Art Decadence (audio story)
Art Decadence was the eighty-fifth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions.
Publisher's summary
London in the 1920s and Sir Reggie works for Torchwood, saving the world from alien invasions. Really, he relies on the services of his loyal butler while he paints the town red.
But there's a new sensation in high society - What is the secret of The Serpentine Club and can Forster save his master from it?
Plot
After banishing the Seronax Gestalt and killing an alien disguised as a baronet, Sir Reggie returns home and has Forster, his butler, deal with the police in pursuit of him. Forster erases their memories by drugging them and assists Sir Reggie in stopping a Dardallian queen with a flare gun he has adapted to act as a containment net, causing the queen to immolate herself. Forster is tasked with dealing with the queen's 800 hatchlings whilst Sir Reggie goes to the club and later buries the corpses of Sontaran scouts, blows up a golem factory and deals with his drunken master, who has heard of people changing after visiting the Serpentine Club. In the morning, however, Sir Reggie is far more concerned about his wife Prudence planning on visiting from the countryside.
Forster accidentally interrupts Sir Reggie whilst he is having sex with Janks, a young man who introduces himself the next day as the new footman and whom he is to train. Sir Reggie is soon taking Janks, who irritates Forster with his uncouth manner and theft of his biscuits, with him on alien-hunting missions and to visit the Serpentine Club. Afterwards, Forster finds Janks shaken, having seen something at the club which frightened him into fleeing without Sir Reggie. Conversely, Sir Reggie claims that the club was a false alarm and takes Janks into a room away from Forster. He acts normal and agrees with the Seronax's offer to protect Earth from the Varkans so long as they kept the Varkans' kidnapped heir hidden with a bioregulator to live as a human, an agreement which Forster disapproves of.
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Cast
Crew
- Senior Producer - John Ainsworth
- Cover Art - Sean Longmore
- Director - Bethany Weimers
- Executive Producer - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
- Music - Blair Mowat
- Producer - James Goss
- Script Editor - Tim Foley
- Sound Design - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
- Written - James Goss
- Theme Music - Murray Gold
Worldbuilding
- Dardallians are similar to locusts.
- Sir Reggie wears bowler hats.
- Forster has an adapted flare gun which now serves as a containment net.
- Sir Reggie is a member of the Sloanes Club.
- Sir Reggie knew Forster's father.
- Sir Reggie is married to Lady Prudence, who lives in the countryside.
- The Seronax Gestalt offer 200 years of protection from the Varkans in return for Earth not allying itself with the Sabshak.
- Sir Reggie's aunt supports the containment of aliens rather than using violence. Her house is Torchwood's headquarters.
- Forster eats Bath Oliver biscuits.
Notes
- Art Decadence was recorded at The Soundhouse on 11 January, 2024.
Continuity
to be added
External links
- Official Art Decadence page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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