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[usuallyhats]

1.) Finished (re)watching The Hand of Fear last night. Woe, no more Sarah episodes! (But yay, nearly Leela tiem!)

- Lis Sladen was brilliant! Yeah, it's a little tiring seeing Sarah get possessed all the time, but she is just so good at it. The way she whirled around when the Doctor fell into the radiation room - very unSarah, and a bit like the way she-Eldrad whirled round when she was hit with the arrow.

- I sort of like the dungarees. They're a great colour!

- "I quite liked her... but I couldn't stand him." &SARAH;

- I really liked the little scene of the head of the power station phoning his wife and being all British at her, it made me want him to be ok.

- I am always a little sad when a story has a perfect excuse to contain UNIT and then... doesn't.

- The ending! I was in bits. "How did you know?" and "Don't forget me" and "I bet it isn't even Croydon" and the freeze frame... *weeps*

2.) Also I watched Law and Order: UK and Ping-Cho from Marco Polo was in it! I love TV.

3.) Changed my Dreamwidth layout last night: shinyjenni. I didn't really do much other than use one of their standard ones, but I did fiddle with some of the colours and bump up the text size a bit to make it readable. I wish I knew enough CSS to code a layout from scratch!

Comments

[nentari.livejournal.com]

I liked the dungarees too! Back when I first devised my girl!Doctor, I thought of dressing her in those - but then I remembered Sarah Jane was still wearing them when she left the TARDIS. Ah well.
And yes, the parallels between possessed!Sarah and she-Eldrad were great - and a really good way of showing both that Sarah was being possessed by Eldrad, and that Eldrad's female form was influenced by Sarah being the one who released her. Too bad Eldrad became so obnoxious once Sarah's influence in her body and personality vanished.

One day, I must "borrow" my father's Space:1999 DVDs and make a picspam of all the Who actors who appeared in that show. Whenever I see Marco Polo and Ping-Cho appears, I always go "Yay, it's Sandra!" (And yes, that's the same reaction I made when she appeared in SJA, rather than thinking of Ping-Cho.)

[usuallyhats]

Ooo, that would be awesome! I love seeing Who actors in other roles.

I'm so glad other people like the dungarees too! They seem to be singled out for much more criticism than they deserve.

[nentari.livejournal.com]

I'm also planning to do the same with the Poirot TV series; it's particularly funny to think that the actress who played Agatha Christie in Who had a minor role in one of the specials.

[usuallyhats]

Hee, really? I love connections like that. I spotted Mary Tamm in a Poirot the other day...

[nentari.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know exactly what episode you're talking about. :) I've also spotted Caroline John, Christopher Eccleston, Russel Tovey (a really bizarre spotting, because his character is a young girl in the novel and the Peter Ustinov movie) and several others.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

And one of the latter Poirots had PMG in it... as a doctor, I think? (He was also in a Marple as a ne'er-do-well music-hall entertainer who spends the second act being angsty in an eyepatch.)

And yes, I love to make connections between shows/movies, but Who especially.

[nentari.livejournal.com]

How could I forget Paul McGann? Sad Cypress is my favourite of Suchet's Poirot movies.

[usuallyhats]

It was Sad Cypress he was in? Oh, how annoying - I nearly watched that over Christmas but my sister has a problem with moustaches so we watched something else instead. *shakes fist at missed opportunity*

[usuallyhats]

(He was also in a Marple as a ne'er-do-well music-hall entertainer who spends the second act being angsty in an eyepatch.)
!!!
I don't usually watch Miss Marple, but I think I'll make an exception for this one.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Sleeping Murder. Madame de Pompadour, excuse me, Sophia Myles, played the leading lady.

[usuallyhats]

Shiny! I shall keep an eye out for it. :)

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

Awww, Sarah Jane! I do love The Hand of Fear, for all the reasons you list and more. :D

I'm with you weeping, I was way more broken up about Sarah's goodbye than I thought I'd be. And the dungarees ARE awesome! My favourite thing from that ep is probably 'Just testing!' though. ;D

[usuallyhats]

My favourite thing from that ep is probably 'Just testing!' though. ;D
That is a lovely moment. Oh Sarah!

I love that she gets a proper goodbye/leaving scene (I read this morning that Lis Sladen and Tom Baker improvised a lot of it), but it's so sad.

[minerva-fan.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I forgot the Just Testing moment. That was great!

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

"I read this morning that Lis Sladen and Tom Baker improvised a lot of it"

Aww! That kinda explains the awkwardness of it (not bad awkward, but very lovely people who don't want to say goodbye and are grappling for things to say awkward). Where did you learn that?

Now I feel like rewatching it.

[usuallyhats]

I read it in About Time, but I can't check the details as I'm at work at the moment!

very lovely people who don't want to say goodbye and are grappling for things to say awkward

Yes, that's exactly it! Such a good scene.

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I often do forget how much I love her. :D

And it really is SO SAD! (I think I did know that but I still love it so much!) Plus, I really do feel that keeping that scene in mind when watching 'School Reunion' can make for a pretty different interpretation.

[usuallyhats]

I have trouble squaring it with School Reunion, I must admit, but SJA did a good job of lining them up again!

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

I find they all do make sense to me, but because I want to make them make sense and be awesome, not because I think the writers intended it that way, if that makes sense. ;) Like what we were saying with Merlin?

[usuallyhats]

Hee, yes, I remember and know what you mean! :)

[minerva-fan.livejournal.com]

The scene where she's sitting in the room, holding her knees, staring straight ahead as Eldrad sucks the radiation through her--dude, that just sort of freaked me out last time I watched HoF. Lis really does possessed well, although I think she may have lost her knack in Prisoner of the Judoon. (Yeah, I know that's an unpopular opinion.)

[usuallyhats]

I don't hate her possessed!acting in Prisoner of the Juddoon, but it's not her best. Hand of Fear, on the other hand - she's just amazing.

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

I love the dungarees, my mum had a pair just like them (except without the stars on the bib) in the late seventies - which she passed on to me when I was about 10 so that I could dress up as Sarah... I love Hand of Fear even though it makes me sad :(

[usuallyhats]

which she passed on to me when I was about 10 so that I could dress up as Sarah...
Aw, that's awesome! It makes me happy to see how much love the dungarees are getting. :)

[callmeromana.livejournal.com]

Agree with everything about Hand of Fear.

[usuallyhats]

It's such a good story!

[callmeromana.livejournal.com]

It is indeed!

[munditia.livejournal.com]

Also I watched Law and Order: UK and Ping-Cho from Marco Polo was in it! I love TV.

Heh. I love British actor bingo.

Also, Ping-Cho could have awesome adventures with Martha. Hooray!

[usuallyhats]

Also, Ping-Cho could have awesome adventures with Martha. Hooray!

Yes! That would be brilliant.