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Review of S13E05 — Survivors of the Flux
Show Notes & Links
- Eleven delivered some great speeches
- We still have unresolved feelings about the Timeless Child
- Luke was told to search his feelings over 40 years ago
- Yaz, Dan & Eustacious Jericho were, in fact, travelling for three years
- Providing another great opening for Big Finish
- At the time of recording, 13 & Yazz only have three specials remaining: Eve of the Daleks, Legend of the Sea Devils & the unnamed special for the centenary of the BBC
- The YW loves modern day UNIT...
- And [spoiler] was completely correct about the resolution of the cliffhanger
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Review of S13E04 — Village of the Angels
Show Notes & Links
- The cliffhangers continue to not disappoint
- The Angels appeared in Blink, The Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone and The Angels Take Manhattan as well as in various other cameos
- Maxine Alderton also wrote The Haunting of Villa Diodati
- ‘Reverse the polarity’ was said first in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Devils and for the second time in The Five Doctors
- How fast is a Weeping Angel?
- This was not the first mid-credit sequence which came in Death in Heaven
- Our memories of Utopia are a little vague
- Claire Brown is a percipient
- The OM is confused about Weeping Angel biology
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Show Notes & Links:
- Azhur Saleem debuts as DW director
- Alain Resnais made Last Year at Marienbad
- Satsumas are rare in Oz
- We do love Ruth Doctor (fugitive) & Jo Martin
- Though this is not really an example of Ebert's law
- The Weeping Angels were introduced in Blink...
- In which we learn the Angels have the phone box
- We don’t know much about the Mouri
- Bell does not have a tamagotchi
- Hopefully, one day, people will need COVID explained
- The YW was almost on board with The Timeless Child
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- Director Jamie Magnus Stone has good ideas
- We don’t know much about the Crimean War but did know about Florence Nightingale & should have known about Mary Seacol
- Sydney Newman wanted the show to have a ‘strong informational core based on fact’
- Not like Back to the Future
- Mary Seacoll was played by Sara Powell
- Oscar Isaac doesn’t write scripts
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- Some are quite invested in the Thasmin ship
- As many were with Rose
- We are still processing our feelings about the Timeless Child & Division
- Time Lords first appeared in The War Games
- The COVID-19 impact on Doctor Who is a story still untold
- Doctor Who has a long history on the ABC in Australia
- A Thanos version of the Red Skull in an episode with a colour palette reminiscent of Guardians of the Galaxy
- Segun Akinola continues to deliver
- Dan Starkey looked truly disgusting
- The Doctor was once Lord President of the Time Lords
- The Sontarans first appears in The Time Warrior
- Paternoster Gang! Paternoster Gang!
- Russell T. Davies foreshadowed his return as show runner with this Instagram Post
- The Cloister Bell tolls in the most serious of emergencies
- The Mad Mole was a posthumous nickname for Joseph Williamson
- Vortex Energy had less impact here than in Bad Wolf
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- The Doctor first called her companions ‘fam’ during The Woman Who Fell to Earth
- We keep talking about events in the previous episode, Ascension of the Cybermenthe mast
- The Ruth-Doctor appears in Fugitive of the Judoon
- The Master says “everything you know is a lie” in Spyfall
- The Doctor has had more than the 12 regeneration ‘limit’
- Clara asking the Time Lords to give the Doctor more regenerations in The Time of the Doctor is retrospectively amusing
- References in this episode include Borusa and the Panopticon
- The matrix appeared in Hell Bent
- The Old Man is making a confused reference to The Deadly Assassin
- Previous incarnations of the Doctor are shown in The Brain of Morbius
- The Doctor having two hearts is not introduced until Spearhead from Space, being a Time Lord in The War Games, and regeneration in The Tenth Planet
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- Watches have previously been used to store the memories of Time Lords locked away by the Chameleon Arch
- There have been many other stories featuring multiple Doctors
- There were three TARDISes in one room during The Day of the Doctor
- To the relief of the OM, Chris Chibnall confirmed, “she is definitely the Doctor. There is no sore of parallel universe going on, there’s no tricks.”
- In The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End Ten nearly regenerates but keep his appearance by using a handy hand.
