http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-461.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn 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.
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2MTL 460: The Opposite of Episodic ("The Halloween Apocalypse")
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-460.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBig, 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 456: Long Time Passing
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-456.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadTen months of silence–ten months of waiting and coping–for Yaz, Ryan, and Graham: When "Revolution of the Daleks" was made BEFORE the pandemic, who knew how relevant it would be DURING it?
2MTL 455: Throwback Review of "Fear Her"
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-455.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download"Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Chloe Webber?" After a couple of months away to recharge the batteries, there's no more jarring compare-and-contrast to Doctor Who of 2020 than Doctor Who of 2006's "Fear Her."
2MTL 451: The Brain, Revisited
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-451.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSuddenly, there's much, much more to the Doctor–and yet this new "retcon" to the Doctor's past winds up being staggeringly respectful to everything that's gone before on television. Let's talk about a challenge to The Master–and to Doctor Who fans themselves.
2MTL 450: Point of No Return
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-450.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadExecution: pretty darn good! Cybermen: terrifying! Confidence that Part Two will stick the landing: (flailing gestures)?
2MTL 449: Two Things About "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-449.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOn emotional Cybermen and erstwhile flat team structures.
2MTL 448: The Most Important Story
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-448.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSometimes, the plot isn't the point and the bad guys are a side issue. Sometimes, the point is how humans treat other humans.
2MTL 447: The (Other) Three Doctors
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-447.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadA mostly solid story by McTighe and Chibnall, but I'm REALLY here for a Doctor-ish Yaz and a Doctor-ish Ryan. Joy Piedmont on representation in "Praxeus" (Twitter thread) Sage Young's recap at Head Over Feels
2MTL 446: Gallifreyan Nature
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-446.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThat sound you heard was a podcaster's brain exploding, trying to figure out how to compress everything from "Fugitive of the Judoon" into roughly two minutes. Listener, this episode was A LOT.