#so lets go smiths lets go jacksons lets go chandras

[companion-showdown]

Who is your favourite Doctor Who family?

warning, the images are not in the same order they appear in the poll

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

[the-attic-in-ealing]

SJA Actor AU

Alternate Universe where The Sarah Jane Adventures is its own show rather than being part of the Doctor Who Universe. This AU focuses on the actors and behind the scenes stuff rather than the content of SJA in this universe. This is nothing to do with the real actors who portrayed the characters in SJA.

Sarah Jane Sullivan [Sarah Jane Smith]:

Married to actor Harry Sullivan (who was big in the 70s but stopped to pursue a quiet life)

Prefers being called Sarah to Sarah Jane (unlike her character)

Was in a big show in the 70s, later left and did small theatre acting and one or two independent movies and shows

Cameoed in a later season of the show which brought her fame (in 2018)

Soon was invited to audition for a new sci-fi teen drama, which started as a Christmas special/one of pilot (2019)

Her son, Luke Sullivan, was also in this teen drama playing her character's adopted son created by aliens

Accidently breaks/drops props

Luke Sullivan [Luke Smith]:

Son of Sarah Jane and Harry Sullivan

Autistic and is openly gay and non-binary by the age of 17

14 in the pilot, 15 when filming series 1

Considered the sweetest person on set

Does his schoolwork on the set (literally is revising in the background of some scenes with his teen costars)

Suggested his real-life boyfriend for the role of his character's partner (who later got the role)

Trips over on set all the time

Can't stop laughing in interviews

Maria James [Maria Jackson]:

Technically wasn't even an actor, she just found the description for Maria Jackson relatable so she went to the open casting and ended up getting the role

Had a bit of a crush on Luke and they did date for a short while before realising they were better off as friends (and also gay)

Had to leave due to school commitments; remained in contact with costars

Always started laughing during serious scenes

Clyde Lewis [Clyde Langer]:

Pranks on set

Draws C!Clyde's art

Ended up being in more episodes than A!Luke

Did a chemistry test with A!Maria, A!Luke and A!Sarah to play C!Clyde and it was hilarious, he clicked with them all instantly

Oldest of the teens on set (16 when filming series 1)

Absolute sweetheart and always apologises after C!Clyde has any rude/mean lines

Trips on the stars in the attic

Rani Dhawan [Rani Chandra]

Began to date A!Clyde after the recording of season 3; A!Clyde proposed on the set of season 5

Kept swearing on set so they have a swear jar for her alone

Whenever she and A!Luke have scenes when it's just them it's pure chaos; they are a force to be reckoned with

She did a few theatre shows before the show but didn't consider herself an actor

Always teases the boys in interviews

Sky Sullivan [Sky Smith]

Wasn't very interested in acting but when the character of Sky was written she took a chance and ended up getting the role

Always got piggy backs on set

A!Luke stayed on set during Sky's first season even when he wasn't in an episode because Sky was very nervous

Always stutters lines

There's probably at least an hour of footage of her and A!Clyde messing around

A!Rani would do her hair in the background when filming and the directors let them because it made the scenes feel more natural

This is currently a very very basic view of the characters. Also A!Name is the actor and C!Name is the character they play because I gave them all the same first name for now.

I'm still figuring out what I want to do with this AU but hopefully it'll go somewhere.

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Timestamp #SJA15: The Mad Woman in the Attic

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Timestamp #SJA15: The Mad Woman in the Attic

Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic (2 episodes, s03e02, 2009)

  When wishes go haywire.

In 2059, the Bannerman Road house is in disrepair. The attic is abandoned, Mr. Smith is broken down, and an old woman lives alone in the attic. A boy named Adam finds the woman, and we discover that she is Rani Chandra. She is unkempt like the house, spending her time lingering over photographs and memories.

She begins to tell him her story…

In 2009, Rani brings a story about strange lights to Sarah Jane, but she and Mr. Smith have already decided that it was merely lightning. She’s annoyed because the group is talking about Maria Jackson, who she considers to be “the girl before her” and is now hiding aliens in America.

