#Us: Clyde Luke and Rani obviously | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

forabeatofadrum · 2 years

Text

The post that started it all, lol

Group 1: Luke, Jack, Bill, Charlie, Ten, Rose

Ten and Rose fall in love

Luke realises he’s gay

“Us Smiths gotta stick together” “You know Mickey?”

Jack really likes Ianto and Bill helps him realise that while gushing over Penny.

Let them fight Weevils, I guess

if only Owen were here, cause he can sorta control it, or if Sky were here with her electric powers

Group 2: Donna, Rory, Eleven, Tanya, Owen, Sarah Jane

“This woman, River Song.” “You’ve met my daughter?”

Eleven says a proper goodbye to Donna

SJ talking about what it is like to leave the Doctor

Fighting the Shadowkin and Tanya knows them

if only April were here, cause she is King

I dunno what Owen is doing to be honest

Group 3: April, Twelve, Nine, Clyde, Rani, Gwen

April realises she still has these fucking badass swords and that she deserves better

The Time War is brought up and Twelve tells Nine what happened to Gallifrey

Gwen is very protective over the kids and she realises that she does care for Torchwood

Clyde and Rani finally get together holy shit

Vashta Nerada are fucking amazing

Group 4: Matteusz, Amy, Ianto, Toshiko, Ram, Sky

Dealing with the Silence

Matteusz realises how deeply he loves Charlie

Amy uses her knowledge about the Silence

Sky bonding with Matteusz, because Matti misses Cela

Toshiko is strangely enough helping Ram deal with his feelings for April cause shit, she’s into Owen.

In the end, through telepathy, they manage to get back. Weevils have small telepathic skills. Charlie had a telepathic connection to Quill, but Quill got rid of it. April is linked to the Shadow Kin. Amy creates new Eye Drives with telepathy.

So basically, the Shadow Kin are the big baddies. They all need to reunite in order for April to fight them. Group 1 “hack” into the Weevil’s telepathy skill to figure out that a) Weevil is scared and wants to go home and b) they pick up other signals.

This is a signal created by Amy and Tosh with their new Eye Drives. This way, Group 4 is able to communicate with Group 1. Ten manages to create a telephatic link with Eleven, so Group 2 gets added to this mass. Anyway, Group 2 warns everyone that they have to find a way to get April. Eleven and Ten try to reach Nine and Twelve with this new found telepathy, but it’s difficult, since Group 3 has two Doctors and it messes with the signal or whatever.

Eventually, Nine is reached and they warn him. April has a link with the Shadow Kin, so she still has this badass swords that she can use to create openings between dimensions. Oh yeah, they’re all actually in this weird pocket dimension. Eventually, they all end up in Group 2′s street.

Amy fights the Shadow Kin, which is surprisingly easy. In fact, it’s too easy.

Damn motherfucker, it’s the Trickster who’s secretly behind ALL of this. He created this pocket dimension. Why? To create bargains. All characters have become better persons after this and he can create a deal with all of them. All they have to do is leave the Doctor behind.

Well, a big nope obviously.

They all kinda go back to their own time, but they all notice a woman watching them. Even though they’ve forgotten what has happened, their life has been impacted.

Flash forward to 2019. Thirteen gasps awake and she remembers it all. She goes back in time to watch all her friends and then decides to tell them the truth.

Luke can use telekinesis in some way, I guess.

Sky has her electrical powers.

#story notes #story: a rip in time

0 notes

gemvictorfromtheponyverse · 6 years

Note

how about 13 meeting Sarah-Jane (and the rest of the family)

