Post by matthewsee on Nov 20, 2010 1:24:35 GMT -5
As the fifth season has already been commissioned this is not the final story of the series despite what it says in the title.
Written by Gareth Roberts and former DWM editor Clayton Hickman.
The already established Doctor Who/SJA writer Gareth Roberts had collaborated with Hickman before for two Doctor Who audio stories The One Doctor & Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
While Roberts and Hickman had written for the Sarah Jane gang before with the Red Nose Comic Relief special in 2009, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith is their first fully fledged TV story together.
Unlike the previous stories that had Sarah’s name in the story title, this story does not feature at all the Trickster at all. Ruby White however still makes for a very good villain.
Guest star Julie Graham was the lead actor of the 2008-10 version of Survivors and I thought it was a shame she wasn’t in The Empty Planet, two stories back as that presented a similar situation to Survivors.
Having said that I am glad she has finally appeared in the Whoniverse.
Of all the Whoniverse shows it seems fitting for Julie Graham to appear in SJA playing Ruby White because as Clyde says Sarah and Ruby do look alike.
Since her name is Ruby she appears in every scene she’s in wearing something red.
The presence of Ruby in this story makes this feel like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle about a married woman whole hold on her family life is seriously threatened by another woman. A method that the other woman employs to drive a wedge between the married woman and her loved ones is to make the married woman appear to have lost her senses.
As I knew next to nothing about what Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith was going to be about prior to watching it, it was quite a coincidence that the previous thing that I saw Julie Graham in was the 2006 TV drama The Kindness of Strangers which for all appearances is the British version of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and it had Julie Graham playing the married woman.
In Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, Julie Graham puts the shoe on the other foot as Ruby is the other woman.
Knew from the outset there was something dodgy about Ruby especially since Sarah having trouble remembering thins not long after Ruby turned up on the scene.
Much of the first episode was quite predictable but still well handled in direction by Joss Agnew.
Not a bad cliffhanger for the first episode.
While the starting episode made me think of Ruby as being like the other woman in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, the concluding episode made me think of Ruby as being like villains seen in Doctor Who & Torchwood that of Vivien Fay in The Stones of Blood from Doctor Who and Mary in Greeks Bearing Gifts from Torchwood. Like Vivien Fay and Mary, Ruby is revealed to be an alien prisoner who came to Earth by a prison ship she was in but was able to roam free on Earth due to the death of her captor.
Having been absent for most of the time since going to Oxford, Luke does very well in coming back home just to save the day.
The way Luke defeats Ruby is similar to how he defeated the Bane Mother in Invasion of the Bane.
The last we see of Ruby in this story suggests that this may not be the last time we see of her.
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, goodbye for now that is.
Written by Gareth Roberts and former DWM editor Clayton Hickman.
The already established Doctor Who/SJA writer Gareth Roberts had collaborated with Hickman before for two Doctor Who audio stories The One Doctor & Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
While Roberts and Hickman had written for the Sarah Jane gang before with the Red Nose Comic Relief special in 2009, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith is their first fully fledged TV story together.
Unlike the previous stories that had Sarah’s name in the story title, this story does not feature at all the Trickster at all. Ruby White however still makes for a very good villain.
Guest star Julie Graham was the lead actor of the 2008-10 version of Survivors and I thought it was a shame she wasn’t in The Empty Planet, two stories back as that presented a similar situation to Survivors.
Having said that I am glad she has finally appeared in the Whoniverse.
Of all the Whoniverse shows it seems fitting for Julie Graham to appear in SJA playing Ruby White because as Clyde says Sarah and Ruby do look alike.
Since her name is Ruby she appears in every scene she’s in wearing something red.
The presence of Ruby in this story makes this feel like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle about a married woman whole hold on her family life is seriously threatened by another woman. A method that the other woman employs to drive a wedge between the married woman and her loved ones is to make the married woman appear to have lost her senses.
As I knew next to nothing about what Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith was going to be about prior to watching it, it was quite a coincidence that the previous thing that I saw Julie Graham in was the 2006 TV drama The Kindness of Strangers which for all appearances is the British version of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and it had Julie Graham playing the married woman.
In Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, Julie Graham puts the shoe on the other foot as Ruby is the other woman.
Knew from the outset there was something dodgy about Ruby especially since Sarah having trouble remembering thins not long after Ruby turned up on the scene.
Much of the first episode was quite predictable but still well handled in direction by Joss Agnew.
Not a bad cliffhanger for the first episode.
While the starting episode made me think of Ruby as being like the other woman in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, the concluding episode made me think of Ruby as being like villains seen in Doctor Who & Torchwood that of Vivien Fay in The Stones of Blood from Doctor Who and Mary in Greeks Bearing Gifts from Torchwood. Like Vivien Fay and Mary, Ruby is revealed to be an alien prisoner who came to Earth by a prison ship she was in but was able to roam free on Earth due to the death of her captor.
Having been absent for most of the time since going to Oxford, Luke does very well in coming back home just to save the day.
The way Luke defeats Ruby is similar to how he defeated the Bane Mother in Invasion of the Bane.
The last we see of Ruby in this story suggests that this may not be the last time we see of her.
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, goodbye for now that is.