Subject: Sorry to hear that.
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Posted on: 2016-03-17 07:23:00 UTC
If I had any role models as a kid, they've been abandoned in the mists of time, by now, so I don't think I can properly relate. Especially to such an important thing, and all.
That's rough.
Sylvia Anderson created the first woman I remember wanting to be.
This is kind of a big deal for a transgender girl like me.
Lady Penelope was everything I wanted to be; effortlessly cool and suave, with the ear of everyone in the room and the skills to kick said people's collective teeth in if things took a turn for the less than civilized. She was awesome. I was... seven, I think, maybe younger, maybe older.
Sylvia Anderson co-created Thunderbirds as well, which is the future I firmly believe humanity deserves. It's utopian, in a sense. There's no war. There's little in the way of borders. People are safe and happy. The only disasters are accidents or the machinations of a villainous mastermind. Humanity is victorious.
Lady Penelope was the woman I aspired to be, and the world she lived in gave me hope for the future when I needed it most.
She will be missed.
... is that she actually appeared in the new CG Thunderbirds Are Go show. Episode 22 centred around Lady Penelope having tea with her Great Aunt Sylvia... who was indeed voiced by Sylvia Anderson. They even let her (the character) have her old teapot back.
I was delighted to see (and hear) it, and I'm really pleased that she got to do and (presumably) watch it before she died.
"'ome, milady?"
"Home, Parker."
hS
If I had any role models as a kid, they've been abandoned in the mists of time, by now, so I don't think I can properly relate. Especially to such an important thing, and all.
That's rough.