Two-minute Time Lord

Is it “entitlement” to advocate for change in the media you consume? Are you a bad fan, or even a bully, if you want to see something different in Doctor Who? Maybe there’s a difference between having an opinion on the internet and being a threat. Maybe we can do something about the latter without trying to shame the former.

Peoples of the Universe, please attend carefully.

Let’s get this right out of the way: Big Finish’s “Technophobia” is a triumphant return for the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, almost as though Tennant and Tate never left.

And that weirded me the heck out.

The news last week wasn’t so much “news” as “tantalizing or terrifying hints of what might be in Doctor Who’s future,” including a possible writers room experiment and yet more machinations against the BBC itself.

Pearl Mackie is the new companion, Bill, introduced during a really big football game. I like what I see–both in the companion, and in the way the BBC brought her to us.

The BBC’s press announcement of its Doctor Who spinoff Class‘s cast–and more crucially its concept and plot hints–draws Chip out of his hiatus…

At long last, 2MTL’s interview from the Long Island Who stage with Noel Clarke in November 2015. Noel talks about his career outside Doctor Who, including his comic The Troop from Titan Comics and his upcoming film Brotherhood, as well as his evolution from “buffoon” to “badass” as Mickey Smith.

Recorded at Long Island Who in November 2015, here’s Strax himself: Dan Starkey! Dan talks about his journey from murderous soldier in “The Sontaran Stratagem” to the medical hero we have come to know and love and fear.

Mikayla, one of the hosts of The Web of Queer (Twitter), provides a great guest commentary (clocking in at an increasingly rare ACTUAL TWO MINUTES) about what you may be inadvertently communicating when you discuss whether the Doctor is, or should be, asexual or aromantic.

Today the news broke that Steven Moffat’s next series will be his last, and that Chris Chibnall is waiting in the wings…