Ep. 51 – Messing with the Humans

01/09/20 • 21 min

Handwavium: a Doctor Who podcast

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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’s Code of Conduct
Unlike the classic-villain-free season which preceded it, the previous New Year’s Day special, Resolution, included a Dalek
Day of the Doctor was the amazing culmination of the 50th Anniversary Year
The Cartmel Master Plan was never really Cartmell’s master plan
Kylo Ren is a Star Wars villain
Omega & Rassillon were (two of?) the founders of Gallifrey
There was a Classic example of ‘contact’ in The Three Doctors
The Remnants mentioned The Timeless Child in The Ghost Monument
The Boneless were antagonists from another dimension in Flatline
It’s Artron Energy, not Archon Old Man
Donna’s fate in Journey’s End was very controversial

We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

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’s Code of Conduct
Unlike the classic-villain-free season which preceded it, the previous New Year’s Day special, Resolution, included a Dalek
Day of the Doctor was the amazing culmination of the 50th Anniversary Year
The Cartmel Master Plan was never really Cartmell’s master plan
Kylo Ren is a Star Wars villain
Omega & Rassillon were (two of?) the founders of Gallifrey
There was a Classic example of ‘contact’ in The Three Doctors
The Remnants mentioned The Timeless Child in The Ghost Monument
The Boneless were antagonists from another dimension in Flatline
It’s Artron Energy, not Archon Old Man
Donna’s fate in Journey’s End was very controversial

We are also at handwavium.net & on Twitter @handwavium

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Ep. 50 – The 50th Special

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 with Paul McGann can be heard on Radio Free Skaro #510
Steven Moffat was the show runner for Doctor Who from 2010-2017
Karn & the eponymous Sisterhood, first appeared in The Brain of Morbius
Coincidentally, The Sun Makers was set on Pluto
Britbox is not available in Australia, but we do have Youtube
Paul Cornell & Lizbeth Myles are writers who share a podcast, Hammer House of Podcast
Paul has written numerous Doctor Who Stories, including Father’s Day, Human Nature & The Family of Blood
Liz has written the 12th Doctor audio Distant Voices & forthcoming River Song adventure Abbey of Heretics
She can also be heard on Verity
Both Paul and Liz are blogging in the lead up to Xmas
What Paul said to himself that night, all those years ago, was a quote from The Outer Limits
The other, less impressive mini-episode was The Last Day
The Eight Doctor got his hair cut, & new outfit, in the Big Finish audio story Fugitives
The Brain of Morbius was written by Terrance Dicks & Robert Holmes
Gallifrey is the home of the Time Lords
The renown Discontinuity Guide was written by Paul, Martin Day & Keith Topping
The Sisterhood of Karn also appear in The Deadly Assassin
Ohila, played by Gilly Brown is not to be confused with Ohica, played by

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Ep. 52 – Is There Even a Word

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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 on, there’s no tricks.”
In The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End Ten nearly regenerates but keep his appearance by using a handy hand.
The sonic screwdriver first appeared during the 2nd Doctor’s time but wasn't a regular part of the show until later
YW thought Ruth was acting like the Master when he still thought he was a human in Utopia
Clara’s TARDIS initially has a Type 1 default interior
The Judoon first appeared on the moon
Nida Manzoor also directed Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror (not Spyfall, OM)
During Spyfall Part 1 the Master tells the Doctor, “everything that you think you know... is a lie”