Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast

Jan 02 2022 59 ep. 12 mins 174
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A Doctor Who podcast by a fan & her Da (no, a fan & his daughter).

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Ep. 58 – Revenge Time

Jan 02 2022 15 mins  
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 t

Ep. 57 – An Element of Risk

Dec 31 2021 13 mins  
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_Dev

Ep. 56 – Wait, Where Are We Now?

Dec 29 2021 16 mins  
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 tamag

Ep. 55 – Several Exclamation Points

Dec 26 2021 14 mins  
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

Ep. 54 – So Different, So Good

Dec 25 2021 15 mins  
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 col

Ep. 53 – So Many Questions

Nov 23 2020 16 mins  
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

Ep. 52 – Is There Even a Word

Feb 01 2020 24 mins  
Show Notes & Links: 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 o

Ep. 51 – Messing with the Humans

Jan 09 2020 21 mins  
Show Notes & Links: 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’

Ep. 50 – The 50th Special

Dec 15 2019 27 mins  
Show Notes & Links: 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

Ep. 49 – Objectively Way Cooler

Nov 29 2019 14 mins  
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 W