2MTL 354: "Into the Dalek" Reviewed

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Spoiler: 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.

2MTL 352: The Fate of the Impossible Girl

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So the tabloids think that season is Clara's swan song. I'm not ready to see her go, but…

…really, Kyle Anderson of Nerdist.com? Let's not go quite that far. Yet.

2MTL 351: The Gallery of the Cleverdumb

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The 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 our favorite family sci-fi drama–but why are there so few "cleverdumb" Doctor Whos?

(One guess who inspired the title for this podcast.)

2MTL 350: Peter Capaldi in Wonder Woman's Armor

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A 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?

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Two 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. Is it a fair leap when you consider the assumed ages of his predecessors? Or is "fairness" even a fair issue?

2MTL 347: A Tale of Two Action Figures, or Why the War Doctor Doesn’t Count

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With 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?