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Season 9, Episode 20 (Dec 15, 2025): · Warp My Tardis Podcast

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  Welcome to Walk My Tardis, a podcast production of the fandom Frontier Network.
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  [Music]
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  And welcome once again to Walk My Tardis Podcast here on the fandom Frontier Podcast Network.
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  I'm KJ the comic guy and this is not our usual recording day.
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  No, it is not. But he is also joined by Security Dan.
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  Yes, in white, in that place.
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  This is what happens when we go on non-regular days but that was mainly my fault.
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  Well, no, the Franken must have to happen.
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  Yes.
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  So that was important.
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  And it's a tradition between you and other people that we know and specifically,
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  you know, it has to do with our good friend who, you know, people would think was
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  a good friend.
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  Our friend Leon Neon.
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  Leon Neon or the artist currently formerly known as Leon Neon, which strangely feels
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  appropriate.
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  It actually does.
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  Yes.
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  Now, it's a dear friend of mine and I introduced her to Ken.
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  We played Coriolis. They played Intergalactic, Extra Nair Rockstar, Leon Neon.
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  Yes.
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  Basically Ziggy Stardust, but Spacy.
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  And they have made appearances in various other media.
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  But again, I've been long term friends and over the holidays to be non-denominational and
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  entirely inclusive as possible because there was a lot of hydrogues that ensued.
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  And she also has like a seven or eight-foot tall paper mache Frankenstein.
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  It's a home decoration.
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  We celebrate Frankenmas where a ridiculous amount of cheese is consumed.
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  A nice short, short, couldri spread is put out.
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  The cat is ordered from eating anything off the tables because cat and an F.A.G. of cheese,
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  primarily velvita and cream cheese, is melted down to pass on a good cheer and get rid of
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  and cleanse our bad intentions.
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  So yes, that was a thing that I had to attend to on a regular shooting day.
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  It was worth it.
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  The tradition lives on.
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  So, you know, now having done that, it actually prepared us a little bit better for an unfortunate
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  tragic event that happened this week.
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  So a little bit of news.
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  Part of this channel is doing sci-fi and fantasy.
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  And falling under the fantasy category or little movies like, oh, I don't know, The Princess
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  Bride.
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  We were saddened to hear about the tragic loss of Rob Reiner and his wife this week.
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  Yeah.
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  And the same news around that.
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  It needs to be said.
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  I mean, there have been other tragedies over the weekend.
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  Oh, my God.
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  The Australia tragedy, the Bondi Beach and the Brown University shooting at Brown University
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  in Providence, Rhode Island.
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  So we're not, we are not, we're not saying this to mitigate those tragedies, but in terms
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  of our current milieu of sci-fi and fantasy again.
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  And the response has been interesting and heartbreaking and heartfelt.
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  I mean, we're, we hear what my Tartis are huge fans of the Princess Bride.
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  It has definitely come up on more than one occasion during our gameplays through various
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  things, whether it's, you know, out in the, you know, out in the outer reaches of space
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  in the third horizon or, you know, while we're dealing with rifts and shenanigans in a
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  bit more fantastical setting.
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  You know, I do not think that means what you think it means.
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  Well.
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  You know, okay, I nearly, I nearly misquoted and was going to say something space balls
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  ish because I was like, no, funny.
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  They don't look Jewish, but that was, that was, that was this morning, that was this morning
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  on our, our rift kickers chat that we use for all those of us who are, you know, in the
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  rift kickers, the shattered heart D&D campaign.
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  Yes.
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  That is you can listen to every once in a while over on Geeks with dice, a sister show here
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  on the fandom frontier podcast network, which you can find at fandom frontier dot CA.
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  Also look for us on our social media.
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  That would be on Instagram on threads and Facebook and Instagram threads Facebook.
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  Got them.
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  Yes.
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  Which would be good.
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  Yeah.
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  And then, you know, work my Tartis, but also work my Tartis at fandom frontier dot CA for
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  email.
