Re: Doctor Who: S1.Ep 5 Rogue

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

 
Oh my ladies.... THIS IS SHOCKING!
 
Richard E Grant's Doctor is now 'canon'?!!! Really!!!
 
RTD really is a naughty boy... he probably does it deliberately
though just so somebody can smack his bottom.

I would have really loved one more - but as David Warner is no longer with
us, and he was only ever on Big Finish, I guess I can live with it. His
Benny stories as the irascible, pragmatic “other Third Doctor” are sublime.

(The rest of the unbound Doctors have been one-offs - two at a push - so
less prominent.)

So, in "Rogue" we got Bridgerton, brooding males in costume
(very Heathcliffe), Han Solo, some Kylie, a gay inter-racial
kiss, proper aliens (that looked like birds), Shalka, Suzie from
Torchwood and the obligatory Susan Twist cameo...
 
Part of me wanted to dislike this episode as I hate costume
dramas... I've never seen Bridgerton or read any Jane Austin
novels! But I actually thought "Rogue" was really good
fun... the episode and the character. The Rogue/Doctor thing
seemed very rushed mind you, but I did like the shape-shifting
killer birds. (Human Nature anyone?)
 
This is probably the best episode of the season so far, but I
have a feeling it's going to be a marmite Doctor Who episode.

It depends on whether you really suspend your disbelief and recognise that
human sexuality can’t really apply to a species that redefines “gender
fluid” in a very physical way, or are OK with love however it expresses
itself - or are convinced that the Doctor is only ever “a white male
British heterosexual who did it, once, or maybe only via a loom, because he
has a granddaughter but doesn’t do sex or romance really” for whom
Everything went wrong with ‘The Aztecs’ and Doctor Who ended in June 1964.
The Doctor flirting! Never! Every episode since is a fake!

8/10

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“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor