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Post by Maggadin on Jul 26, 2012 11:55:31 GMT
Damn, this was a shocker to get online to. Rest in peace, lovely woman.
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Post by aquabluejay on Jul 26, 2012 17:35:16 GMT
Awww.
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Post by Cadet on Jul 26, 2012 18:25:01 GMT
Awww indeed. Now I feel the need to watch some serials with her in them, because I haven't seen any.
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Post by aquabluejay on Jul 26, 2012 19:45:22 GMT
City of death?
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Post by Maggadin on Jul 26, 2012 19:46:57 GMT
City of Death was Lalla Ward (Romana II). Mary was in the Key to Time arch, starting with The Ribos Operation (excellent story, IMO).
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Post by jjpor on Jul 26, 2012 20:27:47 GMT
To clarify for those of our members still in the exciting position of not having experienced Romana I yet. I urge you to do so when possible - you won't regret it. And yes, another tragedy for the whole of Whodom, another iconic performer who helped make the show what it was in its heyday no longer with us. We're not having a good couple of years in that regard, are we?
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Post by IMForeman on Jul 26, 2012 20:37:18 GMT
Heartbroken to hear this. I was going to see her at a con last year, but she canceled a few days before due to illness. Yes, there really have been too many losses recently to the Whoniverse - some of that can be attributed to the passing of years, but then 62 is really still very young.
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Post by primsong on Jul 27, 2012 0:31:44 GMT
Nooo.... they really need to quit doing this. Enough dying! Stop it, already...!
:-(
As much as I enjoyed Romana II, I always had a preference for the first one, always so classy in her own way. Rest in peace, Mary.
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Post by magnusgreel on Jul 27, 2012 1:16:03 GMT
I did meet her. She liked a drawing of mine of her, sounding like she did mean it, and she signed a copy of it. I don't normally care about autographs, but I'm really glad about that one. She asked for a copy, and I sometimes wondered if it was up on a wall anywhere. I have a nice photo of her and me, too, which I had blown up.
During the more intimate talk in a side room (one of the good aspects of the early Visions cons-- not everything was half a dozen guests onstage in a huge cavernous room), it was great hearing her talk, but she was smoking up a storm.
This one's hard.
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Post by jjpor on Jul 28, 2012 0:22:54 GMT
I hear you, Magnus. I never met her, and I'm taking it pretty hard, so I can only imagine what it must be like for you. But still, thanks for sharing your memories of meeting with her, and her liking for your drawing of her and what that meant for you, because I think, these little things, the way we all connect as human beings, these are what's important, when all's said and done.
And yeah, re the smoking, we all of us go through life, I think, without giving too much thought to the future and how things are going to catch up to us in the end. That too is a very human quality, I can't help thinking.
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Post by Maggadin on Jul 28, 2012 1:38:34 GMT
That's a lovely story, Magnus. She seems to have been an all-round class act.
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Post by Maggadin on Aug 9, 2012 19:33:49 GMT
More sad news: Mary's husband, Marcus Ringrose, has died of a heart attack. He died a few hours before his wife's funeral
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Post by Maggadin on Oct 3, 2012 11:08:26 GMT
Very late, I know, but I missed Steven Moffat's comment on Mary's passing:
“I remember Mary Tamm’s first appearance so vividly – the ice Queen on the TARDIS. The Time Lady who thought the Doctor was HER companion. Perfectly brought to life by Mary, with such style and wit, you always thought she could have kicked the Doctor out of the time machine and got on with the adventure herself. A generation of little girls threw away the idea of being an assistant, and decided to fly the TARDIS for themselves.”
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Post by jjpor on Oct 8, 2012 19:19:20 GMT
Well, quite.
And I wonder to what extent that stayed with him and influenced his own forays as a Who writer in later years? You know what I'm talking about.
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Post by Maggadin on Oct 8, 2012 20:39:51 GMT
Hmm, well, I can definitely see the influence. However, the similarities turned out to be pretty superficial indeed, IMO. After the surface was scratched away, it was very, very different from the character described in that (admittedly lovely) quote of his.
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