- The sonic screwdriver first appeared during the 2nd Doctor’s time but wasn't a regular part of the show until later
- YW thought Ruth was acting like the Master when he still thought he was a human in Utopia
- Clara’s TARDIS initially has a Type 1 default interior
- The Judoon first appeared on the moon
- Nida Manzoor also directed Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror (not Spyfall, OM)
- During Spyfall Part 1 the Master tells the Doctor, “everything that you think you know… is a lie”
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- Missy (the previous incarnation of The Master?) was last seen at the end of S10
- Part 1 was directed by Jamie Magnus Stone, Part 2 by Lee Haven Jones
- Ada Lovelace was a pioneer in computer science & Noor Khan a British WWII hero
- Big Finish should ask Nakkiah Lui to write about the Doctor in the Outback
- Google used to have a ‘don’t be evil’ clause in it’s Code of Conduct
- Unlike the classic-villain-free season which preceded it, the previous New Year’s Day special, Resolution, included a Dalek
- Day of the Doctor was the amazing culmination of the 50th Anniversary Year
- The Cartmel Master Plan was never really Cartmell’s master plan
- Kylo Ren is a Star Wars villain
- Omega & Rassillon were (two of?) the founders of Gallifrey
- There was a Classic example of ‘contact’ in The Three Doctors
- The Remnants mentioned The Timeless Child in The Ghost Monument
- The Boneless were antagonists from another dimension in Flatline
- It’s Artron Energy, not Archon Old Man
- Donna’s fate in Journey’s End was very controversial
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Show Notes & Links:
- Vortex Manipulators should be hard to find
- It was, of course, an Oilers jersey
- Erika Ensign can be heard on Verity, Lazy Doctor Who & many other Incomparable podcasts
- Steven Schapanksy is the other half of Lazy Doctor Who & can also be heard on Radio Free Skaro & The Memory Cheats
- Night of the Doctor was released on 14th of November, 2013
- Steven’s interviews with Paul McGann can be heard on Radio Free Skaro #510
- Steven Moffat was the show runner for Doctor Who from 2010-2017
- Karn & the eponymous Sisterhood, first appeared in The Brain of Morbius
- Coincidentally, The Sun Makers was set on Pluto
- Britbox is not available in Australia, but we do have Youtube
- Paul Cornell & Lizbeth Myles are writers who share a podcast, Hammer House of Podcast
- Paul has written numerous Doctor Who Stories, including Father’s Day, Human Nature & The Family of Blood
- Liz has written the 12th Doctor audio Distant Voices & forthcoming River Song adventure Abbey of Heretics
- She can also be heard on Verity
- Both Paul and Liz are blogging in the lead up to Xmas
- What Paul said to himself that night, all those years ago, was a quote from The Outer Limits
- The other, less impressive mini-episode was The Last Day
- The Eight Doctor got his hair cut, & new outfit, in the Big Finish audio story Fugitives
- The Brain of Morbius was written by Terrance Dicks & Robert Holmes
- Gallifrey is the home of the Time Lords
- The renown Discontinuity Guide was written by Paul, Martin Day & Keith Topping
- The Sisterhood of Karn also appear in The Deadly Assassin
- Ohila, played by Gilly Brown is not to be confused with Ohica, played by Clare Higgins
- John Hurt played Caligula in I, Claudius
- Peter Cushing is a fine actor who once played The Doctor
- Turlough didn’t get many lines in Resurrection of the Daleks
- The Time Monster is a, somewhat divisive, Third Doctor story
- Josh Kinal introduced the OM to podcasts and was one of the hosts, with Glenn Peters, on the long running Boxcutters
- The Doctor Who Technical Manual was released in 1983
- Paul McGann starred in Withnail & I
- Adventure Time is an animated TV series
- There are many differences between The Doctor & Gregory House
- Bluey is a short-form animated TV show from Australia
- The creepy question is from The Empty Child
- These notes were a much bigger job than usual
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Review of S11 E02 — Ghost Monument
- Segun Akinola’s theme sampled Delia Derbyshire’s original arrangement
- Which was also used for The Day of the Doctor
- The YW hasn’t seen much Three but was already familiar with Venusian Aikido
- We refer to Watsonian vs. Doylist perspectives
- The Stenza first appeared in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
- Andrew Cartmel was interviewed on New to Who
- How do you know it’s a duck pond?
