Noobs & the Whovian

Live from Master Closet Studios, you’re listening to the only podcast on the internet whose hosts had to fight three other guys to host it: 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 129 covering the 2013 Special The Five(ish) Doctors.

This is the one where the Doctor helps the Doctor, the Doctor, the Doctor, and the Doctor break onto the set of Doctor Who! Oh and steal their own costumes from a Doctor Who museum.

Production notes

* Story #3?* Originally aired November 23, 2013 * Written by: Peter Davison* Directed by: Peter Davison

Cast

* every-stinkin-body!

Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Surprisingly, no* Creature of the week* The Wikia names Steven Moffat as the Main Enemy!* Jiggery Pokery* TARDIS * Lots of smack talk about Eleven’s TARDIS control room* The Question/Doctor Who?* Baker referred to himself as the Sixth Doctor Who

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Other stuff we noticed 

* I almost cried when Davison’s kids said “You know, it could just be Matt Smith and David Tennant.” * There were EIGHT living Doctors at the time, and we only got 2 and a new made-up one!* The Fifth Doctor’s daughter was eating her ice cream with a celery stick* Radio show – who was your favorite Doctor? Peter Cushing. Controversial pick.* He did the 1960’s movies Dr. Who and the Daleks and Dalek’s Invasion Earth 2150AD.* McGann couldn’t make it to the protest because of “filming commitments.” He was doing The Night of the Doctor* I love Steven Moffat’s regeneration scene!* Seven recreated the sugar decision scene from the episode we just watched!* Good catch, Tripp!* They were hearing the music changes!* Costumes* Davison’s t shirt was his costume* McCoy was wearing a hat and carrying an umbrella* Baker’s* I desperately wish the scene of them as the shrouded statues was real! But alas, it was a different take that used production crew members.

Who’s Who?

* Do you think they were playing themselves, or their Doctors?

Classic Who Connections

* Olivia Coleman has been in just about everything since 2000. She co-stared in Broadchurch with David Tennant* Olivia Coleman was also in Eleventh Hour!* Georgia Moffett (Peter Davison’s daughter and also played Jenny in The Doctor’s Daughter) is seen eating ice cream with a large celery stalk* On the radio, the announcer talks about his Doctor being Peter Cushing. Peter Cushing played the Doctor in two Doctor Who movies in the 1960s that both involved the Daleks. Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks Invasion Earth -2050 AD) Terry Nation sold the movie rights for the characters of Doctor Who and the Daleks and that’s how they came to be made, but the debate has long dragged on by fans as to whether they are canon or not. In the movies the Doctor is not an alien but an old professor who created a time machine/spaceship called Tardis (no acronym). Steven Moffat apparently made them canon in a novelization of The Day of the Doctor where he reveals that the First Doctor allowed Cushing to star in mov...

Live from Master Closet Studios, you’re listening to the only podcast on the internet recording from a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream: It’s the Noobs and the Whovian! 

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 128, series 8 Christmas special: Last Christmas 

This is the one where Cobb does the impossible by attempting to plant an idea inside of a person’s head… wait sorry that’s Inception. This is the one where the Doctor and Clara get slowly eaten by headcrabs from Half Life and get sent through five dream levels. Also we say goodbye to Danny… again. Sad Clara. 

Production notes

* Story #253* Originally aired Christmas Day, 2014 to 8.28 million viewers* Written by: Steven Moffat* Directed by: Paul Wilmshurst

Misc Trivia

* We said in the last episode that it seemed like Clara was leaving. As it turns out, this was going to be her last episode. Moffat and Capaldi talked her into doing another season and she finally changed her mind very late in the game, perhaps as late as the read-through, which lead to a last minute change of the ending.* According to Moffat, they had a new companion in this episode. If you had to guess who it was, who would you guess?* Two fan theories…

