sarah jane adventures

SO. There is a branch of the New!Whoniverse I have basically no experience with, and that is SJA. I love Sarah Jane lots and lots, don't get me wrong; it's mostly that Who is close enough to being a kids' show for me already (fortunately with edge of dark fucked-up-ness), and I'm not particularly interested in an ACTUAL kids' show. I know the basic premise (i.e. Luke's origins), have read a few fics that crossed SJA over with Who or Torchwood, and that's about it.

But now I would like to include Sarah Jane in a Whoniverse fic I'm working on, and for that, I need a better sense of what exactly she's been up to these past few years.

FLIST, I TURN TO YOU. I'm sure a few of you watch SJA. I know where to find the episodes. What are a good couple of episodes -- say, two or three -- that I should watch to get a good sense of the SJA universe? I'm not actually trying to get into the show, or I'd just start at the first ep and work my way through. (Which, hey, if I really love it, I might do anyway, but that's not my goal at the moment.) I don't care about mytharcs or really cool villains. I just want to get a good feel for the world SJA inhabits -- who the people are, how they interact, what on earth that supercomputer is capable of. What are the most representative episodes of SJA?

Emphasis on Mr. Smith. If there's a really good Mr. Smith episode, gimme.

Recs?

oh, merlin. oh, morgana.

I'm working on a Morgana vid, and JESUS CHRIST it is BREAKING MY HEART.

Clipping "Fires of Idirsholas" now. ( spoilers, for those who haven't seen yet )

ASJKAHDLAJKHDLAHJ

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

RIGHT NOW.

Because this is the most brilliant and hilarious and spot-on perfect vid you will ever watch.

Tenth Doctor: the Musical, by di_br.

TRUST ME ON THIS.