May 10, 2006 – Page 2 – theLogBook.com Episode Guides

Invasion

Round Up

By theLogBook.com
May 10, 2006

As Russell and Sheriff Underlay race back toward Homestead to stop Szura’s tkaeover plan, their families’ escape plan comes to a screeching halt – literally – until a National Guard vehicle picks them up and takes them, along with several other passengers, to a “shelter” – where the passengers are separated depending on whether they’re humans or hybrids. Mariel is taken away from her children and Larkin. Staying at Larkin’s home to document the lights that will herald another invasion, Dave is interrogated by Deputy Sirk and two other deputies who are trying to track down Underlay – on Szura’s orders. When the interrogation becomes a life-or-death struggle between human and hybrid, Dave discovers how far he’s willing to go to survive. Russell and Underlay find where the hybrids are being taken by Szura’s “National Guardsmen,” and Russell finds Mariel locked up. He slips her a gun in the event that Szura questions her personally about Underlay’s whereabouts. Szura does indeed come for Mariel, but not to interrogate her – he needs her help with pregnant hybrid women who have gone into premature labor with the arrival of the hurricane. And Larkin, Jesse and Rose discover the horrifying purpose behind Szura’s “shelters” – they aren’t going to wait out the storm there. They’re there to be sacrificed to the lights, becoming the next generation of hybrids…

written by Shaun Cassidy
directed by Steve Shill
music by Jon Ehrlich & Jason Verlatka

Guest Cast: Nathan Baesel (Sirk), James Frain (Szura), Tammy Trull (Alma), Julio Oscar Mechoso (Frank Vargas), Cotter Smith (Deputy Buell), Tripp Pickel (Deputy Armis), Stephen Alvarez (Paul Hambrick), Sarah Colonna (Guardswoman), Jon Huertas (National Guardsman), Eric Sheffer Stevens (National Guard driver), Denny Pierce (Guardsman #2), Brennan Feonix (Guardsman #3)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Doctor Who New Series Season 04

The Doctor’s Daughter

By theLogBook.com
May 10, 2008

The Doctor and Donna – with Martha along as an unwitting passenger due to the TARDIS’ unexpected takeoff – arrive in a war-torn underground world where the Doctor is immediately held at gunpoint by soldiers and subjected to a mechanical tissue sampling process that uses his DNA to create a new soldier – a young girl with a brilliant mind, two hearts, and, like the rest of the human soldiers, a genetically-programmed knowledge of the long war between the humans and the fishlike Hath. She immediately joins in a pitched battle against the Hath, and winds up saving her human comrades – but not before the Hath have abducted Martha. The Doctor’s “daughter” – to whom Donna gives the name Jenny – is locked up with the time travelers for fear that she’s been swayed by the Doctor’s promise to stop the humans from committing genocide against the Hath, and vice-versa. Jenny proves to be as resourceful, and ultimately as compassionate, as the Doctor herself…but when she becomes the key to ending the bloodshed, she may also find out whether or not she can regenerate.

written by Stephen Greenhorn
directed by Alice Troughton
music by Murray Gold

Cast: David Tennant (The Doctor), Catherine Tate (Donna Noble), Freema Agyeman (Dr. Martha Jones), Georgia Moffett (Jenny), Nigel Terry (Cobb), Joe Dempsie (Cline), Paul Kasey (Hath Peck), Ruari Mears (Hath Gable), Akin Gazi (Carter), Olalekan Lawal Jr. (Soldier)

Notes: Actress Georgia Moffett really is the Doctor’s daughter – just not this Doctor. She’s the daughter of Peter Davison, who played the Doctor from 1982 through 1984, and only recently reprised his role on TV in the Children In Need special scene Time Crash. She guest starred in one of Davison’s Big Finish audios, Red Dawn, in 2000, and in 2004 she auditioned for the part of Rose Tyler; she married David Tennant after his departure from Doctor Who. This title of this episode may or may not be a play on the classic production staff in-joke title of The Doctor’s Wife – a story title, fictitiously attributed to Robert Holmes, which was posted openly in the Doctor Who production offices circa 1985 by then-producer John Nathan-Turner in an attempt to find out which production staffer was leaking story details prematurely to fanzines. Though the mole in Nathan-Turner’s office was never pinpointed, some UK fanzines did indeed announce that The Doctor’s Wife was in production for the coming season. (The title The Doctor’s Wife would crop up again during the Matt Smith era.)