Sarah Jane
Struggled a bit with what to call this post. Trying to get it out of my system so I can feel my muse again.
With the entire upset this morning about SJA continuing without Lis, then Phil and Gareth standing up and saying no, then the BBC coming out and making their statement about what is happeneing with SJA it was inevitable that this got stirred up in the fan community.
There are some - some of whom have their own little soap box called a podcast - that think that with Lis's passing, so too should Sarah Jane pass.
DAMN IT NO.
Breath Tammy, breath. Luckily, I think (or maybe I just hope) that Uncle Rusty is on my (our) side. In the tribute to Lis, one of his statements I took as him saying that while Lis was gone, he wanted to see Sarah Jane continue to be 'out there' even if only in our imaginations. Which I interpreted as, no canon end for Sarah Jane. Leave it up to our imaginations. Was I just feeding it through my Tammy centric filter?
Don't know.
There seem to be many who can't seperate Sarah Jane from Lis and vice versa who want Sarah Jane to share Lis's fate. I'm not talking memorial fiction. I'm talking in canon. I know that we'll never see or hear Sarah Jane again. Oh I grieve for those new Four tales Big Finish was going to do. However in our heads, she continues. I know ending her in canon wouldn't stop the fan fiction - but I think it would put a shadow over it for me. Something would be gone from it. A possibility of being I suppose.
Now thanks to a very strong internal Sarah voice, I can seperate Sarah Jane from Lis. Sarah Jane whispers in my ear as I write fiction, she hugs me when I get upset or depressed. Frankly, half the reason I am functioning so well two weeks after Lis's passing is completely due to voice in my head (and yes, I am probably a bit bonkers), that comforts me with Lis's voice yet is an entirely different entity. My Sarah Jane muse.
The thought of her dying in canon frightens the literal crap out of me. I honestly don't know how it would affect my muse. I'd like to think she'd whisper in my ear and tell me all was well, but I've seen far too many excellent writers who are now struggling to hear their Sarah Jane and that's from Lis dying, not the character herself dying.
By the way, why in the hell do these people think that Sarah dying would help anything? I mean really? Why can't we just go with what 10 said - the things you've done, Sarah they're pretty impressive, but oh, the things you're gonna do. She still has things to do, see, if only in our minds.
Sarah Jane dying isn't going to give us closure - except in a bad way. Lis dying, well if you haven't gotten closure there yet, Sarah dying isn't going to give it to you, sorry. Let Sarah Jane be one of Lis's lasting, continuing gifts to the Doctor Who universe. Let her continue so long as our imaginations can give her life, breath and wings.
*steps down off her soap box and leaves the stage*
With the entire upset this morning about SJA continuing without Lis, then Phil and Gareth standing up and saying no, then the BBC coming out and making their statement about what is happeneing with SJA it was inevitable that this got stirred up in the fan community.
There are some - some of whom have their own little soap box called a podcast - that think that with Lis's passing, so too should Sarah Jane pass.
DAMN IT NO.
Breath Tammy, breath. Luckily, I think (or maybe I just hope) that Uncle Rusty is on my (our) side. In the tribute to Lis, one of his statements I took as him saying that while Lis was gone, he wanted to see Sarah Jane continue to be 'out there' even if only in our imaginations. Which I interpreted as, no canon end for Sarah Jane. Leave it up to our imaginations. Was I just feeding it through my Tammy centric filter?
Don't know.
There seem to be many who can't seperate Sarah Jane from Lis and vice versa who want Sarah Jane to share Lis's fate. I'm not talking memorial fiction. I'm talking in canon. I know that we'll never see or hear Sarah Jane again. Oh I grieve for those new Four tales Big Finish was going to do. However in our heads, she continues. I know ending her in canon wouldn't stop the fan fiction - but I think it would put a shadow over it for me. Something would be gone from it. A possibility of being I suppose.
Now thanks to a very strong internal Sarah voice, I can seperate Sarah Jane from Lis. Sarah Jane whispers in my ear as I write fiction, she hugs me when I get upset or depressed. Frankly, half the reason I am functioning so well two weeks after Lis's passing is completely due to voice in my head (and yes, I am probably a bit bonkers), that comforts me with Lis's voice yet is an entirely different entity. My Sarah Jane muse.
The thought of her dying in canon frightens the literal crap out of me. I honestly don't know how it would affect my muse. I'd like to think she'd whisper in my ear and tell me all was well, but I've seen far too many excellent writers who are now struggling to hear their Sarah Jane and that's from Lis dying, not the character herself dying.
By the way, why in the hell do these people think that Sarah dying would help anything? I mean really? Why can't we just go with what 10 said - the things you've done, Sarah they're pretty impressive, but oh, the things you're gonna do. She still has things to do, see, if only in our minds.
Sarah Jane dying isn't going to give us closure - except in a bad way. Lis dying, well if you haven't gotten closure there yet, Sarah dying isn't going to give it to you, sorry. Let Sarah Jane be one of Lis's lasting, continuing gifts to the Doctor Who universe. Let her continue so long as our imaginations can give her life, breath and wings.
*steps down off her soap box and leaves the stage*