strange cousin susan

I found this by way of Andrew (who, along with Wes, always has the best Who links); when I was introduced to Doctor Who, I jumped in with both feet and didn’t even try to make myself believe I understood what the hell was going on. This, of course, has made it necessary for me to rewatch many of those introductory serials once I figured out WTF was happening. But I’m not complaining at all.

The best part of the article is, yes, you guessed it, a bit about Sarah! Jane!, quite predictably:

“Pyramids Of Mars.” Another one where the Doctor is outclassed and overpowered from start to finish, and he keeps making clever plans that fail horribly. The interplay between Sarah Jane and the Doctor is never better than in this episode — partly because the story’s female director took some of the Doctor’s dialog and gave it to Sarah Jane. So instead of the Doctor explaining everything to Sarah Jane, she’s figuring stuff out on her own.

Even without that, it’s a great primer on how to become acquainted with this veritable legend of television.