kerravonsen | Sarah Jane Adventures: Season 3 (second half)

Continuing with Season 3 of the Sarah Jane Adventures (yes, I am so behind).
3x07-8 The Eternity Trap
This one was nicely creepy. I'm a bit surprised that Sarah-Jane's scientist friend was going ghost-busting. The assistant's character arc was rather predictable: "Don't believe in ghosts, believe in aliens!"

I think the Alchemist was a Time Lord with a broken TARDIS. It would explain how Time went wonky when it got a sword thrust in its guts.
I like how they tricked the Alchemist with a pretend circle and a real circle which had been on the floor all the time (yes, even from the very first act).

3x09-10 Mona Lisa's Revenge
It's rather amusing, the character of Mona Lisa. And of course all the picture swapping is creepy. And of course very important that we never saw the Abomination.

Unfortunately, no matter how I try, I cannot make this version of the Mona Lisa fit with the one in the 4th Doctor episode "City of Death".

3x11-12 The Gift
I knew that gift would be trouble for several reasons:
* "The Gift" was the title of the episode.
* The Blathereen took it out of a highly protected cryogenic container; that implied that it wasn't safe to carry it around in an ordinary box; either it wasn't safe for the plant (it was delicate) or it wasn't safe for others (it was dangerous).
* It's called Rackweed; that isn't the name of a highly esteemed plant, it's the name of a nuisance.
* When they explained that Rackweed would grow anywhere, I knew we'd be hip-deep in Rackweed before the day was out. Even if it hadn't been a malicious plant, it would have been a disaster of global proportions for such a thing to get out; just consider the ecological disasters that occurred because someone transplanted a species somewhere where it had no competition and no predators: big, big trouble. Cane toad, anyone?

Still, it wasn't bad; the plants were nicely creepy with their wailing. Though it's a bit handwavy that the exact frequency of the school bell was their nemesis. Though perhaps it wasn't just that exact frequency, it was just that that was the frequency they discovered.

It was good that Rani and Clyde came up with the solution for this one this time.
Though Clyde was an utter berk for trying to cheat on his test. Bad Clyde.

I wish that we could meet some Raxicoricofalipatorians who were actually good for once. Or even some nice aliens. When was the last time we had a nice alien on SJA? There have been a couple that I can recall, who gave Sarah-Jane gifts which turned out to be useful just in the nick of time.

I'm also getting a bit tired of recycling villains that's happening in SJA.
1-2: Judoon
3-4: someone new
5-6: The Trickster
7-8: someone new
9-10: someone new
11-12: Slitheen

Okay, that's 50%. Still too many.

So who do you think was the best "villain" in Season 3? I put "villain" in quotes because not all of the villains were actual villains.