Even with never watching the older episodes, I immediately felt the impact when she returned for School Reunion and what a special companion she had been
I... just can't believe it. Seems like only yesterday I was discovering her excellent spin-off show. (One thing the BBC have been good about has been spin-offs; they never made any unless they were worth it, and both of the Dr.Who ones were.) What a sad loss.
Really.... to me, the Tom Baker Doctor always was THE Doctor, mad hair and scarf and all. And as I see him as definitive, so I think she set the standard for all companions to come. And think about this: Tom Baker had agreed to make six audio adventures with her, never knowing that she had cancer, because she was the kind who never went whining to anyone with her troubles. Ever since I heard of her death, I had this feeling that she was too big, too real a woman to become an Oscar-winner, that she was bigger as a woman than as an actress - and that is not to demean her great acting - and that what we saw on screen came from what she was in real life. God. Last month, Diana Wynne Jones; this month, Elizabeth Sladen. Rest in peace, and thanks.
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rosecarmine
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Date: 2011-04-19 11:45 pm (UTC)As was she. *sniffles*
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Date: 2011-04-20 12:50 am (UTC)http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137935
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Date: 2011-04-20 11:47 pm (UTC)Tom Baker link
Date: 2011-04-20 11:55 pm (UTC)And the inevitable proverb: it is only when an oak has fallen that you can measure how great it was.
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