Rogue notes
1813. Bath, England
First instance of one of the aliens complaining that they
made a bad choice picking their character
Why does this cause lightning?
Bird noise! Well
before we’d know to listen for it
I like that we start with them already at the party
dancing. Skip all the ‘how did they get
in there’ stuff
Ruby: Oh my
Bridgerton!
Psychic earrings which allow Ruby to have all the required
muscle memory
I wish I knew more Jane Austen
*** Ooo, she’s so posh, I love her!
The Doctor: Just try
not to get engaged. Or accidentally
invent tarmac. 1902 got away from me.
The new sonic has flippy open bits and it’s sonaring the
Doctor directly to the brooding stranger on the balcony
Ruby: Ah, you’re not a tall glass at all. You’re like half a glass of shandy.
I like the little jerky clicky thing the secret aliens do
Susan twist as the Duke’s late mother in portrait form
Of course Ruby has to go watch the romance/drama she sees
about to happen
The Doctor and Rogue brooding at each other is adorable
Rogue: I didn’t know
that the Duchess employs a court jester
The Doctor: Well, I’m hilarious.
Love watching the Doctor work out what’s off about Rogue in
real time
Oh, this is SO meet cute dialogue
The Doctor really does think he’s going outside to hook up,
doesn’t he
The Duchess is pissed that Lady Wallace is wearing a dress
she’d worn last season. And now is
really pissed that the housekeeper is in sight
2nd instance of an alien complaining that they
chose a crappy part
Close up of eal bird face.
Quite lovely makeup
This seems like genuine Austen
Duchess of Pemberton
Cute little easter egg
Lord Barton and Emily
This is exactly what Ruby wants – to see real life Jane
Austen happen in person. She’s
cosplaying, same as the aliens but with less death
The purity of the Austen-ness is what makes Ruby’s pratfall
with the book work as a funny bit
De Lacaille – have to look him up
The Doctor: OK,
Rogue. You’re tall, you’re handsome,
you’re arrogant, you look great in that jacket.
So there’s one thing I have to ask.
Is that a shoe?
At what point does The Doctor know that Rogue isn’t from
these parts in a big way?
Shouldn’t Rogue know that The Doctor isn’t the killer just
by his reaction?
They both think the other is the killer. Classic
The gun pull is a great sight gag
Emily: ‘Cushy’. I like it.
Ruby: Ok, yeah, maybe don’t use it a lot.
Ruby is being really kind to Emily
Chulder
Rogue is a bounty hunter and The Doctor is INTO it
So, is Rogue also a time traveller?
Rogue: Why isn’t it
cloaked?
The Doctor: It’s behind a tree.
Cool visual of their two ships on the lawn
Love the little bird movements
And the chulder has just set her sights on killing and
becoming Ruby. That’s a nice ominous
threat
The Doctor is judging
how messy Rogue’s ship is in a very flirty way
Nice setup of the molecular bond for the transport gate.
It’s a nice James Bond threat as it is, but also sets up the tech for its use
at the end
Fun joke about the screwdriver and shelves – They did that
with Jack as well
The Doctor:: Ahhh,
did you get your name from Dungeons and Dragons?
Rogue: Roll for
insight.
Ncuti going into Scottish accent is adorable
He can’t use the sonic to turn off the trap so he uses it to
repeatedly play dance music.
Why does the Doctro give him the sonic?
SO much flirty dialogue!
So well done. The you’re hot
psychic paper bit is priceless
Who’s ‘the new boss’ that they just gratuitously mentioned
Computer: Press send in ten vexils.
The Doctor: How long does a vexil last?
Computer: Nine.
The Doctor: Oh, that long.
I guess technically the Doctor IS a shapeshifter. Just a very sporadic one.
They’re still both making the mistaken assumption that
there’s only one chulder
Nice shout out to Richard E. Grant’s forgotten Doctor
Emily is REALLY leaning into the Austen-ness which makes
sense
And Ruby is trying SO hard to get her to live a fuller life,
which is sweet until the twist
Rogue’s scream of oh my god all echo-y from inside the
TARDIS is a nice bit
Rogue: And so clean
The Doctor: Yes, the things that you don’t recognize are
called ‘surfaces’.
She never used to mind Jack Harkness
The Doctor is totally trying to pick up Rogue, both as a
companion and otherwise
Rogue isn’t too bothered by the Doctor changing his trap
settings
Of course the Doctor recognizes that Rogue lost someone.
And I LOVE that they leave the gender of the person Rogue
lost deliberately nebulous. Maybe they
were nonbinary? But we don’t know for
sure and it shouldn’t matter
The Doctor: We have
to live each day. Because they can’t.
Oh my god, KISS HIM!!
So romantic. ‘Let’s argue across
the stars.’
So we think the threat to Ruby is coming from Duchess of
Pemberton
The Doctor’s introductions to the group were cute
Ruby points out the obviouis question - Why are the aliens doing any of this?
So the Chuldur saw the Bridgerton TV signals out among the
stars and had to come cosplay it
So they HAVE to be time travellers, right? He’s only identified Rogue as ‘outer space
bounty hunter
Would a biracial same sex couple have been scandalos in
1813? I honestly have no idea.
The dramatic and
non-diagetic lighting change in their dance is gorgeous.
They need to create as big a scandal and scene as they can
to draw out the drama queen aliens
The Doctor and Rogue are kind of making this argument up,
but they kind of really mean it too
AAww. A proposal
Why does this hit the Doctor so hard? He seems genuinely wounded by the proposal’
Clever that they’re holding one reveal back. Emily deliberately leads Ruby to a private
place.
The bird makeup is really nice
They’re a little bit family of blood, aren’t they
And they can’t use the trap yet because it’s still only set
for one person
I really want a season with Rogue as a companion
They have to add that they’re going to London to keep doing
this on larger and larger scales, just to make the threat bigger
Now the gate carries six maximum, but it can only work once,
they have to get it right first time.
Way to set up the stakes for the climax
Ruby consciously making the decision that Emily has seen
enough already to just tell her the truth.
Slowly we’re realizuing that Emily is one of the Chuldur all
along
And they reak away on the lightning effect from the hall so
thatwe don’t know what happens next
The Duchess has apparently seen Cabaret
Chuldur kill everybody when they’re done cosplaying
TheDoctor’s eyes when he thinks Ruby’s been killed and
hollowed out – heartbreaking
I’m not sure we needed this little flashback to Carla just
so we know that the Doctor felt responsible for Ruby’s safety. It’s nice though.
We know the actor playing the vicar, don’t we
Rogue: They have a
lifespan of 600 years.
The Doctor:
Good. Good. Good.
It’s a long time to suffer.
The Emily Chuldur is the prettiest design
Of course the Doctor objects to the wedding
The Chuldur all want to be The Doctor because he’s unique
His little grimace when he points out the other two triform
parts
Of course we all know full well that that’s the real Ruby,
we just don’t know how yet
They set up battle mode earlier nicely.
The string quartet arrangement of Poker Face is delightful
And now he has the dilemma we all saw coming. Release them all so Ruby lives, or send Ruby
away forever
Rogue already knows that he’s going to save Ruby at his own
expense. He’s just giving the Doctor one
last chance to let him down and the Doctor doesn’t
This is so romantic
The bouquet
Rogue: Find me
It’s the same Captain Jack fate, but with a tragic ending
He’s sent Rogue’s ship in orbit around the moon to wait, because
he hasn’t given up hope
I adore that Ruby won’t let him pretend not to be hurt and
hugs him until he gives in to his grief
Is that a knife crest on the ring? Is that a D&D reference?
Love that he wears the ring
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