Two-minute Time Lord
- Description:
- Two-minute Time Lord is a commentary podcast about the BBC ' s popular family science fiction program, Doctor Who. We ' ll try to keep this context in mind as we review episodes, comment on the news of the moment, and otherwise pontificate: Doctor Who is not FOR a thirtysomething podcaster. It ' s for that nine-year-old behind the sofa. But his or her mum and dad have been invited along for the ride, as are those of us who were kids when Peter Davison first picked up a cricket bat. And we ' ll keep it to two minutes, because we ' re ALL in a hurry.
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- Episodes:
- 359
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:0:07:11
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:1:35:17
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 1 days, 18 hours, 57 minutes and 27 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 13 April 2024 (12:47pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 2 February 2024 (7:54pm GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 14 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 51 seconds
Two-minute Time Lord Episodes
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2MTL 232: "Let's Kill Hitler" a Brilliant Ride; New Road Wanted
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 32 secondsA plea to Steven Moffat rounds out this review of the sometimes crack-tastic, sometimes out-of-left-field, wildly entertaining and frustrating resumption of Series 6.
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2MTL 231: Torchwood: "End of the Road" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 45 secondsAfter a couple of atypical episodes, "End of the Road" is on a more typical Miracle Day flight plan: talkier, more gradual. Matt Hills argues this is part and parcel of the show being a suspense thriller, not an SF action romp, and I agree. And yet, this slower episode gives me a chance to look at a few frustrations I have with a series I otherwise enjoy.
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2MTL 230: Torchwood: "Immortal Sins" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 19 secondsWhew.
So. Was it good for you, too?
Of course, curse me for not being able to single out a reason why it struck such a chord with me beyond the most obvious distinction between this and the previous episodes — besides John Barrowman finally coming off the sidelines, that is.
(My son totally wanted me to make him into a Cyberman. Thanks, Luke!)
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2MTL-229: Doctor Who and CDTL Big Winners at 2011 Hugos
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 15 secondsApparently Hugo voters dig Doctor Who and essayists who dig time lords! Congratulations to 2011 Hugo winners "The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang" and Chicks Dig Time Lords.
The Hugo Awards ceremony is on the Worldcon Ustream channel. (Thanks to Steven from Radio Free Skaro for the audio.)
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2MTL 228: Torchwood: "The Middle Men" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 16 secondsDoes the sixth episode of Miracle Day regain its footing with what is essentially Part Two of "Escape from the Overflow Camps"? Somewhat surprisingly, yes!
Co-executive producer Jane Espenson blogs about "The Middle Men" at afterelton.com.
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2MTL 227: The Doctor Who Fan Orchestra (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 17 minutes and 23 secondsMeet Stephen Willis and Robin LaPasha, the leaders of the Doctor Who Fan Orchestra, which assembled performers around the world for an arrangement of Murray Gold's Eleventh Doctor theme. Find out what it took to create a virtual orchestra, and which music they'll adapt next in their ongoing celebration of Gold's work. (They need more performers! Follow the links above for more information!)
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2MTL 226: Torchwood: "The Categories of Life" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 28 secondsAaaannnnd we're firmly in Children of Earth-level darkness territory with the fifth episode of Miracle Day. Spoilers ho, of course, as I mull over whether I'm starting to go wobbly (in not a good way) over the show's direction.
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2MTL 225: Defending Torchwood's First Season and Reviewing "Escape to L.A." (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 39 minutes and 14 seconds(Torchwood being Torchwood, and Jack Harkness being Jack Harkness, this podcast is slightly more explicit than usual.)
Archivist and Chicks Dig Time Lords co-editor Lynne Thomas joins me as we discuss the merits of the frequently-derided first season of Torchwood — thus bucking the conventional wisdom that it only "got good" with Children of Earth. Lynne contributed her essay on the subject, "Camp Noir," to Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?'s anthology Time Unincorporated 3.