- The self-lighting cigar was an example of Chekov’s Gun
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- These episodes were directed by Frank Cox rather than Marvin Pinfield
- The tunnel shots reminder the OM of The Web of Fear
- The Ood & Sensorites were neighbours, The Ood Sphere being in the same star system
- Heaven Sent & Hell Bent affirmed this episodes description of Gallifrey
- Joseph Conrad wrote the deeply problematic Heart of Darkness
- The TARDIS scanner has varied significantly across the years
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Review of S01 – The Sensorites E02-04
- Cross Dressing v. The Patriachy
- The YW found the use of stage whispers off-putting
- We’d recently watched this JFK speech
- The TARDIS translation circuit was first touched mentioned in The Masque of Mandragora but features more heavily in New Who
- Clara spoke German in Cold War
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Review of S01 — The Sensorites E01
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- This is our first First Doctor story
- The YW was reminded of Tom Baker & Matt Smith
- And preferred him here to The Daleks & An Unearthly Child
- But she wasn't Actually Grooving to this theme
- Listen to Verity on Susan, including the Deb Stanish interview with Carole Ann Ford (not Caroline, OM)
- The YW was distracted by Barbara Wright’s hair
- And has thoughts about Victoria in The Krotons
- The OM thinks Delia Derbyshire’s arrangment of the theme is still best
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Review of S01E03 – The Unquiet Dead. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us on Twitter @handwavium
Review of S04E11 – The Doctor's Daughter. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium.
Review of S07E11 – The Crimson Horror. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S06E09 – Night Terrors. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S05E09 – Cold Blood. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium on Twitter.
Review of S05E08 – The Hungry Earth. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S08E08 – Mummy on the Orient Express. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S09 — The Curse of Peladon (E4). Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S09 – The Curse of Peladon (E2-3). Visit handwavium.met for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S09 — The Curse of Peladon E01. Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S11 New Year Special – Resolution Visit handwavium.net for show notes & follow us @handwavium
Review of S11E09 – It Takes You Away. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S11E06 – Demons of the Punjab Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S11 E01 — The Woman Who Fell to Earth Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S04E12 – The Stolen Earth. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S13 – Terror of the Zygons E4 Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
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Review of S13 – Terror of the Zygons E1 Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S10E01 – The Return of Doctor Mysterio. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S04E11 – Turn Left. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S03E02—Smith & Jones Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Show Notes & Links
- 42 is also the answer to life the universe & everything
- We already watched The Power of Three by show-runner-to-be Chris Chibnall
- The Young Woman has seen the Master as Missy but not yet as Harold Saxon
- Steven Moffat has many credits
- This episode has a short-story prologue
- Universal roaming is a useful feature for a mobile phones
- Martha Jones was a fine companion
- The Doctor’s has had a few space suits
- Spoilers: there was no River Song in this episode
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Review of S01E08 – Father's Day. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S07 Spearhead from Space E04. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S07 Spearhead from Space E2–3. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S07 — Spearhead from Space E01. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of 2012 Xmas Special — The Snowmen. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S06E05 – The Rebel Flesh. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S07E12 – Nightmare in Silver. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S05 – The Web of Fear E6. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S05 – The Web of Fear E4-5. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S05 – The Web of Fear E03. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S05 – The Web of Fear 1-2. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium.
Review of S03 E09 — Family of Blood Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S03E08 – Human Nature. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S06E13 — The Wedding of River Song Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S16E1-4 — The Ribos Operation Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S09E02 – The Witch's Familiar. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Show Notes & Links
- Stephen Fry isn’t just Prof. Song’s sweetie
- River claimed to have dated an Auton in S05E13 The Big Bang
- It is interesting to look at the story from her point of view
- The Young Woman made a cryptic allusion to this River Song moment
- There have been twelve Christmas specials so far
- The Time of the Doctor was one but The Night of the Doctorwas not, Old Man
- Last year’s Special with the face huggers was Last Christmas
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Review of S07E04 – The Power of Three. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S04E02 – Partners in Crime. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S09E11 – Heaven Sent. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
Review of S02E01 – New Earth. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium
An introduction to the podcast. Visit handwavium.net for show notes or follow us @handwavium