Let’s discuss the fourth of the Fifteenth Doctor’s Target Novelisations - Rogue!
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Just one chapter in. But already worth the price! It is always more fun when the Target Novel is written by the same authors as the TV episode.
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This is such a good adaptation! It expands the story in a good way and is written in a fun way. It also feels more natural with the Cosplay and Bridgeton’s comments in the book compared to the episode. I am a little more than halfway through it.
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I finished this now. Without a doubt the most interesting adaptation. Good writing and the one that fleshes out the story the most. It is not as much as The Giggle or Day of the Doctor but much more than the other two new ones. 4.5/5
I hope that these writers return for season 2 to continue Rogue’s story.
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This was a really good novelisation. Some lovely expansion on Rogue and the episode in general, after this it makes me hipe to see Rogue again even more. I agree with @Tian that the cosplay stuff seems more natural on the book than the episode.
the sections with Rogue were my favourite. The opening chapter with his partner was lovely and I feel we really got to explore him more here.
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Started the audiobook and blown away only within the first chapter by how incredible Dan Starkey’s range is??? This Jonathan Groff impression is amazing
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Finished! I really enjoyed that! The humour was very Adams-esque. And all the new material was so good that it legit made me almost wanna go back to it whenever we went back to the regular adaptation lol
Great audiobook too; Starkey has a great reading voice and does grand compressions.
9/10!
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Rogue is the first (and only) Target novelization that I’ve read, and I quite enjoyed it! I loved reading the extra backstory for Rogue, and how it fleshed out the original episode. I’m a big fan of comedic footnotes in fiction, and I loved that Rogue had those.
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Oh man I never even realised it had those because I did the audiobook!
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There are a few of those, and they’re fun! They’re written for a 30th century audience, so explaining things to people from that era, and references to fictional pop culture from the 30th century.
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That sounds fun. I also listened to the audiobook of it.
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Should this be in the Books category?
Fixed it.
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The Rogue novelisation is so much fun! I love the time we had to explore Rogue’s backstory further and the footnotes were delightful. I think I ended up reading this in one evening after getting it out the library I was enjoying it so much
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When it comes to Target Books, the one that interest me the most, outside the ones praised a lot, are the ones based on Episodes which I am either lukewarm about or just don’t like. Rogue is an Episode that falls under the former Category. I can totally see why one would like Rogue, to be honest it’s a good Episode, just not one for me since I am really never too interested in Romances with the Doctor. (And when I am, you have to make it very alien for me to really get intrigued).
That all said I am delighted to report, why I am still not over heels with that Story, I enjoyed this Target Book quite a lot. I can echo what others have said, some of its more ‘Modern’ Remarks work much more natural here compared to the TV Episode (like the Mentions of Bridgeton) Expanding on Rogue here does the Character a lot of favor in my Eyes. The Writing really works, dare I say I prefer Redman and Herron’s Prose much more compared to the Episode itself (which isn’t meant as a Dig against the Episode!)
Overall this Novelization does basically exactly what a good Novelization should do: Be a fun entertaining Book on its own while also expanding upon what the TV Episode had. Lovely one.
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