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selenakHow on earth this story is supposed to be compatible with the Fourth Doctor classic City of Death - wherein among other things we find out the Mona Lisa currently residing in the Louvre is a fake (well, sort of - perhaps "is one of several" is more accurate) - is anyone's guess, but I'm looking forward to fanfic explaining it.
An enjoyable adventure, though it won't make my SJA top list. Clyde being an artist came pretty sudden, though I hope the show keeps this and references it sometimes in future episode. Clearly, he's destined to create cool comics for a living. (As Al Bester pointed out to Lyta Alexander on Babylon 5: Being a freedom fighter, a force for good, it's a wonderful thing. You get to make your own hours, looks good on the resumé... but the pay sucks.. I.e. Clyde needs a source of income in addition to being an adventurer.) For some reason, I liked his short scene with the Highwayman - who looked very much like a Highwaywoman to me - best, with him figuring out why this person can't speak. (Only I wondered whether this was going somewhere and Clyde would sketch him/her a mouth and win him away from Lisa that way, and it didn't.)
Luke and Sarah Jane having a tiff over cleaning up was a very recognizable teenage thing, down to Luke guilt-tripping Sarah Jane by bringing up the Bane. But this is the third of four adventures where Sarah Jane is taken hostage/incapacitated in some fashion, with only the last one breaking what is a slightly irritating trend. I'm all for Luke, Clyde and Rani saving the day, but less Sarah Jane taken captive, please.
Lisa was a standard cackling villain, though the one scene where she tries to go outside and can't provides her with a bit of depth as well as a motive for the obligatory world destruction goal later. (But I have to ask: couldn't they have found an actress who looks at list a bit like the Mona Lisa, because this one most certainly did not?) Mr. Harding going from worshipping her to finally appreciating his assistant was predictable, but Miss Trout rebuffing him instead of sinking gratefully into his arms was not, and a welcome twist on the cliché. Mind you, I did like Harding - despite him being a lousy art historian, because Leonardo working on the Mona Lisa "till shortly before his death"? seriously? Phil Ford, you suck at research - but it was a good twist nonetheless.
Lastly, I wonder whether children will now take the freebie maps and guides at museums in greater number. :)
In other news, waiting for a certain comic is still torture.
An enjoyable adventure, though it won't make my SJA top list. Clyde being an artist came pretty sudden, though I hope the show keeps this and references it sometimes in future episode. Clearly, he's destined to create cool comics for a living. (As Al Bester pointed out to Lyta Alexander on Babylon 5: Being a freedom fighter, a force for good, it's a wonderful thing. You get to make your own hours, looks good on the resumé... but the pay sucks.. I.e. Clyde needs a source of income in addition to being an adventurer.) For some reason, I liked his short scene with the Highwayman - who looked very much like a Highwaywoman to me - best, with him figuring out why this person can't speak. (Only I wondered whether this was going somewhere and Clyde would sketch him/her a mouth and win him away from Lisa that way, and it didn't.)
Luke and Sarah Jane having a tiff over cleaning up was a very recognizable teenage thing, down to Luke guilt-tripping Sarah Jane by bringing up the Bane. But this is the third of four adventures where Sarah Jane is taken hostage/incapacitated in some fashion, with only the last one breaking what is a slightly irritating trend. I'm all for Luke, Clyde and Rani saving the day, but less Sarah Jane taken captive, please.
Lisa was a standard cackling villain, though the one scene where she tries to go outside and can't provides her with a bit of depth as well as a motive for the obligatory world destruction goal later. (But I have to ask: couldn't they have found an actress who looks at list a bit like the Mona Lisa, because this one most certainly did not?) Mr. Harding going from worshipping her to finally appreciating his assistant was predictable, but Miss Trout rebuffing him instead of sinking gratefully into his arms was not, and a welcome twist on the cliché. Mind you, I did like Harding - despite him being a lousy art historian, because Leonardo working on the Mona Lisa "till shortly before his death"? seriously? Phil Ford, you suck at research - but it was a good twist nonetheless.
Lastly, I wonder whether children will now take the freebie maps and guides at museums in greater number. :)
In other news, waiting for a certain comic is still torture.
