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Post by Ice Warrior on Oct 28, 2009 18:15:46 GMT -5
The 3rd story of series 3 with a special appearance from David Tennant's Doctor!
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Post by Ice Warrior on Oct 30, 2009 7:35:55 GMT -5
The first episode of this two-parter was brilliant! Loving the interaction of all the characters, especially k9 and Mr Smith  |
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 30, 2009 23:12:25 GMT -5
813th and 814th Whoniverse episodes and the 243rd Whoniverse story.
Doctor Who had The Runaway Bride and Torchwood had Something Borrowed so SJA gets to have a wedding with this story.
Plenty of fun with Luke, Clyde and Rani trying to find out what Sarah Jane has been up to lately as well as their first meeting with Peter.
Enjoyed the little verbal fight between K9 and Mr Smith.
Didn't realise until looking at the end credits in the first episode that the registar was played by Zienia Merton. Zienia Merton had played Ping-cho in the First Doctor serial Marco Polo in 1964. In 2006 David Tennant had pointed out that Pauline Collins (The Faceless Ones, Tooth and Claw) and Margaret John (Fury From The Deep, The Idiot's Lantern) had the longest gaps between their appearances in Doctor Who. In terms of all Doctor Who-related episodes Zienia Merton's gap is the longest with 45 years.
As expected the Doctor appears but not until the end of the episode 1. Not a surprise the Trickster is here since he was in the two previous stories with Sarah's name in the story title and it was written by Gareth Roberts.
A very good cliffhanger to the first episode.
In the second episode it was amusing with the music when Clyde says the he is going to fight the Trickster.
Very sad the sacrifice that was made in order to defeat the Trickster.
The Doctor's appearance including his interaction with Luke, Clyde and Rani was a lot of fun.
I think the right balance was made in the handling of the Doctor's appearance without him being the one to save the day at the end. After all it is Sarah's show not the Doctor's.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 30, 2012 19:11:01 GMT -5
In DWM 410, Russell T Davies wrote about David Tennant’s last work as the Doctor in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and mentioned that it also featured Zienia Merton from Space: 1999.
Considering that he wrote this in DWM, he somewhat made an oversight of not mentioning that Zienia Merton was in Doctor Who in Marco Polo in 1964.
He also overlooked the fact that with her appearance in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith in 2009, it – being 45 years – is the longest gap for someone’s Whoniverse appearances.
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