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There are many Doctor Who podcasts. Only one dares review the entire show... in entirely random order!
Join journalists Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor as they summarize stories in record time, play the Whomoji game, enter the History Corner, answer the Four Questions to Doomsday, and cower in fear before the almighty Randomizer.
New episode every Saturday!
Join journalists Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor as they summarize stories in record time, play the Whomoji game, enter the History Corner, answer the Four Questions to Doomsday, and cower in fear before the almighty Randomizer.
New episode every Saturday!
Did the Doctor REALLY Commit Genocide in 'Terror of the Vervoids?' - Doctor Who
Burning a New Leaf (Mulching Doctor Who's “Terror of the Vervoids”): Terror of the Vervoids isn’t exactly the greatest Doctor Who story ever. Those plant-based villains were just … weird. But this bizarre aria from Colin Baker’s long swan song is now surprisingly relevant to the age of Ncuti. Why does Mel just appear out of nowhere? Is the Doctor just allowed to browse his future, or is there something more sinister at play? Pour a nice cool carrot juice, and don’t rage-quit the pod when we bring Sutekh’s gift of headcanon!
Intro 00:00:00
Previously… 00:01:58
Whomoji Challenge 00:06:52
POLL To Open 00:11:23
TL;DW 00:16:32
Commentary: Terror of the Vervains 00:19:40
Four Questions to Doomsday 01:06:09
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:09:45
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:16:22
Final Judgment 01:20:21
Randomizer! 01:26:41
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Story Essentials
Season 23, Serial 3
Story number: 145, per the The Pull To Open Codex bit.ly/3FHKJNK
Writer: Pip and Jane Baker
Director: Chris Clough
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Aired 1 - 22 November 1986
Pull To Open: The Trial of a Time Lord - Terror of the Vervoids
Season 5
Episode 30
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish bit.ly/3WagZRq
© AnyWho Media 2024
Intro 00:00:00
Previously… 00:01:58
Whomoji Challenge 00:06:52
POLL To Open 00:11:23
TL;DW 00:16:32
Commentary: Terror of the Vervains 00:19:40
Four Questions to Doomsday 01:06:09
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:09:45
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:16:22
Final Judgment 01:20:21
Randomizer! 01:26:41
Subscribe to our newsletter for extended notes on The Trial of a Time Lord - Terror of the Vervoids: www.pulltoopen.net/
Please consider becoming a patron of Pull To Open on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PullToOpen
Subscribe to the Pull To Open podcast: bit.ly/3PcK6R3
Follow us on TikTok! bit.ly/3BGVZJJ
...and Instagram: bit.ly/3W20LJq
...and Twitter: bit.ly/3VZU3U5
...and Threads: bit.ly/3M9JDyQ
...and Facebook: bit.ly/3QJ9obO
...and Bluesky: bit.ly/407o7Rd
Subscribe to Pull To Open on your favorite podcast platform : bit.ly/3PcK6R3
Please leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3uBzySe
Story Essentials
Season 23, Serial 3
Story number: 145, per the The Pull To Open Codex bit.ly/3FHKJNK
Writer: Pip and Jane Baker
Director: Chris Clough
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Aired 1 - 22 November 1986
Pull To Open: The Trial of a Time Lord - Terror of the Vervoids
Season 5
Episode 30
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish bit.ly/3WagZRq
© AnyWho Media 2024
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The Dying Game (HOT TAKE: Doctor Who's "Empire of Death"): Is it getting dusty in here? “Empire of Death” delivers a canon bomb that changes 49 years of Doctor Who history, alongside an emotional twist at the end. If you’re not crying Ncuti Gatwa-style at Ruby and her mum, check to see if you just crumbled into dust. But does the rest of the finale work? And is the Doctor a bad dog owner now? J...
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My doctor and damn badass !😍
It was Essex
Hello! I am trying to remember if you guys mentioned that you'd be attending LI Who con and recording a podcast/panel there this weekend in a previous Pull to Open? If so, what is the panel called?
