Re: The Sarah Jane Adventures (5 Tardis Poll) 5/11

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:02:43 -0700, John Schilling
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>On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:13:29 +0000 (UTC), mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Michael Alan
>Chary) wrote:
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>>In article <Xns9A7EBBA7C26BFjayembeesnurcher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>jayembee  <jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>jewahe <j.hanvey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Not terrible, but how many Doctor Who spinoffs do we need?
>
>>>Shrug. It's aimed specifically at kids. Why is that a problem?
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>>The answer, though, is five. We need ones about K-9, UNIT, and
Gallifrey.
>
>UNIT is dramatically redundant with Torchwood; possibly I would have
>preferred the UNIT one, and I think Captain Jack Harkness might even
>have been a better fit there, but we got Torchwood and that's OK.
>
>K-9, needs a mistress.  We can argue whether that should be Leela,
>Romana, or Sarah Jane Smith, but we've got the Sarah Jane Adventures
>and, without K-9, that's not OK.
>
>Gallifrey, meh.  Unless Louise Jameson has aged as well as Elizabeth
>Sladen...

http://www.louisejameson.com/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/13/ndyslexia113.xml

>>The ones we don't need which would be nice are Daleks, Sontaran/Rutan
War, 
>>Sabolom Glitz, Ace and the further adventures of the Fourth Doctor.
>
>Ace would be nice, but I think we've seen all we need to of the others
>by now.  Well, the Daleks have continuing potential as antagonists, but
>only if not overused and if matched against a suitable protagonist. 

Ugh.. I never really cared for Ace. I thought Sylvester did a decent
job with poor scripts, but the actress playing Ace never made me a
believer.