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Unpopular opinion(s) concerning Rogue under the cut for spoilers:
(Feel free to ask if you want clarification on any of my opinions or have your own point of view, I’m always open to hearing multiple perspectives!)
1) It should have been a two parter.
It just felt to me like the relationship between the Doctor and Rogue was rushed? Maybe I just don’t like the Doctor being allo after years of being heavily Aroace + romance/sex repulsed coded, but they met for like a few hours tops and the Doctor is looking a wedding-adjacent ring and sighing?
Also, the bird monsters needed more time onscreen. They were cool and needed more background on their motivations/world/personalities. They don’t even have names! It should have been like the Slitheen, where they all have their own distinct identities despite having the same motivations. What we got was…bratty whiny bird woman 1, bratty whiny bird woman 2, bad boy bird man, the other bird man, and Emily. Though to be fair I liked the Emily twist.
2) I don’t understand Doctor/Rogue
Rogue is a bounty hunter. He kills people for a living. The Doctor despises unnecessary violence, and is even shown in the episode to disagree with Rogue’s methods, so why would they have him fall for Rogue? Why did he fall for Rogue anyways? Because they treat it like a serious emotional commitment for the Doctor rather than physical attraction (which is what it came across as for me.)
The Doctor doesn’t even approve of River’s overly violent behavior (Doctor/River is a whole other dislike of mine but that’s a different tangent) and she’s his wife. Maybe this is just me being salty about rushed romances that are treated as far more important than friendships (*cough* The Doctor wasting time flirting with Rogue when he knows full well that he’s just left Ruby in a space with murderous aliens *cough*)
Overall:
It was a meh episode to me. None of the episodes have really stood out to me other than the Devil’s Chord. Villains had no individual identities, weren’t super memorable. Bridgerton name drops got really annoying (Like hello?? The Doctor is canonically a Jane Austen fan and not one P&P reference??). Rogue was kind of interesting, but the rushed romance and the sudden heel face turn of him becoming self sacrificing and selfless really came out of nowhere ngl.
5/10 imo
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