Mark Gatiss 'A tear, Sarah Jane?' Farewell to the wonderful, irreplaceable Lis Sladen. The best.x

Matthew Graham Sarah Jane was a childhood pal, a childhood crush, a childhood hero. And she never stopped being. Goodbye Mistress. Xxx

Mason Kayne (the actor who played Gene Hunt as a young lad) She was one of the first actors I had much admiration ( Read more... )

Lis Sladen is gone.

I don't cry over celebrity deaths. Within the last 5 years, both my "parents" (grandparents, but they raised me) died, and I didn't cry. Right now I feel like an orphaned nine-year-old.

Tom Baker was My Doctor. Sarah Jane was My Companion. There will never be another.

From stoplookingup, here's a clip of Lis talking about what should have ( Read more... )

With thanks to glow_boy over on doctorwho:

Tom Baker remembers Nicholas Courtney

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*wibble*

RIP Nicholas Courtney

The only way my brain can remotely process this at the moment is to wonder who's going to tell the Doctor the Brigadier is gone.

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Death notice in the Belfast Herald

Maybe Jim Sheridan's quote about him looking indestructible rings true, because dammit, he was supposed to live up into his nineties and still be acting.

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I just took my beloved 1972 Gibson SG special to the shop for consignment ( Read more... )

From Vincent and the Doctor:

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If you found this gorgeous beyond words as I did, go and pay worship for its creator. I'm actually getting teary all over again.

Cheers to iko for the heads up!

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Tissues? Check.

Hot tea and nibbles? Check.

Cosplay Sam Tyler jacket and Gene Hunt camel coat to cuddle? Check.

More tissues? Check. (Stupid cold)

Internet for support? Check.

Aw hell, you guys. Aw proper fucking hell...*wibble*

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Remember back in Life on Mars 1x02, when Sam saw Gene looking at that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly poster?

"Which one are you?"
"All three."

There have always been Wizard of Oz references in both shows from the very beginning. And if Sam and Alex are "Dorothy", and certain of my (horrible) ideas about the BBC trailer/finale are right, then ( Read more... )

When I was three or four years old, I saw a film in preschool about a rooster who lost his voice. He had a really pretty voice and he loved it, but one day he got laryngitis and couldn't crow. He did everything he could to try to make it better - the image of him lowering his roostery construction-paper-head down for a hopeful drink of water is ( Read more... )