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Review of S13E05 — Survivors of the Flux Show Notes & Links Eleven delivered some great speeches We still have unresolved feelings about the Timeless Child  Luke was told to search his feelings over 40 years ago Yaz, Dan & Eustacious Jericho were, in fact, travelling for *three* years Providing another great opening for Big Finish  At the time of recording, 13 & Yazz only have three specials remaining: Eve of the Daleks, Legend of the Sea Devils & the unnamed special for the centenary of the BBC  The YW loves modern day UNIT...  And [spoiler] was completely correct about the resolution of the cliffhanger We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Review of S13E04 — Village of the Angels Show Notes & Links The cliffhangers continue to not disappoint The Angels appeared in Blink, The Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone  and The Angels Take Manhattan as well as in various other cameos Maxine Alderton also wrote The Haunting of Villa Diodati ‘Reverse the polarity’ was said first in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Devils and for the second time in The Five Doctors How fast is a Weeping Angel?  This was not the first mid-credit sequence which came in Death in Heaven  Our memories of Utopia are a little vague Claire Brown is a percipient The OM is confused about Weeping Angel biology  We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Show Notes & Links: Azhur Saleem debuts as DW director Alain Resnais made Last Year at Marienbad  Satsumas are rare in Oz We do love Ruth Doctor (fugitive) & Jo Martin  Though this is not really an example of Ebert's law The Weeping Angels were introduced in Blink...  In which we learn the Angels have the phone box We don’t know much about the Mouri  Bell does not have a tamagotchi  Hopefully, one day, people will need COVID explained  The YW was *almost* on board with The Timeless Child    We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Show Notes & Links: Director Jamie Magnus Stone has good ideas We don’t know much about the Crimean War but did know about Florence Nightingale & *should* have known about Mary Seacol  Sydney Newman wanted the show to have a ‘strong informational core based on fact’ Not like Back to the Future  Mary Seacoll was played by Sara Powell Oscar Isaac doesn’t write scripts    We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Show Notes & Links: Some are quite invested in the Thasmin ship  As many were with Rose  We are still processing our feelings about the Timeless Child  & Division  Time Lords first appeared in The War Games  The COVID-19 impact on Doctor Who is a story still untold  Doctor Who has a long history on the ABC in Australia  A Thanos version of the Red Skull in an episode with a colour palette reminiscent of Guardians of the Galaxy Segun Akinola continues to deliver Dan Starkey looked truly disgusting The Doctor was once Lord President of the Time Lords  The Sontarans first appears in The Time Warrior  Paternoster Gang! Paternoster Gang!  Russell T. Davies foreshadowed his return as show runner with this Instagram Post The Cloister Bell tolls in the most serious of emergencies  The Mad Mole was a posthumous nickname for Joseph Williamson  Vortex Energy had less impact here than in Bad Wolf We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Review of S12 E10 — The Timeless Children The Doctor first called her companions ‘fam’ during The Woman Who Fell to Earth We keep talking about events in the previous episode, Ascension of the Cybermenthe mast The Ruth-Doctor appears in Fugitive of the Judoon The Master says “everything you know is a lie” in Spyfall The Doctor has had more than the 12 regeneration ‘limit’ Clara asking the Time Lords to give the Doctor more regenerations in The Time of the Doctor is retrospectively amusing References in this episode include Borusa and the Panopticon The matrix appeared in Hell Bent The Old Man is making a confused reference to The Deadly Assassin Previous incarnations of the Doctor are shown in The Brain of Morbius The Doctor having two hearts is not introduced until Spearhead from Space, being a Time Lord in The War Games, and regeneration in The Tenth Planet   We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

Watches have previously been used to store the memories of Time Lords locked away by the Chameleon Arch  There have been many other stories featuring multiple Doctors There were three TARDISes in one room during The Day of the Doctor To the relief of the OM, Chris Chibnall confirmed, “she is definitely the Doctor. There is no sore of parallel universe going on, there’s no tricks.” In The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End Ten nearly regenerates but keep his appearance by using a handy hand.  The sonic screwdriver first appeared during the 2nd Doctor’s time but wasn't a regular part of the show until later YW thought Ruth was acting like the Master when he still thought he was a human in Utopia  Clara’s TARDIS initially has a Type 1 default interior The Judoon first appeared on the moon Nida Manzoor also directed Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror (not Spyfall, OM) During Spyfall Part 1 the Master tells the Doctor, “everything that you think you know… is a lie”