Cast

* Professor Albert – Michael Troughton* Patrick Troughton’s son!* Ian the Elf – Dan Starkey!* This marks Dan’s third Christmas Special in a row. He was Strax in The Snowmen, Commander Skarr in The Time of the Doctor, then Ian in Last Christmas* In addition, this was Jenna Coleman’s third Christmas Special, appearing as an echo Clara in The Snowmen, then as original Clara in The Time of the Doctor and Last Christmas.* She’s the first companion to appear in 3!* Santa Claus – Nick Frost* Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul* Basically everything Simon Pegg has done that wasn’t Star Trek or Mission Impossible 

Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Do you know why people get together at Christmas? Because every time they do, it could be their last. Every Christmas is last Christmas.* Who ya gonna call? Just one last time, huh? One last Christmas, as if your life depended on it, believe in Santa.* Creature of the week* Dream crab – Kantrofarri* The legend says “if you think about a dream crab, a dream crab is coming for you.* Curse you, Steven Moffat!* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* TARDIS * He called it a telephone kiosk* Psychic paper* Random * Needless sacrificial death* Attack Eyebrows* The Question/Doctor Who?* Jammie Dodger sighting* Running count – 4* Termy wermy* Trying to disprove beardy weirdy* Oh as the Doctor would say, it’s all a bit dreamy weamy

Other stuff we noticed 

* It was a white Christmas in the time vortex!* Helman-Zeiglar test – the only reliable dream test I know* None of us knows we’re not dreaming. Not one of us, not one minute of our entire lives.

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Santa?* I can commit several million housebreaks in one night while wearing a red suit and jingle bells, so yeah, I can get back into the infirmary.* You’re a dream who’s trying to save us? I’m Santa Claus, I think you just defined me.* Who is Clara?* She’s a racist, elfist.

Live from Master Closet Studios, you’re listening to the only podcast on the internet that tried to record without microphones: It’s the Noobs and the Whovian! 

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 127, a Classic Who Rewind covering season 25 episode 1-4: Remembrance of the Daleks

This is the one where the Doctor and Ace let two factions of the Daleks fight each other for the Hand of Omega. Oh and Ace beats up some Daleks with an electric bat and then jumps through a window.

Production notes

* Story #148* Originally aired October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 1988 to 5.5, 5.8, 5.1, & 5.0 million viewers * Written by: Ben Aaronovitch* Directed by: Andrew Morgan

Misc Trivia

* Last week I mentioned the whole thing with Michelle Gomez (Missy)’s birthday, Clara’s birthday, and the premiere of Doctor Who all being Nov. 23. This episode takes place on Nov. 23, 1963* Though there was the rest of the season and one more full season after this story, it is the last appearance of the Daleks until the Ninth Doctor episode Dalek in 2005.

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Cast

* Johh, the Jamaican cafe guy – Joseph Marcell* Geoffrey from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air* Ace – Sophie Aldred* Has the same birthday as Sylvester McCoy* Sophie Aldred did many of her own stunts, bonding with the new stunt coordinator, Tip Tipping. She found the experience “terrifying” at first. She was also trained in firing guns for the scene where she shoots a Dalek.* She came on at the end of the previous season and stayed on the TARDIS until the very end of Classic Who.* She’s done tons of Big Finish audio dramas* She was also the voice of Muck from Bob the Builder!* The Doctor – Sylvester McCoy* He was Radagast in the Hobbit trilogy!

Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* NOPE! And what did that title even MEAN?!* Creature of the week* Daleks – little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armor* I kinda dig the white and gold Daleks* There were two kinds – amoeboid and another with functional appendages and tech grafted on* Blobs vs. cybernetic blobs with bits added on* Tin covered pepper pots!* Special Weapons Dalek* Emperor Dalek – what the heck was that all about?!* Actually… Davros?* The creepy little girl* We kept trying to figure out why they were hiding Davros’ face!* She has Dalek-Sith lightning?!* Jiggery Pokery* TARDIS * Was hardly present!

Other stuff we noticed 

* Who’s on first?* Left here. When were they left here? No, turn left here! Left? Right. Right here* The headmaster thought the Doctor was there to interview for the job of caretaker at Coal Hill School. Not for a few years!* The music was straight out of Beverly Hills Cop!* That intro!

