Two-minute Time Lord
190 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsConcentrated Commentary on the Worlds of Doctor Who
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2MTL 479: Solid Gold?
February 02, 2024 19:54 - 4 minutes - 4.68 MBIn 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 ago
2MTL 478: Goblin Corps
December 28, 2023 04:24 - 5 minutes - 5.17 MBAfter "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....
2MTL 477: ¿Por qué no los dos?
December 09, 2023 23:00 - 4 minutes - 4.37 MBCelebrating a regeneration, a retirement, and a renewal of the whole darn series. On to Christmas!
2MTL 476: Evolution of the Doctor
December 02, 2023 22:21 - 4 minutes - 4.28 MBHow 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.
2MTL 475: Brandishing the Gravity Stanchions
November 25, 2023 21:29 - 3 minutes - 4.02 MBMeep? What I wouldn't have given for the Meep to give an order to "reticulate the splines." (Oh, yeah: I loved this one.)
2MTL 474: Is 14 Greater Than 10?
November 20, 2023 03:20 - 5 minutes - 5.18 MBYou 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....
2MTL 473: The Reset Button
November 13, 2023 03:44 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBThe 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.
2MTL 472: "That is a good look on you, Professor"
October 24, 2022 03:54 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBOn great last words, blossomest blossoms, emotional truth, and whether the plot is king.
2MTL 471: Long Time Ago When We Was Fam
October 22, 2022 02:53 - 4 minutes - 4.66 MBBringing the podcast out of mothballs on The Eve of The Power of the Doctor...
2MTL 470: Something Old, Something New
May 15, 2022 19:23 - 4 minutes - 4.96 MBIs RTD2 a nostalgia trip? Some thoughts on last week's announcement of Ncuti Gatwa, today's announcement of Catherine Tate and David Tennant, and the merits of old mistakes vs. new mistakes.
2MTL 469: TIME DILATION: The Streaming Future of Doctor Who
May 01, 2022 16:28 - 19 minutes - 18.7 MBJason Snell, co-host of Downstream on Relay FM and head of The Incomparable network of pop culture podcasts, joins me for a look at Doctor Who's future in a world where TV networks struggle to stay relevant and Netflix is losing a bunch of subscribers. The conversation is a "follow-out" from recent discussions on Radio Free Skaro. (Apologies to Jason because I overprocessed his audio.)
2MTL 468: "Legend of the Sea Devils" and Feeling Closer to "Fine"
April 24, 2022 19:15 - 3 minutes - 3.79 MBWhen you're the sort of person for whom the meaning of "fine" turns from "good enough" to not so much, and maybe you start surrendering to pessimism, even after an honestly revolutionary conversation between Yaz and the Doctor.
2MTL 467: Parsing Age, Rose/Ten and Thasmin
April 15, 2022 19:48 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBThe most tortured podcast episode title I've ever created, plus my Thasmin wishlist for "Legend of the Sea Devils."
2MTL 466: New Year's Hangover
February 15, 2022 04:48 - 5 minutes - 5.9 MBThoughts from the heart about a New Year's special that was a small story, coming at a time when I was struggling to come to terms with the last two years--and how I hope to look at Doctor Who anew following a return to Gallifrey One.
2MTL 465: Re: Flux ("The Vanquishers")
December 16, 2021 03:07 - 6 minutes - 6.1 MBSometimes the best TARDISes are crowded I'm not entirely sure who "The Vanquishers" applies to, TBH. Anyhoo, I took a little extra time to think about Chapter 6, and Flux as a whole, and why I ultimately think this effort to put eight pounds of plot into a six-pound bag succeeded despite itself.
2MTL 464: Steeling for the Finale ("Survivors of the Flux")
December 04, 2021 23:21 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBTomorrow's the finale. Has the moment been prepared for? Chapter 5 left me a little worried.
2MTL 463: 2MTL 463: The Power of Blinking Without Blinking (“Village of the Angels”)
November 28, 2021 02:34 - 3 minutes - 4.03 MBRecapture the essense of the Weeping Angels from "Blink"? Chibnall and Alderton understood the assignment.
2MTL 462: Atropositive ("Once, Upon Time")
November 19, 2021 05:43 - 4 minutes - 4.89 MBSpace opera? Narrative connections and context emerging? Yes, please: this is the episode that gave me faith in Chris Chibnall's arc. (This episode dedicated to the memory of NPR Books editor Petra Mayer.)
2MTL 461: Sontar…huh. ("War of the Sontarans")
November 13, 2021 13:59 - 3 minutes - 3.8 MBIn which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the "rehabilitation" of the Sontarans as villains bumps straight into how I feel about war movies.