Also: Miracle Day Episode 4, "Escape to L.A." is reviewed.
Thanks to Radio Free Skaro for the "conventional wisdom" excerpts.
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2MTL 224: Torchwood: "Dead of Night" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 19 secondsIn which your humble correspondent defends the pacing of Torchwood: Miracle Day thus far, whilst citing Huw Buchtmann's excellent blog, but notes that Miracle Day doesn't perfectly mesh with previous seasons…
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2MTL 223: "Father's Day" Two-minute Throwback
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 46 secondsResuming our Throwback Reviews, we go back to the eighth episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, "Father's Day" by Paul Cornell. (It's an interesting time to watch one of Christopher Eccleston's stories, after his recent remarks about his time on the show were repeated by Martyn from the Bad Wilf podcast.)
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2MTL 222: Torchwood: "Rendition" (Spoilers) and Big Finish's "Rat Trap" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 29 secondsThe Torchwood Paradox (It's heavy! It's "crackfic"!) rears its head even more vividly in the second episode of Miracle Day, "Rendition." Spoilers ho! Afterward, guest reviewer Barnaby Edwards (not the Dalek one, the New York one) tackles Tony Lee's Big Finish debut, "Rat Trap."
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2MTL 221: "The New World" and Web of Lies 1 Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 50 secondsSpoilers mild (for the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day) and not-so (for part one of Torchwood: Web of Lies for iOS) ahoy!
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2MTL 220: Russell T. Davies on Crossovers and Torchwood's U.S. Appeal
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 55 secondsThanks to a blogger conference call hosted by Starz and BBC Worldwide Productions, I had the chance to ask Russell T. Davies why he thinks Torchwood caught fire in the United States. Earlier, Jef Burnham from filmmonthly.com raised a question I also asked in 2MTL 219: what's the future relationship between Doctor Who and Torchwood?
Special thanks to Chris Piers of Television Zombies for recording the call when I couldn't. I really wish he'd been called as well.
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2MTL 219: The Summerfielding of Torchwood?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 56 secondsTorchwood: Miracle Day is coming! Just a bit more…slowly…for British viewers. Why is that, and how might Torchwood come to resemble the adventures of a time-traveling archaeologist?
See also: RTD's interview with the Guardian
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2MTL 218: "The Long Game" Two-minute Throwback
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 21 secondsThink of "The Long Game" as the mirror-universe version of "Torchwood: Children of Earth." Many of the same attitudes and philosophies Russell T. Davies portrayed in that later, much better work are present in "The Long Game." But in a cheap-sets far-future playground, it's much harder to muster finesse…
Shannon Patrick Sullivan's excellent A Brief History of Time (Travel) site breaks down the production of "The Long Game".
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2MTL 217: Secretary Rumsfeld Assesses Series 7 Speculation
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 20 secondsCollecting the known knowns, the known unknowns, an unknown unknown, and some speculation about the future of Series 7 of Doctor Who, known-known to air in 2012 and 2013.
Steven Manfred's (www.doctorwhodvdfaq.com) anonymously-sourced speculation on the Series 7 schedule was posted to the Gallifrey Base forums on June 18 in the Transmissions-"Doctor Who in 2012 [Mega Merged] Part 2" thread, post #972.
Stuart Ian Burns's excellent blog is at feelinglistless.blogspot.com.
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2MTL 216: The All-Star Series 6.1 Roundtable (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 42 minutes and 22 secondsThree terrific writers and critics — Frank Collins (author of the Series 5 review The Pandorica Opens), Kyle Anderson (nerdist.com and battleshippretention.com) and Teresa Jusino (Tor.com and Newsarama) — look back on Series six-point-one. What worked and what didn't from "The Impossible Astronaut" to "A Good Man Goes to War"? Was Tom from The Doctor Who Podcast right about Series 6 being all about "identity"? What can we learn about "Moffat's Women"?