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  Anyway, no, this morning, we were, we threw a couple of, of, of big Mel Brooks, space balls
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  quotes out on there because, you know, I see your bag and your storage is as big as mine.
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  Yes.
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  One of our fellow players in rift kickers, he's evolving his ability to carry dice and
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  miniatures and books and initially it was a small carry case that he had purchased off
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  of was it Timo or Ali Express?
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  I can't remember.
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  One of the two.
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  Yeah.
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  It was one of them.
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  Unfortunately, the first one that he got, although, which was a very slick case, had a
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  bit of an odor, a very strong odor, which he tried everything and it still wouldn't
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  go.
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  And eventually he upgraded and then eventually he has realized, oh no, since I want to actually
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  carry the physical book and be able to make a reference, especially the players handbook
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  and those who play, no, well, he's had to upgrade his kit to a much larger bag.
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  In order to do, well, I think at this point, depending on how many books he decides to carry,
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  he could also fit snacks in there.
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  Yes.
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  I think that's not enough.
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  As many pockets, so by the many pockets.
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  Yeah, but and so doing and of course this led to a discussion in rabbit hole of, you know,
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  dice, dice goblins, yes, kit, miniature purchases and many quotes from the Princess bride and
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  space balls and and and there's that but bring it back to Rob Reiner.
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  He has a legacy of films both science fiction and or sorry, both fantasy and drama that
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  are certainly memorable.
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  His father obviously has another legacy of acting and directing and a lot of creativity.
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  I mean, I remember what helped me get through the pandemic.
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  I'm sure it was for many of our listeners and yourself, KJ was the pandemic version of
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  the Princess bride where you had all the various actors playing different roles and just
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  killing it, right?
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  Because it was it was so well put together in as much as it's like people in their backyards
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  doing stuff and then playing off of, you know, dummies because they're effectively doing
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  it solo and realizing that, okay, in the age of content creators and YouTube, this was
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  wholesome content and the fact that it was Carla and Rob that did the closing for that
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  version of the Princess bride was, you know, it hit hard.
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  Yeah.
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  And nowadays to it hits harder because the context of what's going on and we're still,
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  you know, we don't we haven't been given the details of what's going on.
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  We know, I mean, we know that his son has been arrested.
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  We know that it's it's incredibly tumultuous circumstances, especially given the time of
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  year, given the everything.
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  Yeah.
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  But the entertainment community has reached out a huge way.
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  A lot of of dedication is a lot of memorials going up.
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  Unfortunately also and I'm not to be political, but an awful lot of bad publicity and bad
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  press for the great giant Orange Cheeto.
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  Yes.
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  But I mean, like I was watching Kevin Bacon's discussion on that one.
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  Watching the words from Carrie Uls and Mandy Patenkin and a lot of the celebrities there.
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  And it's very clear that at the very least, you know, he was very well loved by the community.
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  And you know, it's going to be a thing.
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  We are in an age that we pointed this out before that there's going to be a lot of celebrities
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  that are older that are going to pass.
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  Unfortunately, this one was not a natural circumstance, but again, we don't know.
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  But in our heart goes out to that and, you know, hopefully, hopefully we have better times
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  in the near future.
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  But there was another celebrity death that we didn't really talk to.
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  And I'm trying to remember, I have the name in front of me and I remember the role.
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  He played the actual bad guy in the mask.
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  Oh, yes.
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  And he's been around for a long, long time.
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  Peter Green.
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  Yes, thank you.
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  And he was in the mask.
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  He was in pulp fiction.
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  He's been in a lot of movies and a lot of TV shows.
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  Again, another great character actor.
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  I remember more recently seeing him in justified.
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  And he's known for those roles.
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  He had a distinctive look.
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  Apparently, yeah, he died at age 60.
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  Yeah.
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  But it's kind of scary when you go back and start looking at some of these guys and you look
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  at their total career and everything they did.
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  And you're like, I didn't know he was in that.
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  I didn't know he was in that.