Hurt by the dismissive attitude, she leaves and finds an e-mail from an old friend. She meets up with Sam Lloyd and they end up at a deserted pleasure park. Sam knows about the Bannerman Road Gang and wants Rani to investigate the mystery of a demon at the park.

Of course, Sam deserts her, so she looks around on her own and soon finds Harry the caretaker. She works her way into his office. After they talk for a bit, she brings up the haunting, but Harry dismisses her with fear. A voice says, “Playtime is beginning,” and Rani witnesses people who had previously disappeared on the rides. Their eyes are red and they’re grinning maniacally. The voices says, “Playtime is over,” and the rides stop. Rani takes her investigation to the haunted house even as Harry protests.

Sarah Jane, Luke, and Clyde find the e-mail from Sam. Even though Sarah Jane is upset that Rani has told someone about their secrets, she decides to investigate. When they arrive, Sam is cold toward the trio but tells them where to find Rani. Luke stays with Sam while Sarah Jane and Clyde head for the park.

As Rani makes her way to the heart of the haunted house, she finds a red-skinned alien named Eve. Harry locks Rani in the room and the two talk, though Eve does so telepathically. Eve is able to manipulate time, seeing pasts and futures, and is presumably the last of her kind. She came to Earth in a spaceship as her people destroyed each other in a massive war. Harry found her and kept her safe.

Eve says that the people in the carnival are her friends, but she cannot go outside because of her appearance. She assures Rani that she needs the Bannerman Road Gang and asks if Rani wants to see her future, but that future is of a mad, lonely woman. Rani wants nothing to do with that future, so she offers to help Eve escape.

Eve also shows Luke and Sarah Jane their timelines. Luke’s past contains memories of this very show while his future includes a graduation. Sarah Jane’s involves memories of her parents, The Five Doctors, The Hand of Fear, The Time Warrior, and The Stolen Earth.

Her future somehow involves the TARDIS and the Tenth Doctor.

Sarah Jane and Clyde go in search of Eve. Simultaneously, Rani and Eve decide to go outside. The two teams eventually come together, but Rani’s feelings of rejection come to the surface. Back at the orphanage, Sam has departed with only a note to spare. It says that it wasn’t Eve who wanted Rani.

Once outside, Eve starts up the rides again, forcing them to spin wildly. When Rani gets upset, Eve possesses her as well. The mirror that showed Sarah Jane her future laments that Eve is outside, revealing that it is the artificial intelligence from the spaceship and needs Eve to return its control. Eve cannot control her power and is dying.

Sarah Jane returns to Eve, telling her that she must let everyone go, but Eve doesn’t know how to free them. After Sam arrives, he joins Sarah Jane and Clyde as they escort Eve back to the ship. The ship absorbs Eve’s excess energy, which frees her captives and saves her life. Rani runs for the beach with Harry in tow and rejoins her family.

Eve invites Sam and Harry to travel with her but needs the energy of a black hole to fuel the ship. Sarah Jane connects with K9 and they coordinate efforts to transfer the Switzerland singularity‘s energy to the ship. With that, K9’s mission is finished and he returns to the attic.

Unfortunately, as the ship departs, it grants Rani one wish. It chooses the wish she made earlier, that her friends would leave her alone, and erases the Bannerman Road Gang from existence. Rani protests but the ship takes off regardless.

Back in 2059, Adam reveals his true identity. He is the son of Sam and Eve, and he has come to reverse the wish because the ship was damaged and misinterpreted the wish. Given the opportunity, Rani wishes her family back into existence, deleting the timeline. Sam and Eve head into space and the Bannerman Road Gang heads home.

The adventure ends as Sarah Jane takes a photo of Rani, Luke, Clyde, and K9. K9 even says “Cheese!”

In a coda, we see the new future of 2059. Rani lives in the house at Bannerman Road, but it is well-kept and happy with three grandchildren and her son. Rani works with Luke and Maria, and the photo has a place of honor on the shelf nearby.

  This one starts out as a tear-jerker in an era when Elisabeth Sladen is no longer with us. The part of Rani’s story about how magnificent Sarah Jane was, how much she meant to Rani and the Bannerman Road Gang, pulls at the heartstrings because Sarah Jane and Elisabeth Sladen were really one and the same.

