Two-minute Time Lord

2MTL 463: 2MTL 463: The Power of Blinking Without Blinking (“Village of the Angels”)

Recapture the essense of the Weeping Angels from "Blink"? Chibnall and Alderton understood the assignment.

2MTL 462: Atropositive ("Once, Upon Time")

Space opera? Narrative connections and context emerging? Yes, please: this is the episode that gave me faith in Chris Chibnall's arc. (This episode dedicated to the memory of NPR Books editor Petra Mayer.)

2MTL 461: Sontar…huh. ("War of the Sontarans")

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In which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the "rehabilitation" of the Sontarans as villains bumps straight into how I feel about war movies.

2MTL 460: The Opposite of Episodic ("The Halloween Apocalypse")

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The Doctor and Yaz hanging upside down from the episode's opening — Now this is a story all about how. My life got flipped turned upside down.

Big, bold, and entirely un-self-contained, Doctor Who: Flux's first chapter may not have been the most welcoming to new viewers but is a very proper lead-off to the show's first modern miniseries.

2MTL 459: Nicole Hill on Russell T Davies's Return

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Nicole Hill of @BlackTARDIS and @blkgirlscreate stops by for a conversation about their hopes and cautions for the new/old showrunner.

2MTL 458: Pregenerating a Showrunner

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No one saw that coming. Russell T Davies's first era of Doctor Who is my favorite. What are some of the traps to avoid with his upcoming return as showrunner?