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  He was in that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's just more and more.
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  And you just end up running down a rabbit hole and going, I can't believe that he was in
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  all of these things.
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  Yeah.
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  And the mask kind of falls under fantasy.
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  It's a bit more calm.
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  While it is, it is from a comic book, but the movie version was far more family friendly
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  and compared to the original comic source.
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  But he could play a villain very well.
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  Like you believe to him as the character actor villain.
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  And that's something that you want.
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  At least in terms of if you're going to go big, go big.
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  And I think some characters are better suited for that role and you need a good villain.
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  You need someone who's going to be strong about it.
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  And I mean, the classic trope is the fact that at least in a superhero or comic book-esque
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  thing, playing the heroes all one good, but it's hard to keep them interesting when you
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  have a villain that gets to chew the scenery.
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  So.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So.
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  But yeah, there's tragedy in the tragedy, but hopefully again, we're in a season where
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  it's the near the end of the year.
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  I can imagine that a lot of us are kind of over 2025, even though it's still around for a
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  few more weeks.
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  Yep.
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  And we're going to talk to that in just a little bit.
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  But before we talk to that and talking about things ending and wrapping up, there's been
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  a lot of social media posts on individual pages as well as on general pages having to
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  do with Star Trek Strange New Worlds and the wrapping of the principal photography here
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  in Mississauga, the West End of Toronto, that we've seen Jess Bush post her final day.
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  We've seen Christina Chong post her final day.
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  It's we're getting to the point it's wrapping up.
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  We know that we're not going to see the next installation or installation.
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  I guess the installment of Strange New Worlds until either end 26 or early 2027 and then
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  we'll get the final piece.
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  And it's it's kind of bittersweet for us because we followed Strange New Worlds became
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  just passion for you and I as far as bringing us back into the world of Star Trek, even
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  more so than what Picard did.
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  Yeah.
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  Look, here's the thing, Picard was interested because we all I mean Patrick Stewart became
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  such an icon and Picard became such a touchstone because you had this sort of quiet dignity
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  for a character that felt more like as opposed to Captain Kirk who would be a bit more running
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  gun in your face and they tried to do that with Picard it didn't quite land whereas Picard
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  was more than negotiator.
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  He felt like the passions were more diplomacy first and I mean it was rocky but it was a great
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  principle and it was nice to kind of see a few of the old friends but then then you take
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  a look at how season three ended up because a budget they had to cut cast for season
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  one and two and then they changed things around where it felt more like a genuine reunion
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  and a love letter right in at a time where you had discovery that wasn't middly rocky and
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  yet I'm doing my rewatch and I'm starting to appreciate it a lot more than I did when
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  it was actually airing.
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  I think because I'm watching it on my schedule and same thing with Laura Dex, Laura Dex was
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  always a fan love letter but not that you didn't have to watch it didn't have to be a fan
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  to appreciate it but it helped if you knew the lore so the problem with this lore Dex is
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  it had a lot more baggage with it in such a way that you needed to know the lore to really
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  really get the deep cuts that they're sending at you.
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  It felt so far afield and then finally when you take a look at say strange in worlds it understood
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  some of the issues that people had with discovery but then it had or it has it's not done it's
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  not going to be done for another couple of years.
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  Damn it but it has a particular heart to it that I don't think we've seen in a long time
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  in science fiction because it's still it feels like it tried to mash our current feelings
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  and sentiments and requirements of hope with that kind of camp wonder that we had with
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  the original series.
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  With a lot more forth thought towards where the characters are going and the fact that
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  we know that a lot of the principal cast are not going to be there in the end.
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  It's going to be a new cast because of course it has to naturally lead to Kirk's Enterprise
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  and the adventures in TOS right but then it made you actually I feel compared to every
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  other Trek.
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  SNW makes you appreciate almost every single one of the bridge characters and and of course
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  the medical right.
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  Yeah that's why I like when it's what there's a much more balanced show.
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  I mean let's face it.
