Ok, now that we’ve had a week to think about it, here’s another, more S1-ish fix it (as the last one was desperate and had issues…but let’s be honest, so did the “season”.)
Anyway this is the funniest thing they could have done with Rogue. This should be a recurring joke, he should appear in a screen periodically to deliver a helpful message and say hey, I'm still in superhell, thanks for the superhell, I still love you though, in superhell, and the doctor should just be like. Cool thanks hot guy in superhell who loves me, and just continue to not rescue him from superhell. He's hot but not that hot I guess.
yeah yeah the nature of reality is at threat whatever doctor shut up for a minute we need to ask your companion if she remembers everyone being immortal for a year
Not a single coherent thought in my brain, but here are a few jumbled ones. Loooooong post. Long long long post.
Lots of spoilers for Lux after the break.
Spoons
Is that just a coincidence? In Lux, the spoon reflects the moonlight, allowing Lux into the world and to possess Mr. Ring-a-Ding. In The Devil’s Chord, Maestro appears on several reflective surfaces while the spoon falls. In both cases it seems to help the pantheon member enter this universe. But then Empire of Death: It’s the metal of the spoon that lets the Doctor connect with the time window, does that mean it allows him to re-enter the universe?
Tooth and Claw reference
“You’re seventy percent water, but you can still drown.” (Tooth and Claw)
“We’re sixty percent water and we can still drown.” (Lux - got a bit dehydrated along the way?)
But already in the cold open: “No. Don’t give me sunshine. Because I’m more interested in moonlight. That icy cold beam of heaven. Touching my soul and bringing me life.” (Lux)
“You burnt like the sun, but all I require is the moon” (Tooth and Claw)
The Devil’s Chord parallels
Both Ruby and the Doctor get dragged away and lifted into the air and have their core/soul/energy drained in a confrontation with a god.
Belinda’s dad is “kind of musical. Well, he sings. Well, he loves grabbing the microphone. He’s awful. And he makes me laugh so much.” I’m sure there is absolutely no connection to Mr. Ring-a-Ding/Lux’s repeated “don’t make me laugh”. Yep.
Why is the start of Roman Paradox (Series 5 soundtrack) playing a few seconds later? We hear The Sad Man With A Box later with the fans, where it makes sense, but why here already?
Is all of the episode a trap like the fans’ living room? Who does the Doctor say cut to? When the letters fall from the cinema’s billboard, how does the Doctor know it, standing inside (and did he know that “The Harvest Bringer” was not a real Rock Hudson film)? He’s not surprised that Mr. Ring-a-Ding has an audible soundtrack, but he already mentioned in The Devil’s Chord that he himself can hear non-diegetic music.
Obligatory Timerogue brainrot:
The London Regency Orchestra? “I am the last thing you see before you fall into the abyss”? “Find me”?
Is this the Doctor’s repressed guilt/loss/sense of obligation leaking into the story? Is something or someone trying to reach out? Maybe someone who was initially fictional, a trap like the fans, but decided to help him instead?
And lastly (this is probably silly and I don’t even have a theory, but the Doctor mentioned the bi-generation for the first time since The Giggle a while later, so my coincidence-tingle tingled)
Not seeing any discussion of this. It has to mean something, but what? Rogue ended up in an unknown alternate dimension with the Chuldur. As far as we know, Helen died years before 'Lux' but Reginald was convinced that Mr Ring-a-Ding had somehow made her alive and real again - the matches she hands him are certainly real. And yet, both say "Find me" to their loves before going. Are the Pantheon gods involved in dimensional funny-business and if so, what does that mean for Rogue?
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