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Radio Free Skaro #1043 – Tip Toe and Son

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It’s a veritable tsunami of The War Between the Land and the Sea news this week, including a trailer, a new episode of the Whoniverse Show, Turf and Surf behind the scenes VAM, a reassurance from RTD that yes, he will eventually write a 2026 Xmas special, deleted scenes, dollies, figurines, AND part the fourth of our retrospective of Children of Earth! Have a listen, and then take a nap!

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#bigFinish #bridgingTheRift #characterOptions #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #heavenSent #hoopla #merchandise #rachelTalalay #radioFreeSkaro #radioTimes #russellTDavies #season2 #series10 #series9 #theStarBeast #theWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea #theWhoniverseShow #torchwoodChildrenOfEarth

One definition of insanity frequently shared on social media is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, and that is basically me with watching episodes of nu-Who. This post brought to you by my watching the shouting and the alternation between lamer comedy and lamer emo moments of the recent "The Star Beast", interspersed with occasional bursts of bombast.

#DoctorWho #TheStarBeast

#DoctorWho’s #CatherineTate ‘#honoured’ to play #mother of a #trans #child: ‘I’m all your #mamas’

Tate briefly revived her #role as the #Doctor’s #companion, #DonnaNoble, in “#TheStarBeast”, the first of the three 60th #anniversary #special #episodes last November.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Representation #Culture

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/08/doctor-who-catherine-tate-trans-rose-noble-yasmin-finney/

Book Review: Doctor Who: The Star Beast by Gary Russell
#ReaderCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookCommunity #Reading #Books #BookReview #Review #DoctorWho #60thAnniversary #TheStarBeast #DonnaNoble #Anniversary #BBC #Novelisation #Novelization

http://georgelthomas.com/2024/04/12/book-review-doctor-who-the-star-beast-by-gary-russell/

I watched an episode of Doctor Who tonight. The Star Beast with The bloody Meep.

It was interesting.

However, I'm not going to make this a habit. Yes, way back when, I watched every episode I could lay my hands on. I even bought some episodes on VHS. (I no longer have them.)

Those times are over.

#DoctorWho #TheStarBeast #TheMeep

YouTube Tipp ▶️
The Best of #TheStarBeast | #DoctorWho #bbc #disney+
https://youtu.be/5ABaEMvb-tE?si=HYB9lNvW0_egU3Zn

“It has to be stressed that this number of complaints represent an incredibly small fraction of Doctor Who’s audience: 7.6 million people watched “The Star Beast” within the first week of its broadcast in the UK, making it one of the most-watched shows in the country that week as well as one of the most-viewed and best-received episodes of the show in several years. For the most part, that audience then stuck around, and, would you believe it, Doctor Who was not immediately ruined forever for including a trans teen. They’re still making it, even!”

#DoctorWho #TheStarBeast #Trans

Finally catching up on #DoctorWho, and sharing some thoughts. #TheStarBeast was very silly fun. Has this show always been this silly?

What I found a bit annoying is its wokeness. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for LGBTQI+ representation but it felt very in my face in this episode. Look, a trans character! Did we mention she's trans? Look, look, look!

NuWho always had great LGBTQI+ chars, but they were always just there, and a normal part of the story, and that was awesome and how it should be.

Not Everyone is Laughing at The Giggle

It’s Monday, as I type this. Earlier today, Simon and I recorded our session on #TheGiggle. Although we generally avoid listening to other opinions before we record, it was not lost on us that all the feedback we had seen online so far was pretty much positive.

Can you enjoy(ish) an episode and still find it maddeningly annoying? Listen and find out.

With the Giggle, there was “the story,” and then there was “the gargantuan seismic event that made the Flux look trivial.” It made for a long conversation, and I have broken it into two parts, which will be released over two consecutive days. Part One has already been released for our patrons on Patreon and will be released to everyone else on Saturday (UTC-07).

Menace Beneath the Waves

Yes, we did manage to get the time to record our podcast on the #UnderwaterMenace this past week, and it will be out on December 23rd, just in time for Christmas. Some might say it’s a Christmas miracle, but I wouldn’t.

This is our second take on the Underwater Menace, the first being back in 2016 when they released the story on DVD with the worst photo snap reconstruction in the history of time itself. It was so bad the Time Lords declared the whole thing a war crime.

Now, fully animated, it’s time to reconsider the story. It’s out now in the UK and will be released in the US in early January.

