Post by matthewsee on Nov 3, 2010 23:54:24 GMT -5
Written by Gareth Roberts.
It’s this time of the season where the usual Sarah-lite story is slotted in with Lis Sladen only appearing in the first and last few minutes of thos story.
Having popped up briefly in the first episode of the two previous stories Luke in contrast is completely absent here. Finally a proper chance for viewers to miss him since leaving for Oxford.
Rani, Clyde and another boy Gavin found themselves the only ones on the planet Earth as everyone else is missing.
A influence of Gareth Roberts writing this story is probably the most recent but defunct version of Survivors about most of the planet Earth being wiped out by a virus leaving only those who survived to fend for themselves with their new situation. Thankfully there is no virus here in The Empty Planet just hopefully at best everyone vanishing and placed somewhere else.
Incidentally the lead actor of the aforementioned version of Survivors, Julie Graham is a guest star in this season SJA but it seems isn’t in this story (although she can be seen briefly in the montage that begins each other of this season).
Another possible influence of Survivors is when Rani prayed that she was not the only one on the planet which is what Abby had prayed in the first episode of the original series of Survivors.
The Empty Planet also brings to mind the Seventh Doctor’s fully fledged final TV story Survival which depicted the disappearance of residents of Ace’s old hometown Perivale.
The mysteriousness of the disappearance of most of Earth’s population is well presented especially from the performances from Anjli Mohindra (Rani) and Daniel Anthony (Clyde). Clyde sure posed an interesting question whether he and Rani would have been mates if they had not met Sarah Jane.
The first episode ends with the appearance of the red and white robots. Would have been more impressed with the cliffhanger if I had not known about their presence in this story beforehand.
The concluding episode to this story was very enjoyable.
I knew that Gavin was the key element to this story.
A very good story giving all of the action to Clyde and Rani.
It’s this time of the season where the usual Sarah-lite story is slotted in with Lis Sladen only appearing in the first and last few minutes of thos story.
Having popped up briefly in the first episode of the two previous stories Luke in contrast is completely absent here. Finally a proper chance for viewers to miss him since leaving for Oxford.
Rani, Clyde and another boy Gavin found themselves the only ones on the planet Earth as everyone else is missing.
A influence of Gareth Roberts writing this story is probably the most recent but defunct version of Survivors about most of the planet Earth being wiped out by a virus leaving only those who survived to fend for themselves with their new situation. Thankfully there is no virus here in The Empty Planet just hopefully at best everyone vanishing and placed somewhere else.
Incidentally the lead actor of the aforementioned version of Survivors, Julie Graham is a guest star in this season SJA but it seems isn’t in this story (although she can be seen briefly in the montage that begins each other of this season).
Another possible influence of Survivors is when Rani prayed that she was not the only one on the planet which is what Abby had prayed in the first episode of the original series of Survivors.
The Empty Planet also brings to mind the Seventh Doctor’s fully fledged final TV story Survival which depicted the disappearance of residents of Ace’s old hometown Perivale.
The mysteriousness of the disappearance of most of Earth’s population is well presented especially from the performances from Anjli Mohindra (Rani) and Daniel Anthony (Clyde). Clyde sure posed an interesting question whether he and Rani would have been mates if they had not met Sarah Jane.
The first episode ends with the appearance of the red and white robots. Would have been more impressed with the cliffhanger if I had not known about their presence in this story beforehand.
The concluding episode to this story was very enjoyable.
I knew that Gavin was the key element to this story.
A very good story giving all of the action to Clyde and Rani.