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AKA "Didn't I see that guy in Sanditon? And yes, yes I did: Maxim Ays, who played Lord Galpin, also played Captain William Carter in Sanditon, the Jane Austin fanfic extravaganza that went too many seasons. I'm a bit surprised they didn't recruit more people directly from Bridgerton and Jane Austen movies. But they had Indira Varma and Jonathan Groff (spent the whole episode thinking he seemed vaguely familiar and then smacked my forehead: d'oh!), so between that, the special effects, and the soundtrack, they had to hire little-known people for the other roles.
By this season's standard, this episode made a shocking amount of sense to me! Ok, there were still problems, but I've worked through some of them. The Chuldur seemed to burn through bodies awfully fast, but no one found any before the ball nor noticed any out-of-character behavior or failure to know things the people they were cosplaying should have known? Maybe they were careful until the ball, and then they figured it was too late for anyone to do anything about it. The psychic earrings give me greater pause, in the category of "If the Doctor has these, why have we never seen them before?" Many, many things fall into that category. When the Doctor and Rogue were hiding in an empty carriage, as Brilliant Husband asked: where were all the horses and drivers? You don't leave the carriage empty in front of the house!
I was a bit upset that the Doctor would be so taken with a bounty hunter who very nearly killed him because he didn't even take the care to identify that he had the correct species before setting everything in motion. This guy has clearly killed before without compunction!
Then I remembered the Doctor's best enemy and his weird dynamics with them (Master/Missy) and thought, "Yeah, that's totally in character."
I'm a bit more taken aback at a Doctor who actually owns his sexuality. The Thirteenth Doctor did admit attraction to and feelings for a companion, but she wouldn't act on them. Maybe it's the professor in me: I keep thinking "Age gaps rarely get bigger than this! They're all kids compared with you! Infants, even!" If it works with anyone, though, it must be the Fifteenth Doctor, who does not act his age!
Of course, by the end of the episode, I was won over by Rogue, who seems just as happy to send Chuldur to pocket dimensions as to kill them. Of course, I find sacrificing himself for a new friend/love he has only just met and a potential friend he hasn't even really met pretty darned attractive, too. I definitely want to see him again! I enjoyed his interactions with the Doctor and hope we get more of that, and with Ruby too! And if Rogue's spaceship made me think of my husband's desk, dresser, and nightstand, well, that's not a bad thing for Rogue. (It might be for BH, but this is our little secret, ok?)
I liked the Regency setting and particularly how delighted Ruby was to be there. She and the Doctor were having a fine time before they started finding bounty hunters and bodies! I was not impressed with the psychic earrings so much, but kudos to Ruby for clobbering Emily Chuldur with a book! It was perhaps a little outrageous for Emily Chuldur to complain that the others had mistaken Ruby for her when they're supposed to be good copies, but I laughed.
The chamber orchestra playing "Poker Face" was silly and anachronistic, and it worked for me in the same way that A Knight's Tale works for me.
Are they mocking actual cosplayers? Will the next episode be about fanfic writers and filkers? Where does it all end? No, don't tell me! We started the season three episodes behind and are still two episodes back, but we're getting there!
I was a bit upset that the Doctor would be so taken with a bounty hunter who very nearly killed him because he didn't even take the care to identify that he had the correct species before setting everything in motion. This guy has clearly killed before without compunction!
Then I remembered the Doctor's best enemy and his weird dynamics with them (Master/Missy) and thought, "Yeah, that's totally in character."
I'm a bit more taken aback at a Doctor who actually owns his sexuality. The Thirteenth Doctor did admit attraction to and feelings for a companion, but she wouldn't act on them. Maybe it's the professor in me: I keep thinking "Age gaps rarely get bigger than this! They're all kids compared with you! Infants, even!" If it works with anyone, though, it must be the Fifteenth Doctor, who does not act his age!
Of course, by the end of the episode, I was won over by Rogue, who seems just as happy to send Chuldur to pocket dimensions as to kill them. Of course, I find sacrificing himself for a new friend/love he has only just met and a potential friend he hasn't even really met pretty darned attractive, too. I definitely want to see him again! I enjoyed his interactions with the Doctor and hope we get more of that, and with Ruby too! And if Rogue's spaceship made me think of my husband's desk, dresser, and nightstand, well, that's not a bad thing for Rogue. (It might be for BH, but this is our little secret, ok?)
I liked the Regency setting and particularly how delighted Ruby was to be there. She and the Doctor were having a fine time before they started finding bounty hunters and bodies! I was not impressed with the psychic earrings so much, but kudos to Ruby for clobbering Emily Chuldur with a book! It was perhaps a little outrageous for Emily Chuldur to complain that the others had mistaken Ruby for her when they're supposed to be good copies, but I laughed.
The chamber orchestra playing "Poker Face" was silly and anachronistic, and it worked for me in the same way that A Knight's Tale works for me.
Are they mocking actual cosplayers? Will the next episode be about fanfic writers and filkers? Where does it all end? No, don't tell me! We started the season three episodes behind and are still two episodes back, but we're getting there!