Doctor Who: The Whovian Review
Come listen to a group of Doctor Who fans that range from recent enthusiast to long time followers. We break down and analyze the most recent episodes trying to figure what could be happening in the future as well as explain the references to the past. Join us in the fun that is Doctor Who!
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Episodes
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Richard Briers tries his hand at the Chief Caretaker in charge of the building's main cleaning staff, a set of very sad looking white robots. Surprisingly they don't look as dirty as the rest of the building. Over at the top of the building is a pool that Mel obsesses over throughout all four episodes while the Red Kangs clash with the Blue Kangs, the Rezzies, and even the Doctor as they cannot figure whether he is good or not. Good advice: do not ask to greet the Red Kangs, nor should you trust Pex to save you from a cardigan and a trident. So much garbage, so little cleaners!
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
"What do you all do in there?" "Argue, mainly." Yes we sit down to debate, argue and interrupt each other over the topic of who is a companion to the great Doctor. Do they have to travel with him? Do they need to be loyal? Do they need to make him fish fingers and custard with a side of carrot juice? Join Michael and Shelby as we tinker with our TARDIS databanks and figure out who really is a companion.
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
In a Christmas episode that was not aired at Christmas, the Doctor travels to 1869 Cardiff during the Christmas holiday where a rift in time and space creates a real phantom in an opera. Gas creatures who were mostly silent, unless they inhabited the dead, were they themselves a deadly vengeance of revenge. The Gelth as they were named end up crashing a Charles Dickens reading of A Christmas Carol and involving The Doctor, Rose, and Gweneth in a plot of certain doom for the human race. Will Colin be the happy medium?
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
We journey to New Earth [New (times 15) York to be more specific] to join up with some familiar faces, skin, and metallic spider creatures. Chip's shoulder is falling apart as he helps his Lady Cassandra steal a body, find a way to extort a fortune from the hospital staff, and escape the hospital basement in which they reside. In doing so pandemonium ensues when zombie like flesh is released from the Matrix of the Sick hidden in the hospital walls. Kelsey gets to see her very first David Tennant story too.
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
As the Moxx of Balhoon annoys Kelsey, Jabe throws out her branches and enters Shelby's heart. The Steward has trouble with his buttons while Rose has trouble with the many aliens watching her home world roast. And the fact that she just ran off with a strange man 5 billion years into the future begs the question where her priorities lie. We all check out Kelsey's first Christopher Eccleston episode.
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Do they actually say, "Yo ho ho?" The curse for watching this episode is not understanding why they don't simply turn of the lights. However that may trigger a Vastra Nerada attack. We grow out our beards and start speaking pirate while we take on this light hearted episode that attempts to kill Rory, kill off the Captains young son, and anger a hologramatic psiren who will turn into a demon in order to "protect" her patients. Man I'd hate to see the insurance bill!
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Kelsey chooses her first classic story to watch: Peter Davison's final adventure. Peri and the Doctor stumble into a Spectrox nest, and acquire a deadly rash. The problem is that the only cure is down in the depths of tunnels carved out by boiling hot mud. Okay, another problem is that the military from Androzani Major believe the Doctor and Peri are gun running and sentence them to death. Oh, and Sharez Jek wants Peri to be his bride, his androids will kill them on sight, Morgus wants them dead, Stotz delights in their suffering, and the mud bursts start destroying the tunnel systems as well. Phew! Will we all get away from Androzani Minor?
Wednesday May 29, 2019
Wednesday May 29, 2019
We revisit this rather epic episode that takes place in Utah, Florida, a giant cube, the Moon, Washington D.C., Outer Space, and various parts of the world! Canton Delaware the Third "assassinates" our entire TARDIS crew, River goes all Rambo on the alien "menace," and Kelsey finds her compassion for the creepy Silence. Anyone have a Sharpie?!
Wednesday May 22, 2019
Wednesday May 22, 2019
Take 2! We rereview The Impossible Astronaut as Kelsey, Colin, nor Shelby have had a chance to share their thoughts on this first episode from Series 6. Silence falls on Michael who gets sidelined almost as bad as Yaz from the current series due to a lack of vocal chords. Will Colin remember anything about these villians? Will Kelsey like Amy a bit more? Thank you for listening!
Wednesday May 15, 2019
Wednesday May 15, 2019
The Ultimate Foe is revealed to be (surprisingly?) the ebony wearing Valeyard who turns out to be the Doctor, but not The Doctor as he is really an amalgamation of the Doctor's darker side (with that coat i didn't know there was a dark side). We talk up the pros and cons to this epic ending and find the good and the bad within the storyline. Epic speeches, sidelined companions, Sabalom Glitz, Time Lords, Over the top adversaries, an inquisitive Inquisitor, and the catharsis of spurious morality ensue to bring this story to a close.