http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-355.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIf Robin Hood had assaulted the Doctor with a quarterstaff, with a full-on "Ho! Ha Ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!", I perhaps would have bought in.
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2MTL 354: "Into the Dalek" Reviewed
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-354.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSpoiler: The Daleks are back. Spoiler: The Twelfth Doctor is not especially warm and fuzzy. Spoiler: There's a lot of pew-pew-pew and boom-boom-boom. Spoiler: For the second week in a row, it's not the A-plot that has me so excited about Series 8.
2MTL 353: "Deep Breath" Reviewed
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-353.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPeter Capaldi delivers. Of that, there was no doubt. What else does "Deep Breath" have going for it, and does it measure up to Steven Moffat's first crack at introducing a Doctor?
2MTL 341: "Tooth and Claw" Two-minute Throwback
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-341.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEight years ago we saw a new side to the Doctor and his companion, who reached stratospheric levels of self-satisfaction. Was Queen Victoria right about what awful people they were? Are a smug Doctor and Rose worse than, say, a Doctor trying to brain a caveman or strangle a …
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2MTL 332: Celebrating "The Time of the Doctor"
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-332.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Christmas spirit survives past the 25th, as we celebrate and critique Matt Smith's final episode. In song. I'm sorry. So, so sorry.
2MTL 328: The Day After the Day of the Doctor
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-328.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAfter my first viewing of "The Day of the Doctor," I thought that it was very much in the vein of "The Five Doctors." That can be a mixed blessing: "The Five Doctors" is beloved, and successful in celebrating 20 years of DOCTOR WHO, but not an example of …
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2MTL 327: The Night of the McGann, or, "Capaldi Who?"
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-327.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIf I had talked about "The Night of the Doctor" right after it aired, this is what you would have heard: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Fortunately for us all, there will be no squeeing or wibbling in today's podcast. There will be brief consideration of the petition currently asking for even more …
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2MTL 326: "The Web of Fear" from Long Island Who
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-326.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download"The Web of Fear," the second of the long-lost Patrick Troughton stories to be recently rediscovered: is it a directorial masterpiece, a writing misfire, or both? Recorded at Long Island Who.
2MTL 323: "The Enemy of the World" Reviewed
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-323.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe formerly-missing "The Enemy of the World" featuring Patrick Troughton vs. Patrick Troughton: enjoyable for nostalgia's sake, or on its own merits? Well, Troughton is awesomeness defined…
2MTL 321: "New Earth" Two-minute Throwback
http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-321.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe single clearest indication you can get of what a new Doctor's going to be like won't come around until the second full episode. (This I vow to be self-evident! Unless you disagree with me, at which point it becomes an argument for a future 2MTL!) "New Earth" is …
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