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Ace?* She’s awesome! Definitely my fav Classic Who companion* What movie? Oh it doesn’t matter, I’ve probably already seen it on tv* Do me a favor and go drown yourself* Who is the Doctor?* He reminds me of Rowan Atkinson, something about his accent and speech patterns* He says he has 900 years exper...

Live from Master Closet Studios, you’re listening to the only podcast on the internet that’s held up by an invisible exoskeleton, it’s you, the listeners that hold up our dead rotting corpses: 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 126 covering the Series 8 episode 11: Dark Water and Death in Heaven 

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara chase after a psycho aka the girl in the shop aka the mistress aka the master… then robo zombies take over the world as the Doctor’s birthday present. Just for him to give it away.

Production notes

* Story # 252* Originally aired November 1 and November 8 to 7.4 million viewers and 7.6 million viewers * Written by: Steven Moffat* Directed by: Rachel Talalay

Misc Trivia 

* After the camera zoom on Clara’s face when she said “I’m the Doctor,” they put her eyes in the opening credits and placed Jenna Coleman’s name before Capaldi’s.* There was a fan theory that this was Clara last story. This was actually true for a while, before Jenna Coleman renewed her contract for Series 9.

Cast

* Missy – Michelle Gomez* She was born November 23, 1966* Clara’s birthday was given as November 23, 1986* Doctor Who premiered on November 23, 1963

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* We call it dark water, only organic matter can be seen through it.* Creature of the week* Cybermen* Jiggery Pokery* TARDIS * It takes lava to destroy a TARDIS key. And there are what, only 7?* Psychic paper* Why is there so much swearing. * The Question/Doctor Who?* My heart is maintained by the Doctor. Doctor Who? DR. CHANG!!!!!

Other stuff we noticed 

* What’s so special about a volcano? It’s just like a leaky mountain.* Time can be rewritten, but with great care and precision. If I save him then you’ll never come here to ask me to save him. A paradox.* I’m sorry, didn’t Eleven do just that with the grenade thingy?* Go to hell. No seriously, we’re going to hell.* That last thing that happened to you, that really happened.* And it was literally the last thing that happened to him!* iPads? We have Steve Jobs!* Doctor Skarosa? Skaro?* It’s like I’m missing something obvious *elevator closes with mirrored 3W logos look just like Cybermen eyes

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Osgood?* We saw her in the 50th anniversary episode* She’s a companion that never was!* Who is Danny Pink? * His death was boring. It was ordinary. * Who is Clara?* She calls Danny and as soon as he answers she says “shut up!”* I love you – I’ll never say those words to anyone else for the rest of my life. Those words from me are yours now.* Don’t do that with the eyes, how DO you do that anyway? It’s like they inflate!* Speak for me again and I’ll detach something from you.* She’s the Doctor!* Who is the Doctor?

This is the one where Jared introduces us to the Seventh Doctor as we get ready for Remembrance of the Daleks.

* Sylvester McCoy* Comedian before Doctor Who known on TV for doing kids shows Jigsaw, Tiswas and Vision On* First Serial Time and the Rani 1987 * Last Serial Survival 1989/Dimensions in Time 1993* Also in Doctor Who in 1996* He had three seasons, then the 30th special (a short benefit serial like Time Crash) and showed up for the TV movie to regenerate* Started with Melanie Bush (Mel) as a companion who carried over from the end of the Sixth Doctor’s time. Then he paired up with Ace McShane.* He was more of a mentor to Ace than a companion* Ace started calling him “Professor” as a joke and it stuck* Ace loves an explosive substance she invented called nitro-9. She said it’s “just like ordinary nitroglycerin, except it’s got a bit more wallop”* I think the show writers were going for family-friendly 80s punk. She is laughable by today’s standards, but she did a good job and is a fan favorite. * John Nathan-Turner is still the show runner (he started with the Fifth Doctor)*  This doctor was a bit like Monk or Inspector Clouseau. The defective detective trope* Roots in the Second Doctor and most closely related to the Eleventh Doctor in NuWho* Under his comedic surface there was a manipulative and Machiavellian undertone. The excuse was he did what he had to do to defeat evil. * He thought he was a good dresser* He almost always had his question mark umbrella with him. It was sort of like his sonic screwdriver but without any of the cool functionality* One of my favorite quotes from the Seventh Doctor, said to Mel as she was leaving: “Think about me when you’re living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the homeless traveler and his old police box, with his days like crazy paving.”* The Seventh Doctor’s final monologue what would be the final serial for some time: “There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea’s asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice, and somewhere else the tea’s getting cold. Come on, Ace. We’ve got work to do”