FINALLY finished this!!!Here is your fanfic, sort of following the prompt:"Watch out!" Barely thinking, Sarah jane grabs on to the arm of the blonde haired woman that has somehow gotten herself stuck in the middle of a Judoon battlefield. Though Sarah Jane try to keep her out of the crossfire, she's already injured, a wound to the side of her head spilling blood down the side of her face and staining her clothes, and while she suspect it needs medical attention, there is little to do about it as Sarah Jane tries to get them to safety.Luke, Rani and Clyde is waiting for them not too far away, hiding behind a wall as the Judoon kept trying to blow themselves up. Clyde was talking with K-9, Mr.Smith and Sky on his phone, and Sarah Jane had never been more happy for the advancement of technology from her UNIT days. When the three teenager see Sarah Jane and her rescue coming, they're up on their feet in a second. While Clyde stay on the phone, updating the attic team on the situation and no doubt describing their new member, Luke and Rani help support Sarah Jane's companion by grabbing on to an arm each.And it's a good thing, apparently, because less than a minute later the blonde woman's feet give up under her, and as her etes close she crash towards the concrete ground, barely caught by the two teenagers holding on to her."Who is she?" Luke asks, propping up the unconscious humanoid against the wall. All Sarah Jane can do is shrug, trying to ignore how it hurt her injured shoulder, a Judoon laser having skimmed it earlier. She didn't know, and was unlikely to find out anytime soon."She was caught in the middle of the fight, all gone because something obviously got her head." She gestures towards the head wound and the big red stain on the women's light blue coat. Obviously, she wasn't planning of acquiring a head wound when she chose her outfit that day. "I couldn't leave her. Not only was she in direct danger, but UNIT'll be here any minute, and goodness knows what they'll do if we leave her for them to find." Sarah Jane is not quite sure when she decided that the woman was an alien - and not just a civilian caught in alien fire- but by now she has and she's ademant to keep the alien out of UNIT's grasp. "But she's bleeding, Sarah Jane. It's bad, she'll need help!" Rani pointed out, worridly examining the wound at the side of the woman's head. It didn't look big, but like all head wounds it bled plenty."We'll have to ask for some help about that." Sarah Jane frowned, she too taking a closer look at the injury. The woman was completely passed out, not even stirring as Sarah Jane touched the area around the wound, trying to decide how much was actual injury and how much was just generous amounts of coagulated blood. UNIT training kicking in, she recognized that it might be dangerous to not try to rouse the woman, but on the other hand it could be dangerous to wake her up and then have to handle an uncooperative alien while still trying to escape the Judoon. "Sarah Jane, some UNIT Doctor is coming to pick up blondie" Removing the phone from his ear, Clyde gestured to the passed out woman leaning against the wall. "Mr Smith picked her out and she'll drive blondie to your house, if you get the rest of us back there while UNIT clean up here."Sarah Jane nodded. "Is it Martha Jones that's coming?" She asked, and when Clyde nodded, she smiled slightly. "Good. Then we're set."---"Thanks for coming, Martha..." From somewhere far away in the darkness, a voice crept into The Doctor's awareness. It was strong and sweet and like a moth to a flame, The Doctor was pulled to it. Though she wasn't quite able to process the words it spoke, she could tell that it was good. It was safe, and kind, and The Doctor wanted to reachout to the person who owned it.Slowly, The Doctor began to fight against the inky darkness surrounding her. Trying to claim control of her body, she first moved her limbs. Though she was caught in inky darkness and could not see, she kicked and moved her limbs, the feeling of the returning to her and she fought for consciousness and to return to the world.The guidning voice had been quiet for a while, but as she started to move it spoke once more. A warm hand squeezed on her arm, and this time The Doctor could process the word she was hearing.“I see you’re awake. Why don’t you try open your eyes?” Her voice was gentle and slowly, The Doctor obeyed. Her eyelids rose and her eyes open, staring up into an unfamiliar ceiling. It's pretty dark in the room, but it’s rustic and wooden and The Doctor thinks it might be one of her favourite ceiling she’s encountered so far, because it tells with suddenly clarity where she is.“Sarah Jane.” The woman beside her tense, freezing mid-movement as she reacted to hearing her name being spoken by a stranger. A stranger that Sarah Jane had learned to know four, five six times over by now. For them, each new beginning meant that they started over. Sarah Jane would whisper his name and he’d smile and they’d be standing there, doors wide open to a new beginning.But this time there is no soft recognition in Sarah Jane’s eyes. She starred, cold and calculating at the stranger lying on the sofa. The Doctor swallowed, trying to move away.“I’m sorry” She says. “I’m sorry Sarah Jane I just…” She doesn’t get to say anything further, because her whole head fills with spiking pain, and she very nearly fall of the couch as her attempt to sit up is aborted nid-way.“Doctor!” Reaching out, Sarah Jane barely manages to catch The Doctor, holding her suspended about a millimeter off the floor, before softly guiding her down upon the rug.Their eyes lock, and The Doctor sees it. She sees the little spark, the recognition and understanding that followed her unintentional words.“Hello Sarah” She speak, smiling a loopy grin, and she hears Sarah Jane laughing in disbelief.“You stupid, stupid man.” Pausing, Sarah Jane gives her a once over, eyes widening as though she just realized that The Doctor is not a man anymore. “Woman, it seem. God, if only some of that female brain power came along with it.” Slowly, she helps The Doctor sit up. It hurts worse than her latest regeneration, and it goes slow as she try not to throw up on Sarah Jane’s rug.“What happened?” As soon as she can,, she asks. She feels god awful and though she could not recall it something had obviously happened to her. Hopefully Sarah Jane could shed some light on the matter.“You got caught between a few fighting Judoons and a laser nicked a bit of your head.” Slowly carefully, Sarah reached out to touch the side of The Doctor’s head. With a hiss, The Doctor drew back, a burning pain radiating from the side of her head. “Oh, Doctor. I didn’t know it was you. When Martha said you had two hearts I...I was scared.”“Martha was here?” She asked, surprised. Martha worked for UNIT and Torchwood, she knew, and she found it surprising to think she’d appear just to care for a random alien that Sarah Jane had happened to get her hands on. “Yes, of course. You were bleeding! She had to glue together the wound to stop the bleeding. She also gave you a once over, just in case…” Something dark appeared in Sarah Jane’s eyes, and The Doctor almost thought it looked like she was about to cry, biting her lip and holding The Doctor’s hand. “When she said you had two hearts, I thought they'd come for you. The Time Lords. I didn’t...I should have realized it was you.” Tears are rolling down Sarah Jane’s cheeks, quietly, and The Doctor’s heart ache as she watch her so horribly sad. “It’s okay. Come here.” Careful, mindful of her head, The Doctor pulls Sarah Jane in for a hug. She holds her tight, rocking the both of them slightly as she tries to comfort one of her oldest friends. “I’m fine, Sarah Jane. No Time Lords coming for me.” She smiled bitterly. “One of the perks of being friends with the President.”Pulling back, Sarah Jane looked at The Doctor in surprise. “You...you know the President? Of Gallifrey?”The Doctor nodded seriously. “She traveled with me. I think it was a while after you, but before Tegan.” Another frown, but then she lightened up considerably. “Now, what do you think of my new look?” She gestured down her body, vaguely aware that there was blood splatter on the clothes, and she probably looked a lot less appealing than she’d done that morning.Nonetheless, Sarah Jane smiled. “Oh, I like it! Some girl power in that old body of yours!” She laughed, and the Doctor winces.“So I’m still your Doctor?” She asks, her voice full of doubt. Being a woman was a big change, and she wasn’t expecting everyone to like it. “Yes! Of course!” Leaning in, she gave The Doctor a big hug. “You’ll always be my Doctor!”

