Sunday musings
Feb. 22nd, 2009 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dbskyler--Re-watched "Hand of Fear" again today. Might now need to re-watch "School Reunion" to get over it.
--I've been wondering if one of the reasons why Sarah Jane Smith is such a popular companion is due to how she left the show. If she had, for example, gotten married off like her predecessor Jo and successor Leela, or even just left by her own choice, would so many people have remained so attached to her for decades? I know that the ending to "Hand of Fear" affected me for a long time, and I felt some long-overdue closure from "School Reunion." But on the other hand, a lot of people have become attached to the character through "School Reunion" and "SJA," so Sarah's enduring popularity can't all have been from what happened to her in "Hand of Fear." And besides, Sarah rocks.
--Thinking more about it, the idea that all a female companion was really looking for in the end was a husband is pretty demeaning to women (even if it unfortunately was very reflective of attitudes in the '70s). I'm glad they didn't do that to Sarah.
-- Still enjoyingcot_tossed very much, although I have taken them off my flist after reading an entry where it was pointed out that friending the journal means that whoever is behind it has access to my flocked posts. While I don't have very many flocked posts, and I normally flock more to keep a post contained within a smaller section of the internet than to say "you're allowed to read it and you're not," I do like to know who has access to them.
-- I almost wish now that I'd had a story nominated for "Children of Time Awards" just so I could read whatcot_tossed would have to say about it. On the other hand, maybe it's better that I don't. I'm already insecure enough about my writing as it is.
--I've been wondering if one of the reasons why Sarah Jane Smith is such a popular companion is due to how she left the show. If she had, for example, gotten married off like her predecessor Jo and successor Leela, or even just left by her own choice, would so many people have remained so attached to her for decades? I know that the ending to "Hand of Fear" affected me for a long time, and I felt some long-overdue closure from "School Reunion." But on the other hand, a lot of people have become attached to the character through "School Reunion" and "SJA," so Sarah's enduring popularity can't all have been from what happened to her in "Hand of Fear." And besides, Sarah rocks.
--Thinking more about it, the idea that all a female companion was really looking for in the end was a husband is pretty demeaning to women (even if it unfortunately was very reflective of attitudes in the '70s). I'm glad they didn't do that to Sarah.
-- Still enjoying
cot_tossed very much, although I have taken them off my flist after reading an entry where it was pointed out that friending the journal means that whoever is behind it has access to my flocked posts. While I don't have very many flocked posts, and I normally flock more to keep a post contained within a smaller section of the internet than to say "you're allowed to read it and you're not," I do like to know who has access to them.-- I almost wish now that I'd had a story nominated for "Children of Time Awards" just so I could read what
cot_tossed would have to say about it. On the other hand, maybe it's better that I don't. I'm already insecure enough about my writing as it is.