Two-minute Time Lord
- Description:
- Two-minute Time Lord is a commentary podcast about the BBC ' s popular family science fiction program, Doctor Who. We ' ll try to keep this context in mind as we review episodes, comment on the news of the moment, and otherwise pontificate: Doctor Who is not FOR a thirtysomething podcaster. It ' s for that nine-year-old behind the sofa. But his or her mum and dad have been invited along for the ride, as are those of us who were kids when Peter Davison first picked up a cricket bat. And we ' ll keep it to two minutes, because we ' re ALL in a hurry.
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- Episodes:
- 359
- Average Episode Duration:
- 0:0:07:11
- Longest Episode Duration:
- 0:1:35:17
- Total Duration of all Episodes:
- 1 days, 18 hours, 57 minutes and 27 seconds
- Earliest Episode:
- 13 April 2024 (12:47pm GMT)
- Latest Episode:
- 2 February 2024 (7:54pm GMT)
- Average Time Between Episodes:
- 14 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 51 seconds
Two-minute Time Lord Episodes
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2MTL 330: Who Knew it Was Duodecimal?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 40 secondsThis one's a possible SPOILER if you've been avoiding the press for "The Time of the Doctor," as we talk about the nature of Matt Smith's upcoming regeneration.
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2MTL 329: Reimagining the Time War
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 29 seconds"The Day of the Doctor" turned our understanding of what happened during the Last Great Time War on our collective head, while somehow managing not to seriously break previous episodes' continuity. It's not a perfectly clean fit, however: there's one significant Moment of inconsistency, and a completely different portrayal of the Time Lords…
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2MTL 328: The Day After the Day of the Doctor
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 29 secondsAfter my first viewing of "The Day of the Doctor," I thought that it was very much in the vein of "The Five Doctors." That can be a mixed blessing: "The Five Doctors" is beloved, and successful in celebrating 20 years of DOCTOR WHO, but not an example of excellent TV drama in its own right. Much as I enjoyed "Day," was I being too hard on it?
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2MTL 327: The Night of the McGann, or, "Capaldi Who?"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 8 secondsIf I had talked about "The Night of the Doctor" right after it aired, this is what you would have heard:
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
Fortunately for us all, there will be no squeeing or wibbling in today's podcast. There will be brief consideration of the petition currently asking for even more televised Eighth Doctor goodness, though.
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2MTL 326: "The Web of Fear" from Long Island Who
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 40 seconds"The Web of Fear," the second of the long-lost Patrick Troughton stories to be recently rediscovered: is it a directorial masterpiece, a writing misfire, or both? Recorded at Long Island Who.
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2MTL 325: Previewing The Ood Cast Live (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 8 minutes and 47 secondsThe Ood Cast are no strangers to 2MTL, but it's been a while since they've released a new episood. Why? Because they've been busy preparing The Complete Works of Gallifrey (Abridged), which will re-present every episode of the new series within an hour. It's happening on 16 November 2013 at 7:45 p.m. in the Questors Theatre. You can buy tickets now, but why not listen to Chris and Laura Sigma tell me more about it?
No, really. We recorded this during a torrential rainstorm and my wife stood outside with an umbrella to keep a mystery stream of water from splashing loudly against the recording studio window. So if you don't listen to the interview she will have suffered for nothing.
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2MTL 324: "Adventures with the Wife in Space" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 13 secondsNeil and Sue Perryman's triumphant blog experiment has spawned a thoughtful, funny, honest companion book. You should read it. (Preferably having bought it first.)
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2MTL 323: "The Enemy of the World" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 35 secondsThe formerly-missing "The Enemy of the World" featuring Patrick Troughton vs. Patrick Troughton: enjoyable for nostalgia's sake, or on its own merits? Well, Troughton is awesomeness defined…
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2MTL 322: The Prodigal Episodes
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 25 secondsThe anticipated revelation of recovered classic Doctor Who episodes? What else is there to talk about?!
