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 …
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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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2MTL 344: Something New?
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-344.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAt the Hay Festival, showrunner Steven Moffat promised that the new season of Doctor Who will be radically different. Does casting Peter Capaldi alone make that true?
2MTL 343: The Hugo Rorschach Test
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-343.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadLast month the Hugo nominees were revealed and thankfully, the controversies found in other award categories were absent in the Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) category. Which Doctor Who-related work, including the non-episodes AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME and THE FIVE(ISH) DOCTORS REBOOT deserve the nod? And, these …
2MTL 342: A (Character) Study in Clara
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-342.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadA departure for 2MTL: why pontificate about a character when I can approach it fictionally? Here's a character study about Clara Oswald, and what might have been beneath her blurted confession in "The Time of the Doctor."