She saved the world a lot.

[elisi]

Elisabeth Sladen, aka Sarah Jane Smith, has passed away.

I honestly, genuinely, do not know how to tell my children.

ETA: From looking at wiki, they were apparently working on S5 of SJA, but it's unclear whether it had been completed or not. However, I am so grateful she got to meet Ten and Eleven. To quote calapine from her review of the first part of 'Death of the Doctor', because it sums everything up just beautifully (even though it also chokes me up):

"Hello, Sarah Jane," says Eleventy because Doctors have to do that to Sarah now and look at her beautifully with love and he does.



Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

I completely love this insight and am reminded of some discussion I saw about the Christmas special. Because flying sharks were Moffat's childhood fear. And he put it up on screen and had the Doctor make it into a glorified aquatic reindeer pulling a sleigh. As someone put it: "he ridikulused his boggart!"

[elisi]

As someone put it: "he ridikulused his boggart!"
Ha! That's perfect. And yes, I remember him talking about his fear of sharks...

[thornyrose42.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't know that he was scared of flying sharks. Though just shows that he was just as inventive as a kid as he is now.