Rogue 🦉 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1

New writers! What's that like? Evoking past eras, generational nostalgia, romance pacing, valorising tradition, iconic characters, 'real Doctor Who', & much more gets discussed.

Neo, Ingiga, and Tyler discuss Rogue, the guest writer episode of Season 1, by Kate Herron and Briony Redman.

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TIMECODES:
00:00:00 New writers, cold open, ‘real Doctor Who’
00:06:28 Captain Jack Harkness + the kiss
00:14:23 Genesis of new writers + Loki controversy
00:20:32 Rogue (the character)
00:26:25 Romance speed (Gig departs)
00:32:58 Fifteen characterisation
00:37:42 Confusion + Rogue morality
00:45:53 Ruby in the episode + Sunday flashback
00:55:05 Derivative storytelling + production tidbits
01:02:13 Music of the episode (waltz, TARDIS)
01:11:58 Evoking eras + enemies to lovers
01:16:45 Music & mystery + finale expectations
01:25:54 Bridgerton (Gig reappears)
01:31:56 Bounty hunting + moral ambiguity
01:38:20 Good moments
01:40:05 Doctor faces / Shalka scene (Tyler departs)
01:51:37 Shalka VFX Twitter
01:58:21 More musical moments (Shalka, Twist, proposal)
02:06:02 RTD on the Shalka Doctor

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SOURCES:

To see the unabridged source list, go to https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/2024...

1.
~2m18s
RTD calling it the Bridgerton episode
“Russell T Davies on how Doctor Who can get away with rewriting its own history.” Radio Times, 3 July 2024, https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/...

2.
~15m27s
Marvel showrunners
“Marvel Studios’ Disney Plus Shows Don’t Use Showrunners, and That Has Some TV Writers Worried.” Variety, 12 May 2021, https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/...

3.
~16m10s
Russell T Davies Loki comment
“Russell T Davies blasts ‘pathetic’ Disney’s bisexual Loki scene as a ‘feeble gesture’.” Pink News, 10 Aug. 2021, https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/1...

4.
~17m48s
Kate Herron response
“‘Loki’ Director Kate Herron Responds to Russell T. Davies’ Criticism of Bisexual Reveal.” Variety, 25 May 2022, https://variety.com/2022/scene/column...

5.
~18m48s
Press release announcing Kate Herron and Briony Redman writing for Season 1
https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...

6.
~19m25s
RTD 2024 Loki clarification
Davies, Russell T. “Russell T Davies explains how his "accidental" criticism of Loki led to the Marvel show's director writing a Doctor Who episode.” Games Radar, 11 May 2024, https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainm...

7.
~21m48s
Jonathan Groff being heartfelt in interviews + Jonathan Groff watching past stories like The Ark in Space + Kate and Briony writing their own novelisation

Groff, Jonathan. “Rogue Male.” Interview with Lisa Gledhill. Doctor Who Magazine, vol. 604, 23 May 2024, p. 23.

Davies, Russell T. “The Time Lord Faces a Final Twist.” Radio Times Magazine, 15 June 2024, p. 15.

Groff, Jonathan. “Doctor Who Unleashed: Rogue” Doctor Who Unleashed, BBC iPlayer, 8 June 2024, ~6m1s-6m36s, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002...

Groff, Jonathan. “Behind the Scenes | Rogue | Doctor Who. YouTube, uploaded by Doctor Who, 8 June 2024, ~10m23s-11m6s,    • Behind the Scenes | Rogue | Doctor Who  

“BBC Books to publish four Target Doctor Who novels featuring the Fifteenth Doctor.” Doctor Who [official website], 11 June 2024, https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...