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2MTL 321: "New Earth" Two-minute Throwback
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 8 secondsThe single clearest indication you can get of what a new Doctor's going to be like won't come around until the second full episode. (This I vow to be self-evident! Unless you disagree with me, at which point it becomes an argument for a future 2MTL!) "New Earth" is the first distraction-free look at David Tennant's and Russell T. Davies's Tenth Doctor, warts and applegrass and all. Note that I gave the episode no extra points for having a character named after me.
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2MTL 320: The Doctor as Superhero
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 47 secondsIn which an attempt to answer 2MTL 319's parting question is made, and Chip equates the Doctor to Superman without irony.
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2MTL 319: Why Who Beats Trek
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 17 secondsOnce upon a time, I had a TON of Star Trek reference books. Today, I have a teetering stack of Doctor Who Magazines. I've been dipping back into Star Trek recently, wondering why it no longer scratches the itch Doctor Who does.
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2MTL 318: There Are No Fandom Gatekeepers
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes and 41 secondsMy wife Shannon guests with her reaction to the recent online criticism of Doctor Who "fangirls."
Uncharacteristically for 2MTL, Shannon has provided genuine show notes:
The tweet that started today's mess, for which there has been something of an apology:
Dear Fangirl. The average age of the actor to play the Doctor is 41. Don't let the TARDIS door hit your arse on the way out #wehatefangirls
— Outpost Skaro (@Outpost_Skaro) August 9, 2013
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2MTL 317: Dear Santa: Casting Peter Capaldi
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 3 secondsPeter Capaldi IS the Doctor! Great news, with a not-so-great side.
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2MTL 316: What IS "Doctor Who Canon" Anyway??? (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 35 minutes and 35 secondsSo while we wait for Sunday's announcement of the actor that will play the next Doctor, let's talk about that stickiest of subjects, Doctor Who canon. We won't discuss whether Dimensions in Time is "in" or Time Crash is "out" (the answer is no and no, by the way) but where this whole notion of canonical stories comes from in the first place: religion!
What does "Doctor Who canon" have in common with religious canon? How does one determine which stories "matter," and does a 50-year-old television series develop a canon in the same way that a 2,000 year-old (give or take) religion did? Rabid Doctor Who fan and New Testament historian Mark Goodacre is the perfect guest for this Time Dilation conversation. No proselytization, just Doctor Who geekery at its finest, placed in a historical context.
And Mark, update your website.
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2MTL 315: Call and Response
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 46 seconds2MTL returns from its summer hiatus with a cavalcade of questions and comments from listeners. I respond. Badly.
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2MTL 314: What If the Next Doctor Isn't the Doctor?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes and 55 secondsSo, how willing to break the mold might Steven Moffat be? Could Series 8 present the inverse of the scenario provided at the end of Series 7? Instead of a Doctor who rejected the name….
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2MTL 313: A Non-white-male Doctor Would Be the Second Right Answer
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 24 secondsBorrowing from Roger van Oech's books on creativity, I suggest that it's time for DOCTOR WHO to make a brave change in casting the next Doctor because it'll evolve the show in an important direction.
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2MTL 312: Colin Baker, Andrew Cartmel, and The Ken Spivey Band (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 23 minutes and 25 secondsA jam-packed Time Dilation episode of 2MTL recorded at TimeGate 2013 in Atlanta, featuring the Sixth Doctor Colin Baker, a classic script editor, and a steampunk-Celtic-Time Lord rock band!
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2MTL 311: So Long, Matt Smith, and Thanks for Jim the Fish
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 14 secondsWe celebrate the Eleventh Doctor as the BBC announces his pending departure.
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2MTL 310: "The Name of the Doctor" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 13 secondsAfter virtually blowing up my bathroom (read the instructions on compressed-gas sink plungers CAREFULLY) it took me a while to catch up and review the series finale. I try to answer the two questions that MUST be answered: how about that Clara resolution, and how about that Greatest Secret?
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2MTL 309: Meet the Editors and Writers of "Queers Dig Time Lords" (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes and 24 secondsSigrid Ellis, Michael D. Thomas, Erik Stadnik and Mary Anne Mohanraj reveal all about Mad Norwegian Press's Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It. Secret origins! Star Trek-related confessions! Manifestos! Fun!
