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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jun 24, 2017 17:36:43 GMT
Well, I think there should be a resolution to that ending. Obviously one was intended but then Lis Sladen went back to playing SJS on TV, and while there are unused scripts et cetera for the TV show that something could be done with they aren't an obvious narrative gap.
And how does this series align with the events of "A Girl's Best Friend"?
*caveat. I care nothing for novels or short stories solving this issue and won't respond to suggestions about them, TV and BF only (and flashbacks to the Beeb Pertwee audios are also fine)
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Post by Digi on Jun 24, 2017 21:59:31 GMT
Might be somewhat of a challenge at this point.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Jun 24, 2017 22:25:30 GMT
maybe it could be done as a Short Trip especially if they had the Doctor involved in her rescue It may be hard to fit it in another range (at least of the current ranges - [could they fit it in a New Doctor Chronicle?]) Now, if they were to do a set of stories featuring the cast of SJA then they could have 1 story in which K9 gives an account of what happened to her I believe it is too soon for a recasting
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jun 24, 2017 23:16:46 GMT
She's rescued by Mr Smith
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 0:29:18 GMT
It's pretty divorced from it. A Girl's Best Friend is two decades in the past by the time of the SJS series; give or take, a dating controversy or two. However, there is a thematic link of sorts in the antagonistic cultists who are propelling events -- they were formed out of the Brotherhood of Demnos from The Masque of Mandragora.
There is a tale covering Sarah's rescue from the shuttle, but it's a short story, so never mind then. Suffice to say, the Ninth Doctor finds and takes her home.
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Post by mbt66 on Jun 25, 2017 15:44:37 GMT
It is a shame that it wasn't resolved in series 3, especially as I found series two to be much more enjoyable than the first series.
However now that it has been so long and we know that she survived to star in the SJAs I don't feel that I need to hear a story about Sarah Jane without Sarah Jane in it!
There are a lot more other resolutions I would like Big Finish to tackle.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 19:03:18 GMT
I would.like to hear a story covering tue resolution of this, ending with our heroine moving into Bannerman Road.
A Stephen Critchlow short trip is probably the best option, but if the Doctor saves her he'll have to stay behind the scenes so that she can still say in School Reunion that he never came back for her.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jun 25, 2017 20:25:40 GMT
It is a shame that it wasn't resolved in series 3, especially as I found series two to be much more enjoyable than the first series. However now that it has been so long and we know that she survived to star in the SJAs I don't feel that I need to hear a story about Sarah Jane without Sarah Jane in it! There are a lot more other resolutions I would like Big Finish to tackle. Go on?
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Post by mbt66 on Jun 25, 2017 21:00:54 GMT
It is a shame that it wasn't resolved in series 3, especially as I found series two to be much more enjoyable than the first series. However now that it has been so long and we know that she survived to star in the SJAs I don't feel that I need to hear a story about Sarah Jane without Sarah Jane in it! There are a lot more other resolutions I would like Big Finish to tackle. Go on? Well for starters there are the resolutions that I fully expect Big Finish will provide such as the endings of... Jago & Litefoot series 13 Doom Coalition 4, and Charlotte Pollard And then there are those that I am not sure we will ever get. My current top three in reverse order would be... 3, the ending of The Daleks Among Us 2, the ending of The Sacrifice of Sherlock Holmes 1, the ending of The Well Mannered War
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jun 25, 2017 22:32:25 GMT
Well for starters there are the resolutions that I fully expect Big Finish will provide such as the endings of... Jago & Litefoot series 13 Doom Coalition 4, and Charlotte Pollard And then there are those that I am not sure we will ever get. My current top three in reverse order would be... 3, the ending of The Daleks Among Us 2, the ending of The Sacrifice of Sherlock Holmes 1, the ending of The Well Mannered War Hmm, I honestly don't think that an ongoing series qualifies in this sort of discussion so I'm going to ignore your first three And I think I have another to add to your second list, and now that I think of it is well over due, and that's a resolution to the events of Real Time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 23:56:36 GMT
A sequel to Real Time would be perfect for short trips, narrated by Colin. Likewise, a story where Sarah Jane was rescued by The Master, for his own nefarious purposes, which she would of course ultimately foil, could either be a regular, or a subscriber exclusive short trip. If the former, hire Beevers to narrate it, and if the latter, it could also be made available to anyone who has purchased Dreamland and has it in their accounts. And given that everything after Sarah Jane gets rescued would be a new story, it wouldn't be as new listener unfriendly as it might at first appear. Instead it could make a lovely little bridging piece between Big Finish's Sarah Jane and her TV return to the role.
