Two-minute Time Lord is a commentary podcast about the BBC\'s popular family science fiction program, Doctor Who, and its spinoffs. 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 fortysomething 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 Fifth Doctor Peter Davison first picked up a cricket bat.
“Pace and energy” and high concepts give way to a man with a foot on a landmine for the duration of the story. Tension-filled bottle episodes are rare for Doctor Who, although there are a lot of parallels between this one and 2009’s “Midnight.” How does Steven Moffat’s return to Doctor Who fit with his showrunner’s current experiment?
“Would you like to see the baby?” Your answer probably had a lot to do with how you received “Space Babies,” but the first-or-second episode of new Series 1 had a LOT to cram into a too-small container, and that was an issue as well.
The first episodes of Series 1 (not counting the Christmas Special) have finally launched, and there’s RTD upon RTD on top of more RTD in “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord.” We’ll look at these episodes individually soon, but going that hard was a gutsy, even necessary choice.
In which your interlocutor admits that he wishes to hear less of a composer he loves.
A graphics whiz, Chip was not, when he shared this on social media years agoAfter “The Church on Ruby Road,” there should be no question that Ncuti Gatwa will master the role of The Doctor. However, we do need to address the fact that this is now a show with goblins and flying wooden ships….
Celebrating a regeneration, a retirement, and a renewal of the whole darn series. On to Christmas!
How do you make a special episode “special” when you only have two actors and a big spaceship? Russell T Davies has a pretty good answer.
What I wouldn’t have given for the Meep to give an order to “reticulate the splines.” (Oh, yeah: I loved this one.)
You can’t expect David Tennant to not be David Tennant, but I really want the Fourteenth Doctor to be meaningfully different from the Tenth. I have my hopes, but the Fourteenth Doc comic in Doctor Who Magazine and even the Children in Need short didn’t offer any clues….
The hiatus between Doctors is near an end, and a podcast born out of a love of David Tennant and Russell T Davies comes out of its own hiatus for their return.
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