106 Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Live from Master Closet Studios, you’re listening to the only podcast on the internet whose schedule is more wibbly wobbly than the Doctor’s! It’s the Noobs and the Whovian!  My name is Austin and I’m the Whovian, and these are my sons Corbin and Tripp and we’re the noobs! This is the podcast that introduces a whole new generation to Doctor Who by watching an episode each week and discussing it from the perspective of a dad who’s seen it before, and two sons who haven’t.  Welcome to Episode 106 covering the Series 7 episode 10: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS. This is the one where the Doctor and Clara have to get to the centre, er center of the TARDIS to stop it from blowing up only to find out it already blew so they have to stop it before it starts using a big friendly button. Production notes Story # 236Originally aired April 27 2013 to 7.69 million viewers-ishWritten by: Steve ThompsonDirected by: Mat King Misc Trivia This is the first TV episode to have the word “TARDIS” in the title. How is this possible?! Checklist  Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?almost…Short cut: to the centre of the TARDISCreature of the weekThe Time Zombies – two of the Van Baalen brothers and Clara are… burned by the star? And die, but live? It’s unclear.CGIThe exploded TARDIS center in the white roomBow ties are coolAmy’s reading glassesHatsGeronimoJust before the jump over the snarlRunning count – 13Stuff the Doctor lovesJiggery PokerySonicTARDIS Again, she and Clara aren’t getting along. The Doctor tries to let Clara fly her for a little bit to get to know her.She has her own gravityHe manually cut on the extractor fans, why didn’t he just holler it from the doorway like before.It has a self-destruct?!There’s a room with the Doctor/Melody/River’s crib and Amy’s craft-paper TARDISThe telescope from Tooth and ClawThe pool from Midnight?The Eye of Harmony that we talked about last week!Architectural reconfiguration system – reconfigures particles into anything you needLibrary with A History of the Time WarWho in the world wrote The History of the Great Time War?!A lot in this episode reiterating that the TARDIS is sentient, including Tricky picking up on itEleven describes it as infinite. I wonder if this is the first time this is explicitly statedPsychic paperRandom Needless sacrificial deathClara deathsSorta?Running count – 3The Question/Doctor Who?While reading the History of the Time War, “so that’s who…”You call yourself the Doctor, why? You have a name, I’ve seen it in a tiny corner.Strax’s armoryTermy-wermyJammie Dodger sightingRunning count – 4Existential HorrorTricky’s brothers decided to pretend he was an android?! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Other stuff we noticed The Encyclopedia Gallifreya apparently transmits knowledge in liquid form Who’s Who?  Who is Clara Oswald?A girl about so high, feistyShe died again… sortaHe finally confronts Clara. What are you?! A trick?! A trap?!She has a freakout moment when he does this, but is calmed down when he saves her from falling.The Doctor erases all of this by rewriting the whole adventureYou ran away with a spaceman in a box, anything could happen. I’m counting on it.Who is The Doctor?Don’t get into a spaceship with a madman, didn’t anyone ever teach you that?Time Lords: No dress sense, dreadful hats, but smart.Ok, we’re not doing hugging, I get that nowThe ol’ wiggly button trickSecrets protect us, secrets make us safe.Who is Vastra?Who is Jenny?Who is Strax? Can we talk about wibbly wobblies? Classic Who Connection Bad dress sense, Dreadful hats – he is possibly referencing Time Lord Hats and robesWe finally see the swimming pool! Until now we had only heard about it or seen the effects of water running out from itWe see the Seventh Doctor’s umbrella that was a usual part of his outfit. The Sixth Doctor also commonly carried an umbrella but his was multi-colored (which matched his clownish outfit). The Seventh Doctor’s was much more common looking in the cloth part, but the handle was in the iconic shape of a question mark.We talked recently about the Eye of Harmony and now we see it.The Fourth and Seventh Doctors talked about the “architectural reconfiguration system”. This is the most information we have ever had about it.The interior layout of the TARDIS is not fixed and has changed before. The earliest mention of this is with the Fourth Doctor with Logopolis.We see the Doctor closing the TARDIS door from the TARDIS console. He used to do this all the time in Classic Who.While time is leaking from the TARDIS the following quotes from classic who are heard“I made up the name TARDIS…” Susan Foreman – An Unearthly Child“The TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental”, “What does that mean?” – The Third Doctor and Jo – Colony in Space“That’s trans-dimensional engineering. A key Time Lord discovery.” – The Fourth Doctor – The Robots of Death“A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard…” Ian Chesterton – An Unearthly Child (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Overall impressions Overall rating out of 10 – Jared – 9 TARDIS remakesAustin – 6 snarlsCorbin – 8 Encyclopedia GallifreyaTripp – 8 lava things Creep Level – out of 500Jared – 200Austin – 225Corbin – 125Tripp – 150 Theories Tripp thinks all the Claras are relatives, not the same person.Corbin says Clara is a normal person. Listener Input   We haven’t gotten a new review since August. Just sayin… The Game Plan  Next week, we continue Series 702 with episode 11: The Crimson Horror.After that, because we’re on the ball this time, we’re releasing the Sixth Doctor Primer minisode early! Episode 107.5 will get us all caught up for the Classic Who Rewind on episode 109. Closing Noobs and the Whovian is a production of Master Closet Studios, where it’s always smaller on the inside. Your Senior Producer is Austin Reason. Our Audio Engineer is Tripp Reason. Corbin Reason is our Production Editor. Special thanks to tardis.wikia.com for the trivia, and to Jared for the Classic Who Connection. Shout outs to Victor, Jared, and James for their Patreon support. You can find us at facebook.com/noobsandthewhovian or twitter.com/noobswhovian and email us at [email protected]. Consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/noobsandthewhovian. Please subscribe and leave a rating wherever you found us, and share us with a friend not because we’re a great show but because we watch one. The post 106 Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS appeared first on Noobs & the Whovian.