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  Strange New Worlds gives us a balance of engineering it gave us much more of what went
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  on in the medical bay and in research labs it gave us a much stronger view of the bridge
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  but not only the bridge but also briefing rooms interactions with other ships that we
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  didn't really see in original series.
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  Very little interactions with the classic villains so no Romulans really no the Goren became
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  the primary like not had the klingons we've not had the Romulans we've not had you know
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  a bunch of those other creatures and humanoids very few I mean you know there was more with
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  the klingons when it was discovery.
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  Yeah but that's the thing too like I mean we were talking at this in the pre show Jess Bush
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  has wrapped she's already back home but then you start to see the creative soul of her because
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  I mean when you that she was an alternative artist and who has a very deep affinity for bugs
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  but apparently she was the one who put together a photos scrapbook for the entire cast and
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  I mean it's exclusive to them and a few of them like Anson Mount have posted okay here's
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  a few snippets that without spoiling anything this is how thoughtful Jess was or is right
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  Christina Chong has posted her that she's wrapped right and the legacy of the like I mean
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  she's excited it's there as anyone who has listened to at least our version of the podcast
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  they know I've met her you know and they know how much I appreciate her work so there is
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  that I and it was interesting too because there's another actor Ontario born Den Genote who plays
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  George Samuel Kirk you know this is a the xenobiologist and I was scrolling his socials
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  and he posted for the first time he's like like no like like someone pinched me for the fact
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  that you know I got to be part of this ride and here's some of the behind the scenes high
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  jinx where you have effectively a dude that was that started off at least to the audience
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  in the original series as a mustashod what's it called William Schattner yeah right to
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  this one character that became both a goofball and kind of a character you want to root for
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  you also we also know that martin Quinn has wrapped I believe yes right and answered obviously
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  has answered mountain has definitely posted more frequently about like the coming days like
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  it the end is coming right but he's still excited for the ride wouldn't change it for the
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  world which you're like you start to realize oh man it's it's gonna be interesting right because
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  when you that trek would have to go through its rocky periods which I would argue would be
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  discovery when you that there was going to be haters that are going to go throughout for
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  both discovery Picard a lower dex and strange new worlds and people are going to argue about
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  politicization and wokeness and all that stuff and yet you know here it is with still a lot more
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  legs that's going to be better sweet right and and it's still I think we've talked about this almost
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  every single show we've shot for what my turtis right because that's the light pretty much pretty
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  much that's it you're right right so and that's something that again we're gonna hopefully in the
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  future with cons and and the thing will get a better chance because this is one of a few crews
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  that I would kind of like to meet like they they they made it such thing actually in the pre-show
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  I also mentioned too that there was some online talk not that we don't know what we're going to see
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  for season three and four but or sorry four and five rather but they've done such a good job of
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  having characters there that typically that they've almost gone the the full circle galaxy quest root of
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  you know Sam Rockwell's character as random dude who all if who eventually gets a speaking role
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  and a name as opposed to just generic red shirt right so he was named guy and then it it almost makes
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  it that I want to see say there's a secondary character named named Jenna Mitchell played by wrong
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  foo and she's usually found on the bridge trading looks with with Melissa Navi as or take us yeah and
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  she's had a few speaking lines and I'm like she's almost the o'Brien of the crew because a Brian didn't
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  have to say much on TNG you'll say he didn't get to say much on T. Yeah but but there was a particular
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  you know there's a particular particular character that you see in her that I'm thinking back to
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  season one where she's there and she gets a in the fantasy episode where they talk about Benga's
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  daughter you know she gets to go up against Melissa and in the kind of a weird dnd ask fantasy sequence
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  and then you see her in season three where Pike goes up to her and says hey you should take a break
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  and she's like with respects or I'm sticking around right and you're like for a tertiary character
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  you're like I want to know more about like where some of these these people end up yeah yeah agree
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  yeah and I kind of would I would like to see at least give me a give me a little bit more of a give
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  me a bit more cheese when it comes to like at least a bit more speaking roles of the secondary
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  the tertiary character doing stuff at least an episode yeah yeah so yeah no I can see that and I agree
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  with that there's there's an awful lot that could be done that can be done that there's so many
