2017

Nov

2017

Star Wars (the prequel trilogy)

If he’s the key I don’t want to see what the lock looks like.

This month we tortured ourselves with the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. Unless you’re Kiyan, then you discovered a newfound appreciation for actual trash. This is George Lucas’ magnum opus. Or as close to it as he’s ever going to get. The prequel trilogy was released in 1999, 2002, and 2005, respectively.

Show-notes:

2:41 Background stuff about Star Wars. This also covers the lead-up to Episode III, the best of the prequel trilogy.
4:31 The making of Episode I full documentary. Now might be a good time to drop this other Episode I behind the scenes stuff. And while we’re at it here’s more. Heck, here’s seven archived pages of stuff from 1999.
6:56 Spottraining.
10:16 UNSOLICITED. Her name was Robin Gurland I guess.
15:00 FUTURE.
24:13 Still good.
25:55 Check out our other podcast, Dust your Doctor.
28:56 Episode II documentary.
35:48 yeah that’s right, the kid who played kid Anakin now has schizophrenia.

Other stuff:
Yoda vs. Dooku
Darth Vader costume
Kashyyk, however you spell it

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Oct

2017

173: Setting the Bar So Low You Could Trip Over It (Bad Wolf & The Parting of the Ways)

Even I could get over that bar.

Looks like we killed the 9th Doctor. Us. Directly. We called in the Daleks, told them that time was a bit weak around Satellite 5 and all that. We didn’t really expect them to show up to be honest, so imagine our surprise when we watched the Doctor die this week. Sorry about that, guess we shouldn’t be calling intergalactic criminals and genocidal maniacs. It’s Bad Wolf & The Parting of the Ways, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on the 11th and 18th of June, 2005.

Show-notes:

4:06 It was series 7.
5:24 As far as I can tell the house for Big Brother UK has changed its appearance frequently. Here’s a teaser for series 4 of Big Brother UK which aired a while before this episode. From what you can barely make out, it looks kind of similar.
5:34 Yeah, Weakest Link looks exactly the same though.
8:16 The Weakest Link and What Not To Wear were BBC shows, but Big Brother wasn’t.
9:34 What Not To Wear, the British version I guess. I found out what it was called by googling “British fashion tv show with two hosts.”

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The Doctor Who title music was originally composed by Ron Grainer. The version used in this episode was arranged by Murray Gold.

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Oct

2017

172: The Sensation of Wet Socks (Boom Town)

How many socks have I lost to the rain?

We’ve engineered the perfect crisis. We’ll just blow this nuclear reactor here, followed by that one there, then launch a space station, then blow it up, then sink half of the eastern seaboard… I’m starting to think this whole making evil plans thing wasn’t as easy as I had originally assumed. It’s Boom Town, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on the 4th of June, 2005.

Show-notes:

6:27 The Wales Millennium Centre. Getting really sick of this “Millennium” huge shiny structure conspiracy.
6:44 The Foreigner. Oops, wrong one.

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Oct

2017

171: Show Me Your Moves (The Empty Child & The Doctor Dances)

This is how we do it….

It’s time for the biggest war known to mankind in the 20th century maybe. The most devastating maybe if you lived in London. Yes I’m talking about World War Z. Er. II. World War II. It’s The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, written by Stephen Moffat and aired on the 21st and 28th of May, 2005.

Show-notes:

2:17 In media res.
11:17 I wonder how I didn’t know this existed until now.
12:36 John Barrowman has been in stuff like Torchwood and the United States Congress.
25:39 Check out our other podcast Triple Play. Our most recent episode covers Alien: Resurrection.
26:21 .
33:22 Corn on the cob.
52:57 It’s actually Captain Falcon.
53:52 Gan ftw.

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Oct

2017

170: Death at a Funeral (Father’s Day)

Did you know that weddings might as well be funerals?

It’s our first seasonal special episode! Just kidding, we released a few episodes back in the day on Christmas/New Years, not that we marketed those as holiday specials. Also this isn’t really a holiday special, it’s just about an episode called Father’s Day. It was written by Paul Cornell and aired on May 14, 2005.