8 notes · View notes

academy13 · 4 years

Text

I just thought of like... all the 10th Doctor era companions (and in the case of Jack and Sarah, with their assorted teams) playing D&D and like the sheer chaos that would be.... like, Donna is obviously the DM, 10 would not be able to manage anything more than a one shot campaign and even then, it would be a gamble. It takes the combined forces of Sarah and Rose to get the Doctor to play a character that is not a bard nor some sort of wizard because ‘Your character isn’t literally supposed to be you, you dunce’ (Mickey plays a bard, much to the Doctor’s annoyance), Martha has the most chaotic character in the game, ironically a Ranger, and everyone’s a little concerned, Jack’s got a paladin who’s Martha’s character’s best friend, Rose goes for a druid because she thinks she’s hilarious (I mean, she’s named for a flower, and druid’s are literally involved with the powers of nature), Mickey’s bard is actually less chaotic than you would expect of a bard, but it evens out because whatever Martha’s character doesn’t do, his does, Sarah just goes for the most blood thirsty Rouge and the Doctor is the only one really concerned by this (her character is like, easily the second most chaotic character in the game), Jackie doesn’t play, but she does provide commentary and helps Donna out with GM duties (the group is just sometimes that large), Gwen also plays a Ranger, but one who’s a lot less chaotic than Martha’s but is equally as terrifying as Sarah’s Rouge, Ianto has a Sorcerer who’s turned into the team’s main healer, Luke is like the only person who just know’s everyone’s stats and items and spells and shit, so if anyone can’t find it on their character sheet or look it up in the book (because honestly who remembers how the spells work half the time) they just ask him, and he plays a Wizard who for the most part, keeps the group on track (he’s the only one half the time who actually wants to know what rewards they’ll get at the end of the dungeon), the Doctor eventually settled on a Monk (partly because like Rose, he thinks he’s funny) who’s turning out to be the third most chaotic member of the party, a tie with Mickey’s bard (Rose thinks its hilarious that neither of them can be more chaotic than Martha and Sarah’s characters), Clyde went for a Fighter who’s turned out to be Luke’s character’s best friend and Rani’s bard’s lover (Luke and Maria get milage out of this fact, and Sarah is amused the entire time), and Rani’s Bard usually out bard’s Mickey’s bard and is also sort of the other healer of the group, Maria goes for a Barbarian figuring it’d be fun to play a character like that. Other fun things include

- Martha and Sarah’s characters murdering ALL THE THINGS

- Mickey singing ‘Come Little Children’ and creeping everyone out, in and out of character

- Rose’s character accidentally strangling a guy

- “Where’s a necromancer when you need one?” “Dead.”

- Viscous Mockery

- The perverse glee of Sarah and the Doctor as they, in character, murder characters not dissimilar to the Daleks and Rose is just like ‘I understand you two far more than I ever wanted to’

- Jack just keeps getting high rolls, like a lot, and no matter who’s dice he’s using or how often they check to make sure they’re not loaded or something, he just KEEPS. ROLLING. HIGH. He’s rolled enough Nat 20s that they’re like ‘DUDE WHAT THE HELL?!’

- Gwen’s character murdered a ghost and Rose and the Doctor cannot stop laughing

- Clyde, Luke, Rani, and Maria all winding up on a side quest and they somehow manage to roll high enough that they befriend the monster they were supposed to kill. They name it Steve. Donna has to rework like three different plots.

0 notes

esonetwork · 4 years

Text

Timestamp #SJA11: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/timestamp-sja11-the-temptation-of-sarah-jane-smith/

Timestamp #SJA11: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2 episodes, s02e05, 2008)

Sarah Jane Smith meets Sarah Jane Smith.

