http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-351.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Two-minute Time Lord Podcast will have no truck with the "so bad it's good" notion. Instead, we celebrate the notion of "cleverdumb" storytelling: meticulous in certain aspects, and gleefully and purposefully washing its hands of others. Exhibit A: the US series Leverage. Exhibits that follow: certain episodes of …
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2MTL 349: More Than 2,000 Years in the TARDIS?
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-349.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadTwo thousand years! That's how old The Doctor is now, as stated by the Twelfth in the latest trailer and as implied in his predecessor's swan song, "The Time of the Doctor." That's a pretty huge leap from roughly 900 years old at the start of Steven Moffat's showrunnership. …
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2MTL 335: Bigger Than Life
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-335.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMirroring Doctor Who's enormous popularity, the Doctor himself has become a bigger and bigger deal in his own fictional universe, and the axis around which most of his stories have rotated in recent years. Is it time to dial things back? Maybe even go back to the old, formulaic …
2MTL 333: Restorative Numerology
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-333.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPossibly somewhat belatedly, 2MTL evaluates whether Matt Smith was the Eleventh or Thirteenth Doctor.
2MTL 331: First They Came for the Shippers
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-331.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAn awful moment at the BFI premiere of the latest Sherlock series made me think about how much more broad and welcoming Doctor Who fandom should be of its creative communities and other "outsiders."
2MTL 322: The Prodigal Episodes
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-322.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe anticipated revelation of recovered classic Doctor Who episodes? What else is there to talk about?!
2MTL 320: The Doctor as Superhero
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-320.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn which an attempt to answer 2MTL 319's parting question is made, and Chip equates the Doctor to Superman without irony.
2MTL 319: Why Who Beats Trek
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-319.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOnce upon a time, I had a TON of Star Trek reference books. Today, I have a teetering stack of Doctor Who Magazines. I've been dipping back into Star Trek recently, wondering why it no longer scratches the itch Doctor Who does.
2MTL 317: Dear Santa: Casting Peter Capaldi
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-317.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPeter Capaldi IS the Doctor! Great news, with a not-so-great side.
2MTL 315: Call and Response
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-315.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download2MTL returns from its summer hiatus with a cavalcade of questions and comments from listeners. I respond. Badly.