What follows from there, however, is a paint-by-the-numbers alternate timeline tale with a misunderstood alien menace… who honestly isn’t that menacing. The story has a sweet aspect to it since the alien is innocent, acting out purely in loneliness and fear, but the mystery and menace are both pretty thin.

Couple that with Rani’s sense of rejection, which feels unfounded given her history in this show, and that leaves the story pretty average overall.

One note extends deep into the classic era: Sarah Jane mentions the Zodin, which were first brought up by the Second Doctor in The Five Doctors and blurted out in delirium by the Sixth Doctor in Attack of the Cybermen. It’s a running gag of sorts in the Doctor Who universe.

    Rating: 3/5 – “Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.”

      UP NEXT – Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith

  The Timestamps Project is an adventure through the televised universe of Doctor Who, story by story, from the beginning of the franchise. For more reviews like this one, please visit the project’s page at Creative Criticality.

[bardqueenofgallifrey]

For the character asks, Luke Smith, K-9, Mr Smith?

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life 

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang (he was underage at the time and so was I, but not so much now, it’s conflicting but either way I’m just gonna not go there, he’s adorable regardless of age but that’s as far as I’ll go)

hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff

best quality: he tries so hard, my boy, he just wants to fit in and make friends and save the world and he has a bit of a rough time of it but he really tries okay he’s a Good Boy

worst quality: probably the same, take a step back and chill for a moment kiddo

ship them with: Santiago Jones (they’d be adorable okay)

brotp them with: Maria Jackson, Rani Chandra, Clyde Langer, his mum and sister

needs to stay away from: anything that might want to hurt him, leave him alone, let him sleep and do physics and kiss cute boys okay

misc. thoughts: so mad that we were SO close to a canon gay in SJA, but come on, the moment we saw the scarves in season 4 we all KNEW right

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life 

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang (he’s a robot dog that’s wrong on multiple levels)

hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff

best quality: idk he’s good at working out shit and he’s always around to attempt to comfort you in his awkward robot manner

worst quality: “you never fucking know the answer when it’s important” (Tom Baker, @ K-9)

ship them with: Mr Smith, in a weird asexual robot way

brotp them with: Sarah Jane, the Doctor, Leela, Romana

needs to stay away from: beaches

misc. thoughts: he’s adorable

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life 

hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang

hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (just bc he’s a snake tbh)

best quality: good at doing stuff

worst quality: sassy know it all little shit

ship them with: K-9 in a weird asexual robot way

brotp them with: Sarah Jane?? idk man

needs to stay away from: Slitheen, babies with electricity powers

misc. thoughts: I have…. no thoughts here except that I wish they’d made the episode where he became human cos that would have been wild

[companion-showdown]

Family Feud Nominations, Who is the Best Doctor Who Family

If I've missed a character out of one of the families let me know (within reason, I imagine all these families are massive in the EU, so prioritise tv or significant characters)

Currently, the only rule is no families may inculde anyone who is even ambiguously The Doctor, it'll get super complicated super fast imo

Any characters, eg River, who can link up multiple different families to create a single massive family unit will be treated on a case by case basis. If it is possible to pick one of the smaller family units that they are a part of to include them in while not including them in any of the others (in a way everyone will agree at least makes sense) they will be included in that family only, otherwise they will not be included

Please bare in mind when you are nominating that I am hoping to keep the number of nominations under 64 to run this as a mini-tournament. This is not a hard rule so if nominations do exceed 64 its not a big deal, just something I'd like everyone to bare in mind

Nominees

Foreman-Campbell (Susan, David, Alex)

Chesterton-Wright (Ian, Barbara, implied to be married after they leave)

McCrimmon (Jamie, Heather, V.M.McCrimmon, various others)

Waterfield (Victoria, Edward (father))

Lethbridge-Stewart (Kate, The Brigadier, Doris (Brig's wife in Battlefield), Archibald Hamish (TUAT), Gordon (Kate's son in Downtime), Kadiatu, The Great Intelligence, Lucy Wilson)