Courtesy of a mysterious fissure, a young boy materializes in a shopping center. Rani and Clyde give chase as he runs away while Sarah Jane and Luke investigate the time fissure. Sarah Jane plans to send the boy home and seal the rift, but young Oscar is afraid. So, Sarah Jane escorts him through the fissure.

Just as she’s about to leave, she sees a road marker: She’s near Foxgrove in the year 1951. She avoids the temptation and leaves, and the boy asks the Trickster if he did okay.

The Trickster vows that Sarah Jane will return.

With the job done, the Bannerman Road Gang returns home, but Sarah Jane is obviously haunted. She asks Mr. Smith about the history of Foxgrove, then looks at the photograph in her desk drawer. Luke interrupts her reflections and she explains that the photo is of her parents, Eddie and Barbara Smith. They died in a traffic accident, leaving Sarah Jane in her pram on the side of the road at only three months old. She was adopted by her aunt Lavinia, but the mystery of their death has haunted her throughout her life.

The time fissure leads to Foxgrove, one month before her parents died. Luke suggests going to see them, but Sarah Jane thinks that it’s a trap. She refuses the bait.

Or so she says.

She sneaks out of the house later that night, all dressed up for a trip to the 1950s. Luke catches her before she leaves, and she promises that it will be a quick trip. She opens the fissure, considers the ramifications one last time, and walks through to her own past. The fissure was supposed to remain open for an hour, but it fluctuates so Luke dives in after her. Together, they walk to Foxgrove, not noticing a triumphant Oscar hiding nearby.

Rani and Clyde take notice of their absence and consult Mr. Smith, but the supercomputer has no knowledge of their whereabouts. He theorizes that they used the fissure. They find the Verron Soothsayer box, which is now flashing, and they decide to investigate.

Sarah Jane and Luke end up at a town festival. Sarah Jane spots her mother and her infant self, and she decides to talk to her mother to determine why her parents would abandon her. The time travelers introduce themselves as Victoria and David Beckham, and Sarah Jane ventures off to help her mother out serving tea. Meanwhile, Luke spots Oscar and investigates the boy’s odd behavior.

Eddie and Barbara talk to Sarah Jane about their baby and her future. Sarah Jane’s emotions swell and she decides to leave. Luke follows with a newspaper, but Sarah Jane realizes that it is the day that her parents died. The temptation is strong to disable the Smith car with her sonic lipstick, and Luke lobbies her to avoid altering a fixed point in time.

Her emotions overrule her logic and she disables the car’s engine. They rush back to the fissure to see if anything significant changed as the world begins to crumble around them.

Clyde and Rani arrive at the site of the fissure. The box changes color as they try to open the rift. Oscar returns through the fissure and morphs into a Graske before chasing after them. The world changes as they take shelter.

Sarah Jane and Luke return home to find the world transformed into a complete wasteland. The Trickster reveals himself, gleeful that Sarah Jane has given the world over to him. Foxgrove rested on a weak point in the fabric of time and Sarah Jane’s actions smashed a fault line and allowed the Trickster to manifest and ravage the Earth.

Luke and Sarah Jane return to 1951 to set things straight. The storm is already in progress at Foxgrove, prompting the villagers to take their festival indoors. Sarah Jane wishes that the Doctor was there to help them, and her hopes are buoyed up by the sight of a police box. Unfortunately, the box is not the TARDIS and only contains a police officer. Sarah Jane and Luke find Eddie and Barbara. Barbara offers to help them look for anything odd.

Rani and Clyde, protected from the alternate timeline by the puzzle box, wander the wasteland. They spot the Graske and decide to follow it. They spot Rani’s mother in a group of slaves, and Rani tries to make contact. The Graske, who is the slavemaster, is apprehensive around the duo. Rani’s mother explains that they are forced to mine every resource from the planet, and she shares the legend of Sarah Jane Smith and how she gave the world to the Trickster. They also learn about the Abbot’s Gateway and decide to somehow get that information to Sarah Jane and Luke.

Rani and Clyde demand an audience with the Graske and learn about his history and how he was tricked by the Trickster. He was saved from death but became a slave as a result. Clyde offers to exchange the puzzle box – a way to free the Graske – for a way back to the past. The arrangement means that Rani can go to 1951 but Clyde must remain behind with the box.

Sarah Jane and Luke track the source of the disturbance while Rani hunts them down, sticking out like a sore thumb as a woman of color in the village. Rani delivers her message, confusing Barbara with information from the future. The Trickster begins to manifest as Eddie arrives to take Barbara away.

The elder Smiths return to the village hall. Everything they touch ages rapidly, from fruit to flowers, and Barbara realizes that the problem revolves around them. She knows that Sarah Jane Smith is the adult version of their own baby.

At the Abbot’s Gate, Luke tries to convince Sarah Jane to repair the car, even though it means that her parents will die. Sarah Jane fixes the car as her parents arrive. They leave their baby with Luke and Rani as Sarah Jane says her goodbyes. The family shares an embrace as they mend their bridges. Sarah Jane now understands why her parents had to die and why they left her behind.

