This week on Fusion Patrol, Simon and Eugene look at the 2025 season of Doctor Who, episode number six, the Interstellar Song Contest.

They discuss parallels between the ice in the Doctor’s heart and the Time Lord Victorious, the influence of Diamonds Are Forever on this episode, why Eugene’s local sports team is the New Zealand national cricket team, and you can listen to us googling 1970s Eurovision winners.

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The Doctor lands in Lagos, and Simon and Eugene land on their thoughts about the Story & the Engine.

The consider which continents on Earth the Doctor tends to visit, barbershops in television culture, and give their Fusion Patrol literary recommendations.

Is it Simon and Eugene’s lucky day as they discuss Lucky Day?

They argue over the capability of this incarnation of UN.I.T., they discuss the history of the Think Tank organization and whether Kate Stewart sends the Doctor monthly reports.

Simon and Eugene discuss whether the Well is needed to be a sequel and which episode it should have been a sequel to, whether twice is too many times to play Britney Spears’ Toxic in two decades, and whether dialogue on TV used to be easier to hear.

Doctor Who 2025 barrels on with episode 2, Lux, as Simon and Eugene discuss whether animations have depth, the missing merchandise from this episode, whether they’re seeing a new season template emerging, and how the new TARDIS wardrobe works.

Simon and Eugene kick off the 2025 season of Doctor who looking at the episode, The Robot Revolution, where they discuss meta-paradoxes, RTD using Moffatisms, and how you count hyphenated words when you are missing every ninth word.

Simon and Eugene discuss different forms of mind transference, they rate Steven’s departure against other companions, and they discuss what aspects of animation take us out of a animated reconstructed story.

Come join the conversation as they look at the newly-released animated Doctor Who story, the Savages.

Kenneth and Eugene discuss “…so many pieces…” of this episode of Space Rangers.

John and Eugene come to the end of Star Maidens with the final two episodes.

In Creatures of the Mind, where they discuss the implications of what happens if AI learned to move without the aid of wheels or legs.

In The Enemy, they ask the question, “was the whole point of this series leading to the revelation that the women of Medusa just needed to ‘man up’?”

They also wrap up their discussion of the series with far more analysis than this series probably warranted.

Join them and say, “farewell,” to Star Maidens.

Cheap Star Wars ripoff, or a more brilliant parody than Space Balls?

This week, Ben and Eugene look at the Roger Corman film, Starcrash!