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Wish World 🦴 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
Character-lite episodes. Penultimate suspense. Companion characterisation. Gods and science. Was this episode worthy of a wish? (00:00:00) What we liked (00:12:49) Doubts, plot, storytelling, villainy (00:19:50) Omega, gods, science, mythic register (00:25:42) Belinda companionship, garbling, drama confusion, Nursedoc (00:33:50) Ruby in 2025 S2, S1-S2 links (00:42:30) Conrad, wish baby, Flood hugs, political commentary, encampment (00:53:19) Non-politics, generational differences (01:03:49) Production design, aesthetics, Belinda screaming (01:13:50) The Ranis (01:23:35) Episode structure, Chibnall era comparisons, Omega reveal (01:32:01) Poppy, family, adoption, motherhood, wishes, Vindicator, sci-fi power (01:39:30) Ncuti's wishes, season 2 development (01:47:35) Visual storytelling (01:56:28) Ending countdown, contrived suspense, Harry Potter, doubt (02:00:37) Too early to judge, Belinda's doubts… Continue reading →
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The Well 🕛 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
'The kind of episode you should never do a sequel to'. Continuing mining, drama avoidance, gun storytelling, script development…was The Well a diamond in the rough, or a worthy sequel? (00:00:00) The episode's identity (00:04:15) Contrasts with Midnight (00:13:56) The entity's physical form and methods (00:21:48) Aliss and the entity's escape (00:27:33) Misremembered throwback to RTD1 (00:34:53) Avoidance of Belinda drama (00:40:19) Militaristic stories with a sonic mouse (00:44:52) How the script came to be (00:50:29) Being "classic" Doctor Who (00:57:50) Visual and musical moments (01:03:44) Warriors of the Deep (01:09:52) Metatextuality (01:15:14) Flood, signing on screen, sign off … Continue reading →
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The Story & the Engine 🕷 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
New storytelling, ghostwriter mythos, dialogue density, clipshow climaxes, different approaches to gods...how does The Story & the Engine do Doctor Who differently? (00:00:00) New writer, Dot and Bubble comparisons, Doctor outside Doctoring (00:08:42) Hose, tie-in short story, Omo, commercialised storytelling (00:11:17) Haircuts, barbershop, African setting, density of ideas (00:18:13) Dialogue focus, place in Doctor Who, continuity, Doctor returns (00:27:47) Storytelling, Belinda, Gods, science (00:38:55) Generational trauma, reproducing exploitation, Omo betrayal (00:45:18) The Barber villain, 'ghostwriter', web, villain forgiveness (00:53:57) Pacing, 'hurt people hurt people', companion dialogue, Ncuti performance (01:01:29) Captain Poppy, clipshow climax, life stories, fan responses… Continue reading →
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Lucky Day 🚁 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
UNIT politics, grifting, didactic Doctor, conspiracy confusion, youth movements, valuing the ordinary, conventional heroism...who is Lucky Day's audience, and what is it saying to them? (00:00:00) Refreshing episode (00:06:23) Overdosing on doccy who, UNIT critiques to come (00:14:11) Episode structure, conspiracy confusion (00:23:13) Grifting, psychoanalysis vs ideology (00:30:05) UNIT politics (00:44:50) Kate, moralising violence, justifying secrecy (00:56:21) Didactic Doctor speech to Conrad, ordinary & extraordinary (01:05:37) Think Tank, conventional protector heroism (01:12:30) Family, housemates, Belinda, Flood, Missy (01:28:09) Youth movements, mundanity, rationalisation (01:35:21) Awkward climax, Brigadier, romance Conrad, readings (01:44:13) Closing thoughts… Continue reading →
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The Interstellar Song Contest 🎤 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
Torture, honey, morality, physicality, camp, regression, edginess… there’s lots to discuss in Juno Dawson’s Eurovision episode of the 2025 season of Doctor Who. (00:00:00) Thoughts, plot, Die Hard (00:06:19) Belinda, character interiority (00:11:34) ‘Wonderful’ cool Doctor, sidelining morality drama, gendered characterisation (00:21:21) Eurovision context & politics (00:35:27) Honey, Hellia, sponsorship, ideology (00:46:49) Fifteen characterisation, novelty vs regression, ‘scary’ Doctor (00:58:51) Torture scene, neutralising drama, The Good Doctor (01:08:05) Imagery & physicality in the torture scene, icy heart (01:22:16) Cora’s song, resistance, Andor (01:30:11) Camp, writing Belinda & the Doctor, RTD stasis (01:41:35) The music (01:57:46) Susan Foreman, brink of death, Anita Dobson (02:09:30) Technobabble, side characters (02:19:34) The Ranis (02:28:38) Another bigeneration, another Delta Wave (02:37:08) Spectacle, horns, protector, the Doctor’s rage, Nursedoc shipping (02:45:53) Leak Zone: villains, future, casting, telos… Continue reading →
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