Sarah Jane Adventures: Episode 2.05/2.06

I was right, it was a Tomorrow People episode! The entire episode hinges on Russ Abbot...

...and Russ Abbot tries to go overboard, but can't quite manage it. One can sort of get his passion, but he doesn't quite manage to pull off the manic overload the full possessed version needs.

Not a bad plot overall, but once again back to a mass hypnosis episode? Didn't The Christmas Invasion do this already? And it was incredibly fortuitous that he didn't pick on Taurus earlier. (And I did spot the solution when it first happened anyway.) It's also amazing that only Sarah Jane's crew noticed and managed to get to be the ones to solve it...

Anjli Mohindra is already fitting in, and clicks nicely with the entire team. It's almost like Maria was never there. Tommy Knight also pulls off the "I'm an outsider" without descending into moping. Everyone's in their groove.

A decent episode, although some wider issues (of how this works in the wider DW unvierse) are avoided.


Next time: Not sure what's going on, but not entirely entranced by it...

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