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  so many characters that just haven't been able to shine yet yes and we'll see what happens when
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  in January we get Star Trek Starfleet Academy yes we're now looking forward to that the the
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  amount of spoiler trailers that have come out and everything the official and and leaks footage
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  there's a lot to it well you know Paul Gematti chewing all of the scenery is nothing new yeah
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  it'll be interesting how they play it because right now we don't know who the we don't know enough
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  about the characters despite the fact that yes there's been some early snippets and screenshots and
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  people kind of none too happy about it we do have a friend of ours that is sitting there going yeah
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  I'm not even gonna bother trying and I'm like okay that's a bit of a that's a take it's a take
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  so there is that but we'll see um in terms of that there hasn't really really been much
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  on the Star Wars front on the Star Trek front obviously you know some people have been privileged to
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  get the new LEGO Star Trek uh USS Enterprise D uh the unfortunate comedy is there's uh
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  there's uh the dedication plaque that most ships come with it does have a miniaturized copy of that
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  sort of and apparently there was a typo yeah we're trying to today uh breeze and I were trying to
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  figure that one out and we pulled it up and had a good laugh at the fact that as opposed to boldly
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  someone wrote boldi or it looks like baldy baldy baldy go where's where no one has gone before
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  well well and then and then you saw that they corrected it but made another mistake yes
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  so so I was like uh you know if I was selfish and in it for the money then I would leave the box
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  closed because I I got one of the first gen ones I assume uh but but yeah it will not I win its box
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  yeah I will say this Christmas build I will say this though somebody somebody out there in the in
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  the internet world bought two oh yes and and did the uh yeah and they they went and then combined the
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  two to create the Enterprise D um modified yes that would be from all good things from TNG where you
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  have admiral riker flying the the updated or captaining the updated enterprise e which had a mega
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  phaser it was it was not e it was still d it was yeah the model yeah the upgraded d which had a third
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  naysel uh apparently more phaser banks and had a mega phaser canon thing on the underside of the
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  saucer section which is impressive it also makes me wonder too uh if it's it's riker of course it
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  had bigger guns well yeah I mean look we can see that happening but I mean the structural question is
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  should they have to separate the saucer from the the the the the star drive uh where does the Canon
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  echo yes again not that we ever saw that on screen not that it could still actually do that and
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  galaxy clash ships can fit a thousand people and they're not small I get no there are massive ships
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  massive mass of ships anyway um all right moving on from the world of Star Trek because
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  you still got a ton of stuff to cover uh we have both seen the first episode of the doctor who
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  the war of land and sea yes and what will we what will we say right off the hop this is not going to be
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  an easy watch um yeah it's it's a it's a bit of a more difficult watch because as much as it's a doctor
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  who adjacent series we know the doctor does not appear in this at all so there is no all the tension
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  that leads up to well when's the doctor going to show up it's not happening well it's it's kind of
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  interesting because typically speaking whenever there's something world possibly world shadowy
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  right which isn't to say that the doctor has been there for every single event but if you take a look
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  at the series and how how the doctor has been presented through what I'm going to call new who
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  the consistency is whenever there's going to be something world shattering whether it's a giant
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  christmas ornament floating in space filled with spiders or uh a moon that has turned out to be an egg
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  or you know whatever world consuming crisis the doctor has been there and I feel like
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  we're so used to seeing the doctor show up when there's something pivotal on earth that we forget
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  that he's not just hanging out on earth right and also given the time frame that we're seeing here
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  the internal logic that I would say would be wait a second 14 is still on earth
• 31:13
  even though he's in semi-retirement he would as soon as something like that would have happened he
• 31:20
  would have jumped in it as much as he's retired right but now he's he's normal so is is he and is
• 31:29
  he actually there is he gone off you know is he gone off with Rose uh giving her you know trips to
• 31:37
  Mars and such as that so we don't know exactly what the time frame is of this in comparison to
• 31:43
  what we saw for the 60th what we you know what we've seen in the transition when we went to
• 31:49
  Chuty you know is this after the doctor is left after the the Chuty got with episodes
• 31:56
  we just don't have a good reference right so there's that but uh I think one of the
• 32:03
  I'm gonna get you to put it in the show notes once I find the otters name but there's a
• 32:09
  there's a sci-fi shorts creator that put out
• 32:15
  up one of the best description of this series where he basically said it's
• 32:21
  this is not Dr. Who the war between the land and the sea is is more in the vein of some of the
• 32:29
  torchwood mini series that have come out very much to like you know was a I want to say children
• 32:37
  of men but that's the that's the wrong title for it uh children of earth yeah or miracle day
• 32:48
  it sort of feels like that and I found I remember when I was watching those series the pacing was
• 32:55
  very different than what I was expecting because Dr. Who has to wrap in an hour right it's it's usually
• 33:03
  pretty like I you don't really get the you don't really get how fast your average episode of Dr.