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2MTL 308: Does Andy Candish Really Want to Know the Doctor's Secrets?
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 40 secondsAndy Candish of the delightful Ood Cast has a dilemma: on Saturday one of the greatest mysteries in Doctor Who may be undone.
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2MTL 307: "Nightmare in Silver" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 56 secondsNeil Gaiman's second episode of Doctor Who isn't quite as strong as his first, but it's still darn good. Could it be that this time the writer was working in a traditional Doctor Who playground rather than "The Doctor's Wife"'s bubble universe?
Check out Ryan Britt and Chris Lough's article, "Neil Gaiman Can't Help Creating His Own Universe Inside of Yours," at Tor.com.
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2MTL 306: "The Crimson Horror" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 30 secondsThe sixth episode of Series 7B marks a return to form for Mark Gatiss and a deliriously over-the-top Penny Dreadful approach to Doctor Who.
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2MTL 305: "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 25 secondsSo we finally got to see more of the TARDIS, and I'm wondering if that's a good thing.
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2MTL 304: "Hide" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 59 secondsSorry for the delay; life got in the way. Let's talk about Neil Cross's second aired story (first written), "Hide," and why that high-five is just so lovely.
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2MTL 303: "Cold War" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 35 secondsI guess it's possible that I'm simply a Bad Fan ( Warren Frey), but I can't say that I was excited about the return of the Ice Warriors. Admit it: didn't the old ones look kind of — silly? Turns out the monster itself was mostly a triumph in "Cold War," but oddly this episode fell prey to one of "The Rings of Akhaten"'s problems.
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2MTL 302: The Tennant Question (plus Kyle Anderson on fan entitlement)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 25 secondsTenth Doctor, or Tenth Point Five? Plus some Value Added Material from Kyle Anderson (@FunctionalNerd), who is calmly warring against fan entitlement.
Hear Kyle at Doctor Who: The Writer's Room and WTF Are You Watching?
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2MTL 301: "The Rings of Akhaten" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 33 secondsDoctor Who as written and directed by Jack Kirby? To this comics reader this certainly LOOKED like an episode that belonged in DC Comics's world of mad gods and flying supercycles. But did "The Rings of Akhaten" belong in Doctor Who's world?
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2MTL 300: "The Bells of Saint John" Reviewed
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 1 secondTogether again for the first time, it's the Eleventh Doctor, Clara
OswinOswald, and the Wire...?
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2MTL 299: Less Tabloid Garbage, More Female Writers. Please.
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 1 secondA look at what the tabloids did with the John Nathan-Turner biography, and what Doctor Who creative leads should be doing with female writers: inviting them.
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2MTL 298: In Series 7B, the Eyes Have It
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 5 secondsTwo things excite me about the next eight episodes of Doctor Who. It's all about the eyes.
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2MTL 297: Jason Haigh-Ellery and the Big Finish Update (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 9 minutes and 52 secondsJason Haigh-Ellery, managing director of Big Finish, takes a look at the year ahead and the incredibly successful year behind for the Doctor Who audio dramatists.
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2MTL 296: Madame Vastra Speaks
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes and 19 secondsLike her Paternoster cohort Dan Starkey, Neve McIntosh was a hit at Gallifrey One: on stage and among the fans. I spent a few minutes with her at the Sunday night LobbyCon, and we talked about Madame Vastra.
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2MTL 295: The Nicholas Briggs of Two Worlds
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 7 minutes and 22 secondsOne foot in the licensed world as executive producer at Big Finish, one foot in the televised "canonical" world as an actor on Doctor Who and Torchwood: Children of Earth; it's Nicholas Briggs! First of three mini-interviews from Gallifrey One.
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2MTL 294: The Gally Preview Natter (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 45 minutes and 54 secondsOK, deep breath here. We have Chris from The Ood Cast, Erik from The Doctor Who Book Club and Doctor Who: The Writer's Room, Deb from Verity!, Nancy from The Happiness Patrol, Luke from TMDWP and Warren from Radio Free Skaro. And we're all jet-lagged.