Show-notes:

2:14 This is the same Nathan from Flight Through Entirety, right?
6:45 Death at a Funeral. Never knew it was a remake of this British movie.
39:38 2007. Just trust me.

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Oct

2017

Alien Resurrection

Stone, the womb from which man was born. I think.

Time to round out the original Alien quadrilogy with everybody’s favorite Alien movie, Alien Arrival. The 2016 one. Just kidding, I don’t think we’d survive that ordeal. It’s Alien: Resurrection written by Joss Whedon, directed by Jean–Pierre Jeunet and released on November 26, 1997.

Show-notes:

3:07 Hahahaha
15:04 Jayne is a girls’ name.
19:55 Hellboy from the Hellboy franchise.
23:39 Room?
49:35 Check out our other flopcast.

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Oct

2017

169: These Walls Aren’t Gold (The Long Game)

Anybody got some gold I can use?

Back to the Future this week, we’re on a satellite that broadcasts all of the news. Might be a bad idea to give a single satellite an effective monopoly over the news that everybody consumes, but what do I know? It’s The Long Game, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on May 7, 2005.

Show-notes:

18:00.
20:45 Here’s what else Simon Pegg has been in if anyone cares.
26:44 The Reavers.
49:06 Walter Johnson’s chattel principle in his book (paper?) Soul by Soul. He didn’t come up with the term “chattel principle,” he just took it from some slave narrative from the 1800s I think, but he used it to define what he’s talking about in his book. Also I’m pretty sure Walter Johnson is a historian.
49:49 Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was the first (or at least one of the very first) slave narratives written by a woman.

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Sep

2017

168: Black Spray-painted Contraption of PVC Pipe (Dalek)

Every single prop is made of PVC.

It only took 5 weeks, but this week we’re cashing in on the most popular Doctor Who villain ever created. We probably could have held out longer, but we need people to listen. It’s Dalek, written by Robert Shearman and aired on April 30, 2005.

Show-notes:

6:09 Sounds like this.
6:58 Nah.
7:41 Cover. Remix. Whatever. Original. “New.” Whatever.
7:56 Johnny Cash’s Hurt. What an awful video.
23:24 It’s Clive Finch. Not Craig Owen, that’s someone else that’s still forthcoming.
32:38 Wouldn’t it be nice?

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Sep

2017

167: The Famous London Marsh (Aliens of London & World War Three)

Really looking forward to when they bring that back.

This week we return to contemporary London. Well, we did return to contemporary London which is now past London. I think. I don’t remember Big Ben getting taken out by an alien spaceship, but to be fair maybe American didn’t report on that. It’s Aliens of London and World War Three, written by Russell T. Davies and aired on the 16th and 23rd of April, 2005.

Show-notes:

20:10 Probably cleaner and more safe than most of the meat produced in the US.
32:06 It’s probably not true, but according to this clickbait-style article, the doors to the cabinet room are soundproof and the front door is actually reinforced steel and not wood.
39:03 Yeah, it’s 18. Trust me. I just checked.
39:47 The Ferengi from Star Trek. No “funny” comment cause I don’t know anything about Star Trek.
41:12 Yeah, that was the motivation of the aliens in Battle Los Angeles, but it looks like that movie wasn’t that recent.
43:47 Based on this, people who aren’t there probably don’t get to vote.
51:51 Yeah, shepherd’s pie is actually minced shepherd meat cooked into a pie. Apparently it’s become a rare delicacy now that the number of shepherd’s has dramatically decreased.

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Sep

2017

166: Strangulation by Dead Grandmother (The Unquiet Dead)

You shouldn’t be surprised, just because she’s dead doesn’t mean she can’t kill you.

This week it turns out the world actually wasn’t blown up last week. So we had to drag ourselves to the off…garage to record a new episode of Trust Your Doctor. This week it’s The Unquiet Dead, written by Mark Gatiss and aired on April 9, 2005.

Show-notes:

10:26 Christmas Carol can be read here.
18:54 Or if you like longer Dickens stories you can read Martin Chuzzlewit.
26:45 I strongly suggest you don’t read The Fantastic Imagination by George MacDonald.
35:22 Or if you like unfinished Dickens stories, you can read The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

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