#midshipman frame

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Doctor Who Rewatch | Voyage of the Damned

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History Boys (2006):

Back Row: Russell Tovey,  Andrew Knott and Jamie Parker

Middle Row: Samuel Anderson, Dominic Cooper and James Corden

Front Row:  Sacha Dhawan and Samuel Barnett

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First shameless plug of the week...

OUT NOW! The Lives of Captain Jack - 4 cracking new audio adventures starring John Barrowman, with Camille Coduri, Russell Tovey, Katy Manning, Alexander Vlahos and MORE!

Had a hoot directing these :)

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-lives-of-captain-jack-1519

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Why I Like Midshipman Frame

Midshipman Frame is a junior officer on the doomed starship Titanic (no relation ) in "Voyage of the Damned." He's adorable, competent, and one of the only likeable characters to make it through this episode alive. To start with he's played by Russell Tovey. I like Russell Tovey. When I first watched the episode I had just finished "Being Human" where he plays George the Werewolf (I have a serious thing for sympathetic werewolves). Also he has the most incredible ears. On Midshipman Frame, they help lend him an air of open-faced ingenuousness, which evokes a protective instinct (in me at least). I just want to take care of him and tell him it'll be alright. Which is, of course, just asking for horrible horrible things to happen to him. Midshipman Frame is young and keen. He's keen enough to figure out just ever so slightly too late that his senior officer is planning to scuttle the ship, and young enough that the latter starts to feel really bad about it (he wasn't even supposed to be here today!) Not so bad that he doesn't still shoot him, of course. And by rights he should have died. He's got no main character immunity - he's part of the premise, rather than the plot. Midshipman Frame is just an ordinary person, but he manages nonetheless to do extraordinary things. Also, how cool a rank is Midshipman? It's so delightfully nautical - not something you hear a whole lot. It's a cadet rank, below even ensign. Which is totally appropriate to Frame's youthfulness. Midshipman Frame is the youngest most inexperienced officer on the whole ship. He is in waaaaaaaay over his head, but he makes it work. Plus it's really fun to say. Midshipman. Midshipman. Midshipman Frame is thrown into a huge mess he is in no way qualified to deal with, but he steps up. He confronts his Captain because it's the right thing to do, and gets shot for his efforts. But even bleeding and trapped on the flight deck he takes charge and does what he can. He starts coordinating different groups of survivors, managing the disaster, and watching in helpless horror as the in-flight caterers start slaughtering his passengers. I love love love things like this. The Doctor at his best does what Frame is doing here (what I call Doctor-as-Catalyst by contrast to Doctor-as-Hero). It's like the Captain role in the Artemis Bridge Simulator - apparently doing nothing yourself but making the whole system work. Frame holds everything together, which, when you get down to it, is exactly what a frame is for. Since we've talked about his last name, let's talk about Midshipman Frame's first name. It's Alonso. This is not significant in any way. But getting up to Frame is sort of a continuing goal in the episode, and so the Doctor's arrival is things starting to go right for really the first time. But actually flying the ship, that's still a challenge, and nobody is sure if it's going to work at all. But the Doctor's been talking about how he wants to find someone named Alonso and say Allons-y to him, just for the wacky. And so when he asks Frame's first name (mid Allons-y mind) it's a Perfect Moment. After all the dark and despair of the episode, it's a happy little meaningless coincidence that seems to say that the universe cares after all. We know everything's going to be okay. Midshipman Frame turns up again briefly in the Doctor's farewell tour in "the End of Time." It's nice to see that he's still out there, that the characters have lives beyond their episodes. And happy continuations, if not endings. Also it seems like he hooks up with Jack, so there you go.

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why aren't any Sherlock fans pointing out the fact that the guy in Hounds of Baskerville is Alonso Frame?

come on people

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it is my new headcanon that the doctor deposited midshipman alonso frame on present day earth with new memories after a tragic affair with captain jack harkness. it was in this new time/place that he started having radical flashbacks to terrible adventures with jack leading to the most recent episode of sherlock. your arguments contrary to my beliefs are invalid and thusly overruled.

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All I was thinking about during Henry's scenes in Sherlock tonight was that the actor was definitely on Doctor Who but couldn't figure out who he had played. Now I checked Russell Tovey's IMDB page and see he played Midshipman Frame...it all makes sense now.

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Just pointing out... Midshipman Frame is in Sherlock now.

This is not a drill.