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WARNING : Contains SPOILERS for Doctor Who , season 14 , installment 6 , " Rogue " .
Summary
Jonathan Groff ’s newDoctor Whocharacter , Rogue , bears similarities with Alex Kingston ’s iconic River Song . InDoctor Whoseason 14 , episode 6 , " Rogue " , the Doctor ( Ncuti Gatwa ) teams up with the nominal bounty hunter to foil a plot to take over British high smart set by a race of malign alien cosplayers . In the Pb - up to " Rogue " being broadcast , it was speculated that Jonathan Groff ’s newDoctor Whocharacterwould be a replacement for John Barrowman ’s Captain Jack Harkness . However , Rogue ’s romance with the Doctor draws more obvious comparisons with River Song .
First introduced inDoctor Whoseason 4 , episode 8 , " Silence in the Library " by Steven Moffat , River Song was reveal to be the Doctor ’s wife . WhenRussell T Davies leftDoctor Whoin 2010 , Steven Moffat took over , and made River Song an important recurring character reference . It stay to be seen if Jonathan Groff ’s Rogue will act a similar role in Ncuti Gatwa’sDoctor Whoera . However , there are enough similarity between both grapheme to suggest that Rogue may becomeDoctor Who ’s brand name - new River Song .
River ’s relationship with the Doctor is n’t aboveboard , and Gatwa ’s rendering of the Time Lord kissing Rogue creates public debate about his man and wife .
6Rogue & River Song Both Tried To Kill The Doctor On Their First Meeting
Doctor Who, Season 6, Episode 8, “Let’s Kill Hitler”
River Song ’s timelineis complicated , but from her position , the first time she meets the Doctor ( Matt Smith ) is when she tries to kill him in Nazi Germany . InDoctor Whoseason 6 , episode 8 , " Let ’s vote out Hitler " , a younger River seek to fulfil her fortune as the woman who was raised to kill the Doctor . However , the Doctor and her parents , Amy ( Karen Gillan ) and Rory ( Arthur Darvill ) convinced River that there was another way . At the terminal of " allow ’s obliterate Hitler " , River used her stay regenerations to deliver the Doctor ’s life history , before going into hiding at Lunar University .
Like River , who had been learn from childhood to detest the Doctor , Rogue ’s judgment of the Doctor was deep blemished .
InDoctor Whoseason 14 , episode 6 , " Rogue " , the titular bountifulness hunter trust that the Doctor was a Chuldur shapeshifter , and sentenced him to death . Like River , who had been teach from childhood to detest the Doctor , Rogue ’s judgment of the Doctor was profoundly flawed . Thanks to Kylie Minogue ’s " Ca n’t Get You Out Of My Head " , and an impressive slide show of all of his retiring incarnations , the Doctor win over Rogue to mold with him , instead of against him .
Kylie Minogue antecedently come along inDoctor Whoas Astrid Peth in the 2007 Christmas special , " The Voyage of the Damned " .
5Rogue & River Song Have Both Seen All The Doctor’s Faces
Doctor Who Christmas Special 2015, “The Husbands of River Song”
On screen , Alex Kingston has starred opposite David Tennant , Matt Smith , and Peter Capaldi between 2008 and 2015 . InDoctor Who ’s 2015 Christmas special " The Husbands of River Song " , River Song revealed that she carried around photograph ofevery incarnation of the Doctorthat she had n’t yet fill , too . Given that River and the Doctor often forgather each other out of sequence , it produce good sense for her to have photograph on bridge player to identify those avatar should they befall to bump into one another .
… if Rogue does find his way back to his asteroid hopper , he should have a ready to hand holographical guide to the Doctor ’s retiring incarnations .
The Fifteenth Doctor give Rogue a similar collection of photos in the form of the float holographic head he summons by tossing his psychical paper at a bounteous green button . The Doctor was really just flexing , so that Rogue would in the end believe that he was n’t a murderous cosplayer , and was instead something far bountiful . Still , if Rogue does find his way back to his asteroid hopper , he should have a ready to hand holographical usher to the Dr. ’s past incarnations - let in Richard E Grant ’s Shalka Doctor !
The latest Doctor Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor, joined by new companion Ruby Sunday.
Richard E Grant was cast as the Ninth Doctor for a 2003 animate web serial publication that was canceled when it was annunciate thatDoctor Whowould return in 2005 .
" Rogue " demo a abbreviated glimpse of an alternative Doctor , and while it ’s not confirmed to be linked to atomic number 83 - multiplication , it ’s knotty to excuse it otherwise .
4Rogue & River Song Are Both Morally Ambiguous Doctor Who Characters
The Doctor loves bad guys and bad girls.
reach her fostering , River Song is n’t entirely to blame for trying to hit the Doctor because it ’s what she was trained for . However , River is still morally equivocal in other ways , even after she apparently " reform " at the end of " Let ’s Kill Hitler" . River is so pitiless that a Dalek begs her for mercy inDoctor Who ’s season 5 finale , " The Big Bang " , and is then get a line gunning down multiple Silence in the two - part season six opener . While various incarnations of the Doctor have tut - tutted River ’s looser lesson , they on a regular basis plow a blind oculus to all the killing and double - carrefour that River does .
Interestingly , both Rogue and River have been in the employ of series villains ; The Boss and Madame Kovarian , severally .
