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Reply Subj: RIP Sarah Jane Smith. You will be missed. Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30:04 pm EDT (Viewed 563 times) | |||||||
I'm in grade school. I've fallen in love. She's playful enough to enjoy teasing others, but still serious enough to be susceptible to some teasing herself. After the Doctor told me that it was okay for a hero to be slightly strange and deeply silly and kind of crazy, Sarah Jane Smith showed me that a hero like that could find an amazing woman with whom he could explore the wonders of the universe, and who could equal any of them. It's just shy of half a dozen years ago. I realize that I never fell out of love. She's the same age as my mom, but even after close to three decades since the last time she traveled in the TARDIS, she somehow radiates as much youth and life as she ever did. After the Doctor's return from a nearly two-decade hiatus demonstrated that, sometimes, maybe you CAN go home again (even if he couldn't), Sarah Jane Smith AND Elisabeth Sladen proved that childlike adventure, excitement and joy don't have any age limits, even for non-Time Lords. I'm in the middle of my work day when I get an email. I immediately dismiss it as a tasteless prank. She CAN'T be dead. I KNOW this, for a FACT. But then, it starts to sink in that this has somehow actually happened, no matter how impossible it seems, and I feel myself deflating, PHYSICALLY, like a punctured balloon. I still have half a dozen hours left to work, with two news stories to write and post on our paper's website, and an interview to conduct later that evening. So, I suck it up, do the job, roll on home, and as soon as I'm alone in my bedroom, I suddenly find myself bursting into tears. Almost a lifetime after I first saw her, Elisabeth Sladen's unexpected passing has brought home the bittersweet truth behind her character's words to the Doctor:  I know it's true, even as much as I want to say BUT YOUR TIME WAS TOO SOON, and I've started crying all over again, right now, as I'm typing these very words, because how can someone who looked at the world with such wide eyes and bright smiles for so long just be here one day and gone the next? I see all these video clips of her being posted online as tributes, and it makes me want to scream BUT THAT PROVES SHE CAN'T BE DEAD, BECAUSE I CAN SEE HER, RIGHT HERE, even though I know that all I'm seeing now is her ghost. ... And yet, a part of my heart remains convinced that she can't be gone, because she doesn't feel gone. When I was a child, I fell in love with an awe-inspiring woman. As an adult, I learned that the real-life woman was just as impressive as the fictional character whom she played. I never really got over her. And now, I doubt I ever will.       Elisabeth Sladen: 1948-2011 Even though you are gone, you will still go on to inspire countless children who haven't even been born yet. | |||||||
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