Two-minute Time Lord

It took longer than two minutes to explain–heck, longer than six days to figure out–why “Orphan 55” confounded me.

“Spyfall Part Two” was a strong conclusion to the opening Series 12 two-parter, but there was one creative decision I’m wary of, and another that really should have been done differently.

Chris Chibnall and company knocked the first episode of Series 12 out of the park but there’s a caution: where there is a Part One, there must always be a Part Two. Here are three things to look for in the conclusion of “Spyfall” on January 5. Sacha Dhawan as You-Know-Who

Celebrating the impending advent of Series 12, and also the best fandom advent calendar ever: Radio Free Skaro’s Fluid Links on YouTube .

Behold, The Dr Who Annual 1977 in all its bonkers glory.

There’s not a lot of distance between covering ELO songs with a band of Tenth Doctor investigators, and enjoying Doctor Who fandom culture. You just have to watch out for the Abzorbaloffs in both places. Check out Reality Bomb Live in New York for 2019 , occasionally invaded by me.

Are you stuck with me in the between-series Doctor Who doldrums? Check out the now-complete first year of Thirteenth Doctor stories by the top-notch creative team of Jody Houser, Rachael Stott, Roberta Ingranata, and Enrica Erin Angiolini! ALSO: Please join me in supporting Who For Schools! ( TWITT’s interview with Houser and Stott )

Prompted by Erik’s remembrance of Terrance Dicks in 2MTL 435 , some thoughts about the modern moral character of the Doctor: how Doctors 9-12 changed the game from Terrance Dicks’s model, and how the Thirteenth Doctor changes the game again.

A Mail on Sunday article previews Christopher Eccleston’s revelation in his new book I Love the Bones of You : he lived with mental health issues while launching Doctor Who as the Ninth Doctor.

“Like all truly great writers, Terrance Dicks is a moralist.” So begins Erik Stadnik of The Writers’ Room: The Outer Limits and The Real McCoy podcast, the week after the legendary Doctor Who script editor and writer passed away.

Shannon Sudderth, podcasting partner and co-habitationist of your humble host, returned to Doctor Who with Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. She shares her joy about reconnecting with Doctor Who fandom in ways large, small, and totally accidental. Find Shannon on Twitter @Starfury10 , on The Incomparable Network , and as one third of The Audio Guide to Babylon 5 (with Chip and Erika Ensign).

I loved Series 11 but one of its areas of improvement is emphatically Yaz. What needs to happen to give this underused character her turn in the spotlight?

Den of Geek US ‘s Kayti Burt saw herself in Rose Tyler, and watched as the TARDIS changed Rose just as Kayti’s experiences–and her slowly growing distance from her working-class background–changed her. (You can listen to Kayti and Chip every week, along with Jen Burt and Warren Frey from Radio Free Skaro , on the new THE EXPANSE rewatch podcast, “ A Legitimate Salvage...

While Doctor Who will never become so obscure that it can only be found with a hunting dog and a Ouija board, Chip is definitely on the pessmistic side when it comes to Doctor Who’s next streaming home: HBO Max .

If you’re searching for a Significant Other, how important is it that they be into the same things you are? If you’re as immersed in Doctor Who fandom as Reality Bomb co-producer Joy Piedmont is, should a potential partner get into Doctor Who as well? The answer is more complicated than you might think.

Fans of every other franchise in the world seemed to have a lot to celebrate at San Diego Comic Con. Doctor Who wasn’t part of the hype machine–so how IS our beloved time-travelling show doing these days?

Welcome to our first guest essayist of the new 2MTL! I met Nicole Hill in person for the first time at the 2019 Gallifrey One convention. It was a pleasure to talk with her then, and soon after I followed her on Twitter only soon after to read a couple of epic threads she wrote about one Danny Pink. Nicole is the voice behind Black TARDIS. She writes about the show from her Black, queer, female pe...

Welcome to the new Two-minute Time Lord Podcast: alternating essays by Chip and–hopefully!–a constellation of new perspectives from the Doctor Who community.

We’re back, and we’re picking up where we left off… …sort of! Join us next week for a glimpse at the new 2MTL!

A Christmas Eve reflection on what it means to let go of even a beloved Doctor, in order to embrace the future. (I now podcast about Doctor Who every week with Alyssa Franke at This Week in Time Travel on The Incomparable podcast network. Please follow us on Twitter or Facebook !)

The balloon’s going up. Sunday after Wimbledon, we’ll know who the Thirteenth Doctor is. Here are 120 seconds (more or less) of thoughts as fandom holds its breath. I now podcast about Doctor Who every week with Alyssa Franke at This Week in Time Travel on The Incomparable podcast network. Please check us out!

Originally aired on This Week in Time Travel 5 :  Chip was recently asked why he gravitated toward/obsesses over Doctor Who above all other fandoms. Turns out, it’s personal.

OK, so Chip has a new podcast that he’s spending more time on, and yet he can’t wait until next Tuesday to respond to this Guardian column: “ How Can Smug, Stale Doctor Who Get Back to its Glory Days? ” Here we go…

Joining The Incomparable podcast network on March 28, Alyssa Franke , I, and some of our friends and (dare we say) Companions will take a look at the week that was–and the week that will be–in the worlds of  Doctor Who . New episodes of  This Week in Time Travel will drop every Tuesday. I’m super excited to get to talk about  Doctor Who with other people  on a regular basis, but...

Yeah, this is worth breaking a hiatus again. We’ve had just two years with him, and then a whole Wilderness Year without him (save an appearance on Class), and now we’ve found out that Series 10 and the following Christmas special will mark the end of Peter Capaldi’s too-short run. Alyssa “@WhovianFeminism” Franke and I celebrate his time on the show, speculate on his...