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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   
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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   
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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

Show Notes & Links:
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  
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