The Seventh Doctor was complex. He started off funny and goofy, but then he turned dark and manipulative towards the end. Some think the writers did this as they were revealing more about his past and personal life as they drew the series to a close.

In Remembrance of the Daleks we see Ace and the Doctor together, with the Doctor returning to the Coal Hill school in 1963. This is the start of the Seventh Doctor’s second season. It is Ace’s first full serial and the Doctor is starting to transition from clownish antics to a more serious persona.

Viewership was way down when McCoy started as the Doctor. By his second season, they saw higher ratings than they had in five years. But in his third and final season the ratings took a dive and the producers put the show on a hiatus that turned into cancellation….or was it?

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Welcome to Episode 125 covering the Series 8 episode 10: In the Forest of the Night.

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara save the day by doing absolutely nothing. The trees save us with an airbag.  

Production notes

* Story # 251* Originally aired October 25 to 6.29 million viewers * Written by: Frank Cottrell Boyce* Directed by: Sheree Folkson

Misc Trivia 

* The title comes from William Blake’s The Tyger

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare seize the fire?And what shoulder, & what art,Could twist the sinews of thy heart?And when thy heart began to beat,What dread hand? & what dread feet?What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water’d heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye,Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?William Blake, The Tyger

* In the scene where there’s a bus visible in the forest, there’s actually an ad for Series 8 of Doctor Who with Twelve and Clara on it. * It might be easy to write this off as a small mistake, but it’s a cardboard cutout that they placed in the forest!* You can see it in pics on this blog I found while googling it:

Cast

* Maebh Arden – Abigail Eames* Her sister, Daniella Eames, played the creepy spoon-headed girl on the stairs that uploaded Clara in The Bells of St. John

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* The Trees of Earth?* The Thoughts?* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* It interacts with any form of communication you care to mention. Sadly, trees don’t communicate.* To communicate through the network, trees send chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals, which scientists are just beginning to decipher.* TARDIS * When you drink a can of coke, it’s only this big, but it’s got THIS much sugar in it. It works about like this.* One of the drawbacks of being the last of your species: no one to ask when your TARDIS won’t start

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Other stuff we noticed 

* Rapid afforestation* I thought you said they were in love, why are they shouting at each other? That’s what people do when they’re in love, don’t you know anything?* Catastrophes are the metabolism of the universe

Who’s Who?

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My name is Austin and I’m the Whovian, and these are my sons Corbin and Tripp and we’re the noobs!

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Welcome to Episode 124 covering the Series 8 episode 9: Flatline 

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara help a grumpy old man with no imagination fight graffiti in the most sci-fi way possible!

Production notes

* Story # 250* Originally aired October 18 2014 to 6.71 million viewers * Written by: Jamie Mathieson* He pitched the idea for this story two year earlier and was tasked with scripting the episode. After several drafts, he was then told he had to lock the Doctor up somewhere due to scheduling issues. So it was kind of like a Doctor Lite episode.* Directed by: Douglas Mackinnon

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* The Boneless* Jiggery Pokery* TARDIS * It’s smaller on the outside!* You mean it’s lighter? It’s always lighter. If it landed on the earth with its true weight, it would fracture the planet.* Something is leaching off the external dimensions* Psychic paper* Clara got to use it* Corbin wondered if you tell someone the psychic paper is blank, what will they see?* The one guy saw a blank page – It takes quite a lack of imagination to stop a psychic paper! * Needless sacrificial death* Rigsy tried to sacrifice himself, Clara wouldn’t let him. And he would’ve died for nothing!

