A very strong story to start off the Sarah Jane Adventures last full series (although they didn't know that at the time), a really brilliant series however it doesn't quite live up to the previous one (series 3). It's also significant as it set up the departure for Luke with this basically being the entire plot. We start the story the same way the previous one finished, with a countdown and a Slitheen exploding over them covering them in some rather disgusting green gloop. This allows for a tense yet comedic opening and I love the way it starts in the middle of an adventure, it also sets up the story we would be watching with Luke telling Sarah Jane he might be going to University a year early. The plot revolves around Luke worrying about going to University which would be quite relatable to people watching such as if you were starting High School or something the people it's aimed at would be doing. This worry then causes him to have nightmares about for example Sarah Jane replacing him with another boy. This then causes the Nightmare Man to manifest it's self to make the entire population of Earth have nightmares. This story I thought was quite dark for Sarah Jane, in the nightmares we have Sarah Jane, Rani and Clyde burning his picture. The Nightmare Man himself was incredibly creepy, played by Julian Bleach who also played Davros has an excellent voice and the sort of fairground music that accompanies him is very scary. The scenes of Rani and Clydes nightmares are also quite dark yet incredibly funny. We have Rani becoming a news reader and telling the world of Sarah Jane, then we have Clyde working in a burger shop, one of the best scenes in Sarah Jane history is her coming into the burger shop in an electric scooter with a nasty voice and a little bit crazy and unhinged played excellently here by Lis Sladen, she had an incredible likeness to Catherine Tate's ' swearing Nan' Finally an excellent resolution with K9 and Mr Smith joining forces to get Rani, Clyde and Luke working together in their dreams to get them out - some excellent music and writing here. And The Nightmare Man get's trapped with Sarah jane in here electric scooter in a burger shop saying "Come and sit down! And I'll tell you all about my brilliant son! His name's Luke Smith, and he's going to live happily ever after!" Finally we end on Luke driving off, although he would return in the finale and the next series...
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Handbot10
12/8/2014 08:18:24 am
I thought this was a very good story and this is a very good review!
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