Given that Big Finish still sells those old releases, and even actively pushes them occasionally in sales, and given that it was Big Finish that left these unresolved, I just feel like they kind of owe some kind of resolutions to their customer base. And while in practical terms I don't expect them to spend significant time and money to do so, short trip releases seem like the perfect low cost, practically no risk solution.
The Well Mannered War, on the other hand, could surely sustain a proper, full cast sequel, either as part of the regular FDA series (the first episode or two of a new Romana and K-9 season), or some sort of special release.
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Post by Digi on Jun 26, 2017 0:41:46 GMT
I'll be "that guy": it bugs the hell out of me that Dalek Empire ended series 3 with the story unresolved, stepped back into the series 1 timeframe for series 4, and then never did anything else. There was nothing wrong with series 4, but to this day it rubs me the wrong way that that is the apparent end of the range.
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Post by glutamodo on Jun 26, 2017 3:21:20 GMT
I would not mind some kind of Short Trip style story to put a button on the end of the SJS audio series. (I consider the SJS audios and the TV series to be separate canon) I've probably mentioned it before, but on my own copy of Dreamland, I edited the ending, inserting a song that I thought appropriate after Sarah's last transmission dissolves into static. I figured this was the only kind of closure I was likely to get there.
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Post by bobod on Jun 26, 2017 8:38:46 GMT
Well for starters there are the resolutions that I fully expect Big Finish will provide such as the endings of... Jago & Litefoot series 13 Doom Coalition 4, and Charlotte Pollard And then there are those that I am not sure we will ever get. My current top three in reverse order would be... 3, the ending of The Daleks Among Us 2, the ending of The Sacrifice of Sherlock Holmes 1, the ending of The Well Mannered War We do know how the Well Mannered War is resolved though. The resolution came first. Even before the novel.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2017 10:16:28 GMT
Well for starters there are the resolutions that I fully expect Big Finish will provide such as the endings of... Jago & Litefoot series 13 Doom Coalition 4, and Charlotte Pollard And then there are those that I am not sure we will ever get. My current top three in reverse order would be... 3, the ending of The Daleks Among Us 2, the ending of The Sacrifice of Sherlock Holmes 1, the ending of The Well Mannered War We do know how the Well Mannered War is resolved though. The resolution came first. Even before the novel. Do tell?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2017 11:12:51 GMT
We do know how the Well Mannered War is resolved though. The resolution came first. Even before the novel. Do tell? They end up in Brighton, don't they? The beginning of The Leisure Hive has Romana mention that they bypassed the Randomiser.
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Post by omega on Jun 26, 2017 11:22:38 GMT
They end up in Brighton, don't they? The beginning of The Leisure Hive has Romana mention that they bypassed the Randomiser. The Doctor bypassed it so often that it was practically useless at deterring the Black Guardian. The Black Guardian himself lampshades this fact in Casualties of Time.
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Post by omega on Jun 26, 2017 11:24:30 GMT
Could be the Monk rescues Sarah, trying to make it up to the Doctor for his role in the second Dalek Invasion of Earth as told in Lucie Miller and To the Death. If he tries to get Sarah to help him, she'd see through him one hundred percent.
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Post by Alex on Jun 26, 2017 11:38:24 GMT
I believe there was a line about broken electronics in a box being stolen and Sarah said the the parts didn't exist yet. I took this as implied to be K9. Also fits with School Reunion where K9 is broken down. So definitely takes place after Girls Best Friend.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jun 26, 2017 11:56:27 GMT
I just tend to think it was the Arcateenian who happened to be passing, saved her, brought her back to Earth and then came back for a visit in Invasion of the BaneAs for hearing the resolution, I would love a CC-style story from Josh or Nat's point of view (set a few years later) - about how she was saved, what happened next, how they all moved into different lives but with the narrator getting a final message from Sarah saying she was still an investigative journalist and that there was some strange going-ons at a school that she was planning on checking out ( School Reunion). Cheers Tony
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