2MTL 321: "New Earth" Two-minute Throwback

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The single clearest indication you can get of what a new Doctor's going to be like won't come around until the second full episode. (This I vow to be self-evident! Unless you disagree with me, at which point it becomes an argument for a future 2MTL!) "New Earth" is the first distraction-free look at David Tennant's and Russell T. Davies's Tenth Doctor, warts and applegrass and all. Note that I gave the episode no extra points for having a character named after me.

2MTL 319: Why Who Beats Trek

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Once upon a time, I had a TON of Star Trek reference books. Today, I have a teetering stack of Doctor Who Magazines. I've been dipping back into Star Trek recently, wondering why it no longer scratches the itch Doctor Who does.

2MTL 318: There Are No Fandom Gatekeepers

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My wife Shannon guests with her reaction to the recent online criticism of Doctor Who "fangirls."

Uncharacteristically for 2MTL, Shannon has provided genuine show notes:

The tweet that started today’s mess, for which there has been something of an apology:

2MTL 316: What IS "Doctor Who Canon" Anyway??? (Time Dilation)

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So while we wait for Sunday's announcement of the actor that will play the next Doctor, let's talk about that stickiest of subjects, Doctor Who canon. We won't discuss whether Dimensions in Time is "in" or Time Crash is "out" (the answer is no and no, by the way) but where this whole notion of canonical stories comes from in the first place: religion!

What does "Doctor Who canon" have in common with religious canon? How does one determine which stories "matter," and does a 50-year-old television series develop a canon in the same way that a 2,000 year-old (give or take) religion did? Rabid Doctor Who fan and New Testament historian Mark Goodacre is the perfect guest for this Time Dilation conversation. No proselytization, just Doctor Who geekery at its finest, placed in a historical context.

And Mark, update your website.

2MTL 314: What If the Next Doctor Isn't the Doctor?

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So, how willing to break the mold might Steven Moffat be? Could Series 8 present the inverse of the scenario provided at the end of Series 7? Instead of a Doctor who rejected the name….

2MTL 313: A Non-white-male Doctor Would Be the Second Right Answer

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Borrowing from Roger van Oech's books on creativity, I suggest that it's time for DOCTOR WHO to make a brave change in casting the next Doctor because it'll evolve the show in an important direction.

2MTL 312: Colin Baker, Andrew Cartmel, and The Ken Spivey Band (Time Dilation)

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A jam-packed Time Dilation episode of 2MTL recorded at TimeGate 2013 in Atlanta, featuring the Sixth Doctor Colin Baker, a classic script editor, and a steampunk-Celtic-Time Lord rock band!