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The Sarah Jane Adventures Season 5 Episodes 1-2
The fifth season of The Sarah Jane Adventures starts with Sarah Jane getting a daughter!
The Review
With Luke off at college, and Clyde and Rani getting older, it was clear that the show was going to need a new generation of kids. The story opens with a mysterious baby being dropped at Sarah Jane’s doorstep, and when she cries it takes out the power grid in the neighborhood. Babies are cute, especially when Clyde is trying to entertain one while Rani and Sarah Jane are off investigating a meteor landing on the planet. When she grows up, she becomes adorably played by Sinead Michael as about a 12-year old girl who doesn’t even know what ‘girl’ means. Showing a young girl being inspired by Sarah Jane warms the heart, especially thinking about how much this likely happened in real life.
Sky was bred as a bomb by Miss Myers of ‘flesh kind’ to attack her enemies ‘machine kind’, two twin planets having produced very different forms of life. The amusingly high stakes taking place in a nuclear power station are paired with some more great Chandra comedy, Haresh getting frustrated at the frequent power outages. Clyde and Rani defuse a reactor, and Sky gets her destructive energy sucked out of her, and she pledges to stay with Sarah Jane. It’s a pretty straightforward story, but Michael is immediately lovable as Sky who is certainly going to freshen up the dynamic. Heartbreakingly, we know we won’t get to see much more of her, but she makes a good showing here.
Sarah Jane gains a daughter as we see how more grown-up Clyde and Rani are now. Oh, and that shopkeeper guy is back too.
8.5/10 A nice opening for the season
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