Very gracious of the lads at The Doctor Who Podcast to invite me over to recap the first half of the series. It was my first time sharing a microphone with Tom and we had a blast. Check out DWP #85.
2MTL 215: "A Good Man Goes to War" Reflections
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With a long-awaited revelation, Series Six goes into summer dormancy. For all of its (welcome!) spectacle and charm, "A Good Man Goes to War" didn't entirely deliver its cliffhanger the way I hoped…
2MTL 214: "The Almost People" (Smith's a Freaking Genius Edition)
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Shorter short podcast: Matt Smith is absolutely fabulous as The Doctor, and "The Almost People" — Yes! "The Almost People"! — is possibly his greatest performance.
2MTL 213: On Spoilers, One Last Time (I Swear!)
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Miss Manners being unavailable, I take it upon myself to pontificate about spoilers one last time, in light of the revelations about River Song yet to air outside the U.K.
2MTL 212: The Sophie Aldred Interview (Time Dilation)
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Sophie Aldred wowed the crowds at TimeGate 2011 in Atlanta, and con-runner Alan Siler was good enough to arrange a group interview which is provided by the Doctor Who Podcast Alliance. Your humble interviewers are me, Mike Faber and Mike Gordon from Earth Station One, and Dr. Scott Viguié from Articles of the Shadow Proclamation.
2MTL 211: TimeGate 2011 Podcaster Roundtable (Time Dilation)
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Joining me for a quick roundtable about Series 6 and BBC America are my friends here at TimeGate 2011: Mike from Earth Station One, Denise from Little Finish, Matt from US WhoCast, and David and Marty from Hoo on Who.
2MTL 210: "The Rebel Flesh" First Impressions
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They're not just clones. They're YOU. And that lifts "The Rebel Flesh" above formulaic base-under-siege, at least for the first two-thirds…
2MTL 209: "A Tear, Doctor?" Quite a Lot, Actually
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One of the most fascinating things about "The Doctor's Wife" had little to do with its star writer — it was Matt Smith's excellent performance revealing the complex, powerful emotions buried inside the Eleventh Doctor. For a supposedly "understated" Doctor, Smith's last scene opened up the floodgates…
2MTL 208: "The Doctor's Wife" First Impressions
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So much to love about this episode — Neil Perryman's got a great rundown at Tachyon TV — but let's just focus on love itself.
2MTL 207: Your Neil Gaiman Preparedness Kit, Plus Spoilergate (Time Dilation)
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Fandom is so atomized: Take any two wildly popular genre figures such as "Doctor Who" and "Neil Gaiman" and you'll find many fans of one nearly unaware of the other. In this Time Dilation edition of 2MTL, Chicks Dig Time Lords co-editor Tara O'Shea and I take a walk down the the shelves full of Gaiman's prose, comics and screen work to provide a little explanation of why those of us in the middle of the Venn diagram are so excited.
But first: a traditional two-minute segment, as I tackle "Spoilergate."