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2MTL 215: "A Good Man Goes to War" Reflections
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 58 secondsWith a long-awaited revelation, Series Six goes into summer dormancy. For all of its (welcome!) spectacle and charm, "A Good Man Goes to War" didn't entirely deliver its cliffhanger the way I hoped…
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2MTL 214: "The Almost People" (Smith's a Freaking Genius Edition)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 5 secondsShorter short podcast: Matt Smith is absolutely fabulous as The Doctor, and "The Almost People" — Yes! "The Almost People"! — is possibly his greatest performance.
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2MTL 213: On Spoilers, One Last Time (I Swear!)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 26 secondsMiss Manners being unavailable, I take it upon myself to pontificate about spoilers one last time, in light of the revelations about River Song yet to air outside the U.K.
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2MTL 212: The Sophie Aldred Interview (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 24 minutes and 45 secondsSophie Aldred wowed the crowds at TimeGate 2011 in Atlanta, and con-runner Alan Siler was good enough to arrange a group interview which is provided by the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance. Your humble interviewers are me, Mike Faber and Mike Gordon from Earth Station One, and Dr. Scott Viguie from Articles of the Shadow Proclamation.
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2MTL 211: TimeGate 2011 Podcaster Roundtable (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 23 minutes and 37 secondsJoining me for a quick roundtable about Series 6 and BBC America are my friends here at TimeGate 2011: Mike from Earth Station One, Denise from Little Finish, Matt from US WhoCast, and David and Marty from Hoo on Who.
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2MTL 210: "The Rebel Flesh" First Impressions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 52 secondsThey're not just clones. They're YOU. And that lifts "The Rebel Flesh" above formulaic base-under-siege, at least for the first two-thirds…
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2MTL 209: "A Tear, Doctor?" Quite a Lot, Actually
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 1 secondOne of the most fascinating things about "The Doctor's Wife" had little to do with its star writer — it was Matt Smith's excellent performance revealing the complex, powerful emotions buried inside the Eleventh Doctor. For a supposedly "understated" Doctor, Smith's last scene opened up the floodgates…
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2MTL 208: "The Doctor's Wife" First Impressions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 13 secondsSo much to love about this episode — Neil Perryman's got a great rundown at Tachyon TV — but let's just focus on love itself.
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2MTL 207: Your Neil Gaiman Preparedness Kit, Plus Spoilergate (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsFandom is so atomized: Take any two wildly popular genre figures such as "Doctor Who" and "Neil Gaiman" and you'll find many fans of one nearly unaware of the other. In this Time Dilation edition of 2MTL, Chicks Dig Time Lords co-editor Tara O'Shea and I take a walk down the the shelves full of Gaiman's prose, comics and screen work to provide a little explanation of why those of us in the middle of the Venn diagram are so excited.
But first: a traditional two-minute segment, as I tackle "Spoilergate."
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2MTL 206: "The Curse of the Black Spot" First Impressions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 59 secondsOh, look. It's a straightforward pirate romp like I asked for. "Be careful what you wish for, Mister Two-minute Time LAAAAARRRRRRD." (Thanks for the intro, Jim!)
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2MTL 205: "Day of the Moon" Second Impressions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 58 secondsWe may have made the leap from "Doctor Who for TV," to "Doctor Who for the box set," finally to "Doctor Who expressly for time-shifting." Because, MAN, was this hard to watch in my living room…
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2MTL 204: American TV, Doctor Who, and Television Zombies (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes and 42 secondsJeff, Chris and Chuck of the popular cult TV podcast Television Zombies show up on my show, after a couple of years of having me on as a DW geek on call, to talk about how Doctor Who's going over in the States. What happens when three guys who're into more genre TV than Doctor Who encounter a monofocused host? Find out as I get their predictions for Saturday's "Day of the Moon."
