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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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Show Notes & Links:

• 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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Show Notes & Links:

• 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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