Re: Wouldn't it have been nice...


"Elvis Gump" <elvisgump.NO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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...if they hadn't written Sarah Jane to have been some old spinster?

On refection I think it was sort of unkind to the spirit of the original
character to have her 30 years on to be this pining spinster wrapped up
totally in her work, moony about how the Doctor never came back. It almost
made it seem like the experience had left her a broken person.

Why didn't they short hand that she had a fella and maybe even had a kid
in
college someplace and was back to reporting full time?
The Doctor could have asked her something like "you didn't spend all that
time pining?" with some incredulity and she could have responded "Oh no
there was this guy and I've even got one in college now. Don't you know
how
expensive college is? Why do you think I'm working so hard climbing in
second story windows at my age?"

I think it would have been worth it to even show maybe she carried two
pictures around of Pertwee and Baker's incarnations and maybe snapped a
picture of Tennant before he was off. Would have been worth a little
royalty
to Bajker and Jon's estate. Or she could just show him a picture we can't
make out and he could have joked "Oh that hair! That scarf!" Didn't she
carry a camera in her early story with Pertwee?

What if she had written a book about her travels that was sort of taken as
fiction a la "Interview with the Vampire"? Her agent told her it would
never
sell of course. Maybe he even suggested she should see if the BBC wanted
to
make a kiddie show out of it, the nerve of that ***!

Oh, it's much worse in the Big Finish Audio Dramas. In those, her career and
life are utterly destroyed by a vengeful multi-millionaire with a grudge
against her.

By most counts, she hasn't led a wonderful life apart from the Doctor.

But on the other hand, she's not dead yet. Perhaps this good-bye was just
what she needed to move on.


I hope they come back and give her a more proper life after travels in the
TARDIS. You'd think that other contemporary companions like her and the
Brig
and Liz Shaw and Susan and Jo Grant and everyone like Benton and Yates and
such might have stayed in touch.

It's never too soon to right this. SJS can't wait another 30 years!

It would be nice to see her again in a season or so, as a much more
successful, confident person, and perhaps having had written that book you
talked about. That would be great to see.

Sean.


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