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2MTL 293: Wag the TARDIS
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 0 secondsOne last look at "The Snowmen" and the twisty turny perambulations of Steven Moffat's mind.
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2MTL 292: One Month Later, I Still Don't Like the Console Room
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 23 secondsEveryone loves the new TARDIS control room.
And that's the problem.
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2MTL 291: Neither a Barmaid Nor a Governess Be
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 21 secondsClara Oswin Oswald — if that IS her REAL name — committed many and various sins against Victoriana in "The Snowmen." Shannon, spouse behind and brains of the 2MTL operation, enumerates the offenses and incongruities, suggesting that they're hints to her true nature.
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2MTL 290: The "Not We," Filter Bubbles, and "The Snowmen"
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 56 seconds"The Snowmen": high AI, laudatory fan reactions, fair-to-strong reviews from the critics. But while I was being bedazzled by Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman and the hat-tips to 50 years of history, my brother was sitting at the screen only faintly impressed. "It was better than the one you showed me with the plastic mannequins," he said….
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2MTL 289: Chip, Scrooged.
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 6 secondsUncharacteristically, Chip's inner Grinch wants to come out to play. Will he take it out on TARDIS consoles? Unseen episodes? HOBBITS?
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2MTL 288: Chicago TARDIS from Shannon's Perspective
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 21 secondsWhile Chip's battling laryngitis, his wife makes another guest appearance: What was Chicago TARDIS like from the perspective of a Doctor Who fan whose tastes run more "Tennant" than "total"?
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2MTL 287: "The Christmas Invasion" Throwback Review
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 26 secondsSo this is Christmas, or it will be in a couple of weeks, and while we have visions of killer Snowmen dancing in our heads for this year's Christmas special, why don't we look back on modern Doctor Who's first? Yep, it's time to resume our "Throwback" reviews with "The Christmas Invasion."
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2MTL 286: Toby Hadoke on "My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver" (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 30 minutes and 37 seconds"Friend of the show" Toby Hadoke debuted his third Edinburgh Fringe one-man show on American soil at Chicago TARDIS: "My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver." Toby and I have an honest, thoughtful conversation about where Doctor Who fits into his family life, his wrestling with psoriasis, and how to make fun of yourself as a Doctor Who fan.
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2MTL 285: Chicks Unravel Time (Time Dilation)
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes and 36 secondsFor the first time in ages, an extended interview! Deb Stanish! Liz Myles! Chicks Unravel Time! One of the best Doctor Who books ever! Enough said!
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2MTL 284: Radio Free Skaro's Steven on Doctor Who Day
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes and 17 secondsGuest presenter Steven Schapansky of Radio Free Skaro has a ritual: same time every year, "An Unearthly Child." Why, and what goes through his head? Also, a flash thought from Chip about the Christmas "prequel."
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2MTL 283: All Our Regenerations
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 54 seconds"Change, my dear. And not a moment too soon." But change, even a good change, can be difficult. Here's how DOCTOR WHO has been helping me lately.
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2MTL 282: "The Angels Take Manhattan" Reviewed with Chris from Radio Free Skaro
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 7 minutes and 42 secondsFarewell to Amy and Rory! Chris from Radio Free Skaro reflects on departing companions and traveling alone, and I try (and somewhat fail) to separate "The Angels Take Manhattan" from the hype and show format. Plus a brief appreciation of Babylon 5's Michael O'Hare. All in successive two-minute (relatively) chunks.
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2MTL 281: "The Power of Three" Unbefuddled
Episode Duration: 0 days, 0 hours, 3 minutes and 43 secondsAs we prepare to say goodbye to Amy and Rory, we get an episode that's — a love letter to Amy and Rory. Chris Chibnall's second Series 7 story works, but what's weird about it?
See also your host's turn as a podicidal maniac in The Ood Cast, Series 5, Episode 4.