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3 is the magic number

Sarah — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:23:21 +0000

Or not so magical in this case.. DVD case..

Today my friend came round to drop off my birthday present; I was expecting your typical teen girl, cupcake-themed birthday present but no. He got me..

The SJA series 3 boxset ^_^
rawr rawr

So that not only means I can watch now 3 serieses (is that a word? :/) of SJA when I’m on holiday where they probably don’t have BBC. I can also do a blog post on all 3 boxsets
Compare and contrast yo!

In a previous post about the series 3 boxset, the picture had a sticker thing on it with writing about The Doctor and I didn’t know whether that was a sticker or printed on, like the ‘from the creators of Doctor Who’ thing on the series 1 boxset. Thankfully it’s a sticker; mine lives on the back of my phone

If my phone had feelings I don't know whether it would be happy to have David Tennant on its back or sad because I kinda watercolour painted over it O.o

my fingers so skeletal there.. I’m normal I swear xD .. @_@

Annnyway so on with the reviews!

Disks
With the first and second boxsets I didn’t see an issue with the number of disks; series 1 has a mega 4 disks, while series 2 has 3. However they both have the same amount of footage and special features. I didn’t think this would be any different with series 3; opening up the box to see just 2 disks made me a bit doubtful but I remembered series 2 had special features on every disk.

Episodes
The series 3 episodes are crammed into 2 disks; each disk is the same with 3 episodes. With both series 1 and 2 there are just 2 episodes on each disk (except for the Invasion of the Bane (series 1) disk as it was a special episode, therefore pushing The Lost Boy into a fourth disk on its own) which can be annoying if you need to switch disks and wait for the 2Entertain and BBC bits to pass.

Menu and Special Features
I watched a bit of The Wedding of SJ to begin with, and the quality seems meh. It’s been a while but I’m sure the definition was better on BBC HD when it aired than on the DVD. The first disk’s menu is very simple; play all, episodes, set up. The second disk is a bit better; it has a special feature; an extract of The White Wolf audiobook. I didn’t listen to it; I will buy the audiobook sometime but I don’t want to listen and get left on a cliffhanger. And that’s it for special features of series 3. With all the behind-the-scenes videos the offical website (see blogroll) is brimming with, you’d think they could have put a couple of them up. Series 2′s special features are spread through out the boxset- a quiz takes you to the Comic Relief Special and there’s interviews riddled in there too. Series 1 even has outtakes.

Coolness of Boxes
My favourite actual box is definitely Series 1. It’s like Mr. Smith opening up, it’s so cool. Series 2 comes in second, it’s a lot more Sarah Jane’s attic-y with magnifying glasses and photos. The Series 3 box has a normal, 2-disk DVD case inside the main cover and the design is exactly the same on both the cover and the DVD case. Inside it has the photos like on Series 2 but nothing like a collage.

Bottom Line
All three boxsets are obviously great; it’s Sarah Jane Adventures!! xD I love the series 3 boxset, don’t get me wrong, but the total lack of special features and the apparent lack of effort put into the actual boxset was a bit of a letdown. Nevertheless, I’m sure these disks will be a great boredom-buster for the plane. Good present for a friend who’s a fan of the show

Lastly, did a wee search just now and found this:

RAWR RAWR
So now I don’t have to learn techy stuff to upload what I recorded

Unless there’s some big news between now and Friday, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! And if you were reading SJA News a bit earlier in the year, thank you for breaking my views record

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Guess Who’s Back ;)

Sarah — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:06:10 +0000

So I don’t really have an excuse for not posting and I don’t think an apology justifies my absence I’m still to watch the finale (:O) and I need to get the series 3 boxset, you can buy it here
SJA was nomiated for a Children’s BAFTA, the site’s a bit confuddling (for me) but they didn’t win, according to the scrolly bar at the top. Maybe I’m just not a kid anymore or kids have some bad taste, because the only winner I’ve seen is Club Penguin xD The page is here.
Tommy Knight’s going to be in series 5! The GB thread’s here
Head over to sarah-jane.tv for a load of interviews.
I won’t be able to update much for a while; I will if there’s news but I’m off to New Zealand (woo!) for almost a month, with no internet access. How I’ll survive I have no idea whatsoever..

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Woo?

Sarah — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:41:17 +0000

New post coming tomorrow hopefully, I’m still to watch the finale (I’m betting it’ll be really good) so I’ll review it and try to get in a series quiz

Long time no see..?