Onramp to the Fediverse

There’s a lot of trial and error involved in getting on board the Fediverse. This week, it has felt mostly like error.

When we first connected, everything we posted went live on the Fediverse. Yes, that’s more or less what we wanted, but there are no backsies. Once it’s out there, it cannot be removed.

Imagine my horror when it posted the scheduled post of #TheStarBeast and included the entire post, including the synopsis.

If you’re listening to Fusion Patrol, you know that there will be spoilers – the very premise of the podcast is that you have to watch the show first (or not be concerned with spoilers.) This is why I have no problem including the synopsis on the website; however, what goes out on the Fediverse serves a couple of different purposes, one of which is to try to induce new listeners to join us. To do that, you have to flag down people who, in the case of the Star Beast, are interested in #DoctorWho, so the content needs to be different, and basically just blasting out the entire plot line of a brand new TV show without content warning was just bad manners.

And there’s no way to delete it and try again.

I’ve not yet found a workaround, so this week’s #WildBlueYonder went out with no synopsis. That’s not ideal either, but for the moment, it will have to do.

This week, we also (finally) managed to get a test website up – this allows me to test changes to the Fusion Patrol website and the Fediverse integration without flooding your feeds with test messages. So far, every idea I’ve tried to reach a compromise has failed.

Release Schedule

SeriesEpisodeRelease DatePatreon
Release DateDoctor WhoThe Giggle (Part 1 of 1)Dec 16, 2023Dec 11, 2023Doctor WhoThe Giggle (Part 2 of 2)Dec 17, 2013Dec 12, 2023Doctor WhoThe Underwater MenaceDec 23, 2023Dec 16, 2023Doctor WhoThe Church on Ruby RoadDec 30, 2023Dec 27, 2023 (est)BugsNuclear FamilyJan 6, 2023Dec 30, 2023Neo Ultra QBusinessman from the Sky/
Pandora’s CaveJan 13, 2023Jan 6, 2023I have little or no doubt this finely-crafted table looks like poo on the Fediverse.

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Watching DOCTOR WHO 2023 60th-anniversary episode #2 of 3 - "The Star Beast"

#DoctorWho #DavidTennant #CatherineTate #TenthDoctor #FourteenthDoctor #DonnaNoble #Meep #MiriamMargolyes #TheStarBeast #RuthMadeley #KarlCollins #YasminFinney #RoseNoble #SylviaNoble #ShaunTemple #Wilf

Promotional poster for Doctor Who 2023 60th-anniversary episode #1 of 3. It shows actors David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) in a burning industrial building. The Doctor looks toward the camera with a tense expression while something else to the left of the viewer seems to have caught Donna's attention. A white-furred creature with circular yellow eyes and rounded pink ears crouches behind the Doctor with a fearful expression. The Doctor wears a dark-gray trench coat, a light-colored button-down shirt, dark-colored tie & vest, dark plaid trousers, and Converse shoes. Donna wears a dark-colored coat and what looks like a multi-colored sweater top. The Doctor has their left hand extended toward the viewer with fingers splayed, while activating a sonic screwdriver in their right hand.

Really back into #DoctorWho!
The new specials were so fun, but that's not that hard, when you get Tennant & Tate back in the TARDIS. 😅

All in all #WildBlueYonder was by far my favourite. #TheGiggle & #TheStarbeast were good, but I found the Toymaker to be quite underwhelming.

Also finally got the BBC-Prime-channel to watch #Flux & 13th's specials, I haven't seen yet.
I thoroughly enjoy Flux & am still glad Chibnall put DW into a different gear for a while. It needs it from time to time imho.

First day of #holiday, watching #DavidTennant as #TheDoctor in #TheStarBeast and drinking #StPeters #WinterAle. Does it get any better than this?

Omg! The Oodcast dropped an episode and I had no idea! Excitement!! #DoctorWho #FiveStarBeast #TheStarBeast

https://overcast.fm/+BzS9MIYzA

I think I enjoyed #DoctorWho #WildBlueYonder even more than #TheStarBeast

SPOILERS

Finally could watch #TheStarBeast
Some minor flaws imo concerning how they connected Rose's transness with the whole binary/non-binary scenario. (When she didn't even seem to be non-binary.)
But all in all, this was so FUN + felt like DW!
And I have to love the Meep. Miriam Margolyes of all people and I had no idea!! She did a fantastic job!