He never had a fragile ego, the bs you out out. Honestly.
The Tom Bakers years was when Doctor who reached its peak after Tom Baker left the serious it started to go down hill from there.
Your theory about Richard E. Grant as the Valeyard is really interesting. From what I remember, the last and perhaps ONLY onscreen reference to the Valeyard was made in series 7 by the Great Intelligence, played by none other than Richard E. Grant…
The Doctor is incorrigibly meddlesome.
It really should be on his business card at this point
I wonder if Mel would have been better received if she was only in this story. But of course, that world have meant a brand new doctor and brand new companion at the beginning of season 24. The continuity-obsessed 80s wouldn't have allowed that.
Interesting thought. It would have been bold, for sure - almost a confirmation that the Doctor has large swaths of adventures with random companions that we never see - basically a nod that all Big Finishes, novels and comics are or could be canon. Now that I think about it, I like it!
The Vervoids remind me of an interview about Troll 2, where the director was mad that all of his friends were becoming vegetarians. It feels like a bad arguement against vegetarianism. "If you're worried about the feelings of the animals we eat, what if the plants could feel?"
Motivation aside, it's an interesting thought experiment. What if there was no moral component to what you ate, since both plants and animals suffered equally? If it was all just down to health and taste, would it make any difference what you chose?
I can imagine the Vervoid teaming up with the Krynoids. My favorite plant DW story.
Maybe the giant fungi from Mechanus could be their foot soldiers
@@PullToOpen Seeds of Doom is a favorite of mine with a great human villain.
Ah. Maybe try... er, online alternatives 😇
I can’t find a good quality video of this scene anywhere and it’s really annoying 😭
Maybe the Blu-ray?
@@PullToOpen I meant On CZcams.
It was nice to see that Michael Jayston got to do some BF audios as the War Yaleyard.
I just realised something, and thought I'd put it in the comments here: In The Legend of Ruby Sunday, Kate doesn't know who Susan is. But in Day of The Doctor, there are photos of Susan in The Black Archive, and we know Kate's memory doesn't get wiped while entering or leaving the archive. Oopsie poopsie Russell?
Maybe they had Susan's photo and knew she was important to the Doctor but didn't know exactly who she was
@@PullToOpen Yeah, it's on brand for UNIT to stalk anyone who's been in spitting distance of a TARDIS 🤣
Jon Pertwee was an awesome actor and he was the first Doctor I saw
💯
The Doctor also had multiple goodbyes with Amy too.
True, but Clara must have the record
She confirmed this was not her idea
Oh, interesting. When?
@@PullToOpen on the conversation with extra on Terminus on the Season 20 Blu-ray. She may be remembering wrong as apparently it was her idea according to a book she featured in the 80s.
Was cool to hear you talk about the point I brought up in one of your comment sections about Trenzalore. I'm sad I missed seeing this live! Love to see you boys just talk Who
Thanks, dude! It was a great comment - something we wonder about often
Love this pod x
It’s good to see Angus Lennie as the innkeeper. Who was in the Ice Warriors previously and from the classic The Great Escape.
Ah, Terror of the Zygons. The DW story so Scottish that it opens up with a line about haggis.
...and ends with a line about penny-pinching. Scots are a frugal people, I guess 🤷🏻♂️
Of the episodes I've watched on the channel since I found you, this was the first Whomoji to stump me. I felt so silly after!
Not obvious, definitely. Chris getting it on the second try *almost* redeems that facepalmer with Caves of Androzani
That deleted scene you spoke of,the DVD release had it as an optional addition to the story.
Noted!
“Is half power lethal?”
Could have been, and that's why the Doctor's a hero
The TARDIS has turned invisible before.
