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. …

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 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 …

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."

2MTL 341: "Tooth and Claw" Two-minute Throwback

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-341.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEight years ago we saw a new side to the Doctor and his companion, who reached stratospheric levels of self-satisfaction. Was Queen Victoria right about what awful people they were? Are a smug Doctor and Rose worse than, say, a Doctor trying to brain a caveman or strangle a …