Goodbye, Sarah Jane

Elisabeth Sladen has died at the age of 63. She was best known as Sarah Jane Smith, probably the most universally beloved of The Doctor's companions. She was the Doctor's match, and without her you would never have had Rose Tyler or Doctor Donna or Amy Pond.

Though Sarah Jane said goodbye to the Fourth Doctor, she was reunited with David Tennant's 10th Doctor in "School Reunion" and subsequent episodes, a lonely woman who had lived out 30 years chasing after the life she had lost when she returned to Earth.

You see, the truth is The Doctor always leaves his companions, because they grow old and die, and he does not. And you can see that in The Doctor's face when he is reunited with Sarah Jane, that he has suddenly remembered what he tried to forget, that fact that for all but him the hour grows late and time runs down and then we are gone.

23 Days to Doctor Who

The BBC One trailer. Squee!

Farewell to the Doctor

Finally have the last of the David Tennant Doctor Whos on the DVR, so with special programming that's about 10 hours I have left to watch. But I'm having a hard time starting because as long as I haven't watched it yet, nothing changes.

I will say that I caught scenes from the coming season with the 11th Doctor, and it doesn't look like it will suck, but I'm not ready yet.

Of course the S/O remindes me that I was crushed when Christopher Eccleston left and hated David Tennant for roughly an episode and half. So I'm trying to keep an open mind. I think I better stock up on vodka and lime juice though.

I am so pathetic. Sniff.