GOODBYE, SARAH JANE

[defrog]

I’ve been caught up in deadlines and internartional travel, so I’m behind on current events bloggery.

So even though it’s old news to most of you, I should probably say something about Elisabeth Sladen passing away.

Actually, I can’t really add to what’s already been said by most of you in yr own blogs. Except that Sladen, as Sarah Jane Smith, was my high school crush.

Well, one of many, yes. But Sladen was different somehow. She was British, for one. And she looked great in a ski cap. And she hung around with Doctor Who, which like most people my age, I discovered during the Tom Baker years and instantly fell in love with the whole concept.

She was also feisty and independent, yes, although that didn’t make as much an impression on me – Nashville didn't get Doctor Who on TV til the early 80s, and by that time, even at the tender age of 16, I thought all women acted like that. 

Anyway, I always loved Sarah Jane as a character – so much so that I wrote bad poetry about her, and even once stole her look and name wholesale to create a superhero character for Villains and Vigilantes.

If that’s not true love, what is? I ask you.

So credit to Sladen for creating such a believable, vivid character. She may never have escaped it career-wise, but the tributes that have been pouring in speak volumes.

I’m yr fanboy,

This is dF