Jellyfish! (audio story)
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Jellyfish! was the first story in the audio anthology No Place Like Home, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle and featured Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra, Catrin Stewart as Jenny Flint and Dan Starkey as Strax.
Publisher's summary
The Gang head to the coast for Madame Vastra to convalesce. But their holiday proves far from restful. This Cornish village is home to suspicious locals, strange storms and wreckers. Most dangerous of all, something lurks in the seas – something with a mysterious hold over Vastra...
Plot
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Cast
Crew
- Writers - Neve McIntosh, Dan Starkey
- Director - Ken Bentley
- Producer - David Richardson
- Sound Design - Benji Clifford
- Music - Joe Kraemer
- Script Editor - Matt Fitton
- Senior Producer - John Ainsworth
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
Worldbuilding
- Strax is briefly mistaken for a dog, and later dons tartan swimming trunks, which he views as armour against the sea.
- He is unable to swim, due to his high density as a Sontaran, and simply sinks to the bottom.
- Strax confuses Earth jellyfish with "Rutan scum".
Notes
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Continuity
- Vastra's recovery from the theosonite poisoning is central to this story. She was poisoned by Doppel-Jenny in AUDIO: Doppelgängers [+]Loading...["Doppelgängers (audio story)"].
- Jenny accepts being called "Mrs Flint-Vastra", and later calls Vastra her wife. She recently called into question the validity of their wedding in AUDIO: Doppelgängers [+]Loading...["Doppelgängers (audio story)"], having been replaced during the ceremony by a Zygon imposter in AUDIO: Till Death Us Do Part [+]Loading...["Till Death Us Do Part (audio story)"], but nonetheless considers them married, as established since TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"].
- Strax notes that the Rutans are the sworn enemy of the Sontarans. They were first mentioned in TV: The Time Warrior [+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"], and first appeared in TV: Horror of Fang Rock [+]Loading...["Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)"].
External links
- Official Jellyfish! page at bigfinish.com
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