Sarah — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:17:08 +0000

Let’s start with an apology: I am sorry for not reviewing, posting or updating you with episodes, opinions and news.
Now that that’s out of the way, what a series!! (I mean the apology, not the series) We’ve had Androvax back, some weird Vulture things who call themselves the Shansheeth, The DOCTOR and an empty city with Robots! However I haven’t been taking as much interest in this series as the last one; no racing home (I’ve actually been forgetting about it :O) or second watchings (so far). Which is weird because it genuinely is a really good series..
The Vault of Secrets (with Androvax) didn’t make complete sense to me, but because of this, I was pretty much glued to the screen making sure I understood everything I could. I guess there was so much information and mystery in the beginning that just gave the ‘whaaaaat?!’ factor. It needs a second watching, great episode though.
I don’t really feel Death of the Doctor needs much said about it to be honest; such a strong episode. The one thing that did annoy me was Sarah Jane and Jo Grant’s need to hug in every scene xD I guess it could show the bond between them after such a short time or something :/
The Empty Planet is a strange one. I loved part 1 soo much; there’s something about situations that will never happen; zombie acopolypses, what happened in 28 days later, empty planets, that people (or certainly I) would secretly like to happen. In a dream, at least So because of this, the scenario in part 1 I LOVED. It was just when part 2 was watched I started disliking it; part 1 had such a good flow and part 2 was just rushed and had the feeling that there’d been this huge build up, everyone’s disappeared, to the climax being finding the ‘son and heir’.
I’m still to check the Sarah Jane Adventures website to see if anything’s interesting’s happened, and Gallifrey Base is slightly dead at the mo :l
The finale’s coming out on my birthday, pretty chuffed ^_^ and for mon anniversaire I’m maybe getting the series 3 boxset, so more reviews! Yay
Now I’ll end this post with a bit of a brag, so I may have met a few YouTubers at the weekend.. ^_^

ta-dahh, charlieissocoollike

That be all from me,

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Oh Dear :’O

Sarah — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:59:28 +0000

I am a bad fan, especially as I’m supposed to be SJA-obsessed! Last week, with The Vault of Secrets (?) (okay, I can’t even remember episode names.. fail) I remembered it was on just before it started, and on Monday this week I completely forgot about the episode, so I never watched Tuesday’s episode either..
Gallifrey Base hasn’t been checked in forever so I’ll pull up my socks tomorrow and hopefully finish this quiz that’s been a tab on my Firefox for forever
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Monday

Sarah — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:06:31 +0000

(sorry for the late edit with the picture, super busy)

Ok, I’m just going to put this out there: there was a definite lump in my throat at the end of Sarah Jane today.. and the music really didn’t help.

Yesterday (I started writing this Tuesday), with intentions of baking fairy cakes and icing them, much like last year:

My friend Eilidh and I got slightly sidetracked.. we were on the way to the newsagent’s down the road, when we noticed some mannequins. Yep. Like these. Behind a huge bin. Took a couple of photos, then went on to the newsagent, bought sweets (and an Irn Bru slushie.. only in Scotland ), went back to the bin, picked up one mannequin each and ran. Well, I’d like to say ran, but we were carrying a heck of a load of sweets. We walked briskly.) So yeah. The reason why we never iced the fairy cakes awesomely and gave them faces or anything is because we randomly found mannequins behind a bin.

Opinion of The Nightmare Man? It was weird. Really well done, they could’ve thought of a better way of beating him though. I still don’t really get how they defeated him O.o The episode moved fast and felt like they’d crammed the important stuff into the second episode and the less important stuff took up more time. Other than that, though, all positives- the acting was amazzing and the Nightmare Man was so creepy! He seriously freaked me out; and the fact that we didn’t see his face until the party added so much dramatic effect *shudder*
I was so convinced I would cry at the end; Luke’s my favourite character (I know, it’s mean to have favourites, yadda yadda) and this had better not be the last time we see him.

Short (but sweet? *hopeful*) review, I’ll leave you to make up your own minds about the episode. To celebrate 4,000 views (because of a record 98 views yesterday (Tuesday)), I’ll be making a quiz on The Nightmare Man, or the first 2 episodes. As in The Nightmare Man and next week’s episode.

That be all from me,
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Pictures! TMi! Countdown! Ahh!