• 33:15
  Who moves until you compare it to what they did with torchwood particularly in the mini series
• 33:21
  because they have to stretch the story right uh personally I'm more surprised that torchwood's not
• 33:28
  in the middle of it there that's right but torchwood if we follow the timeline torchwood is already
• 33:38
  been abolished so torchwood's been abandoned it's not there the torchwood team the group is not even
• 33:43
  there jack is somewhere in in america um jantos i believe dead um if there's there's there's just there's
• 33:54
  nothing left so it's it's all just divided up and and doesn't exist yeah I suppose I mean I also kind of
• 34:04
  I'm also more surprised too that Gwen Cooper isn't in the middle of it
• 34:11
  yeah and I mean that's the thing is we know that at least in the storyline that we were given
• 34:16
  Gwen and jack end up going off because Gwen has
• 34:22
  try and remember who she's married she has a kid right she's married with a child um jack is uncle jack
• 34:29
  oh yeah but you know how do you explain that he's never gonna grow old anyway yeah so you have
• 34:36
  that now in terms of the actual first episode i like the idea of the fact that you have
• 34:44
  this fishing boat and weirdly when you first see that creature popping out of the the net
• 34:52
  it gave me very aquaman vibes with the the creatures from the deep right in terms of
• 35:01
  it oh it was almost they was very much in the vein of we're gonna do aqua horror by way of
• 35:07
  james one and binescio d'autoro not binescio d'autoro guiermo d'autoro d'autoro when it comes to like
• 35:18
  fishman horror um
• 35:25
  the fact that they it was this tiny fishing village and then they have this creature hang there
• 35:33
  was very off-putting to me and i'm like i keep expecting him to wake up kind of jeepers creeper style
• 35:41
  i don't know if you got that sense yeah yeah yeah i i know what you mean right because the way that
• 35:50
  they'd done it feels like that um and but then when you have the liquefaction of the floor
• 35:57
  and that horror there of oh no are they gonna make it and you just think okay they're just claiming
• 36:04
  the bodies and then you find out uh it's far worse oh yeah yeah it's like i like the fact of this horror
• 36:12
  relevance but um also i was surprised too for something that's supposed to be about unit and the fact
• 36:21
  that they need to deal with something they sure took a long time at least in the first episode
• 36:26
  to introduce the characters that we already knew from doctor who and that was like your pacing
• 36:33
  feels off like i feel like Kate would have been would have been right up there if if if it's it's like a
• 36:40
  first contacting yeah and i think that's the problem that exists with this is that
• 36:48
  if you're trying to create a new doctor who offshoot show as a long term project
• 36:57
  then you need to embrace those tertiary characters from the main timeline and have them more
• 37:08
  active in doing things in the main screen if if you're going to delay them i mean we were talking about
• 37:16
  Martha Jones and we were talking about uh Donna Noble and we were talking about Mel and and you know
• 37:27
  these companions that are still in this universe at this time that don't show up so there's there's
• 37:35
  just not a strong tie into the doctor who time stream other than through Kate yeah and it's it's tough
• 37:46
  yeah it's yeah because i mean we had it okay just to fill you in we had a discussion with regards to
• 37:55
  some of the characters in the universe and where they are right so you go back to
• 38:05
  uh tens last episode where he's now made the sacrifice and he's going around on his last hurrah
• 38:13
  effectively saying goodbye to everyone and you have Mickey and Martha
• 38:22
  under fire by son Terran and then of course the doctor saves the day or at least saves them right but
• 38:31
  as far as we knew at least in terms of the lore and they may maybe it's in the extant books but
• 38:36
