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Sorry for the delay; life got in the way. Let's talk about Neil Cross's second aired story (first written), "Hide," and why that high-five is just so lovely.
2MTL 303: "Cold War" Reviewed
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I guess it's possible that I'm simply a Bad Fan (™ Warren Frey), but I can't say that I was excited about the return of the Ice Warriors. Admit it: didn't the old ones look kind of — silly? Turns out the monster itself was mostly a triumph in "Cold War," but oddly this episode fell prey to one of "The Rings of Akhaten"'s problems.
2MTL 302: The Tennant Question (plus Kyle Anderson on fan entitlement)
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Tenth Doctor, or Tenth Point Five? Plus some Value Added Material from Kyle Anderson (@FunctionalNerd), who is calmly warring against fan entitlement.
Hear Kyle at Doctor Who: The Writer's Room and WTF Are You Watching?
2MTL 301: "The Rings of Akhaten" Reviewed
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Doctor Who as written and directed by Jack Kirby? To this comics reader this certainly LOOKED like an episode that belonged in DC Comics's world of mad gods and flying supercycles. But did "The Rings of Akhaten" belong in Doctor Who's world?
2MTL 300: "The Bells of Saint John" Reviewed
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Together again for the first time, it's the Eleventh Doctor, Clara Oswin Oswald, and the Wire…?
2MTL 299: Less Tabloid Garbage, More Female Writers. Please.
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A look at what the tabloids did with the John Nathan-Turner biography, and what Doctor Who creative leads should be doing with female writers: inviting them.
2MTL 298: In Series 7B, the Eyes Have It
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Two things excite me about the next eight episodes of Doctor Who. It's all about the eyes.
2MTL 297: Jason Haigh-Ellery and the Big Finish Update (Time Dilation)
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Jason Haigh-Ellery, managing director of Big Finish, takes a look at the year ahead and the incredibly successful year behind for the Doctor Who audio dramatists.
2MTL 296: Madame Vastra Speaks
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Like her Paternoster cohort Dan Starkey, Neve McIntosh was a hit at Gallifrey One: on stage and among the fans. I spent a few minutes with her at the Sunday night LobbyCon, and we talked about Madame Vastra.
2MTL 295: The Nicholas Briggs of Two Worlds
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One foot in the licensed world as executive producer at Big Finish, one foot in the televised "canonical" world as an actor on Doctor Who and Torchwood: Children of Earth; it's Nicholas Briggs! First of three mini-interviews from Gallifrey One.