Not intentionally, as a feature, though. Stuff like Keeper of Traken is usually an external force
@@PullToOpenThere’s an earlier DW story that has the TARDIS invisible. I wasn’t sure you’ve both seen it or not. I didn’t want to give the title if neither you had seen it.
To paraphrase the 10th Doctor,Chris. “No don’t do that, don’t do that.”😊😊
😆
loved that callback
Mel’s introduction was bad cause she didn’t have one
Yeah, it's too bad Bonnie Langford never got the pleasure of meeting the Doctor for the first time. At least the novels stepped in with Business Unusual, so it's there if you want to include it in your canon.
Pretty sure the 'cloisters' themselves are cultural or religious buildings. With TARIDSes having miniture copies of them, also holding the eoh
The Time Lords love their traditions and ritual, definitely.
I always got the impression that he was just as fond of Jo as the Doctor was. In an almost step-dad versus real dad sort of way.
Love that analogy!
@@PullToOpen Thanks
A Brigadier in the British Army earns on average £108,000 ($138,394) per year. More than enough to afford a Mercedes.
tbh that ain't a lot of money these days. a Lexus, maybe
Scary Rhubarb 😮
😝
Douglas Adams does it again
The guy was a wunderkind, no doubt
This is a thought I only just had and I wanted to share it with you guys because of your 'Clara splinter' section of your episodes; the timeline that Clara stepped into ended with the Doctor's death on Trenzalore right? So after time was changed in Time of The Doctor, there shouldn't actually be Clara splinters after that point, because the timeline literally didn't go that far. I find your Clara splinter section fun and you should keep it going! I only just realised this is all, thought you might be interested. 😅
It's timey-wimey, certainly. I think I follow, but who's to say there isn't some future where the Doctor eventually DOES get buried on Trenzalore? It could all come back around again.
@@PullToOpen There IS always a twist at the end. True.
There was never any police boxes there all just different doctors landing in London and seeing the tardis at a different point in time cloaked to look like a police box and cloaking to look like that
kinda makes sense...
Yo shoutout to Dalek that Time Forgot, I remember watching that years ago, it was brilliant
wasn't it? One of the best fan-made videos
i love sarah jane. i loved her spin off and binge watched it cos it was so good! not to far from where i live, there’s a car that’s identical to the one in the show that sarah had. it always puts a smile on my face when i see it. RIP Liz ❤️🕊️
simply the best 👏🏻
Worth reading the actor David Banks’ wonderful book “Doctor Who - Cybermen”. It’s all in here as to why there are different versions & “tribes” of Cybermen. Met David (who played the Cyber leader for many years in the series when Dr Who went on tour in the UK. Lovely man. Also, Michael Kilgarriff who played the Cyber Controller in “Tomb”, reprised his role in “Attack of the Cybermen”, so it’s the same Controller. All in David’s book. Thanks for posting this, bought back great memories!
Love that book! Slow to get going, but he really did his best to unite all the depictions of the Cybermen into a single vision
This episode messed up my mind very black mirror vibes
If you thought this had Black Mirror vibes, Dot and Bubble must have shattered that record
Recently discovered your channel, love listening to your reviews when I'm crocheting 😊 The Tsuranga Conundrum's one of my fave Jodie Whittaker episodes + found your review super interesting + entertaining
Welcome aboard! Glad you found the review interesting even though we, uh, might not have loved it 😬
Its also a direct callback to Three where his first companion of the era, Liz Shaw, tells him that he needs someone to explain things to.
Nice connection!
Yet this is a better plot point than the timeless child
You know clara did that aswell the tardis took years to come back to the doctor on trenzelore
Tom Baker and Liz Sladen best ever.
Can't disagree
My favorite duo who shared the best chemistry on screen together were the 7th Doctor and Ace.
No question they were something special
No sugars here in tea or coffee. That stuff is absolutely constrained - for the cakes and boscuits
Y’all are wrong for that intro 😂
😇
That was a VERY cheeky intro with the audio clips you naughty boys
😈