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2MTL 203: In Defense of BBC America
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 57 secondsSome U.S. fans accustomed to waiting for iTunes or using "other means" to get their Who Fix (TM) found it hard to deal with commercials, promos and additions to the day-and-date broadcast of "The Impossible Astronaut" on BBC America. Patience, folks: not only are those changes unavoidable in the TV biz, but they're ultimately a good thing even for Doctor Who in the U.K.!
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2MTL 202: "The Impossible Astronaut" First Impressions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 34 secondsBest series opener yet? Debatable, but "The Impossible Astronaut" definitely benefited from, for the first time since 2005, not having to establish a new status quo (which even "New Earth" had to do given Tennant's comparatively brief screen time in "The Christmas Invasion," but I digress…).
Where was I? Oh, yes — a series opener that, freed from having to Explain New Things, leaped straight into a story of heft and dread that will surely catch the attention of new viewers. Tick boxes were checked, and checked well — although there is ONE thing I'm disappointed about…
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2MTL 200: The Unbearable Brightness of Series 6, Plus Your Questions
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 24 secondsLess than two weeks away, a confession: I've been overwhelmed not only by the mammoth wall of hype over the debut of Series 6, but by some of the implications of the new season itself.
Plus, listener feedback! Plus, simultaneously, an illustration of how listener feedback can go horribly wrong! (Bad influence: Ask a Ninja.)
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Two-minute Technomage for April 1, 1996: "Severed Dreams"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 27 secondsWe waited almost two months for PTEN to release the tenth episode of season 3, "Severed Dreams," and it was worth it! Tune in to hear my reactions to the landmark, gotta-win-an-award, science fiction classic of April 1, 1996. Babylon 5 has never been better!
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2MTL 199: Taking Skirts and Skits Seriously
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 35 seconds- "Space."
- "Time."
- Two funny and cute skits during Comic Relief.
- Amy Pond.
- Skirt length.
- Jokes.
- Objectification?
- Less than eight minutes. Too serious?
Also check out Teresa Jusino's take on "Space" and "Time" at tor.com (just beware the comments).
(Also a hat tip to the TDP.)
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2MTL 198: Enchanted Believers and Mourning Ianto Jones
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 23 minutes and 30 secondsWere you so saddened by the death of Ianto Jones in 2009's Torchwood: Children of Earth that it almost felt like you'd lost someone close to you?
Or did you see the online reaction and hear about his Memorial Wall in Cardiff and wonder, "Where the HECK is this coming from?"
Racheline Maltese, scholar and fan, wondered the same things about how people relate to stories in her paper, "Tangible Reality of Absence: Fan Communities and Mourning Fictional Characters," presented last July and now available online. I invited Racheline to talk about what it means to be an "enchanted believer" who reacts to a story as strongly as if it were a real-world event, and why Ianto was mourned by fandom but Owen and Tosh weren't.
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2MTL 197: Where'd the Human Heroes Go?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 34 secondsAs a parting shot in 2MTL 196, I mentioned that I thought the message of the first four seasons of new Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures was that "it's the actions of everyday humans like you and me that make the difference in overcoming adversity." Some of you noticed that I left out Series 5. Herewith, the explanation.
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2MTL 196: Looking for a Doctor in a Torchwood World
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 5 secondsA temporarily more serious, real-world turn for 2MTL.
Be inspired by the Doctor. Do what Torchwood would do.
Support the people of Japan through the Red Cross, shelterbox.org, and other relief agencies. Support the displaced of Britain through Paul Cornell's drive on behalf of Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, at justgiving.com/paul-cornell0. Help treat terminal cancer patients with dignity through the Nicholas Courtney memorial drive for the Marie Curie Cancer Care at justgiving.com/nicholascourtney.
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2MTL 195: Classical Argument
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 19 secondsThe term "Classic Doctor Who" came in for some criticism last week from Doctor Who personalities such as current and former editors of Doctor Who Magazine. Is it so wrong to draw a distinction between 1963-1989-plus-1996 and 2005-2011?