Grant/Jones (Jo, Cliff, Santiago (Jo's grandson in Death of the Doctor))

Smith (Sarah-Jane, Lavinia (aunt), Brendan Richards, Luke, Sky, Mr Smith, K9 (they are her family and I will not be hearing otherwise), Barbara, Eddie (parents in Temptation of Sarah-Jane Smith))

Leela, Andred, Veega, Rayo

Adric and Varsh (brothers)

Nyssa, Tremas, and Kassia (daughter, father, step-mother)

Jovanka (Tegan, Vanessa (aunt in Logopolis), Colin (cousin in Arc of Infinity))

Turlough (Vislor, Malkon (brother in Planet of Fire))

McShane (Ace, Audrey (mother), Kathleen (grandmother), Liam (brother))

Tyler (Rose, Jackie, Pete, Tony (baby mentioned in Journey's End), no I will not be adding the metacrisis to this list)

Another Smith (Mickey, Rita (grandmother))

Slitheen

Harkness (Jack, Grey, parents, Alice Carter (daughter), Steven Carter(grandson))

Isolas (Fear Her)

Jones (Martha, Francine, Clive, Tish, Leo, Leo has a baby as well, Adeola Oshodi)

The Family of Blood

Redfern-Smith (Joan, John (various), possible dream children and grandchildren)

Shafe Kanes (from Utopia, Kristane, Beltone)

Mott-Noble-Temple (Donna, Sylvia, Wilf, Shaun, Rose)

The Adipose

Pond-Williams (Amy, Rory, River, Brian, Anthony, Amy's aunt and parents)

Owens: (Craig, Sophie, Stormageddon Dark Lord of All)

Gillyflower (Mrs Gillyflower, Ada)

Paternoster (Jenny, Vastra, Strax)

Oswald (Clara, Ellie, Dave (parents), grandmother, and I'm going to say Danny makes the cut, Orson)

Potts (Bill, Mother, Moira (foster mother))

O'Brien-Sinclair (Graham, Ryan, Grace, Aaron (Ryan's father))

Khan (Yaz, Najia (mother), Hakim (father), Sonya (sister), Umbreen (grandmother))

Lewis (Dan, Eileen (mother), Neville (father))

Swarm and Azure

Bel, Vinder and their as yet unborn child

Sunday (Ruby, Carla, Cherry, many many foster siblings)

The TARDIS and Lolita

Little House of Cwej

The House of Lungbarrow (Grandfater Paradox, Qenceus, Inocet, various cousins, Irving Braxiatel, Maggie Matsumoto, Ulysses, Penelope GAte, Anna Joyce)

The House of Dvora (Morbius, The War King, Thessalia, Romana, various others)

Langer (Clyde, Carla (mother), Paul (father))

Jackson (Maria, Alan, Chrissie)

Chandra (Rani, Haresh, Gita)

The Wu Diaspora (Cindy Wu and her clones)

Munmeth and Mutmunna (Medicine Man)

Ada and Alice Obiefune

Who (Susan, Barbara, Louise)

Jones-Davies (Ianto, Rhiannon, Johnny, David, Mica)

Summerfield (Bernice, Issac, Claire, Jason Kane, Peter, Wolsey, Keith, Rebecca, Cousin Eliza, Benedict I-IV, Christine)

Miller (Lucie, Pat (aunt))

Schofield (Hex, Cassie, Hilda)

House of Witforge (Narvin, Lenaris, Helico, Narvin's father, Rexin)

Faction Paradox

Pollard (Charley, Louisa, Richard, Margaret, Edward Grove, The Sound Creature)

Mesh Cos, Lon Shel, Julian White Mammoth Tusk

Cooper-Williams (Gwen, Rhys, Anwen, Geraint, Mary (Gwen's parents))

Chenka (Liv, Tula, Kal, Garlon Rosh)

Sinclair (Helen, Albie, Trev Bailey)

Forrester

Proctor (Cleo, Jordan, parents)

Nominations will be open until Midday Friday (03/05, 12:00 BST (GMT/UTC +1)), I will try and give a more specific time then