Who's Who

This week on Who’s Who, we get to Fear Her. Her, obviously, being the person who thought this script was a good idea, because this episode was absolutely dreadful.

Sometimes, low expectations yield the greatest results.

Here’s one from the archives! … kind of. Turns out this episode was lost along the way, but has now been uncovered and published! Enjoy!

There you have it, folks. One hundred and fifty episodes in the can. And what better set of episodes to discuss than .. THE SATAN PIT!

Don’t you just hate it when you record a perfectly good episode of a podcast, edit it, and then go out for a walk with your dogs while it exports to MP3, only to return and foget all about it for the next five days? … What, that’s never happened to you? Oh. Well, it happened to me, hence this episode being released on a Sunday rather than a Wednesday.

In other news, alternate reality stories continue to be “Oh, isn’t that highly relevant person/thing/device quirky?” rather than “This universe is the same as the one we’re from, except pig flatulence is now visible to the human eye… That is also the only difference.” Why don’t they ever end up in that universe? Or the universe that is the same as theirs because the differentiating point happens in the future? Or how about they travel to an alternate universe where cockroaches can hear infrared radiation .. and everything else is exactly the same?

On that note, why don’t they ever end up in a parallel universe where the Earth was never formed and, instead, the moon is inhabited by a super-intelligent race of goat-sharks? Statistically speaking, that should be just as likely as any other universe they end up in, so why do they always seem to end up in the ones where the differences are obvious and quirky, but not life-threatening or so massive that they can’t blend in nicely?

With a title like The Girl in the Fireplace a “double-the title”, we figured this episode could be about anything, so long as there was a girl in a fireplace at some point. What we found was that this episode was just about the best we’ve seen in a long long time.

Show notes and links:

* “Doctor Who” The Girl in the Fireplace (TV Episode 2006) (imdb.com)

* Euros Lyn – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Sophia Myles – IMDb (imdb.com)

Every ten years or so, people go back to the schools they came from and reunite with their old classmates, hoping that they’ll find everybody to be miserable and worthless so that they look better in comparison. This episode has nothing to do with that phenonmenon, but there is a reunion with an old friend, and it does happen at a school, so the title is technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct.

God is a wolf. A big powerful wolf. The wolf is powerful. The wolf is God… Or so we’re led to believe. And are we amused? Heck to the yeah, we’re amused!

New Doctor, New Earth, New Episode. Funny how these things work out.

New season, new Doctor. Time to see what this “Tennant” Guy is all about!