Post by MS on Mar 4, 2021 10:47:37 GMT -5
The Crown is the ninth episode of the sixth Big Finish Torchwood season.
Released in December 2020 and written by Jonathan Barnes.
Seeing the title The Crown made me think of the TV series of that name.
Whereas the TV series is about Queen Elizabeth II and her family, the Torchwood namesake is about Elizabeth II's great great grandmother Queen Victoria in another appearance by Rowena Cooper as Victoria.
The Crown guest stars Derek Riddell.
Riddell is not a stranger to things Torchwood as he guest starred in Doctor Who: Tooth and Claw where he played Sir Robert MacLeish, the owner of Torchwood House where the Torchwood Institute got its name and named by the visiting Queen Victoria.
As Tooth and Claw is the Doctor Who episode which established Torchwood's origins, Riddell finally got to be in an episode under the Torchwood banner with The Crown.
Riddell however doesn't reprise MacLeish as he got killed by the wolf before the queen came up with her idea of the Torchwood Institute.
Riddell instead plays new character Dr Gideon Parr.
The Crown meant that Riddell gets to have a reunion with Queen Victoria even though Victoria in Tooth and Claw was played by Pauline Collins whereas Rowena Cooper plays her in The Crown.
No doubt an in-joke when Victoria asked Dr Parr if he has heard of the Torchwood Institute as the listener doesn't hear the answer to this question.
The Crown has Dr Parr being summoned to an asylum to visit a patient there and that patient is Queen Victoria or at least she claims to be her.
Intriguing how this plot ensues but the resolution to this had me confused on so many levels.
Released in December 2020 and written by Jonathan Barnes.
Seeing the title The Crown made me think of the TV series of that name.
Whereas the TV series is about Queen Elizabeth II and her family, the Torchwood namesake is about Elizabeth II's great great grandmother Queen Victoria in another appearance by Rowena Cooper as Victoria.
The Crown guest stars Derek Riddell.
Riddell is not a stranger to things Torchwood as he guest starred in Doctor Who: Tooth and Claw where he played Sir Robert MacLeish, the owner of Torchwood House where the Torchwood Institute got its name and named by the visiting Queen Victoria.
As Tooth and Claw is the Doctor Who episode which established Torchwood's origins, Riddell finally got to be in an episode under the Torchwood banner with The Crown.
Riddell however doesn't reprise MacLeish as he got killed by the wolf before the queen came up with her idea of the Torchwood Institute.
Riddell instead plays new character Dr Gideon Parr.
The Crown meant that Riddell gets to have a reunion with Queen Victoria even though Victoria in Tooth and Claw was played by Pauline Collins whereas Rowena Cooper plays her in The Crown.
No doubt an in-joke when Victoria asked Dr Parr if he has heard of the Torchwood Institute as the listener doesn't hear the answer to this question.
The Crown has Dr Parr being summoned to an asylum to visit a patient there and that patient is Queen Victoria or at least she claims to be her.
Intriguing how this plot ensues but the resolution to this had me confused on so many levels.