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Post by matsee on Aug 5, 2024 6:57:26 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 10, 2024 12:04:34 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 12, 2024 15:19:56 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 15, 2024 3:33:51 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 16, 2024 18:41:35 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 18, 2024 6:53:02 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 19, 2024 14:21:03 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 21, 2024 6:22:11 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 22, 2024 18:56:59 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 24, 2024 5:31:37 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 25, 2024 4:45:20 GMT
Short Trips: The Galois Group:
The Galois Group is the final episode of Volume 12 of Big Finish's Short Trips.
Featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Valarie Lockwood.
Valarie is an original Big Finish companion and this is the first time that I have listened to a Valarie story.
Narrated by Safiyya Ingar who plays Valarie.
Released in February 2023 and written by Felicia Barker.
The premise of this story is about Valarie understanding the rules to time travelling and how in this story involves a real-life historical figure Évariste Galois, a French mathematician.
Interesting and enjoyable story in particular by who turns up late in the story.
Certainly an enjoyable way for me to be introduced to Valarie.
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Post by matsee on Aug 27, 2024 15:02:37 GMT
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Post by matsee on Aug 28, 2024 4:36:10 GMT
44.6 Rogue:
Antepenultimate episode of season 44.
Written by Doctor Who newcomers Kate Herron and Briony Redmond.
Herron had previous foray into time travel as she had directed and executive produced the first season of Loki.
Directed by Ben Chessell.
This is the so-called Bridgerton episode with that show being referenced here and being set in 1813.
It is curious to note that two cast members of Bridgerton, Golda Rosheuvel and Nicola Coughland have become guest stars of Gatwa Doctor Who episodes but neither of whom are in Rogue.
Rosheuvel had guest starred earlier in this season, in the season opener Space Babies while Coughland is in the upcoming 2024 Christmas Special Joy to the World.
Given Bridgerton, I wonder if there was any thought or temptation to have Rosheuvel or Coughland or both in Rogue.
Space Babies was directed by Julie Anne Robinson and was an executive producer on Bridgerton and had directed Rosheuvel as well as Coughland on Bridgerton.
While Robinson did not direct Rogue I am guessing she may have had a little input with it.
This is due to Rogue playing Bad Romance from Lady Gaga and this song had been played in the Selfie pilot which was directed by Robinson.
Incidentally I saw the three episodes of Bridgerton season 3 just prior to seeing Rogue as the first half of Bridgerton season 3 was released on Netflix on May 16 2024, 22 days before Rogue came on June 7.
Six days after Rogue came the second half of Bridgerton season 3 on June 13.
Rogue is the name of a bounty hunter played by Jonathan Groff and this episode also guest stars Indira Varma.
Varma was of course Suzie Costello in Torchwood but in Rogue she plays the different character of the Duchess of Pemberton and I was shocked how soon she gets killed off.
However that was not the last we see of Varma here as the Duchess' form is then used by a member of an alien species called the Chuldur, a race of shapeshifters.
Rogue as a bounty hunter is here to track down the Chuldur and mistakenly thought the Doctor was one.
The Doctor makes Rogue understand the latter's mistake of thinking he is a Chuldur by showing images of the former's other faces.
As well as the other established faces of the Doctor's there is one shown of a Doctor who has long been presumed as being non-canon that of the face of Richard E. Grant.
Grant had previously played the Comic Relief Tenth Doctor in The Curse of the Fatal Death and then as the Doctor who was originally declared as the official Ninth Doctor in Scream of the Shalka before Chris Eccleston became the canonical Ninth Doctor instead.
As I understand it Grant's face is meant to be the one he played in Scream of the Shalka.
The inclusion of Grant's face marked quite a turnaround for showrunner Russell T Davies who had expressed his dislike of the Shalka Doctor when Davies was in his first stint as showrunner.
Months before Rogue came out someone at Doctor Who Infinity asked what were the chances of Davies canonising the Shalka Doctor and I said I doubt that he would given his said comments and I doubted he had changed his mind since then.
After finishing Rogue I read that the picture of Grant is a new one specifically shot for this episode and that Grant did it for free and Davies was very enthusiastic when he talked about Grant doing that.
This marked a contrast to Davies' comment about the Shalka Doctor all those years ago as he thought that Grant just took the money and run.
Elsewhere in Rogue a surprising element came when Emily that Ruby had befriended turned out to be a Chuldur, the real Emily having been killed beforehand.
Interesting that this episode is about cosplaying with that very word being said here as that is what the Chuldur are doing by pretending to be other people
Pretty good how it all got resolved but with Rogue sacrificing himself to defeat the Chuldur but is this truly the last we see of him.
Overall a pretty good debut script by Herron and Redmond.
Susan Twist isn't physically in this episode instead there is a portrait of her that Ruby notices.
The Next Time trailer for The Legend of Ruby Sunday promises to finally explain who Susan Twist and why she was everywhere.
The end credits has a dedication to First Doctor companion actor William Russell (Ian Chesterton) as he sadly died on June 3 2024, four days before Rogue came out.
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Post by matsee on Aug 29, 2024 4:08:27 GMT
Whose line is it - Doctor Who or Star Trek?:
tinyurl.com/mr4j4bnm
I scored 8 points.
"You know the difference between the final frontier and the fourth dimension! With a knowledge base like yours, you could be a future Time Lord or rise through the ranks of Starfleet… but don’t go it alone. Share the quiz with those you would travel the cosmos with, either in the Enterprise or the TARDIS."
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Post by matsee on Aug 31, 2024 4:36:34 GMT
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