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2MTL 194: "Dalek" Two-minute Throwback
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 21 secondsThe return of the Daleks. At the hands of Rob Shearman.
Yes, it's just as good as you remember.
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2MTL 193: Delving Deeper into Gallifrey 22 (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 minutes and 0 secondsWe're in full-on Time Dilation mode, all right, as I catch up on some of the reflections on last weekend's Gallifrey One 22 convention. Chicks Dig Time Lords co-editor Tara O'Shea and I talk about fandom, feminism and the digital world the next generation of Doctor Who fans inhabits. Then, I spend some time with the longtime volunteer whom I helped excavate the convention's official TARDIS: actor, comedian and Gallifrey One auctioneer and master of ceremonies Tadao Tomomatsu.
Regular two-minute podcasts will return soon!
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2MTL 192: Looking Through a Time Lord's Eyes in L.A.
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 51 secondsThis podcast contains: reflections on time and space as depicted in a museum and comic books, and content recorded looooooonnnng before I was able to post it!
References: the art in question and, for the juxtaposition of time and space in comics, scottmccloud.com.
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2MTL 191: Return to Gallifrey One (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 12 minutes and 12 secondsErik, co-host of The Doctor Who Book Club and Bridging the Rift contributor, joins me for our Wednesday-night reflction on why we've made the pilgrimage to Gallifrey One, and our plans for the convention.
(Time Dilation podcasts are EXPRESSLY designed to break the two-minute format. No warranty is provided.)
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2MTL 190: "You Haven't Seen The Aztecs?!"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 27 secondsI was publicly shamed by Rob Shearman and Toby Hadoke in The Doctor Who Podcast #53 for not having seen "The Aztecs." This week, while recovering from the Plague, I made amends.
It's a good 'un.
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2MTL 189: Hoping for a (Torchwood) Miracle
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 14 seconds"Children of Earth" was undeniably brilliant, but it ran the Torchwood concept through a Cuisinart. Is there enough left for "Miracle Day" to feel like Torchwood, or something new entirely? And is that a good thing?
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2MTL 188: "World War Three" Two-minute Throwback
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 34 secondsYes, "World War Three" is better than "Aliens of London." Which is somewhat like saying a stab wound is better than amputation. All the same, there's some important and valuable stuff in RTD's otherwise least-successful Doctor Who story.
PLUS an announcement: there's a trivia throwdown coming at Gallifrey One between The Doctor Who Podcast and Staggering Stories. I'm moderating this cataclysmic struggle, so I need your trivia questions and answers. Send them to quiz@twominutetimelord.com by February 10!
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2MTL 187: CRISIS AT THE NTAs EVERYBODY PANIC not really
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 8 secondsRecrimination! Rage! Retweeting! We're looking at the (non-)controversy over Doctor Who's losses at the National Television Awards yesterday, and the ritual assignations of blame.
Everything's fine, folks. Really.
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2MTL 186: IDW's New Eleventh Doctor Series
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 57 secondsIn the first issue of the newly-relaunched Doctor Who comic series from IDW, writer Tony Lee captures the Eleventh Doctor so meticulously you're tempted to credit Matt Smith for the acting job.
(Tony was last seen in these parts reviewing The Pandorica Opens and talking about comics in 2MTL 143.)
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2MTL 185: "Aliens of London" Two-minute Throwback
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 52 secondsMichael of the excellent Tin Dog Podcast frequently observes, when he reviews an old and not-much-missed story, that "it's actually not that bad!" Would that I could say the same of an episode that brought to 2005 some of the stereotypical criticisms leveled at the classic series: bad effects, bad monsters and bad pacing.
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2MTL 184: Yes, I Have a Freak Flag
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 0 secondsPlease indulge me in yet another slightly extended podcast, with a little look at the proud eccentricities and the less-proud excesses and turf wars of Doctor Who fandom.
Andy Ihnatko's tongue-in-cheek Freak Flag Compact