http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-354.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSpoiler: The Daleks are back. Spoiler: The Twelfth Doctor is not especially warm and fuzzy. Spoiler: There's a lot of pew-pew-pew and boom-boom-boom. Spoiler: For the second week in a row, it's not the A-plot that has me so excited about Series 8.
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2MTL 353: "Deep Breath" Reviewed
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-353.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPeter Capaldi delivers. Of that, there was no doubt. What else does "Deep Breath" have going for it, and does it measure up to Steven Moffat's first crack at introducing a Doctor?
2MTL 352: The Fate of the Impossible Girl
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-352.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSo the tabloids think that season is Clara's swan song. I'm not ready to see her go, but… Guess what haters – Clara is the best companion, second maybe only to Donna. — Kyle Anderson (@FunctionalNerd) August 16, 2014 …really, Kyle Anderson of Nerdist.com? Let's not go quite that …
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2MTL 351: The Gallery of the Cleverdumb
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-351.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Two-minute Time Lord Podcast will have no truck with the "so bad it's good" notion. Instead, we celebrate the notion of "cleverdumb" storytelling: meticulous in certain aspects, and gleefully and purposefully washing its hands of others. Exhibit A: the US series Leverage. Exhibits that follow: certain episodes of …
2MTL 350: Peter Capaldi in Wonder Woman's Armor
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-350.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadA clickbait headline hurtles toward Ye Olde Compare-and-Contrast between the promised grim-'n'-gritty Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the widely inferred darkness of the Twelfth Doctor.
2MTL 349: More Than 2,000 Years in the TARDIS?
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-349.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadTwo thousand years! That's how old The Doctor is now, as stated by the Twelfth in the latest trailer and as implied in his predecessor's swan song, "The Time of the Doctor." That's a pretty huge leap from roughly 900 years old at the start of Steven Moffat's showrunnership. …
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2MTL 348: Oops.
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-348.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOn the power of the (leaked) written word (and the importance of Wheaton's Law)…
2MTL 347: A Tale of Two Action Figures, or Why the War Doctor Doesn’t Count
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-347.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWith apologies, the War Doctor just doesn't seem "real" enough to warrant a space on my shelf among the ordinally-numbered Doctor action figures in my collection. As magnificent as John Hurt was, why am I reluctant to include him in the tribe?
2MTL 346: Capoptimism
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-346.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHerewith, three reasons why old-school fandom is buzzing with such excitement for Peter Capaldi, when the historic pattern has been more guarded.
2MTL 345: Rebecca Moore and the Famous Infographic (Time Dilation)
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-345.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadRebecca Moore and her fellow undergraduates at BYU-Idaho did a little study this year about female characters' representation in post-2005 DOCTOR WHO. You might have heard about it! I talk with Rebecca about what prompted the study, and what happened when her teammate Joseph Struhs's infographic got noticed on …
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