Other stuff we noticed 

* I don’t mean edible pie, I mean circular pi. Which I understand would also mean edible pie.* The way 22 went out was amazing! He looked like he was just standing there, but he was graffiti.* The train was number A113

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Rigsy? * How did he know all the numbers of the people that died? Also he didn’t seem to be as smart as he was cracked up to be.* Who is Danny Pink? * Who is Clara?* She’s still hiding things from Danny and the Doctor.* She’s the Doctor!* She’s got the sonic, the psychic paper, and a companion!* He’s coaching her. A leader is about to emerge in your little group, make sure it’s you.* What would the Doctor do now? No, what would I do now?* He said she was good and made a great Doctor.* Rule 1 of being the Doctor: Use your enemy’s power against them.* I thought it was “The Doctor lies!”* She saved the world! Again.* You were an exceptional Doctor. Goodness had nothing to do with it.* Who is the Doctor?* Can you not just let me enjoy this moment of NOT knowing something. It happens so rarely.* I am determined to play my role: The man who stops monsters.

Classic Who Connection

* The TARDIS has shrunk before. We talked about the miniscope before from Carnival of Monsters (the miniscope holds a miniaturized world) and the TARDIS was miniaturized when it went into that with th...

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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 123 covering the Series 8 episode 8: Mummy on Oriental Express

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara fight a mummy… on a train… in spaaaaaace!

Production notes

* Story # 249* Originally aired October 11, 2014 to 7.1 million viewers * Written by: Jamie Mathieson* Directed by: Paul Wilmshurst

Misc Trivia 

* Murder on the Orient Express was a Poirot novel by Agatha Christie published in 1934. It was made into a TV movie for ITV in 2010 and by CBS in 2001. It was also a 1974 film and a 2017 film… none of which we’ve seen…* There’s a deleted scene where Maisie was nearby on the beach at the end. It’s revealed that when the Doctor used her bad memories to trap the mummy, he actually removed them from her for good.* Twelve mentions that Gus had been trying to lure him here for a while. At the end of The Big Bang, Eleven got a call on the TARDIS phone saying that an Egyptian goddess was loose on the Orient Express in space!

Cast

* Jazz singer – Foxes* Grammy-award winning singer* She was singing a jazz version of Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now* BBC actually did a full music video for this song featuring Series 8 clips that’s pretty good

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* The Foretold – a SPAAAAACE MUMMMYYYYYYY!* It’s not just a mummy, it’s a vampire.* There’s a small plothole with it* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* It didn’t work because of a suppression field.* Which is more convenient, a sonic that can do almost anything, or a suppression field that nullifies it.* Psychic paper* I’m your worst nightmare. Oh great, a mystery shopper?* Random 

Other stuff we noticed 

* Turns out it’s three. The number of people who have to die before I stop looking the other way.* The pic for the Doctor on Clara’s phone is a stick insect wearing a top hat!

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Perkins?* Was he a companion-that-never-was?* He actually turned it down!* Who is Danny Pink? * He is freakin supportive! “Go enjoy your space train.”* Who is Clara?* I can’t do this anymore, at least not the way you do it* Twelve or the doctor in general?* This is their last hurrah.* Just kidding!* She changes her mind at the very end, and even goes back to lying to the Doctor and Danny.* Who is the Doctor?* Well, what kind of doctor are you? Now that’s not a question asked often enough* Let’s say he’s a doctor of intestinal parasites* The doctor is talking to himself like he’s a different person. And being rhetorical to himself.

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Welcome to Episode 122 covering Series 8 episode 7: Kill the Moon

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara have a fight after NOT killing the moon, which is an egg, with a dinosaur in it?

