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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RSS Feed: http://twominutetimelord.com/wp/?feed=podcast
- Episodes:
- 373
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:0:07:03
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:1:35:17
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 1 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes and 53 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 13 June 2025 (1:14am GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 13 April 2025 (12:55am GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 14 days, 15 hours, 26 minutes and 14 seconds
Two-minute Time Lord Episodes
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2MTL 246: The Caregiver's Tale (and How to Help Fight Monsters)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 45 secondsRTD's interview with Laurence Watts shed a sad light on the immediate future of his writing projects, as he takes on a more important role as caregiver.
The Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust is the U.K.'s largest funder of brain tumor research. If you would like to join me in supporting them, you can donate to their Gift of Hope campaign.
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2MTL 245: A Bigger-on-the-Inside Christmas Mystery
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 36 secondsTwo bigger-on-the-inside worlds collide this Christmas in "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" — and the PARTICULAR collision between C.S. Lewis's worldview and Doctor Who's typical one has me wondering what the heck showrunner Steven Moffat is up to…
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2MTL 244: Should a Doctor Who Movie Be a Fresh Start?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 25 seconds"Who" ought to be in pictures? If BBC Worldwide Productions and director David Yates have anything to say about it, apparently so! But what's this about casting aside 48 years of continuity and starting fresh for the silver screen?
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2MTL 243: The Doctor Who Official Convention: "And There Was Much Rejoicing"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 10 secondsBBC Worldwide is throwing a couple of parties in Cardiff on March 24 and 25. So why the mixed reaction from Doctor Who fans for the first official Doctor Who convention in years?
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2MTL 242: Rating the Doctor Who Encyclopedia iPad App
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 59 secondsThe Doctor Who Encyclopedia has come to the iPad. How does it hold up as an item of Doctor Who fan desire? It looks spiffy, but there are a few bugs and it's not for everyone….
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2MTL 241: Mashing Up "Ready Player One" and Doctor Who
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 13 secondsErnest Cline's recent novel Ready Player One spurs some thoughts about the limits of Doctor Who's influence on '80s nostalgia and our show's cross-genre appeal.
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2MTL 240: Three Series and Out for Matt Smith?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 23 secondsDid Matt Smith slip his true intentions, or was it just a slip of the tongue when he said he had only one more year of Doctor Who? Your returning host (and thank you so much for your support while I've been gone) pretends to know what he's talking about.
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2MTL 239: The All-Star Series 6.2 Roundtable (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 7 minutes and 1 second"After all, he wrote Coupling!"
If it's the end of Series 6 (and Series 6.2, or 6.5, or whatever...) then it's time for another gathering of writers and critics to hash it all out. Kyle Anderson makes his second appearance on the All-Star panel, joined this time by Deb Stanish and Lynne Thomas! (Frank Collins and Teresa Jusino from 2MTL #216 had unfortunate schedule conflicts.)
Why were parent-child relationships such a big deal this year? Are time travel plots getting TOO wibbly? Did Steven Moffat finally put an end to Romance in the TARDIS? (That's a pretty sizable "no" right there.) And what do we want from Series 7, whenever it surfaces?
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2MTL 238: "The Wedding of River Song"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 8 secondsSometimes, Moffat episode titles are complete red herrings. Or not. Sometimes, Moffat-produced two-parters are complete red herrings. Sometimes, mysterious characters are exactly who they're implied to be. Or not. Somewhere, deep within a Teselecta, hapless technicians are studying osculation. And somewhere, staying up far too late, Chip is reviewing the Series 6 finale.
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2MTL 237: "Closing Time" for Doctor Who Confidential
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 0 secondsTwo, TWO podcasts for the price of one! How did "Closing Time" measure up to last year's "The Lodger," and how are those two episodes like a Doctor Who convention? Also, some thoughts about the cancellation of Doctor Who Confidential.
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2MTL 236: I Liked "The God Complex" and That's No Bull
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 41 seconds"The God Complex" was inventively directed and balanced out my deepest criticism of last week's episode. I'm in my happy place again!
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2MTL 235: A Discordant Note on "The Girl Who Waited"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 34 secondsOn paper, "The Girl Who Waited" was brilliant. Karen Gillan? A revelation. So why did I take a 45-minute walk around the neighborhood, grinding my teeth, trying to figure out how I felt about the episode?
Thanks to Huw at thirteenfaces.com for linking me to Emily Asher-Perrin's essay at tor.com on the relationship of the Doctor, and Doctor Who, to children. It was the whack on the side of the head that helped me understand my reaction.
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2MTL 234: Torchwood: Wrapping Up "The Gathering," "The Blood Line" and Miracle Day
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 21 secondsIt's catch-up time as we take a look at the concluding episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day, and render a verdict for the series. And demand that one of this year's debuting characters meets the Eleventh Doctor.
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2MTL 233: "Night Terrors" and the Things Parents Fear
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 52 secondsSome personal thoughts about parenthood, in light of an episode that was more about a Dad's fears than the monsters in the cupboard…
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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.