I've been following another comment discussion about Sarah's feminism, and I think the conclusion reached has been that the evidence suggests she hasn't been pining away for thirty years. I sort of agree with this - the fact she's still doing her investigations proves she's pretty damn good at what she does, but she's focusing on the negatives with the Doctor because he really, really doesn't get what he did to her when he left her behind and didn't come back. (And if I remember rightly, he was supposed to come back for her; there was no reason why he couldn't at that time.) I can't get behind pining!Sarah, but I can believe that she's almost unconsciously held back from a serious relationship ever since, because whoever she went out with, married, would have to both believe and understand her when she talked about the Doctor. He literally changed and defined her life, and I think it's characteristic that she wouldn't be able to forget him, stop looking over her shoulder for him.
Ah, I really, really like this episode! It's high time the Doctor realised the consequences of what he does when he leaves people behind. And it's interesting, I think, that he hasn't talked about Sarah Jane to Rose, or any of his previous companions, but neither has he talked about his own family or his own children. I guess it all fits in very nicely with his living so long that it's easier to forget.
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Date: 2006-05-02 11:04 am (UTC)Ah, I really, really like this episode! It's high time the Doctor realised the consequences of what he does when he leaves people behind. And it's interesting, I think, that he hasn't talked about Sarah Jane to Rose, or any of his previous companions, but neither has he talked about his own family or his own children. I guess it all fits in very nicely with his living so long that it's easier to forget.