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- From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
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- Subject: Re: I just have a question
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:09:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.125938.5650@desire.wright.edu> <1992Nov18.052319.14686@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.052319.14686@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
- >....but if you have the audacity, poor judge of character (if you can't
- >understand Sarah Jane, best leave Falstaff alone), and sheer lack of
- >observation to call Sarah Jane Smith a "nil brain", YOU HAVE A FIGHT ON YOUR
- >HANDS.
-
- Oooh. I'm sorry, I tried, but I can't pass this one up.
-
- Also from Andrew David "Drewcifer" Simchik, a few days ago:
-
- >Just because you like someone or something that I don't doesn't make your
- >opinion any more valid than my own. If I dislike Ace, that's an opinion
- >based on perception. If you like her, don't presume that you have any more
- >of a factual basis than I do...opinion is opinion and I can't believe that
- >you cannot comprehend this!
-
- Hmm, Drew? So, are you now saying that some opinions come from a "sheer
- lack of observation" and are therefore invalid?
-
- Well, considering that in the recent Ace bash-fest, some of us cited
- plenty of details you'd missed or ignored, but you insisted that you
- still had the God-given right to keep shouting your opinion in our faces
- at every opportunity no matter what the facts of the stories were...
-
- >And if you thought the Ace thing was bad, just you wait and see how this
- >debate flames!
-
- ...then this ought to be fun.
-
- >****************************************************************************
- >* Andrew David Simchik * DISCLAIMER: I said it... *
- ...and said it...
- ...and said it...
- ...and said it...
- >* a.k.a. Drewcifer * No one else would! * *
- Or felt the need to.
- >****************************************************************************
-
- But seriously, folks, now that I've gotten that out of my system...
-
- Was Sarah Jane a no-brainer?
-
- I think not. True, she did fall very much into the traditional "Doctor,
- what's happening?" role, playing as a foil to the Doctor, but she also
- did quite a few intelligent things. Look at "Invasion of the Dinosaurs",
- where she goes off and investigates on her own for a large chunk of the
- story, or "Terror Of The Zygons", where she figures out a lot of what
- is going on before the Doctor does.
-
- She even had the sense, in "The Masque of Mandragora", to ask the obvious
- question that no one (except the viewers) ever thought of before. How
- come everyone in outer space or ancient history speaks English? :-)
-
- On the other hand, she did break down completely in "Ark In Space", and
- she played the typical Hammer Horror maiden-in-distress in "Brain Of
- Morbius". Sarah's problem wasn't so much one of being a bad character --
- she was just an inconsistently written one. Would the dead-on shot with
- the rifle in "Pyramids of Mars" come from the same person who is too
- terrified of a clanking robot to move in "Robot"?
-
- I'd definitely blame the writers of some stories before I'd blame Lis
- Sladen for Sarah Jane's shortcomings. Bonnie "Eeek!" Langford, on the
- other hand, deserves full blame for Mel. But that's another thread
- entirely.
-
- Comments, anyone?
-