Her parents bid both Sarah Janes farewell as they drive away. The future is safe as the Trickster writhes in pain and vaporizes in the restored timeline. Sarah Jane, Luke, and Rani take the infant to her rightful place.

With the timeline restored, Clyde gives the puzzle box to the Graske and frees him from his servitude. The time travelers return home and Sarah Jane smashes the device used to open the fissure. Rani finds her parents alive and well, and Sarah Jane reminisces over her parents.

Although she could not save them, she finally knows why they left. She is proud of them. She shares a hug with Luke over the photo of Eddie and Barbara.

On the back of the photo lies one last remnant of the whimsical love notes they used to share: “Mr. Smith, I need you”.

On its face, this is a very basic story about the circular paradox. In fact, it is almost a complete rehash of Father’s Day, from a child saving a parent from a fixed point death, the resulting fractures and destruction in the timeline, and a noble sacrifice to set things right. It also bears striking similarities to The Curse of Fenric.

But it has the benefit of being about one of the most beloved characters in Doctor Who history, and that emotional investment makes a considerable difference between a standard plotline and a great story in this universe. Sarah Jane thinks like the Doctor, rationalizing every break of the rules to satiate just one more piece of her curiosity, while Luke, Rani, and Clyde act as her anchors to help save the world.

That twist on the story, including Sarah Jane realizing that she doesn’t need the Doctor to save her – that she literally has all of the tools that she needs to fix her mistake – is amazing, and it serves to empower both her and her young companions, making them stronger both as characters and as a cohesive family in the end.

Rating: 5/5 – “Fantastic!”

UP NEXT – Sarah Jane Adventures: Enemy of the Bane

The Timestamps Project is an adventure through the televised universe of Doctor Who, story by story, from the beginning of the franchise. For more reviews like this one, please visit the project’s page at Creative Criticality.

#Sarah Jane Smith #The Sarah Jane Adventures #Timestamps Project

0 notes

sandymybeloved · 8 months

Text

I recently asserted that Sarah-Jane and the Bannerman Road kids rarely stumble across trouble, trouble comes to fuck with them. I have decided to test if my assertion is true, the numbers are as follows

investigative journalism (characters investigate a company/phenomenom/disappearace/whatever and find aliens): 9/37 stories

an accident (no matter what these characters would have been involved, wrong place wrong time): 5/37 stories

fuck you (antagonists are specifically messing with Sarah-Jane or the Bannerman Road kids, sometimes for the sake of it, sometimes because its part of their plans for world domination): 17/37 stories

fuck you Sarah-Jane (the antagonist wants Sarah): 10/37 stories

fuck you Luke: 3/37 stories

fuck you Clyde: 5/37 stories

fuck you Rani: 5/37 episodes

please note some of the episodes count for multiple categories, obviously every fuck you is targeted, sometimes at multiple people, but sometimes different characters get involved in different ways

also bear in mind I have a better memory of some episodes than others so some may be miscounted

the specific breakdown by story is under the cut

[ID: graphical representation of the cummulative total of types of inciting incident \end ID]

Series 1 (Invasion of the Bane - The Lost Boy)

Investigative Journalism: 3/6 | Accident: 3/6 | Fuck You: 2/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 1/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6

Invasion of the Bane: Sarah-Jane does investigative journalism, Maria is on a tour of the factory when shit hits the fan (1 investigative journalism, 1 accident)

Revenge of the Slitheen: Slitheen infiltrate the kids new school (accident)

Eye of the Gorgon: investigating ghosts at an old peoples home (investigative journalism)

Warriors of Kudlak: Maria and Sarah-Jane investigate weird weather patterns and disappearances, Clyde and Luke play laser tag at what turns out to be the front for the alien's plans (1 investigative journalism, 1 accident)

Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane: the Trickster causes Sarah-Jane to die as a teenager so a meteor will destroy the Earth (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Lost Boy: Slitheen pretend to be Luke's biological parents so they can use his intelligence (fuck you Luke)

Series 2 (The Last Sontaran - Enemy of the Bane)

Investigative Journalism: 3/6 | Fuck You: 4/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 2/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 2/6 | Fuck You Rani: 1/6

The Last Sontaran: investigating strange lights around a telescope (investigative journalism)

The Day of the Clown: a clown follows Clyde and Rani, they then do investigations, but the clown following is the inciting incident (fuck you Clyde and Rani)

Secrets of the Stars: investigating a guy for who astrology works, his plan would have happened anyway, but the group are interested before that (investigative journalism)

The Mark of the Berserker: this one is difficult to call, ultimately the main antagonist of the episode is Clyde's dad, the episode would have ended a quarter of the way through were it not for Clyde's dad stealing the pendant Rani found, him then getting Clyde to leave with him is what got everyone else involved. Ultimately this one is a combination of Rani investigating why that boy was acting strangely, and Clyde's dad taking Clyde and causing the actual problems (investigative journalism, fuck you Clyde)

