The Cloister Room 002: An Unearthly Bald White Guy

08/16/10 • 36 min

It's the second episode of the new Cloister Room podcast, a podcast about Doctor Who and other things. This week, the "Doctor Who" is the very first episode of Doctor Who, "An Unearthly Child. The "Other Things" include VHS tapes, Sherlock, Tron, And a slew upcoming TV shows! If four a slew? If so it's a slew.

Next week, we'll be talking about "The Aztecs," featuring William Hartnell as the First Doctor. The week after that we'll be talking about a Second Doctor story... of your choosing! Comment here on this post, or leave an @ reply for @TheCloisterRoom on Twitter telling us which Second Doctor story we should discuss. Stories not on DVD are fine, but no stories with missing episodes are out. Sorry, I know that rules out a lot of great stuff, but we want to WATCH this and then discuss it.

Oh, and be sure to let us know what you think of the podcast, through either of those ways or by e-mail at [email protected].

Show topics:

00:00 - 01:25 - Introduction 01:26 - 04:33 - Billy fluffs, and general classic series chatter. 04:44 - 12:57 - An Unearthly Child discussion 12:58 - 15:43 - Pre-discussing The Aztecs... and a tangent about the merits of the VHS format. 15:44 - 16:50 - Doctor Who news - Soundtrack albums announced, and non-spoilery, months-old casting info on the Christmas specials. 16:51 - 19:23 - Sherlock discusssion [SPOILERS for episode 3] 19:24 - 20:53 - The future of Sherlock, in the UK and US 20:54 - 28:58 - Upcoming fall TV shows in the US [see below for links] 28:59 - 33:42 - Tron and Tron Legacy [no spoilers for either] 33:44 - end - Outroduction

Trailers:

The Event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4vumb8J-x8 The Cape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfJSZZpia0 Undercovers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIDRG1edDpg No Ordinary Family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDukZLfuz0

Oh, and be sure to let us know what you think of the podcast, through either of those ways or by e-mail at [email protected].

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Previous Episode

The Cloister Room Episode 001 (8 August 2010)

Welcome to the first episode of the new Cloister Room podcast, a podcast about Doctor Who and other things. This week, the "Doctor Who" is series Five, and the "Other Things" are Torchwood, Caprica, Inception, Sherlock, and Lost! And more! Well, not MUCH more, but a LITTLE more.

Next week, we'll be talking about An Unearthly child, and the week after that we'll be talking about another First Doctor story... of your choosing! Comment here on this post, or leave an @ reply for @TheCloisterRoom on Twitter telling us which First Doctor story we should discuss (other than An Unearthly Child, of course).

Oh, and be sure to let us know what you think of the podcast, through either of those ways or by e-mail at [email protected].

Show topics:

00:00-03:27 - Introduction 03:28-07:46 - Who is the mysterious voice in "The Pandorica Opens?" 07:47-11:52 - General Series Five Reactions 11:53-14:04 - BREAKING NEWS: MATT SMITH FIRED! REALLY! 14:05-16:36 - Torchwood: The New World 16:37-18:01 - More on Torchwood... and on Caprica. 18:02-22:14 - Inception (spoilers for ending) 22:15-27:25 - Sherlock (first two episodes, no explicit spoilers) 27:26-34:01 - Lost finale discussion (spoilers, of course) 34:02-end - Outroduction

Next Episode

The Cloister Room 003: This is my Sacrifice Face

It's the third episode of the new Cloister Room podcast, a podcast about Doctor Who and other things. This week, the "Doctor Who" is the William Hartnell story "The Aztecs." Get your sacrifice face on. The "Other Things" include Torchwood, Caprica, Battlestar Galactica, The Legend of Zelda, and even the upcoming Eric Roberts vehicle "Sharktopus!"

Next week, we'll be talking about "The War Games," featuring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. The week after that we'll be talking about a Third Doctor story... of your choosing! Comment here on this post, or leave an @ reply for @TheCloisterRoom on Twitter telling us which Third Doctor story we should discuss. Stories not on DVD are fine!

Oh, and be sure to let us know what you think of the podcast, through either of those ways or by e-mail at [email protected].

Show topics:

00:00-01:27 - Intro

01:28-09:11 - The Aztecs

09:12-11:47 - Next week: The War Games! (and other banter)

11:48-14:04 - Torchwood: The New World (spoilers, if you don't want to hear about the character descriptions published by Starz)

14:05-17:22 - Third episode of the Doctor Who Adventure Game announced! BUT...

17:23-21:16 - ...IS IT CANON?

21:17-27:23 - Caprica finale discussion

27:24-30:37 - Battlestar Webisodes (and "finding the fun" in the Battlestar-verse)

30:38-32:29 - The future of Caprica

32:30 - end - Outroduction