The same is true of Rogue inDoctor Whoseason 14 , whose job as a bounteousness huntsman is morally fishy , not least because he choose for the " stagnant " part in " want : Dead or live " . Much like with River , the Doctor is tie to Rogue ’s morally suspect side , at one degree telling him how nerveless he opine bounty hunters are . Perhaps to ease his moral sense over his attraction to bad boys and bad girls , the Doctor resolves to aid Rogue dispatch the Chuldur humanely . Interestingly , both Rogue and River have been in the employ of series villains ; The Boss and Madame Kovarian , severally .
Captain Jack , one of the other clear influences on Rogue , was to begin with a convict - man and chiseler .
3Rogue & River Song Both Sort-Of Marry The Doctor
Doctor Who, Season 6, Episode 13, “The Wedding of River Song”
Dr. Who’sBridgertonepisoderiffs on all the generic convention of a full point dramatic event , by give audiences a dramatic wedding ceremony proposal from Rogue to the Doctor . While Ruby Sunday ( Millie Gibson ) get closer to being married than Rogue and the Doctor , there ’s a quiet acknowledgment of the proposition ’s grandness . After Rogue sacrifices himself to defeat the Chuldur and make unnecessary Ruby , the Doctor keeps hold of the " engagement ring " and puts it on . The Doctor ’s quiet acceptance of Rogue ’s engagement should have interesting implication should Jonathan Groff return toDoctor Who .
Rogue and River ’s unlawful marriage proposal of marriage to the Doctor exceed dimensional boundaries .
River and the Doctor conjoin inDoctor Who ’s season 6 finale , " The wedding ceremony of River Song " , though it ’s arguable if it ever befall at all . The timeline in which they espouse was abort when the Doctor faked his end , meaning that technically the ceremony was contravene . However , every interaction between the Doctor and River since their unrehearsed wedding ceremony refers to them being married . It ’s decipherable , therefore , that Rogue and River ’s unlawful marriage proposals to the Doctor transcend dimensional boundaries .
The Doctor has previously been wage to Queen Elizabeth I , Marilyn Monroe , and Cleopatra .
Jonathon Groff ’s amplitude hunter case in " Rogue " may possibly give back to Doctor Who in some form , but with a out of sight and nefarious bend .
2Rogue & River Song Can Both Time Travel Without A TARDIS
River has her vortex manipulator, Rogue has his asteroid hopper.
It ’s not clear how Rogue ’s spaceship is able to travel in time , but he ’s emphatically not from nineteenth century bathroom . Rogue bed how to playDungeons and firedrake , which definitely mean that he ’s from Earth ’s future . This means that , as an intergalactic bounty Orion , he must have the ability to travel in clip to secure his prey . That technology would be particularly helpful if , like in the sheath of the Chuldur , he was hunting aliens with a penchant for Earth ’s story . Rogue is also " in passion " with the TARDIS , meaning that he has a nice understanding of starships , time machines , and related technology .
Unfortunately for Rogue , he never get the chance to teach how to pilot the TARDIS , put him one whole tone behind his new boyfriend ’s ex - wife .
River Song broadly traveled in time with a vortex operator , " cheap and nasty prison term travelling " technology that enabled her to keep up with the Doctor . However , Doctor Whoalso reveal that , partly because she was conceptualise inside it , and partly because she pick up from the Doctor , River can also pilot the TARDIS . regrettably for Rogue , he never gets the fortune to learn how to aviate the TARDIS , putting him one whole tone behind his new boyfriend ’s ex-wife - married woman .
1Rogue & River Song Both “Die” During Their Debut Doctor Who Episodes
Doctor Who, Season 4, Episode 9, “The Forest of the Dead”
The braggart and most tragical law of similarity between Rogue and River Song is that they both " die out " in their debutDoctor Whostories . In " The Forest of the Dead " , River sacrifices herself to defeat the Vashta Nerada and salve the occupants of the Library . And then , in " Rogue " , Jonathan Groff ’s case sacrifices himself to save Ruby and lag the Chuldur . River ’s death is physical , but her mind live on in a virtual realism concept with Miss Evangelista ( Talulah Riley ) and Dr. Moon ( Colin Salmon ) .
In a 2020Doctor Who Magazineinterview , it was revealed that Steven Moffat intend Dr. Moon to be a future incarnation of the Doctor , but he never confirmed this on - silver screen .
Rogue ’s " death " is less finite , but he ’s still fence off from ever cope with the Doctor again , likeRose Tyler ( Billie Piper)in " Doomsday " . At the end of " Rogue " , the Doctor is quite pragmatic about the fact that he may never get his novel sexual love ever again . He say Ruby that there are many universes , and that he does n’t even know Rogue ’s real name . All of which function to break up the two lovers across clock time and blank forever .
The fact that the Doctor keeps Rogue ’s ringing , and places his ship in orbit around the Moon does think of that he could , if peculiar , observe out more info about Rogue ’s whereabouts .
However , as River Song prove clock time and again inDoctor Who , the course of truthful love endure wibbly wobbly , and her death was only the beginning . Rogue ’s " end " also finger like it could be the beginning of an important story for the Doctor . The fact that the Doctor keeps Rogue ’s closed chain , and place his ship in ambit around the Moon does mean that he could , if curious , find out more information about Rogue ’s whereabouts . While Jonathan Groff is a very in - demand actor , it ’s go for that he can receive time in his interfering docket to refund toDoctor Whoas Rogue in the not - too - distant future .
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" Rogue "
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June 14
" Empire of last "
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The modish Doctor Who serial introduce the Fifteenth Doctor , link by new companion Ruby Sunday .
