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Doctor Who Recap: Having a Ball


Doctor Who heard our pleas for more queer love stories in the Regency era.

Instead of focusing on the countdown to his death, the Doctor uses his screwdriver to ruin Rogue’s stoic facade by exposing him as a DnD player who apparently likes to jam out to Kylie Minogue. In the TARDIS (“I’m in love … with this machine,” says Rogue), the Doctor begins reconfiguring the tri-form so that it will transport its prisoner not to instant death but to a barren dimension with no way back. One public lovers’ quarrel and fake proposal later, the Chuldurs are chasing the Doctor and Rogue across the grounds, desperate to “play” a part in this fraught, forbidden love story.

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