  Martha was working with unit right yes yeah she's she the last we saw her she was deep inside of unit as a
• 38:49
  i don't want to call her a leader or manager but she was in that level of of administration
• 38:56
  yeah so you have that and then you had
• 39:02
  uh what's called you have uh you have mel you have rose you have donna all working for unit right
• 39:21
  yep so it's it's kind of weird that they aren't there when it's literally it's clearly a global thing
• 39:31
  that's happening right so that was that was the thing that i'm saying they're going i don't know
• 39:39
  like it it may be looking and go huh like there's that but i can set that aside um
• 39:50
  it's some interesting connections too because then you have the brand new character uh played by
• 39:56
  russell tovi a veteran of who you know alanzo as uh yes as alanzo but then he points out too he's
• 40:10
  like oh yeah only i met the doctor once and all of it was just say hello but i want more of that
• 40:17
  which was kind of an interesting take on you know how there's certain like and not everyone who works for
• 40:27
  unit gets to interact with a doctor right and it's kind of one of those things of
• 40:32
  to quote tenison the doctor feels like people's albatross where either you'll get really good luck
• 40:40
  or you'll die horribly yeah yeah that tends to be you'll get sucked in unintentionally to some
• 40:47
  misadventure particularly because the doctor looked you once yeah and that's pretty much the way that
• 40:55
  the the whole idea of the companion's works you know or assist it or whatever you want to call
• 41:01
  them you know depending on which genre of the doctor you're talking to but um i think that one
• 41:08
  of the critical things that's that and we'll have to see once we watch more of the show yeah more of
• 41:13
  the episodes whether or not it starts to pick up and whether or not it ties in better um i'm worried
• 41:21
  about it that this we're we're another year away from any doctor who related content being the uh
• 41:29
  rose tyler slash you know doctor reincarnated issue the bad wolf um the christmas special for
• 41:38
  twenty twenty six yes it's it's going to be a long slog and i mean the big news is that the bbc
• 41:47
  has declared and secured doctor who in bbc is its home base it's not moving anywhere it's not going
• 41:55
  to any other streaming service and they did say that the the current showrunner is staying so they're
• 42:05
  not changing that either which is all good news for some people and maybe not good news for everyone
• 42:11
  but yeah so it's going to be it's going to be interesting i will say to to russell tovies credit
• 42:19
  he has one of those faces that i didn't okay we're talking about this in the pre show
• 42:25
  looking at the characters in generally generally their builds
• 42:30
  yeah for a dude who's just literally in terms of in charge of transport and really shouldn't be there
• 42:35
  when they put him in scale next to any of the other people in unit he's huge yeah yeah right
• 42:48
  massive okay i'm not the only one who noticed that you saw it too yep kj right where he's not a small
• 42:56
  dude no but what i'm really digging and this is kind of what you see when you're watching it is
• 43:07
  somehow he plays this whole who me why look very well and again it's not CG as far as i can tell
• 43:21
  but there's a wonderful moment near the end of the episode where they do a close-up of him and
• 43:27
  like if they they could not make someone look more puppy doggy in the oh shit i'm pooping my pants and
• 43:37
  i don't know what to do moment except for the fact that they just chose the perfect action to do that
• 43:43
  because not many people can pull that off properly where you're like i feel you i don't know why i feel
• 43:49
  you but yeah you're screwed right because he because the entire first episode he has this
• 43:58
  perpetual oh shit oh shit oh shit too uh uh you know someone peed in my suit i don't know if it was
• 44:10
