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rainbowstevie, you went and got me all curious about The X-Files when I was so sure I didn't need another new fandom. It's high time I returned the favor. :DAnyway, since picspams are always more interesting than wikis (and because I was bored), here is The Prelude To The Story of Classic Sarah Jane - in pictures! I'm afraid it's a bit of a bare-bones version, but it's roughly what you'd need to know in order to catch up on Classic canon and have Sarah Jane's episodes make any sense.
(Okay, I lied - I didn't really set this up all just for you, since that'd be a little creepy. I just wanted an excuse to make a multi-Doctor picspam, and here one was.)
Perhaps after the Prelude I shall post some Recap Picspams of my personal favorite Sarah Jane episodes. Maybe.
Anyway, let us go forth!
Meet Sarah Jane Smith.
Hello, Sarah Jane Smith.
Miss Smith is a journalist, a companion, and an all-around awesome human being. But as awesome as Miss Smith is, we shall have to return to her later, for we've many years of canon to cover.
This is the Third Doctor. (He's the one on the right. ;D)
The Third Doctor was the first Doctor that Sarah Jane ever met.
Before he was the Third Doctor, however, he was...
The Second Doctor.
And these are two of his companions, Jamie and Zoe. Strictly speaking you don't need to know who they are, but they are awesome and get their own picture because I say so.
(And no, Two's clothes don't normally look like that. There was an incident involving killer foam earlier in the episode.)
The Second Doctor, near the end of his run, was put on trial by the Time Lords for interfering with established events, which they’re not supposed to do under any circumstances.The Doctor was convicted, but given a lenient sentence because he only interfered when he thought it would do good.
The ‘lenient’ sentence the Time Lords gave was to take his companions away from him, wipe their memories of him, and drop them back in their own timelines. They then broke his TARDIS so it couldn’t travel, erased his own memory of how to make it work, forced him to regenerate, and stuck him on Earth in exile. This was Very Very Tragic and I get all wibbly inside just thinking about it.
Anyhow, the Doctor woke up looking remarkably like Jon Pertwee. Funny how that works.
He was found by this fellow - Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, officer of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). The two had met before back when Three was Two. UNIT is an international organization, dedicated to defending the Earth from alien threats.
The Doctor reluctantly became UNIT’s scientific advisor, in exchange for the funds and equipment he needed to try to repair his TARDIS. Oh, and a roadster.
I'm not even making that up.
The Third Doctor had two companions before Sarah Jane:
Liz Shaw, a fellow scientific advisor and the smartest person in any room,
and Jo Grant, the Doctor's assistant and the first Three-era companion to travel in his newly-repaired TARDIS. (The TARDIS is repaired at the end of The Three Doctors, after Doctors One Through Three save the Time Lords from the vengeful renegade Omega.) She bid goodbye to the Doctor at the end of The Green Death, which brings us to...
Sarah Jane!
Sarah Jane first appeared because she was investigating the disappearance of a scientist. She had to sneak into UNIT by pretending to be her aunt.
She also flat-out refused to make the Doctor coffee. Sarah Jane is quite independent and does not make coffee at the behest of strange men in frills.
She later stowed away aboard the TARDIS, and was still aboard it when the Doctor took it back to medieval times to investigate the scientist's disappearance.
Which led to The Time Warrior, Sarah’s first serial, and the beginning of her long and illustrious era as a companion.
Images are from the Tragical History Tour,
wiccagirl24's caps, and my own caps.*whew*
tired
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::waits for next part::
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Trufax and lulz! This post is made of so many of my favourite things: Sarah Jane, Three, THE BRIG, Two, Jamie, Zoe...it's all too beautiful. *SNIFF*
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Do you mind if I stick a link to this in the next
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This was Very Very Tragic and I get all wibbly inside just thinking about it.
Oh God, there COULD have been worse things than Doomsday! Stupid Time Lords! I no longer pity their extinction in the slightest! ...and now back to the picspam.
Sarah Jane is quite independent and does not make coffee at the behest of strange men in frills.
*giggles* But Sarah Jane, it's such a logical-sounding request!
Anyway: excellent Prelude. I am quite excited for part 2, but just with this I think you've convinced me to officially put the Sarah Jane episodes on my mental equivalent of a Netflix cue. Once I stop giggling at her early hair (how long til it looks like it does in the 2nd pic? Speaking of which, said pic was the first thing that ever tempted me to watch Classic Who, even before I saw 'School Reunion.' She and Rose really do have a lot in common), I have to admit that I'm really quite intrigued.
Not so intrigued that I feel a need to actually watch any of the episodes *before* her, but...you know. We're getting somewhere.
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That's right. Granted, we do meet some nice and semi-nice Time Lords later in the series, but as a species they're still Those Bastards What Killed Two and Stole His Jamie and His Zoe.
I think Sarah's early hair lasts until Robot, her first story with Four. After that, she gets tossed around so much in the next serial (The Ark in Space) that her hair quickly de-poofs itself. And silly though it may look now, the hairdo does sort of make sense, considering that in The Time Warrior she was trying to look mature and professional and such.
