Status Report

[nonelvis]

Current fic status: Just over 4,000 words, with only one major scene transition and the last bit of the ending left to go.

Current hatred level for Russell T Davies: High, due to the following factors:

1. He has given fandom a character whom it is almost impossible to write without emphasizing her Mary Sue-ness.
   
2. He allowed Toby Whithouse to get away with emasculating Sarah Jane in "School Reunion," thereby making a rather important line I've written sound insulting to her when that's not my intention.
   
3. "Gridlock" is on tonight, and though I'll probably watch it out of inertia, it will undoubtedly continue to suck.

Urge to Kill: Surprisingly low. Maybe it's the nice weather outside.

Comments

[iainpj.livejournal.com]

He allowed Toby Whithouse to get away with emasculating Sarah Jane in "School Reunion," thereby making a rather important line I've written sound insulting to her when that's not my intention.

Wait ... do you mean that part where she told the doctor how she felt about him leaving? Because otherwise, I thought she was pretty much in line with how she's generally been. (... Well, in line with Tom Baker's Sarah Jane, anyway, who was considerably less spunky and somewhat more frequently distressed damsel than Pertwee's Sarah Jane, but that's a slightly different issue.)

[nonelvis]

No, the part where she's been sitting around for 30 years waiting for him to come back. While I can certainly understand Sarah Jane feeling unrequited lust love for the Doctor, I have a harder time believing that she put her life on hold for that long after he left her behind. I mean, Whithouse doesn't explicitly state that Sarah Jane spent 30 years pining away for him, but he certainly makes it clear she never had any significant romantic relationships.

[iainpj.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, from what little I've seen,it looks like the BBC's "Sarah Jane Adventures" may attempt to do a partial retcon (very partial) of Big Finish's "Sarah Jane Smith" into continuity, in which case, sitting around is not precisely what she's been doing. (They can't do a complete retcon, in part because they're using children, and in part because fandom would never ever forgive them for using the complete story.)

And I can sort of see the Doctor being a really hard act to follow.