Category Archives: Podcast

2MTL 176: "The End of the World" Two-minute Throwback

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-176.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadResolved: "The End of the World" was the most important Series One episode to Doctor Who's breakout success in 2005. When you have a strong opening, the follow-up had better be a killer, and it was.

2MTL 174: The Series 5 Box Set Reviewed

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-174.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadDespite a few areas where a little extra effort would have gone a long way, Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series is a worthy addition to your shelf-ful of Blu-rays and DVDs. Here's a review of the upcoming release (November 8 in the U.K., November 9 in North America). …

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2MTL 173: "Death of the Doctor," Resonating Concrete, and Knowing Your Modern Doctors

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-173.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete." Sometimes, the Doctor is tinkering with something he can't take his attention from, which traps him in a revealing conversation. It's a scripting strategy that RTD and Steven Moffat have used since 2005, most recently in "Death of the Doctor," and it's worked …

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2MTL 172: Top Gear meets Doctor Who in "Max Warp"

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-172.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadRight there at the intersection of the Venn diagram between the gearheads and the Whovians is Big Finish's Eighth Doctor Adventure, "Max Warp." Does this Top Gear parody spin out or catch fire? Another take: The Flashing Blade Podcast 1-38.

2MTL 171: "Rose" Two-minute Throwback

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-171.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBeginning an occasional subset of 2MTL podcasts, in which I give a two-minute (more or less, time's a relative dimension and all that) review of Doctor Who episodes since 2005. We begin with "Rose," perhaps the only episode in which we got a fair look at the Ninth Doctor.

2MTL 170: Nostalgia, the Split Series, and Comics, Oh My

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-170.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThree topics for you today: A potential bonus for the U.S. thanks to the split 2011 season, new comics from Tony Lee and Paul Cornell, and a look at the curious case of classic-series nostalgia among new-series fans.

2MTL 169: BBC Week Finale plus Shaun Lyon of Gallifrey One

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-169.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPART THE FIRST: The wrap-up to BBC Week, with a look at the possible global future of Doctor Who. PART THE SECOND: Shaun Lyon, head of the Gallifrey One convention, talks about the new developments for Gally 22 in February — the hotel has run out of convention-rate rooms, …

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2MTL 168: Toby Hadoke Knows His BBC (by Simon Harries)

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-168.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAs we head into the home stretch of BBC Week, TV producer and Tachyon TV contributor Simon Harries introduces you to Toby Hadoke's new one-man show, "Now I Know My BBC." Toby's been a great friend of the podcast, having been interviewed a few times and contributing a review …

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2MTL 167: The BBC from Distant Shores, and That Big SJA Spoiler

http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-167.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBBC Week continues, with five-year expatriate professor Mark Goodacre, the Resident Alien, talking about his concern over the BBC and drawing a parallel with those dark Doctor Who years that began in 1989. PLUS: A bonus spoiler section at the end, regarding certain revelations from the "Death of the …

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