The Temptation of Sarah-Jane Smith: the Trickster lays a trap for Sarah-Jane so cause the world to descend into a dystopian hellscape (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Enemy of the Bane: Miss Wormwood shows back up and asks Sarah-Jane for help, it is a trap but thats how our group get involved (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Series 3 (Prisoner of the Judoon - The Gift)

Prisoner of the Judoon: Sarah-Jane tracks a pod and they find an alien fugitive (investigative journalism)

The Mad Woman in the Attic: Rani's friend has been emailing her about weird stuff at a themepark local to him, as she is pulled into it by investigation from someone not in the main group, I'm not counting it as investigative journalism (fuck you Rani)

The Wedding of Sarah-Jane Smith: another trap by the Trickster (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Eternitiy Trap: this one is tricky, as far as I remember, the group are asked there by some scientist friends, but I don't think it counts as a fuck you deal (investigative journalism, fuck you nobody)

The Mona Lisa's Revenge: the Mona Lisa comes to life while the kids are at the art gallery on a school trip (accident)

The Gift: the Blathereen give the group a gift that turns out to be a bioweapon (fuck you everybody)

Series 4 (The Nightmare Man - Goodbye Sarah-Jane Smith)

Fuck You: 6/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 4/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 2/6 | Fuck You Rani: 2/6

The Nightmare Man: a being haunts Luke with nightmares (fuck you Luke

The Vault of Secrets: Androvax returns and asks Sarah-Jane for help, its a trick but thats how our group gets involved (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Death of the Doctor: the Doctor fakes his death, Sarah-Jane, and by extension the group, are invited to the funeral (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Empty Planet: everyone on Earth disappears, except Clyde and Rani because they were grounded by the Judoon in a previous story (fuck you Clyde and Rani)

Lost in Time: another tricky one, investigative journalism least them to a man who spreads them all throughout time, except the man wanted to be found so its more like a trap (fuck you everybody)

Goodbye Sarah-Jane Smith: a woman ingratiates herself with Sarah-Jane and the gang so she can make Sarah-Jane believe she's loosing touch, and ultimately take over the Earth (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Series 5 (Sky - The Man Who Never Was)

Investigative Journalism: 1/3 | Accident: 1/3 | Fuck You: 1/3 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 1/3

Sky: a baby is dumped of Sarah-Jane's doorstep (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Curse of Clyde Langer: Clyde gets a splinter, then his life falls apart (accident)

The Man Who Never Was: the group investigate a company launching a revolutionary new computer (investigative journalism)

#doctor who #the sarah-jane adventures #sarah-jane smith #luke smith #clyde langer #rani chandra #i spent way too long on this

45 notes · View notes

esonetwork · 4 years

Text

Timestamp #SJA10: The Mark of the Berserker

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/timestamp-sja10-the-mark-of-the-berserker/

Timestamp #SJA10: The Mark of the Berserker

Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mark of the Berserker (2 episodes, s02e04, 2008)

Clyde forgets everything he knew.

A teenager named Jacob West is in detention. He has an elaborate mark on his hand, ignores his teacher’s guidance, and tells a bully in the room to shut up. The bully loses his voice. Jacob demands that they all stay where they are and remain quiet, then runs from the room as he notices Rani watching the entire affair.

The mark climbs Jacob’s arms and face, turning his eyes gray as he screams.

Rani runs to find Jacob as the young man begs a pendant to stop before he casts it aside. The spell is broken and Jacob runs, leaving Rani to find the pendant on the restroom floor.

Sarah Jane drops Luke off at Clyde’s house as she prepares to leave town for the weekend, supposedly heading to Tarminster. They start by cooking dinner. Meanwhile, Rani discovers the power of the pendant as she compels her father to do silly tricks, but she stops when a slip of the tongue almost compels her father to die. She tells him to forget about what happened, and she notices the mark on her hand as Jacob stops by. He tells her that the mark fades when the bearer stops using the power. The power is addictive, however, and it is hard to stop before it consumes the user.

Rani tries to consult Mr. Smith, but Sarah Jane has shut him down during her absence. Following the advice of Sarah Jane’s Post-It Notes, Rani leaves the pendant hanging in the attic.

Luke and Clyde bond as they go to sleep, but Clyde’s good mood is broken the next morning as his estranged father Paul appears on his doorstep. After an emotionally-charged discussion that upsets Clyde and his mother, Clyde decides to fulfill his father’s request to spend time together.

Rani decides to investigate the pendant, calling in Luke to assist. Clyde and his father have a rather awkward and testy discussion, but when he brings up his adventures with the Bannerman Road Gang, Clyde takes his father to Sarah Jane’s attic to prove his story. In the attic, Paul (who knows in passing about Daleks) pockets the pendant before they leave.

Outside, they meet Rani’s father who demands to know why they were in Sarah Jane’s house. Paul accidentally discovers the power of the pendant, and Luke and Rani arrive and challenge Paul. Clyde is compelled to leave and forget about his friends.

Rani’s father is still doing push-ups, by the way.

