Netlingo, Sarah Jane Adventures

[rustydog]

I am net-lingo impaired in that it takes me seeing an expression or emoticon used in context many, many, many times before I eventually figure it out, and sometimes I still have to ask outright. This stuff is not intuitive. (See: my flummoxed reaction to o_0 , for which I still do not get the graphic/facial logic.) But! Look what I found! NetLingo, the Internet Dictionary. And in case anybody is as slow as me, "VBG" means "very big grin." Not "veggie burger greens."

Also, Sarah Jane! (ghoulchick, you've already seen these comments.)

SJA 1x01 and 1x02 "Revenge of the Slitheen"

• It was fun! And sweet and age-appropriate and not stressful and made me tear up just a teeny bit.
• I'm pretty sure Alan Jackson is young enough to be Sarah Jane's son, but she's so ageless and he's so unselfconsciously hott that it barely seems intergenerational for him to be coming on to her. Snerk. If Peri was "for the dads" among the audience, this man is definitely for the mums.
• It's very Doctorish of Sarah Jane to be sending her young companions on a dangerous mission. To be fair, though, I guess at the time she told Maria to look into the source of the smell, she still thought it was a journalism type situation, not an alien one.
• The sonic lipstick seems to have telekinetic powers I don't think the screwdriver has. It didn't just lock and unlock the school doors, it shut them when they were open. Huh.
• OMG they killed a kid! And I liked him, too, the dumpy nerd.
• BABY SLITHEEN! Eeee. It's like Wicket the Ewok!
• Oh, Luke. You're so adorable with your droopy eyes and your "about thirty-two and a half minutes" and your thinking that telling the Slitheen how to destroy the earth is a "social mistake"!
• Aw, implicit Rose reference! Sarah Jane remembered Rose mentioning "Slitheen in Downing Street" and then she called Rose her friend. ::sniff::
• Okay, I have to admit to feeling very sympathetic to the Slitheen for one reason: they're repelled by perfume.
• Sarah Jane? Mercy is noble, but you save a 12-year-old from a genocidal family and kill his dad? You're just asking for a vengeance scheme in a decade or so.

Great kids' show but still very Doctor Who. Just don't let the kiddos near the fanfic people are writing about Sarah Jane. Ahem.