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Two-minute Time Lord
by Chip Sudderth
Concentrated Commentary on the Worlds of Doctor Who
Episodes
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2MTL Production Notes
About what happened to the podcast last year, and what’s next.
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2MTL 493: Scratching the Surface, Scratching the Itch
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 Chip problem?
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2MTL 492: On Free Radios Skaro
An unscripted word of thanks to my friends at Radio Free Skaro.
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2MTL 491: "Keep Up!"
Q: What do Garfield and the Doctor have in common? A: A possibly contagious sense of superiority.
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2MTL 490: Anita's World
A ten-minute sequence stops “Joy to the World” cold, yet turns out to be the heart of the 2024 Christmas special.
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2MTL 489: Disney's World
Is Disney the best global partner for showing Doctor Who outside the UK? My doubts are growing.
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2MTL 488: Foundation and "Empire"
“Empire of Death” epitomized RTD’s approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?
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2MTL 487: What's Next for 2MTL
A check-in after November 5, a promise about Empire of Death, and thoughts about the way forward. Mastodon: [email protected] Bluesky: ThatChipGuy Threads: William Sudderth Facebook: Two-minute Time Lord
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2MTL 486: On Follow-through and "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"
In case you missed me on The Incomparable’s Doctor Who Flashcast, here are some last-minute thoughts about TLoRS and where it fell down prior to the season finale.
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2MTL 485: Dot, Bubble, and Rogue
This is a double edition of 2MTL covering “Dot and Bubble” and “Rogue,” two episodes that were absolutely tonally identical and left you feeling exactly the same way after each of them, amirite?
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2MTL 484: 73 Thoughts
We’re catching up on the Discourse about a loved and hated mysterious episode. I’m still on Team Love.
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2MTL 483: Hijinkx and Vibes
Finally, I catch up on “The Devil’s Chord” and hold two opinions at once.
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2MTL 482: With "Boom," Steven Moffat Enters His "Midnight" Era
“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 bottle episodes are rare for Doctor Who, although there are a lot of parallels between this one and 2009’s “Midnight.” How does Steven Moffat’s return to Doctor Who fit…
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2MTL 481: The Space Babies Speedrun
“Would you like to see the baby?” Your answer probably had a lot to do with how you received “Space Babies,” but the first-or-second episode of new Series 1 had a LOT to cram into a too-small container, and that was an issue as well.
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2MTL 480: Doctor Who is Not Science Fiction
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 “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord.” We’ll look at these episodes individually soon, but going that hard was a gutsy, even necessary choice.
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2MTL 479: Solid Gold?
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 social media years ago
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2MTL 478: Goblin Corps
After “The Church on Ruby Road,” there should be no question that Ncuti Gatwa will master the role of The Doctor. However, we do need to address the fact that this is now a show with goblins and flying wooden ships….
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2MTL 477: ¿Por qué no los dos?
Celebrating a regeneration, a retirement, and a renewal of the whole darn series. On to Christmas!
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2MTL 476: Evolution of the Doctor
How do you make a special episode “special” when you only have two actors and a big spaceship? Russell T Davies has a pretty good answer.
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2MTL 475: Brandishing the Gravity Stanchions
Meep? What I wouldn’t have given for the Meep to give an order to “reticulate the splines.” (Oh, yeah: I loved this one.)
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2MTL 474: Is 14 Greater Than 10?
You can’t expect David Tennant to not be David Tennant, but I really want the Fourteenth Doctor to be meaningfully different from the Tenth. I have my hopes, but the Fourteenth Doc comic in Doctor Who Magazine and even the Children in Need short didn’t offer any clues….
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2MTL 473: The Reset Button
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 hiatus for their return.
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2MTL 472: "That is a good look on you, Professor"
On great last words, blossomest blossoms, emotional truth, and whether the plot is king.
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2MTL 471: Long Time Ago When We Was Fam
Bringing the podcast out of mothballs on The Eve of The Power of the Doctor…
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2MTL 470: Something Old, Something New
Is RTD2 a nostalgia trip? Some thoughts on last week’s announcement of Ncuti Gatwa, today’s announcement of Catherine Tate and David Tennant, and the merits of old mistakes vs. new mistakes.
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2MTL 469: TIME DILATION: The Streaming Future of Doctor Who
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 Who’s future in a world where TV networks struggle to stay relevant and Netflix is losing a bunch of subscribers. The conversation is a “follow-out” from…
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2MTL 468: "Legend of the Sea Devils" and Feeling Closer to "Fine"
When you’re the sort of person for whom the meaning of “fine” turns from “good enough” to not so much, and maybe you start surrendering to pessimism, even after an honestly revolutionary conversation between Yaz and the Doctor.
