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Doctor Who's Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane) Dies at 63
Doofus writes "NPR reports that Elisabeth Sladen, who played the Doctor's assistant Sarah Jane, has died at 63. Sladen played opposite Jon Pertwee and then Tom Baker, and eventually earned her own show. BBC stories here, including a picture with K9, and here."
Way before her time. She will be missed!
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If only she could regenerate like the Doctor :( She will be missed by millions of fans.
Who?
The Brigadier, died in February. The Celestial Toymaker, died in March. Sarah Jane Smith, died in April. I hope it ends here.
If it rhymes it must be true.
Even in the new series, she was awesome. She'll be sorely missed.
Neil Gaiman tweeted about this video, and it seems apropos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1QgCx1CIaQ&feature=youtu.be
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John Kovalich summed it up nicely: http://www.dorktower.com/images/comics/DorkTower942.gif
Dont read below this line if you do not wish for the story to be spoiled....
...everyone dies eventually
In an somewhat related note, this is one of the issues I had with the most recent Dynasty Warriors game. The campaign mode followed each of the prominent officers and generals until their death; untimely or not. It really put a damper on things.
p.s I wanted to put more space before the big spoiler alert, but slashdot's junk filter caught on
Like so many folks, she was my first "Doctor Who Girl" and I've had a crush on her all these years. I got to interview her in the early 80s and a nicer, kinder and more friendly person I have never met. A great actress and good person. She's the first celebrity whose death I have wept for in I don't know how long. She will be sorely missed and always remembered.
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> Last time I check Slashdot wasn't some Hollywood gossip blog.
1) What Hollywood? She wasn't American.
2) Doctor Who is a cultural phenomenon most British and many internatonal readers of Slashdot grew up with. Hell, I was born in the year Elisabeth Sladen became the compagnon and though I'm not even British I know her.
Slashdot is about culture and those things are part of geek culture.
I'm generally a lurker here at Slashdot but Sarah Jane was my first companion so I find Elisabeth Sladen's death particularly sad, also coming not long after Nicholas Courtney's death. It's like the end of an era is coming. :-(((
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Really? Can't tell with time travel, could be after her time.
I will check that a little bit more sometime 2 weeks ago.
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Having watched Doctor Who since the seventies, she will be sorely missed. I have enjoyed so many hours watching her beside 2 doctors and then through her own series. Which she very much deserved and I very much enjoyed. So many of the people I have enjoyed in my life have gone away and now another one leaves me behind. Goodbye my friend.
I'm old, not dead. Well that's my 2 cents worth, your mileage may vary. I say what I think, not what you want to hear.
Living round the corner from Sarah Jane's house it feels like we've lost a mildly eccentric neighbour - there's always a buzz when they film here, particularly so for the local children. I feel Elisabeth Sladen created an engaging character that went beyond the Dr Who franchise - that dotty sixty something year old women had a lot of fun and life in them, unusual for what is still a very male dominated genre.
Just adding my farewell. Sarah Jane was always my favorite Dr Who companion.
K9 shall go on in the void looking for his mistress
Great career, great achievements... great life. Well done.
While not having two hearts like a time lord, she demonstrated that humans can indeed carry great depths of warmth and wisdom. RIP Elisabeth Sladen.
At the risk of feeding the troll: the people who are deeply saddened are "within the miniscule circle of people who watched Dr. Who". They are sharing their grief, in a natural, human way.
Your mealy-mouthed quotes ("deeply saddened") are unnecessary - many people are genuinely saddened to see another part of their childhood gone. That more than anything is what gets me thinking.
I am not as saddened by her passing as I was by the death of my father last year of cancer, aged 67, but the parallels are all too plain for me, and I suspect others who have posted here and in other forums.
Feel free to go and puke, we'll carry on without you quite happily.
She was my First Doctor's (Tom Baker) assistant (Elisabeth Sladen). It was the way that her chemistry bounced off of Tom Baker and the great adventures they went on together that drew me into Dr. Who. I was hooked.
In the last year or so, I've been re-introduced to Dr. Who and was delightfully surprised when she appeared on some more recent episodes with David Tennant (I think it was David).
She was wonderful and fun and I hope her spirit lives on beyond her. Good bye Sarah Jane.
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Like many here, she was the first Companion I saw, with the Tom Baker episodes from the 70s. Unlike most of them before or since, she held her own with Baker (as I later saw she had with Pertwee). Of all the companions to bring back to the new series, she was the obvious choice, and my grandkids have enjoyed the spin-off Sarah Jane Adventures, which led to them now watching the Tom Baker episodes as well.
She will be missed as much as she was loved by fans worldwide. Requesicat in pace, Elisabeth.
Well spoken, sir.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Elisabeth Sladen's portrayal of an intelligent and competent woman had a direct positive influence on how I learned to look at women and view relationships. While the rest guys my age were ogling teh bewbs of Farah Fawcett, I along with the other young geeks had Sarah Jane Smith with brains (and yes good looks too).
She will be missed
Way too young. However, either the wikipedia article or all the news stories are wrong. If she was born in '46, she was 65.
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Hamlet dies. Real people generally die just the once.
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Too soon. She will be missed.
I just spent last weekend watching most of the fourth season of SJA, except for the last story: "Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith," then I got the news yesterday. I'm sure no one knew that would be her final show. It's going to make it sad when I finally watch it.
A few episodes back, there was "The Death of The Doctor" with Matt Smith. The real surprise was Katy Manning playing Jo Grant: the previous companion. It was neat seeing them interact, although the previous get-together between Sarah Jane and Rose Tyler can't be beat. I see Manning was born in 1949, so she's a bit younger. I also see she once posed nude with a Dalek back in '77. *scratches head* Okay, back to Ms. Sladen.
I had no idea she was in her sixties--she looked great and had to be in shape. Cancer is a real bastard.
I first saw her and The Doctor (Tom Baker) when I was twelve or so, thanks to PBS for bringing it to us in the states all these years. She will be missed.
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