And hey, the Sarah Jane stories are an excellent place to start! There are quite a lot of them, for one thing, and they include some of the best stories in the entire Classic series. Hope you enjoy them!
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But yes, there shall be multiple Sarah spams. She deserves it, after all.
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I know. And I've been pretty heartbroken over a number of them, too. But The War Games like...haunts my nightmares. I'll think of it periodically and get the desire to run outside and let out a devastated yell, or something. The memory wipe?! Like thirty seconds after he said he'd never forget him?! *YELLS* And if the really wrenching circumstance of the departure of companions part wasn't enough, the last we see Two, he is HOWLING IN AGONY.
Not to mention the story to begin with jumps right into a harrowing, paranoid energy. I flailed the whole way through that thing, really.
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This was Very Very Tragic and I get all wibbly inside just thinking about it.
Despite Two being my favorite Doctor, and having watched ever other one of his serials, I can't even bring myself to watch War Games because even thinking about those bastard time lords stealing Jamie away and then killing Two...I can't handle it. It's just too horrible.
Now that we’ve finished the background, the next post shall be All About Sarah Jane and her Exciting Adventures in Time and Space!
Yay! I can't wait!
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Deep Dark Secret: I still can't make it all the way through War Games. I've tried. Really I have. And I can get through most of it. But I just can't watch the end. I'm not emotionally prepared for that.
I'm glad you enjoyed the spamming! :D
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You have NO IDEA how happy it makes me to hear you say that. I thought I was just being crazy(er than usual). Does this mean the rest of the serial is enjoyable without watching the gutwrenching, souldestroying ending? Because I've heard the story itself is really good.
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I just...can't do those last few scenes. And I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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That said, however, YAY WAR LORD. I don't know how I forgot to mention him. He's so perfectly innocuous-looking, which of course makes him even creepier...
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Same here! I love watching my favorite characters get pianos dropped on them (as my beloved
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Oh, we all know that Two and Jamie are completely married, it's what makes this all the more tragic. Not only did they murder Two in fact, they essentially murdered Jamie, if you take the end of The War Games as strict canon. ::shudders:: No other regeneration can really match Two's for sheer tragedy and Jamie is part of that tragedy.
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I just saw that someone else posted that Two died howling in agony? I think I'm going to be sick. Why must you do this to me, show? Why show, WHY?!?!?!
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The two regenerations that hurt the most -- not that the others don't, One, Three, and Seven's are particularly hard to watch -- are Two's at the end of War Games and Five's at the end of Caves. Because in both cases, there's just so much paaaaaaaaiiiiin. Five is crippled and dizzy and drags himself across a damn desert and collapses looking and sounding a complete tortured mess -- emotionally as well...yeah, and it was very hard. DAMN YOU, SHOW.
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Oh, show, why must you feed my masochistic tendencies?!
btw, Jamie totally makes it out of Culloden. I don't know how, but HE DOES NOT DIE THERE.
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That said, it outright startled me how much abuse Five takes in Caves. I mean, I knew what happened and everything, but by the end I half-expected him to collapse and die anyway (before he was supposed to, I mean). That said, I think the Seven-to-Eight regeneration might just edge Five-to-Six out. At least Five got to save Peri before he died, thus bringing a tiny bit of dramatic purpose to his death; Seven dies for absolutely no reason. It's so meaningless. And watching Seven struggle against the anaesthesia just makes it worse.
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Yeah, the thing is, Five's regeneration bit is so much more than the damage he sustains from the spectrox. There's also Resurrection and Planet of Fire before it, and so that's three in a row of A FUCKING LOT OF EMOTIONAL DAMAGE and the snapping of mental states, oh dear. So I'd have totally expected him to just give up on life even if the episode wasn't supposed to end that way.
(I watched all out of order. Planet of Fire, The Five Doctors, Resurrection, Visitation, and then the rest, ending on Caves. I find it a bit remarkable that the last Five I saw actually was his last, given my creative viewing habits.)
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My viewing habits are similarly creative, in that I'm still making my way through Ressurection and haven't yet seen Planet of Fire. The Five Doctors was my first; after that came Kinda, Castrovalva, Snakedance, Mawdryn Undead, Caves of Androzani, and, uh...I wanna say Time-Flight? I think it was Time-Flight. So, yeah. I've still got a ways to go.
So, yes. I'm not surprised to learn that Five's regeneration is a lot more powerful when watched in context, especially since Ressurection is shaping up to be quite traumatic for him.
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And the end of The War Games breaks my heart. I recently had to transcribe it for my Fourteenth Doctor project, and it was just... agh.
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I recently had to transcribe it for my Fourteenth Doctor project, and it was just... agh.
Nngh. *winces* I can't imagine. (But then, like I said, I've never been able to even make myself watch the end, so...)
Also, is any of your Fourteenth Doctor project available for public consumption? I'm properly intrigued. :)
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Also, is any of your Fourteenth Doctor project available for public consumption? I'm properly intrigued. :)
Well, I'll be posting it on my writing journal,
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Unexpected Two!
This was Very Very Tragic and I get all wibbly inside just thinking about it.
I go all wibbly too. ;____;
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And really, who doesn't? :)
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Some terribly cold hearted person? I donno. XD