Strange new structures, new production logistics, the ‘too early to judge’ argument, accents, stakes, Liverpool, meta foreknowledge, new companion dynamics, & more!
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Ascension of the Cybermen 🤖 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Series 12
Humany-wumany lore, the merits of ‘filler’, amalgamated mysteries, self-cannibalistion, hypernormalisation, Occam’s razor, the value of change…much to think about.
Dracula: Series 1 🧛♂️ Discussion & Review Podcast
Many Moffat mystifications, 123-year-old twists, reconfigured folklore, just who was funding a certain foundation, horror tropes, repeated themes, and the question of a series 2…all of that (and so much more) is discussed in this podcast for Dracula, the 2020 series (be it series 1, or a lone miniseries) from Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, the BBC, and Netflix.
Spyfall: Part Two 👞 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Series 12
Cut climaxes, offscreen espionage, improvisational TV, secrets & tap dancing, casting & mad ranting…Spyfall: Part Two, the second episode of Doctor Who: Series 12, is the type of follow-up to really stoke conversation.
WATCHMEN Ep5 🦑 Discussion & Review Podcast | Little Fear of Lightning
Mirrors & masks, empathy bombs, sequel-ising Alan Moore’s philosophies, trutherism & the nature of conspiracies, dehumanisation & trauma, & more! This fifth episode, Little Fear of Lightning, oozes topics to discuss!
WATCHMEN Ep4 🥚 Discussion & Review Podcast | If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Lube Man, Excalibur, mystery eggs, trauma across generations, religions and legacy, babies and centrifuges, Superman origins, the Oklahoma Bombing – there’s plenty of yolk underneath the shell of this episode, If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own.
WATCHMEN Ep2 🍅 Discussion & Review Podcast | Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Non-linear history, ensnaring institutions, reformism, propaganda, moving beyond ‘nothing every ends’, and some very cockeyed theatre – even more to discuss than the premiere! This discussion and review podcast for Watchmen episode 2, Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship, surveys all that, and more!
WATCHMEN Ep1 👮🏾♀️ Discussion & Review Podcast | It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Tulsa, squidfall, bonus HBO material, a Rorschach cult, masked cops, Jeremy Irons mysteries, racial inversions, Hooded Justice, appropriation, all this and more is discussed in this discussion and review podcast for Watchmen episode 1, It’s Summer And We’re Running Out of Ice.
TORCHWOOD: Miracle Day (Series 4) | Discussion & Review Podcast
Cardiff v America, the nuke-launching finale we never got, death pathologising, Jack’s character regression, & so – much – more…including very rarely-discussed revelations of RTD’s!
Continue readingYEARS AND YEARS | Episode 3 | Review & Discussion
Who Cares about YEARS AND YEARS, three weeks in? Well, what’s there to care about? Skeevy IQ testing, even skeevier BBC titling, Viv Rook’s Last Supper, cathartic car crushing, Murray Gold’s music, and multiple moments of embarrassment for the cast, as the show’s halfway point is reached. The show being YEARS AND YEARS, not WHO CARES? of course (have no fears, we’ve stories for…years!).
Continue readingYEARS AND YEARS | Episode 1 | Review & Discussion
Who Cares about former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies’ new show, YEARS AND YEARS? In this first instalment of coverage for the six-episode miniseries, that question is thoroughly answered. Music, politics, a surprising link between Russell T Davies and Quentin Tarantino; much is discussed as the years of 2019 to 2024 that the episode covered are examined.
Continue readingRESOLUTION: Part 1 (Positive Discusion)
This version of the interactive Who Cares special, covering the New Year’s Day special Resolution, featured a positive take. This is the first of two abridged, split-into-two, linear, audio-only versions of the choose-your-own-adventure/path/podcast that was the Who Cares take on Resolution.
Continue readingRESOLUTION: An Interactive Adventure | Choose-Your-Own Doctor Who Podcast
The first Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Doctor Who podcast! Choose guest’s opinions, topics, & even fates, throughout multiple paths, songs, skits, and endings. Many voices and hot takes converge (emphasis on the ‘verge’) in a journey where you decide not only the outcome, but the people to hear from, what opinions you’ll tolerate, & how to progress! Choose your future. Choose your resolution. Choose Who.
Continue readingEpzode 10: THE BATTLE OF RANSKOOR AV KOLOS
The tenth epzode of Who Cares covered Doctor Who’s eleventh series finale; THE BATTLE OF RANSKOOR AV KOLOS.
How could such a finale be dealt with? The regular format would not do. The regular voices would not do. To catch a thief you must think like a thief. But how could it be emulated? What other episode would it have to be filtered through? Listen hopefully. Who Cares will surprise you. Constantly.
Epzode 08: THE WITCHFINDERS
The eight epzode of Who Cares covered the third and final historical of Doctor Who’s 11th series; THE WITCHFINDERS.
The cast expands to seven people for this epzode, demonstrating audience hostility by just missing out on the episode-appropriate number of voices. But the first episode directly addressing the new Doctor’s gender in dialogue certainly generated a lot of conversation. And just what are the implications of garbing one’s self in a witchfinder outfit during very real witch hunts? An unforgettable amount of unpacking was due.
Who Cares? 