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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.
2MTL 294: The Gally Preview Natter (Time Dilation)
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OK, deep breath here. We have Chris from The Ood Cast, Erik from The Doctor Who Book Club and Doctor Who: The Writer's Room, Deb from Verity!, Nancy from The Happiness Patrol, Luke from TMDWP and Warren from Radio Free Skaro. And we're all jet-lagged.
2MTL 293: Wag the TARDIS
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One last look at "The Snowmen" and the twisty turny perambulations of Steven Moffat's mind.
2MTL 292: One Month Later, I Still Don't Like the Console Room
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Everyone loves the new TARDIS control room.
And that's the problem.
2MTL 291: Neither a Barmaid Nor a Governess Be
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Clara Oswin Oswald — if that IS her REAL name — committed many and various sins against Victoriana in "The Snowmen." Shannon, spouse behind and brains of the 2MTL operation, enumerates the offenses and incongruities, suggesting that they're hints to her true nature.
2MTL 290: The "Not We," Filter Bubbles, and "The Snowmen"
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"The Snowmen": high AI, laudatory fan reactions, fair-to-strong reviews from the critics. But while I was being bedazzled by Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman and the hat-tips to 50 years of history, my brother was sitting at the screen only faintly impressed. "It was better than the one you showed me with the plastic mannequins," he said….