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2MTL 467: Parsing Age, Rose/Ten and Thasmin
The most tortured podcast episode title I’ve ever created, plus my Thasmin wishlist for “Legend of the Sea Devils.”
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2MTL 466: New Year's Hangover
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 with the last two years–and how I hope to look at Doctor Who anew following a return to Gallifrey One.
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2MTL 465: Re: Flux ("The Vanquishers")
Sometimes the best TARDISes are crowded I’m not entirely sure who “The Vanquishers” applies to, TBH. Anyhoo, I took a little extra time to think about Chapter 6, and Flux as a whole, and why I ultimately think this effort to put eight pounds of plot into a six-pound bag succeeded despite itself.
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2MTL 464: Steeling for the Finale ("Survivors of the Flux")
Tomorrow’s the finale. Has the moment been prepared for? Chapter 5 left me a little worried.
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2MTL 463: 2MTL 463: The Power of Blinking Without Blinking (“Village of the Angels”)
Recapture the essense of the Weeping Angels from “Blink”? Chibnall and Alderton understood the assignment.
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2MTL 462: Atropositive ("Once, Upon Time")
Space opera? Narrative connections and context emerging? Yes, please: this is the episode that gave me faith in Chris Chibnall’s arc. (This episode dedicated to the memory of NPR Books editor Petra Mayer.)
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2MTL 461: Sontar…huh. ("War of the Sontarans")
In which the laudable advancement of the Doctor Who: Flux story and the “rehabilitation” of the Sontarans as villains bumps straight into how I feel about war movies.
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2MTL 460: The Opposite of Episodic ("The Halloween Apocalypse")
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’s first chapter may not have been the most welcoming to new viewers but is a very proper lead-off to the show’s first modern miniseries.
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2MTL 459: Nicole Hill on Russell T Davies's Return
Nicole Hill of @BlackTARDIS and @blkgirlscreate stops by for a conversation about their hopes and cautions for the new/old showrunner.
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2MTL 458: Pregenerating a 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 upcoming return as showrunner?
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2MTL 457: About Noel Clarke
From the April 29, 2021, Guardian (UK): ‘Sexual predator’: actor Noel Clarke accused of groping, harassment and bullying by 20 women You can enjoy Mickey Smith the character in Doctor Who Series 1-4. But don’t defend Noel Clarke the actor. In an article for the UK Guardian on April 29, 2021,...
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2MTL 456: Long Time Passing
Ten months of silence–ten months of waiting and coping–for Yaz, Ryan, and Graham: When “Revolution of the Daleks” was made BEFORE the pandemic, who knew how relevant it would be DURING it?
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2MTL 455: Throwback Review of "Fear Her"
“Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Chloe Webber?” After a couple of months away to recharge the batteries, there’s no more jarring compare-and-contrast to Doctor Who of 2020 than Doctor Who of 2006’s “Fear Her.”
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2MTL 454: It's Always Time to Engage
Why is it difficult for so many fans to engage with Doctor Who’s politics? Constance Gibbs: “For Black Doctor Who fans, the TARDIS is a legendary, loaded image”
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2MTL 453: Within Our Confession Dials
There’s been a lot of great Doctor Who content that speaks to the global pandemic thanks to creators recruited and organized by folks such as Chris Chibnall and Emily Cook. But 2015’s “Heaven Sent” seems particularly relevant as well…
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2MTL 452: WHO IS THE DOCTOR 2 Makes a House Call (Time Dilation)
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 lightning-fast hot takes (not that I’m familiar with that at all) and staying connected with Doctor Who in a stay-at-home world. (An earlier audio glitch has been...
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2MTL 451: The Brain, Revisited
Suddenly, there’s much, much more to the Doctor–and yet this new “retcon” to the Doctor’s past winds up being staggeringly respectful to everything that’s gone before on television. Let’s talk about a challenge to The Master–and to Doctor Who fans themselves.
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2MTL 450: Point of No Return
Execution: pretty darn good! Cybermen: terrifying! Confidence that Part Two will stick the landing: (flailing gestures)?
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2MTL 449: Two Things About "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"
On emotional Cybermen and erstwhile flat team structures.
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2MTL 448: The Most Important Story
Sometimes, the plot isn’t the point and the bad guys are a side issue. Sometimes, the point is how humans treat other humans.
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2MTL 447: The (Other) Three Doctors
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 representation in “Praxeus” (Twitter thread) Sage Young’s recap at Head Over Feels
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2MTL 446: Gallifreyan Nature
That sound you heard was a podcaster’s brain exploding, trying to figure out how to compress everything from “Fugitive of the Judoon” into roughly two minutes. Listener, this episode was A LOT.
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2MTL 445: A Two-fisted Tale of Tesla
Would you believe, Nikola Tesla in the TARDIS? Now that’s just nuts. (See also theincomparable.com/radio)
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