Sarah — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:23:14 +0000

(there seems to be some sort of Sarah Jane bonanza goin’ down on iPlayer, but you know, meh.)
First things first. I started making a post, with 6 days to go till series 4, about there being 6 days to go until series 4. After the first sentence, I realised that was pretty stupid and decided to wait until there was some actual solid news to write about. Friday comes and BAM! a friend texts me saying the Sarah Jane Adventures gang are on the Cbbc channel! Lolwut? So there was me, jumping up and down at a certain The Nightmare Man preview! (there are also less members in Scouting For Girls than I had thought from listening to the music, may I just add.)
And now today, as I’m casually going through the Photoshop Thread, I noticed a few new-looking pictures.. so literally 10 minutes ago (finding TMi on iPlayer excitement took a wee bit of time), I discovered this goldmine:

More goo!

and just quite a few more over here.

Now, at the time of writing this post, there are 2 days, 1 hour left to go..

Part One:
Oct 11 at 17:15 on CBBC
Oct 13 at 16:30 on BBC Two

Part 2 will air:
Oct 12 at 17:15 on CBBC
Oct 14 at 16:30 on BBC Two

And it’ll be on the iPlayer.

Then watch the rest of the series because it’s absolutely fantastic.

Tell the world you’re attemding here.

Aaaand that’s about it, I’ll post pictures, trailers, whatevers up as soon as I find them. Thinking of another nerdy wee party/ fairy cake eatathon followed by a review.. we’ll see

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Page Rage

Sarah — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:29:52 +0000

Don’t diss the title, it was the best I could think of, okay? xD

So for the past couple days, I’ve been working on pages for SJA News. The first was one I saw as a necessity, because I realised it was pretty hard to contact me about anything other than commenting. So the ‘contact’ page, under Pages in the sidebar, has every way I can think of (within reason ) to contact myself about any news or anything, really
My second page is still a little scruffy round the edges; it took a while to get all the links in, but it’s working fine. It’s called ‘Merchandise’, and it’s a nice list of all the merch I can think of at the moment. Added after a lot of searches were concerning the DVDs and Death of the Doctor (which will be an ebook, we know from sarah-jane.tv). It’s still nowhere near complete; remember these?

Also, Elisabeth Sladen is doing an autograph session (The Co=Ordinator writes that it’s an extra to the Q&A on Tuesday the 12th, which tickets are sold out for, the Q&A I mean, not the extra thingy). The Gallifrey Base thread is here, the website here and the charity it’s raising money for here.
Head over to sarah-jane.tv for news about series 4 plot synopsises if you haven’t already, and that’s all from me today!
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Favourite Fan Art

Sarah — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:21:25 +0000

As always when new pictures come out, Gallifrey Base is abuzz with photoshop’d pictures, which are, usually, better than the originals! Here are my favourites (this is turning into Blue Peter) and I’ll link to the thread at the bottom.

These pictures are both by Hazz (I thought they were by 2 different people when I uploaded them xD) and I hope it’s okay to put these up

He's got the whole world in his hands darn, now that's stuck in my head..

Also, I’ve noticed are lot of searches are about whether Tommy Knight’s leaving the show or not.. I don’t want to give away spoilers to those who don’t want them so the answer is end of this post.

The thread be here

Sorry for the short post, I felt like making one and it’s better than nothing, yeahz?

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Quote from Kuyoyo’s comment, I think it’s better than what I had :

About the Tommy Knight leaving rumours. He’s playing a reduced role for Series 4, appearing in just the first two-parter, a webcam appearance and a further two-parter of which one of them is the finale. And we know his part in the gang is being filled by guest characters throughout the series and rumoured to be the same for series 5 as well.

The Post of Pictures

Sarah — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:19:26 +0000

Last Thursday, 6 new Sarah Jane pictures were released, I’ve been super-busy with schoolwork (it’s only the beginning of the year. what) until today which is why this is a little late. Nevertheless, here are all the pictures from series 4 in one post, click on the pictures for a (much) bigger picture

I should probably say here: (possible) SPOILERS!!!

The first 2 have already been seen:

Either very good screenshots or more promo images:

which isn’t, as I had first thought, a zoomed-in version of this:

(I need to know where the costume department get their clothes from, I’d wear all their outfits. Seriously)

Characters!!

Big big thankies to NurseBoy on Gallifrey Base (click name for link to the photo page on dw image 2005)

Also, a second trailer has been released, thankyou to sarah-jane.tv for this, otherwise I wouldn’t know anything about it:

I’ll leave on a sad note: I’m not going to be able to go down to London for the advance screening and Q&A, it being on a Tuesday and me being an 8-hour train journey away. If any readers are going to it, a comment or a Twitter (see sidebar) would be really appreciated so I can still do a summary/pictures on it

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