Paul immediately starts digging a deep hole as he compels Clyde to sever all of his ties, including with his mother. As he plans to take Clyde away, Luke and Rani try to call Sarah Jane while she’s hunting a Travast Polong (an adorable three-eyed caterpillar alien) but have no luck.

So, they call Maria and ask her father to hack into UNIT and find anything he can about the pendant. While Alan searches, Luke tries to call Clyde and is rebuffed. Moments later, Paul effectively steals a sports car.

UNIT’s archive turns up a link between the pendant and Norse warriors called the Berserkers who were powered by the alien devices. Alan uses the UNIT satellite network to track Clyde’s mobile phone as the Langers wreak havoc on the stores of London.

Clyde asks his father why he left him and his mother, and after a heart-to-heart, Paul commands Clyde to forget about both his mother and Paul’s betrayal. The whirlwind tour continues.

Rani and Luke enlist Clyde’s mother to help them find her wayward son. Clyde ignores her attempts to call, but the Jacksons are able to rig her GPS to track Clyde’s phone. They finally find Clyde and Paul at the marina as the pendant takes control.

Sarah Jane arrives, and since Clyde still recognizes her, he begs for her help. She tells him that Paul needs to see who he really is underneath the Berserker exterior. Clyde and his mother remind Paul of the good memories as Sarah Jane shows him his reflection in a mirror. The Berserker recedes and Paul throws the pendant on the ground, breaking the spell over everyone that was touched by it.

Clyde remembers his family and friends, the car salesman stands aghast at his expensive loss, and Rani’s father finally stops his exercising.

Sarah Jane reveals that the Jacksons told her about the trouble and where to find them. As they walk away, Clyde offers to help restore his family with the power of the pendant, but he’s reminded that such a family would not be real. In fact, he has a real family with the Bannerman Road Gang.

Clyde’s father leaves to pay his penance while Clyde uses the pendant to ask his mother to forget about aliens and what happened. He tosses the pendant in the water and goes home. Later, he visits Sarah Jane and apologizes for showing his father around her attic. She understands, and he confides how much she and their family means to him.

After he leaves, Sarah Jane pulls a photo of her long-deceased parents out of a drawer and gazes upon them, deep in thought.

What we find here is a clever allegory about addiction and the nature of family. The addiction aspect is obvious, from the allure of material objects to the desire for companionship, love, and power. The pendant was all about using addiction to enable the holder to overpower a target’s will. In the wrong hands – such as Paul Langer, who is selfish and obviously has no problem ignoring consent – it becomes a dangerous vector for world domination. In the right hands – such as Clyde Langer, who used it to help keep his mother safe from the dangers in his life – it becomes a borderline dangerous but useful tool.

Paul Langer is a bad person, and Clyde Langer is a better man than I am for forgiving his father for the abuses he perpetrated in this story. And this exploration of Clyde’s character is what makes this tale a good one.

I was also impressed with how the kids were able to do the heavy lifting instead of relying on Sarah Jane to push the plot along. She popped in at the climax to nudge the kids toward the resolution, but the Bannerman Road Gang did this pretty much on their own.

It’s not the first time that Clyde has been forced to forget his friends. I’m okay with that repetition since it’s been a while since we walked that particular path. The big strike against this one is how it is the fourth story in a row to use mind control as the plot. That repetition is getting old.

Rating: 4/5 – “Would you care for a jelly baby?”

UP NEXT – Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

#Sarah Jane Smith #The Sarah Jane Adventures #Timestamps Project

0 notes

esonetwork · 4 years

Text

Timestamp #SJA8: The Day of the Clown

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/timestamp-sja8-the-day-of-the-clown/

Timestamp #SJA8: The Day of the Clown

Sarah Jane Adventures: The Day of the Clown (2 episodes, s02e02, 2008)

Sarah Jane’s worst fear come true?

A group of kids is playing football in a field when one of them kicks the ball into the forest. A boy named Tony goes for the ball, but he ends up getting snurched by a clown.

At the Smith house, Sarah Jane considers the three recently missing children as Luke reads an e-mail from Maria, obviously pining for her. Clyde arrives with news of new arrivals across the street. The boys head to school as Clyde leaves Sarah Jane with the idea that Maria might have left something behind.

By chance, the boys meet Rani, one of the new residents of Bannerman Road. They all head to class and meet the new headmaster, Mr. Chandra, a rather humorless chap. Clyde gets in trouble off the bat and Rani keeps seeing the mysterious clown.

Sarah Jane brings a welcome gift of tea and biscuits to her new neighbors. She meets Gita, Rani’s mother, and scans the house for alien residue. The coast is clear.

Oh, and the humorless headmaster? He’s Rani’s father.

Also, Sarah Jane prefers to be called Sarah Jane, even though the Doctor has nearly always called her Sarah.

By accident, Clyde hits Mr. Chadra in the head with a basketball, so he’s called to the headmaster’s office. While waiting for his talking-to, he encounters the clown and gives chase. He finds the clown in a restroom mirror and is inadvertently saved from doom by the headmaster.