2MTL 460: The Opposite of Episodic ("The Halloween Apocalypse")
October 31, 2021 20:41 - 3 minutes - 4.08 MBNow this is a story all about how. My life got flipped turned upside down. Big, bold, and entirely un-self-contained, Doctor Who: Flux's first chapter may not have been the most welcoming to new viewers but is a very proper lead-off to the show's first modern miniseries.
2MTL 459: Nicole Hill on Russell T Davies's Return
September 30, 2021 04:01 - 12 minutes - 1 MBNicole Hill of @BlackTARDIS and @blkgirlscreate stops by for a conversation about their hopes and cautions for the new/old showrunner.
2MTL 458: Pregenerating a Showrunner
September 25, 2021 20:24 - 3 minutes - 3.73 MBNo one saw that coming. Russell T Davies's first era of Doctor Who is my favorite. What are some of the traps to avoid with his upcoming return as showrunner?
2MTL 457: About Noel Clarke
May 02, 2021 04:07 - 4 minutes - 4.22 MBFrom the April 29, 2021, Guardian (UK): ‘Sexual predator’: actor Noel Clarke accused of groping, harassment and bullying by 20 women You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor. In an article for the UK Guardian on April 29, 2021, journalists Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne painstakingly gathered and reported 20 allegations from women of being abused by actor, producer, and one-time Doctor Who recurring cast member Noel Clarke. The ...
2MTL 456: Long Time Passing
January 02, 2021 03:00 - 3 minutes - 3.98 MBTen months of silence--ten months of waiting and coping--for Yaz, Ryan, and Graham: When "Revolution of the Daleks" was made BEFORE the pandemic, who knew how relevant it would be DURING it?
2MTL 455: Throwback Review of "Fear Her"
August 22, 2020 02:42 - 4 minutes - 6.42 MB"Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Chloe Webber?" After a couple of months away to recharge the batteries, there's no more jarring compare-and-contrast to Doctor Who of 2020 than Doctor Who of 2006's "Fear Her."
2MTL 454: It's Always Time to Engage
June 24, 2020 12:02 - 4 minutes - 4.67 MBWhy is it difficult for so many fans to engage with Doctor Who's politics? Constance Gibbs: "For Black Doctor Who fans, the TARDIS is a legendary, loaded image"
2MTL 453: Within Our Confession Dials
May 26, 2020 00:51 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MBThere's been a lot of great Doctor Who content that speaks to the global pandemic thanks to creators recruited and organized by folks such as Chris Chibnall and Emily Cook. But 2015's "Heaven Sent" seems particularly relevant as well...
2MTL 452: WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2 Makes a House Call (Time Dilation)
April 26, 2020 02:37 - 30 minutes - 21.4 MBGraeme Burk, co-author with Robert Smith? of WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2, stops by to talk about slow-cooker episode criticism in a time of lightning-fast hot takes (not that I'm familiar with that at all) and staying connected with Doctor Who in a stay-at-home world. (An earlier audio glitch has been fixed!)
2MTL 451: The Brain, Revisited
March 02, 2020 03:29 - 4 minutes - 4.36 MBSuddenly, there's much, much more to the Doctor--and yet this new "retcon" to the Doctor's past winds up being staggeringly respectful to everything that's gone before on television. Let's talk about a challenge to The Master--and to Doctor Who fans themselves.
2MTL 450: Point of No Return
February 24, 2020 02:23 - 3 minutes - 3.67 MBExecution: pretty darn good! Cybermen: terrifying! Confidence that Part Two will stick the landing: (flailing gestures)?
2MTL 449: Two Things About "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"
February 22, 2020 23:11 - 4 minutes - 4.15 MBOn emotional Cybermen and erstwhile flat team structures.
2MTL 448: The Most Important Story
February 15, 2020 02:25 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBSometimes, the plot isn't the point and the bad guys are a side issue. Sometimes, the point is how humans treat other humans.
2MTL 447: The (Other) Three Doctors
February 08, 2020 03:31 - 3 minutes - 3.99 MBA mostly solid story by McTighe and Chibnall, but I'm REALLY here for a Doctor-ish Yaz and a Doctor-ish Ryan. Joy Piedmont on representation in "Praxeus" (Twitter thread) Sage Young's recap at Head Over Feels
2MTL 446: Gallifreyan Nature
January 27, 2020 03:57 - 3 minutes - 4.08 MBThat sound you heard was a podcaster's brain exploding, trying to figure out how to compress everything from "Fugitive of the Judoon" into roughly two minutes. Listener, this episode was A LOT.
2MTL 445: A Two-fisted Tale of Tesla
January 20, 2020 05:19 - 3 minutes - 3.84 MBWould you believe, Nikola Tesla in the TARDIS? Now that's just nuts. (See also theincomparable.com/radio)
2MTL 444: Percolating on "Orphan 55"
January 19, 2020 03:20 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBIt took longer than two minutes to explain--heck, longer than six days to figure out--why "Orphan 55" confounded me.