Production notes

* Story # 248* Originally aired October 4, 2014 to 6.91 million viewers* Written by: Peter Harness* Directed by: Paul Wilmshurst

Misc Trivia 

* This was originally written for Eleven

Cast

* Courtney Woods – Ellis George* This is her last appearance* Her next IMDB credit is a mini-series called Small Axe that is premiering on BBC like right now.

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Yes, many times* Doctor, how do we kill it? Kill the moon? Kill the moon.* Creature of the week* The bacteria spider – Corbin hates this* The egg/space dragon* Jiggery Pokery* TARDIS * She’ll turn up. Last time you said that, it ended up on the wrong side of the planet!* It can be run by DVD?* Also, if Courtney doesn’t hold onto the console, she’ll leave her behind?* Psychic paper* Courtney Woods was using it as a fake ID

Other stuff we noticed 

* My granny used to put things on Tumblr* That’s what we call a new moon

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Danny Pink? * He got his I told ya so moment

* Who is Clara?* Tell me what you knew or I’ll slap you so hard you’ll regenerate.* She’s tired of listening to the Doctor.* I don’t really understand her reaction to the situation. The whole ending of the episode is tonally weird.* Who is the Doctor?* Did he REALLY tell Courtney she wasn’t special? That’s not like the Doctor. * It’ll take a long time to shoot him to death cuz he’ll just keep regenerating. In fact, he’s not sure he won’t keep on regenerating forever* There are moments in time he can’t see. Little eye-blinks that are gray and hard to see.

Can We Talk About the Physics of Space and the Moon? 

* Let’s talk about aerodynamics* The moon creature flapped its wings and flew away. There’s no air in space, you can’t fly by flapping wings.* Let’s talk about the size of the moon* the “shell” just evaporates?! No, what the astronaut said would be true – bits of the moon would crash to earth* Let’s talk about conservation of mass and energy* How the heck did it gain 1.8 billion tons?! That’s not possible, unless it was eating stuff IN SPACE* What kind of creature is born pregnant and immediately gives birth?!

Classic Who Connection 

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Welcome to Episode 121 covering the Series 8 episode 6: The Caretaker 

This is the one where the Doctor becomes a janitor, and Mr. Pink finds out who Clara really is while saving the world after dooming it first.

Production notes

* Story # 247* Originally aired September 27 2014 to 6.82 million * Written by: Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat* Directed by: Paul Murphy

Cast

* Skovox Blitzer – Jimmy Vee!* Moxx of Balhoun, the Graske, and Bannakaffalatta (never forget!)

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* The Doctor ALMOST said it: I’m the new caretaker* It was said throughout the episode though* Can I just say I like “caretaker” much better than janitor and we should make a switch to this in America. * Creature of the week* Skovox Blitzer* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* It has a setting (#41) that can blast out helicon energy

Some serious helicon energy!

* TARDIS * Apparently Clara can snap the doors closed now? 

Other stuff we noticed 

* I don’t think Adrian looked even remotely like Matt Smith

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Danny Pink?* He’s NOT a PE teacher*  He’s also not a new teacher anymore. This episode apparently takes place at least a year after Into the Dalek because in that episode he was introduced as a brand new teacher. In this one, Courtney Woods parents refer to how he referred to her last year. * I imagine that the opening montage of vignettes is taking us through that year.* NERD ALERT! When he put on the invisibility watch, he was non-plussed that it wasn’t even a ring* How stupid do you think I am? I’m willing to put a number on it.* He did just save the whole world. Good start.* Who is Clara?* Her adventures with the Doctor are starting to interfere with her real life* Apparently she just like, KNOWS how to use the sonic now?* What were the others like, the ones before me? Did they let you get away with this* Who is the Doctor?* He lived among otters once* Never lose your temper in the middle of a door sign* Humans have an incredibly short lifespan. Frankly, you should all be a permanent state of panic. Tick tock, tick tock* He’s your DAD! He’s your space dad.* Danny made a crack about his eyebrows!* Upon entering the junkyard, The Doctor says “Home, Sweet Home.” His first incarnation parked the TARDIS in a junkyard near Coal Hill while Susan attended the school. (TV: An Unearthly Child...