Two-minute Time Lord - Concentrated Commentary on the Worlds of Doctor Who

2MTL 483: Hijinkx and Vibes

Finally, I catch up on "The Devil's Chord" and hold two opinions at once.

2MTL 482: With "Boom," Steven Moffat Enters His "Midnight" Era

"Pace and energy" and high concepts give way to a man with a foot on a landmine for the duration of the story. Tension-filled bottle episodes are rare for Doctor Who, although there are a lot of parallels between this one and 2009's "Midnight." How does Steven Moffat's return to Doctor Who fit with his showrunner's current experiment?

2MTL 481: The Space Babies Speedrun

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"Would you like to see the baby?" Your answer probably had a lot to do with how you received "Space Babies," but the first-or-second episode of new Series 1 had a LOT to cram into a too-small container, and that was an issue as well.

2MTL 480: Doctor Who is Not Science Fiction

The spaceship from Doctor Who's "Space Babies," looking in retrospect like a baby's bottom, propelled by a cloud of methane through space.

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The first episodes of Series 1 (not counting the Christmas Special) have finally launched, and there's RTD upon RTD on top of more RTD in "Space Babies" and "The Devil's Chord." We'll look at these episodes individually soon, but going that hard was a gutsy, even necessary choice.

2MTL 479: Solid Gold?

The Fifteenth Doctor runs across rooftops shouting, from "The Church on Ruby Road"

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In which your interlocutor admits that he wishes to hear less of a composer he loves.

An old, crude black-and-white image of Murray Gold, internally captioned "Murray Gold has a posse," a la the Shepard Fairey Andre the Giant campaign from decades ago. — A graphics whiz, Chip was not, when he shared this on social media years ago

2MTL 478: Goblin Corps

The flying goblin ship from "The Church at Ruby Road"

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After "The Church on Ruby Road," there should be no question that Ncuti Gatwa will master the role of The Doctor. However, we do need to address the fact that this is now a show with goblins and flying wooden ships….

2MTL 477: ¿Por qué no los dos?

Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker in "The Giggle"

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Celebrating a regeneration, a retirement, and a renewal of the whole darn series. On to Christmas!

2MTL 476: Evolution of the Doctor

The Fourteenth Doctor shouting emotionally in a tunnel during "Wild Blue Yonder."

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How do you make a special episode "special" when you only have two actors and a big spaceship? Russell T Davies has a pretty good answer.

2MTL 475: Brandishing the Gravity Stanchions

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The furry, big-eyed alien Beep the Meep as seen in "The Star Beast" episode of Doctor Who — Meep?

What I wouldn't have given for the Meep to give an order to "reticulate the splines." (Oh, yeah: I loved this one.)

2MTL 474: Is 14 Greater Than 10?

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You can't expect David Tennant to not be David Tennant, but I really want the Fourteenth Doctor to be meaningfully different from the Tenth. I have my hopes, but the Fourteenth Doc comic in Doctor Who Magazine and even the Children in Need short didn't offer any clues….