2MTL Production Notes
About what happened to the podcast last year, and what’s next.
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Concentrated Commentary on the Worlds of Doctor Who
About what happened to the podcast last year, and what’s next.
Season 2 of New Doctor Who kicks off with meat-and-potatoes Russell T Davies storytelling. Were there too many empty carbs, or was that a Ch...
An unscripted word of thanks to my friends at Radio Free Skaro.
Q: What do Garfield and the Doctor have in common? A: A possibly contagious sense of superiority.
A ten-minute sequence stops “Joy to the World” cold, yet turns out to be the heart of the 2024 Christmas special.
Is Disney the best global partner for showing Doctor Who outside the UK? My doubts are growing.
“Empire of Death” epitomized RTD’s approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim...
A check-in after November 5, a promise about Empire of Death, and thoughts about the way forward. Mastodon: thatchipguy@zeppelin.flights Blu...
In case you missed me on The Incomparable’s Doctor Who Flashcast, here are some last-minute thoughts about TLoRS and where it fell dow...
This is a double edition of 2MTL covering “Dot and Bubble” and “Rogue,” two episodes that were absolutely tonally id...
We’re catching up on the Discourse about a loved and hated mysterious episode. I’m still on Team Love.
Finally, I catch up on “The Devil’s Chord” and hold two opinions at once.
“Pace and energy” and high concepts give way to a man with a foot on a landmine for the duration of the story. Tension-filled bo...
“Would you like to see the baby?” Your answer probably had a lot to do with how you received “Space Babies,” but the...
The first episodes of Series 1 (not counting the Christmas Special) have finally launched, and there’s RTD upon RTD on top of more RTD...
In which your interlocutor admits that he wishes to hear less of a composer he loves. A graphics whiz, Chip was not, when he shared this on...
After “The Church on Ruby Road,” there should be no question that Ncuti Gatwa will master the role of The Doctor. However, we do...
Celebrating a regeneration, a retirement, and a renewal of the whole darn series. On to Christmas!
How do you make a special episode “special” when you only have two actors and a big spaceship? Russell T Davies has a pretty goo...
Meep? What I wouldn’t have given for the Meep to give an order to “reticulate the splines.” (Oh, yeah: I loved this one.)
You can’t expect David Tennant to not be David Tennant, but I really want the Fourteenth Doctor to be meaningfully different from the...
The hiatus between Doctors is near an end, and a podcast born out of a love of David Tennant and Russell T Davies comes out of its own hiatu...
On great last words, blossomest blossoms, emotional truth, and whether the plot is king.
Bringing the podcast out of mothballs on The Eve of The Power of the Doctor…
Is RTD2 a nostalgia trip? Some thoughts on last week’s announcement of Ncuti Gatwa, today’s announcement of Catherine Tate and D...
Jason Snell , co-host of Downstream on Relay FM and head of The Incomparable network of pop culture podcasts, joins me for a look at Doctor...
When you’re the sort of person for whom the meaning of “fine” turns from “good enough” to not so much, and may...
The most tortured podcast episode title I’ve ever created, plus my Thasmin wishlist for “Legend of the Sea Devils.”
Thoughts from the heart about a New Year’s special that was a small story, coming at a time when I was struggling to come to terms wit...
Sometimes the best TARDISes are crowded I’m not entirely sure who “The Vanquishers” applies to, TBH. Anyhoo, I took a litt...
Tomorrow’s the finale. Has the moment been prepared for? Chapter 5 left me a little worried.
Recapture the essense of the Weeping Angels from “Blink”? Chibnall and Alderton understood the assignment.
Space opera? Narrative connections and context emerging? Yes, please: this is the episode that gave me faith in Chris Chibnall’s arc....
In which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the “rehabilitation” of the Sontarans as villains bumps stra...
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’...
Nicole Hill of @BlackTARDIS and @blkgirlscreate stops by for a conversation about their hopes and cautions for the new/old showrunner.
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 upcomi...
From the April 29, 2021, Guardian (UK): ‘Sexual predator’: actor Noel Clarke accused of groping, harassment and bullying by 20 women You can...
Ten months of silence–ten months of waiting and coping–for Yaz, Ryan, and Graham: When “Revolution of the Daleks” wa...
“Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Chloe Webber?” After a couple of months away to recharge the batteries, there’s...
Why is it difficult for so many fans to engage with Doctor Who’s politics? Constance Gibbs: “For Black Doctor Who fans, the TARD...
There’s been a lot of great Doctor Who content that speaks to the global pandemic thanks to creators recruited and organized by folks...
Graeme Burk, co-author with Robert Smith? of WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2 , stops by to talk about slow-cooker episode criticism in a time of lightni...
Suddenly, there’s much, much more to the Doctor–and yet this new “retcon” to the Doctor’s past winds up being...
Execution: pretty darn good! Cybermen: terrifying! Confidence that Part Two will stick the landing: (flailing gestures)?
On emotional Cybermen and erstwhile flat team structures.
Sometimes, the plot isn’t the point and the bad guys are a side issue. Sometimes, the point is how humans treat other humans.
A 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 represen...
That sound you heard was a podcaster’s brain exploding, trying to figure out how to compress everything from “Fugitive of the Ju...
Would you believe, Nikola Tesla in the TARDIS? Now that’s just nuts. (See also theincomparable.com/radio )