Missy (the previous incarnation of The Master?) was last seen at the end of S10 Part 1 was directed by Jamie Magnus Stone, Part 2 by Lee Haven Jones Ada Lovelace was a pioneer in computer science & Noor Khan a British WWII hero Big Finish should ask Nakkiah Lui to write about the Doctor in the Outback Google used to have a ‘don’t be evil’ clause in it’s Code of Conduct Unlike the classic-villain-free season which preceded it, the previous New Year’s Day special, Resolution, included a Dalek Day of the Doctor was the amazing culmination of the 50th Anniversary Year The Cartmel Master Plan was never really Cartmell’s master plan Kylo Ren is a Star Wars villain Omega & Rassillon were (two of?) the founders of Gallifrey There was a Classic example of ‘contact’ in The Three Doctors The Remnants mentioned The Timeless Child in The Ghost Monument The Boneless were antagonists from another dimension in Flatline It’s Artron Energy, not Archon Old Man Donna’s fate in Journey’s End was very controversial

Vortex Manipulators should be hard to find It was, of course, an Oilers jersey Erika Ensign can be heard on Verity, Lazy Doctor Who & many other Incomparable podcasts Steven Schapanksy is the other half of Lazy Doctor Who & can also be heard on Radio Free Skaro & The Memory Cheats Night of the Doctor was released on 14th of November, 2013 Steven’s interviews with Paul McGann can be heard on Radio Free Skaro #510  Steven Moffat was the show runner for Doctor Who from 2010-2017 Karn & the eponymous Sisterhood, first appeared in The Brain of Morbius Coincidentally, The Sun Makers was set on Pluto Britbox is not available in Australia, but we do have Youtube Paul Cornell & Lizbeth Myles are writers who share a podcast, Hammer House of Podcast Paul has written numerous Doctor Who Stories, including Father’s Day, Human Nature & The Family of Blood  Liz has written the 12th Doctor audio Distant Voices & forthcoming River Song adventure Abbey of Heretics She can also be heard on Verity Both Paul and Liz are blogging in the lead up to Xmas What Paul said to himself that night, all those years ago, was a quote from The Outer Limits  The other, less impressive mini-episode was The Last Day The Eight Doctor got his hair cut, & new outfit, in the Big Finish audio story Fugitives The Brain of Morbius was written by Terrance Dicks & Robert Holmes Gallifrey is the home of the Time Lords The renown Discontinuity Guide was written by Paul, Martin Day & Keith Topping The Sisterhood of Karn also appear in The Deadly Assassin Ohila, played by Gilly Brown is not to be confused with Ohica, played by Clare Higgins  John Hurt played Caligula in I, Claudius  Peter Cushing is a fine actor who once played The Doctor  Turlough didn’t get many lines in Resurrection of the Daleks The Time Monster is a, somewhat divisive, Third Doctor story Josh Kinal introduced the OM to podcasts and was one of the hosts, with Glenn Peters, on the long running Boxcutters The Doctor Who Technical Manual was released in 1983 Paul McGann starred in Withnail & I Adventure Time is an animated TV series There are many differences between The Doctor & Gregory House Bluey is a short-form animated TV show from Australia The creepy question is from The Empty Child These notes were a much bigger job than usual

Review of S11 E02 — Ghost Monument Segun Akinola’s theme sampled Delia Derbyshire’s original arrangement Which was also used for The Day of the Doctor The YW hasn’t seen much Three but was already familiar with Venusian Aikido We refer to Watsonian vs. Doylist perspectives The Stenza first appeared in The Woman Who Fell to Earth Andrew Cartmel was interviewed on New to Who  How do you know it’s a duck pond? The self-lighting cigar was an example of Chekov’s Gun

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