UNIT troops turn up on Bannerman Road to take Sarah Jane and her young friends to the Doctor's funeral at Mount Snowden. There she meets up with another mourner, Josephine Jones, née Grant.
The fourth season of THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES seems to be the best of the lot. The characters have fallen into place, the humor has evolved from the modified fart jokes and the stories have integrated the details of their symbolic content into the script.
In this nostalgic musing on the power of memory, Russell T. Davies integrates artfully aged clips of old Doctors with rogue UNIT officers and aliens who look like the Graske aliens from earlier seasons -- sometimes things aren't what our memory tells us they are. Sometimes it's a good thing to remember, but that cannot be our only guide.
I won't claim that this is a perfect episode. Anji Mohinda is clearly a young adult, not a teenager and there's something a touch off about Matt Smith's turn as the Eleventh Doctor -- his eccentric movements are too constrained. On the other hand, there are a couple of moments when the cameraman catches him at just the right angle and I thought that he looked remarkably like Jon Pertwee, the actor who played the Third Doctor. It's moments like that which endear a show like this to me. It's those moments that we remember.
The fourth season of THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES seems to be the best of the lot. The characters have fallen into place, the humor has evolved from the modified fart jokes and the stories have integrated the details of their symbolic content into the script.
In this nostalgic musing on the power of memory, Russell T. Davies integrates artfully aged clips of old Doctors with rogue UNIT officers and aliens who look like the Graske aliens from earlier seasons -- sometimes things aren't what our memory tells us they are. Sometimes it's a good thing to remember, but that cannot be our only guide.
I won't claim that this is a perfect episode. Anji Mohinda is clearly a young adult, not a teenager and there's something a touch off about Matt Smith's turn as the Eleventh Doctor -- his eccentric movements are too constrained. On the other hand, there are a couple of moments when the cameraman catches him at just the right angle and I thought that he looked remarkably like Jon Pertwee, the actor who played the Third Doctor. It's moments like that which endear a show like this to me. It's those moments that we remember.