2MTL 443: Looking Backward Too Soon
January 06, 2020 04:07 - 3 minutes - 3.65 MB"Spyfall Part Two" was a strong conclusion to the opening Series 12 two-parter, but there was one creative decision I'm wary of, and another that really should have been done differently.
2MTL 442: Three Questions About "Spyfall"
January 02, 2020 02:58 - 4 minutes - 4.51 MBChris Chibnall and company knocked the first episode of Series 12 out of the park but there's a caution: where there is a Part One, there must always be a Part Two. Here are three things to look for in the conclusion of "Spyfall" on January 5. Sacha Dhawan as You-Know-Who
2MTL 441: Advent
December 24, 2019 18:51 - 3 minutes - 3.77 MBCelebrating the impending advent of Series 12, and also the best fandom advent calendar ever: Radio Free Skaro's Fluid Links on YouTube.
2MTL 440: Annualized
November 12, 2019 03:11 - 4 minutes - 4.76 MBBehold, The Dr Who Annual 1977 in all its bonkers glory.
2MTL 439: Throwback Review of "Love and Monsters"
October 21, 2019 01:03 - 4 minutes - 4.18 MBThere's not a lot of distance between covering ELO songs with a band of Tenth Doctor investigators, and enjoying Doctor Who fandom culture. You just have to watch out for the Abzorbaloffs in both places. Check out Reality Bomb Live in New York for 2019, occasionally invaded by me.
2MTL 438: Titan's Take on Thirteen
October 08, 2019 02:02 - 6 minutes - 6.47 MBAre you stuck with me in the between-series Doctor Who doldrums? Check out the now-complete first year of Thirteenth Doctor stories by the top-notch creative team of Jody Houser, Rachael Stott, Roberta Ingranata, and Enrica Erin Angiolini! ALSO: Please join me in supporting Who For Schools! (TWITT's interview with Houser and Stott)
2MTL 437: Guilt, Shame, Obligation, and Regeneration
September 24, 2019 21:31 - 5 minutes - 5.57 MBPrompted by Erik's remembrance of Terrance Dicks in 2MTL 435, some thoughts about the modern moral character of the Doctor: how Doctors 9-12 changed the game from Terrance Dicks's model, and how the Thirteenth Doctor changes the game again.
2MTL 436: Eccleston on Eccleston
September 16, 2019 01:44 - 3 minutes - 3.79 MBA Mail on Sunday article previews Christopher Eccleston's revelation in his new book I Love the Bones of You: he lived with mental health issues while launching Doctor Who as the Ninth Doctor.
2MTL 435: Erik Stadnik on Terrance Dicks's Legacy
September 08, 2019 21:28 - 4 minutes - 4.8 MB"Like all truly great writers, Terrance Dicks is a moralist." So begins Erik Stadnik of The Writers' Room: The Outer Limits and The Real McCoy podcast, the week after the legendary Doctor Who script editor and writer passed away.
2MTL 434: Shannon Sudderth on Random Encounters
August 26, 2019 01:49 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBShannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental. Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10, on The Incomparable Network, and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).
2MTL 433: Centering Yasmin Khan
August 18, 2019 23:38 - 3 minutes - 3.43 MBI loved Series 11 but one of its areas of improvement is emphatically Yaz. What needs to happen to give this underused character her turn in the spotlight?
2MTL 432: Kayti Burt on Rose Tyler, Class, and Being Invited Into a TARDIS
August 12, 2019 00:38 - 6 minutes - 6.64 MBDen of Geek US's Kayti Burt saw herself in Rose Tyler, and watched as the TARDIS changed Rose just as Kayti's experiences--and her slowly growing distance from her working-class background--changed her. (You can listen to Kayti and Chip every week, along with Jen Burt and Warren Frey from Radio Free Skaro, on the new THE EXPANSE rewatch podcast, "A Legitimate Salvage" on The Incomparable Network.)
2MTL 431: Doctor Who's New Home
August 07, 2019 01:30 - 2 minutes - 3.04 MBWhile Doctor Who will never become so obscure that it can only be found with a hunting dog and a Ouija board, Chip is definitely on the pessmistic side when it comes to Doctor Who's next streaming home: HBO Max.
2MTL 430: Joy Piedmont on Dating and Doctor Who
July 28, 2019 12:41 - 5 minutes - 5.68 MBIf you're searching for a Significant Other, how important is it that they be into the same things you are? If you're as immersed in Doctor Who fandom as Reality Bomb co-producer Joy Piedmont is, should a potential partner get into Doctor Who as well? The answer is more complicated than you might think.