Episode 7: Starvox
Welcome
to Simak 9 space station and to the 3988 AD edition of the great interstellar
Starvox song contest! As thousands of billions of hyperlinked viewers prepare
to sing along, cheer, applaud and vote for their favorite contestant, the Earth
Alliance candidate has just pulled out!
Enter the Time Lady - and her travelling companion, Dorian aka Miranda.
The rest is (or will be) history. A tale of rivalry, empathy and fame (with
some disco songs).
So, Lady Penelope's Odyssey is back for the second part of our thirteenth season!
I borrowed the setting idea (Eurovision... in space!) from the Big Finish audiobook Bang-bang-a-boom featuring the Seventh Doctor and Mel - but with a completely different plot and cast of characters.
It was quite a tricky episode to run - and proved a joy to play. On one hand, it was deliberately kitsch (Eurovision in space...), with quite a lot of cheesy moments - and on the other hand, it had an extremely emotional ending, with the departure of Penelope's companion Dorian / Miranda (her only real companion in the classic DW sense since her early travels with Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart- those were the days and all that...). So the young nightclubbing guy-girl from 1982 left the TARDIS to become the new Hyperstar of the Earth Alliance, exchanging a life of adventure for interstellar fame - a dream come true, as well as a bittersweet (and very moving) farewell with Penelope.
A bientôt !
