A clip and a quote
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selenakJust when I was feeling blah the whole day I came across happy things related to the guest character in the next Sarah Jane Adventure's season - the one without a number, that is. And I'm happy again. She has that effect on people. I just love her.
Firstly, a clip from the SJA episode: cheesy monster! Clyde and Rani! Sarah Jane and Jooooooooooo!
Now, Sarah Jane and Jo holding hands and running together would already make this episode worth watching as far as I'm concerned. However, SFX kindly provided us with a quick RTD interview about writing the episode, in which he mentions having rewatched The Green Death to get in the right Jo Grant mood and then has this to say, re: how he approached decades-later-Jo:
“We talked about it a lot beforehand,” says Davies. “I know there’s a feeling that she’d have got divorced, and there was a theory that she’d be living on her own in Wales in a little cottage – some of the novels did this – and you think, ‘Nice idea, but actually that’s absolutely betraying the way we left her’. We left her with the promise of happiness, of adventure, of love and joy, and you can’t be cynical and undercut that by saying, ‘Oh, she’s a drug addict now! Her husband left her, she’s lonely, her life is bitter’. That’s just interfering with classic Doctor Who and rewriting what we were promised. So I was absolutely strict about that.”
In conclusion, as the man is prone to say on DW audio commentaries, hooray! Because I'm all for Jo having had a life of happiness, adventure, love and joy in the intervening decades. Oh, I'm so looking forward to this episode!
Firstly, a clip from the SJA episode: cheesy monster! Clyde and Rani! Sarah Jane and Jooooooooooo!
Now, Sarah Jane and Jo holding hands and running together would already make this episode worth watching as far as I'm concerned. However, SFX kindly provided us with a quick RTD interview about writing the episode, in which he mentions having rewatched The Green Death to get in the right Jo Grant mood and then has this to say, re: how he approached decades-later-Jo:
“We talked about it a lot beforehand,” says Davies. “I know there’s a feeling that she’d have got divorced, and there was a theory that she’d be living on her own in Wales in a little cottage – some of the novels did this – and you think, ‘Nice idea, but actually that’s absolutely betraying the way we left her’. We left her with the promise of happiness, of adventure, of love and joy, and you can’t be cynical and undercut that by saying, ‘Oh, she’s a drug addict now! Her husband left her, she’s lonely, her life is bitter’. That’s just interfering with classic Doctor Who and rewriting what we were promised. So I was absolutely strict about that.”
In conclusion, as the man is prone to say on DW audio commentaries, hooray! Because I'm all for Jo having had a life of happiness, adventure, love and joy in the intervening decades. Oh, I'm so looking forward to this episode!
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