Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith

Lassarai · **Joined:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:29 pm **Posts:** 187

I've just read reports that Elisabeth Sladen has died today. :cry:

srmcd1 · **Joined:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:28 pm **Posts:** 24

What the hell is going on around here?! She could've lasted another twenty years at least! She still had so much more to do!

Not fair...

The TARDIS Traveller · **Joined:** Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:24 pm **Posts:** 125

I just can't get myself around this... too early...

Farewell, Elisabeth Sladen: We will never forget you.

M'reen · **Joined:** Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:22 pm **Posts:** 1038

This is a bit surreal. I kept trying to find evidence this was a hoax of some sort ... I was prepared for the death of Brigadier/Nicholas, but the idea of Elisabeth Sladen just being gone ... is something I need to wrap my head around. I don't know how to tell my little niece.

Condolences to her family and friends who knew her. I hope she was with them at the end.

Lassarai · **Joined:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:29 pm **Posts:** 187

I know. I'm having difficulties with it too.

Lyger · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:11 pm

Bummer.

I wonder if people in the UK were more aware of what was happening with her, health-wise, than we here in the US. It took me off-guard when I saw the headline at the BBC, but I know that's because I don't follow the news abroad as much as I should.

pappy h · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:03 pm

As someone from the UK I didn't know that Elizabeth so, so poorly. This is just awful news. It feels as though a part of my childhood has been lost forever. :cry:

Russell T Davies pays tribute to Liz...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137935

Makkabee · **Joined:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:20 pm **Posts:** 314

I'm stunned at this. I had such a crush on her.

From what I've read she had cancer -- it's come as a shock to a lot of people, apparently she wasn't at all public about it.

ericinwisconsin · **Joined:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:48 pm **Posts:** 74

Wow, I'll miss her!

I met her once at a convention in Atlanta in the 1980's. She was much like Sarah Jane: spunky, cute, and utterly charming.

Some friends and I went to her autograph signing and we were last in line, so since her panel didn't start for awhile, she sat in the now empty room and chatted with the four of us. Three of us were being typical rude fanboys. We joked and kidded with her and she gave just as good as she got, enjoying the chance to spar instead of answering the same questions over and over. One of us (Mr. Shy & Quiet, now a bigwig at Coca Cola) just stood there and smiled. Finally, she looked at him and said "You're too nice to be hanging out with this lot!" and we all laughed ourselves silly. She was a classy, intelligent woman and we're all the poorer for her departure.

M'reen · **Joined:** Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:22 pm **Posts:** 1038

Doctor Who News put all the Doctor's tributes to her on one page. Tom's is shortened but they put a link to his blog so you can read the entire page and see some of his pics he put up.

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/04/doctors-pay-tribute.html

mrfranklin · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:20 pm

I was without my internet connection for about 24 hours from yesterday morning, but one of my friends who happened to be over for a Who-viewing gave me the news last night. :cry:

I'm just crushed...

As ericinwisconsin demonstrated with his anecdote, everything I've ever read about her seems to indicate she was a lot like Sarah Jane, and an all-around lovely person - just a joy to be around. I haven't been really clued in to the Whoniverse for very long myself (only about 3 yrs), but I still feel (as I imagine many fans feel) like I've lost a dear friend.

Too soon. RIP, Lis...

p.s. Thanks for the link, M'reen.

Forewarned76 · **Joined:** Fri May 30, 2008 10:33 am **Posts:** 82

Tis a hard year for us Whovians, first the Brigadier and now Miss Sarah Jayne

ericinwisconsin · **Joined:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:48 pm **Posts:** 74

As corny as it sounds, I like to think that she and Courtney and dear Jon Pertwee are together, having a ball.

Did anyone read Tom Baker's tribute? Coming from Baker, it's remarkably sincere. Not knocking Baker (he's my favorite Doctor, just barely edging out Tennant), but he often comes off as vain in interviews and was always reported to have been very rude during his time with the show. (A fact which Baker himself admits to.) In the tribute we see another side of TB. He seemed genuinely saddened by her death and the anecdotes he told showed that he had a lot of respect for her. I was glad to read that.

M'reen · **Joined:** Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:22 pm **Posts:** 1038

Not to get too much off topic, but the only person Tom was known for being rude to on a regular basis was Louise Jameson who played Leela. Myths since that time have grown amazingly, but whatever it was about, they're both over that nowadays.

He and Elisabeth Sladen got along famously and in interviews when she was asked who was her favorite Doctor was, she said Tom.

I was pleased he had so many pics of her to include in his blog, it was good to see her looking so wonderful and happy. While her life was short, she seemed to make the most and the best of all her times and made friends everywhere.

silentsz · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:34 am **Posts:** 69

Here is the link to the tribute they had on Elisabeth Sladen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH2_LFZpk5s

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