Their discussion doesn’t go well and Clyde resolves to consult with Sarah Jane. He spots the clown with Luke after school, but Luke can’t see it. The boys try to locate it but only find a red balloon. Rani arrives in the nick of time to stop them from touching it, expressing a deep interest in the phenomenon. They all walk to Bannerman Road where the Chandras meet Clyde and the Smiths.

In the attic, the team develops a plan: Luke decides to keep an eye on Rani while Clyde and Sarah Jane investigate the missing children. Both teams eventually come to Spellman’s Magical Museum of the Circus, home of a clown who was handing out tickets to the attraction. Only children with tickets were seeing the clown apparition.

At the museum, we meet the strange Elijah Spellman and learn that Sarah Jane suffers from coulrophobia (the fear of clowns). During their tour, Clyde spots a watercolor picture that resembles their mysterious clown. Sarah Jane identifies it as the Pied Piper, a legendary figure of folklore that stole children from Hamelin. When Luke and Rani arrive, the clowns in the museum come to life and give chase. Sarah Jane disables them with the sonic lipstick and leads the kids out, but the doors are locked.

Spellman reveals himself as the clown, the Pied Piper, and he is intent on having the kids. The entity feeds off of their fear. Rani’s phone rings and somehow freezes Spellman, and the team is able to run back to Bannerman Road. Once they arrive, Sarah Jane offers Rani the Matrix choice between going back to her normal life and seeing how far the rabbit hole goes.

She chooses to explore Sarah Jane’s world.

She’s a bit overwhelmed by the truth and Mr. Smith, but sticks around as the alien “supercomputer” researches clowns and missing children. The clown, also known as Odd Bob, is traced back to a meteorite from the Jeggorabax Cluster that landed on Earth in 1283. It’s currently at the Pharos Institute, and Sarah Jane resolves to get a sample.

Sarah Jane offers Rani a device to keep her safe, trying to temper the young woman’s expectations. Later, while researching clowns, Luke asks her why she’s afraid of clowns. She explains that, as a child, she was frightened of a clown marionette owned by her Aunt Lavinia. It was one of the few times she missed having parents she could call on for comfort.

As the morning comes, Sarah Jane visits the Pharos Institute and secures a sample of the meteorite. Spellman arrives and rattles her, promising that families will perish at the deaths of a nation of children. At the school, a batch of red balloons fall from the sky, and those children that touch them lose free will. They mindlessly march, like rats to a piped tune, to Spellman’s museum.

Mr. Smith analyzes the meteorite and determines that Odd Bob is one of a species that feeds on emotion. Luke calls to alert her to the marching children and she meets the team at the museum’s front doors. She uses Mr. Smith to dial every student’s mobile, releasing them from Spellman’s thrall.

Unfortunately, the clown steals Luke, so Sarah Jane enters the museum and locks Rani and Clyde out. She heads to the Hall of Mirrors and tries to navigate the maze to Luke. Using the sonic, she shatters a mirror and uncovers a door.

Clyde and Rani sneak in through an open window as Sarah Jane confronts the clown. He tells her that he’s amassed a lot of children over the last 700 years, even though they fade away over time. He refuses to return them because to do so would eliminate his power.

Clyde and Rani figure out how to defeat fear: They start telling jokes, weakening Spellman with humor. As he weakens, Rani notices that the meteorite sample is glowing. Sarah Jane holds it out and pulls Spellman back into the vessel in which he came to Earth. Luke returns and all is well.

The rest of the children return home with no memory of their time away. Sarah Jane puts the meteorite into a safe box. Clyde makes amends with Mr. Chandra with the team’s help.

And Rani becomes a full-fledged member of the Bannerman Road Gang.

I like to think that her close relationship with the Doctor is why Sarah Jane prefers others to call her by both names. Only the Time Lord gets the special privilege.

That aside, this is a creepy and well-told story, hinging on a loose historical connection and playing off of a popular phobia. Bradley Walsh was phenomenal, channeling completely different (but each incredibly unsettling) personas for each face that he wore. Spellman’s robot clown army echoes the Nestene Consciousness (which we know from Spearhead from Space, Terror of the Autons, and Rose), and the clown aspect provide a similar level of unease as The Celestial Toymaker and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, in the latter of which the clowns were also robots.

I really admire Rani’s forthright zeal for the unknown. She’s completely enamored by the life that she could only speculate about, and I think she’ll bring a lot of energy to the team. I did keep looking for the Rani, but I’ll get used to the name in short order.

It’s also fun seeing the first Doctor Who-related meeting between actors Bradley Walsh and Anjli Mohindra (Rani). They’ll flip the roles in the Thirteenth Doctor’s era when Walsh plays a companion and Mohindra dons the villainous makeup in Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror.

Rating: 5/5 – “Fantastic!”

UP NEXT – Sarah Jane Adventures: Secrets of the Stars

#Sarah Jane Smith #The Sarah Jane Adventures #Timestamps Project

0 notes