown, but branched out into the older types of clowns, the jesters and harlequins, with the somber makeup and ratty clothes. Clowns that are much easier to take seriously. Clowns that seem, when you look at them, to have much more in common with The Dark Knight's Joker than Ronald McDonald.
Speaking of which, I loved Clyde sarcastically referring to himself as "the joker." I choose to take that as a smoothly added indicator of the creepiness to come.
The character change, I don't know yet. I wanted to hug poor Luke. I can't believe I didn't realize that of course he would take it hardest of anyone. He's never experienced any kind of real, lasting loss before.
Rani herself I'm not crazy about so far, but I do prefer her eager curiosity to the other way they could have gone, with skepticism and denial and et cetera. One half-hour episode isn't nearly enough to judge a long-term character either way, though, so we'll see.
(But did they HAVE to name her Rani? Seriously? They couldn't have picked any one of a zillion other Indian female names that DON'T have a prominent place in Whoniverse lore? No? Okay, then.)
Clowns! I have never exactly grasped the full-on-creeping-shudders thing that people get from clowns, but this episode made me understand. (Much more so, may I add, than the Supernatural clown ep. It seems strange for SJA to be scarier than SPN, but there it is.) I think this is because it didn't just stick with the typical big red smile clown, but branched out into the older types of clowns, the jesters and harlequins, with the somber makeup and ratty clothes. Clowns that are much easier to take seriously. Clowns that seem, when you look at them, to have much more in common with The Dark Knight's Joker than Ronald McDonald.
Speaking of which, I loved Clyde sarcastically referring to himself as "the joker." I choose to take that as a smoothly added indicator of the creepiness to come.
The character change, I don't know yet. I wanted to hug poor Luke. I can't believe I didn't realize that of course he would take it hardest of anyone. He's never experienced any kind of real, lasting loss before.
Rani herself I'm not crazy about so far, but I do prefer her eager curiosity to the other way they could have gone, with skepticism and denial and et cetera. One half-hour episode isn't nearly enough to judge a long-term character either way, though, so we'll see.
(But did they HAVE to name her Rani? Seriously? They couldn't have picked any one of a zillion other Indian female names that DON'T have a prominent place in Whoniverse lore? No? Okay, then.)