  hold me baby me or me me and he doesn't better than most so i don't know it's it's a slog there's some
• 44:21
  great horror moments seeing the fact that they're playing up with the whole uh what i'm gonna derogatory
• 44:28
  call sea devils um as a diverse species in and of itself the fact that they're coming right out and
• 44:37
  saying yeah we want to talk to you because all of you screwed us up you know he is still heartwarming but
• 44:44
  i guess we're gonna see and uh i mean by the time we come back we will hopefully have seen more of the
• 44:53
  series if it hasn't wrapped but we'll speak to that i guess now because it's kind of important
• 45:00
  yeah so we're going to be taking a couple of weeks break uh our next episode will come back in
• 45:06
  January right as Starfleet Academy comes out so just after that the Starfleet Academy comes out on
• 45:13
  the 15th uh so the weekend after that is the 18th so that will be our first episode back for season 10
• 45:20
  of what my Tartus podcast uh we're taking a couple weeks break over the Christmas holiday
• 45:26
  and New Year's holiday um we'll be watching Fallout because it's as we are speaking Fallout is coming
• 45:33
  out tomorrow uh they moved it forward by a day from a Thursday to a Wednesday just for me um so
• 45:41
  we'll get more Fallout you know more of the ghoul more of you know our favorite characters uh you know
• 45:48
  lots of power suits everything goes along with it as we go into new Vegas um there is the Christmas
• 45:54
  with the ghoul 90 minute special so you know make sure that you watch that we'll be talking about that
• 46:00
  as well yes over the the next few weeks we're going to be looking at how we're going to program
• 46:09
  for the next season of War of My Tartus uh we know that uh by the time may comes around so we're
• 46:17
  right around the time we're going to hit episodes 17 18 oh that's right Matt Dinniman
• 46:24
  Dungeon Crawler Carl book eight comes out yes so we will be back with more Dungeon Crawler Carl uh
• 46:31
  I have a feeling that I'm going to start over the Christmas holidays re-listening to the Dungeon Crawler
• 46:37
  Carl series so that I am back up to date and ready to go when uh the new book comes out in May
• 46:43
  and just a boat tail off of DCC because of course we have talked about it obsessively uh someone did
• 46:49
  I saw post today that someone pointed out uh Patrick Warburden has three sons and they have recorded
• 46:56
  videos where they can do very good versions of his character almost like because he's aged up his voice
• 47:04
  they also did it where they were doing an anniversary thing over at Disney and they actually got
• 47:11
  his sons to to reprise his role as krunk uh and do their versions and someone said
• 47:19
  as a fan cast you know if there were live action or they needed anyone to do voice work
• 47:25
  as character models they should have grabbed they should write start off for anyone to play Carl
• 47:32
  if not Patrick Warburden himself because he's a little bit too old for that one um but they get
• 47:39
  his actual sons as possible cast things so that that was uh it was a fun little tidbit of course with
• 47:45
  regards to the warp my tardis book club yes we are looking at submissions we i have started on one
• 47:51
  of them that was suggested to us uh i'm only a few pages in so far uh i will not reveal the series right
• 47:58
  now because uh that's probably a season 10 thing for us uh but we do also welcome book submissions
• 48:06
  and suggestions whether it's cross media on audible or whatever stream uh streaming vocal service
• 48:13
  or actual physical books please send us your recommendations and we are looking at having some
• 48:19
  guest join us in season 10 where we will be talking about some of the sci-fi books sci-fi movies
• 48:27
  and some of the technology that's shown and whether or not you know what's what's actually behind it
• 48:32
  yes uh and yes of course we have ongoing content there um
• 48:40
  do we mention this yet with regards to uh voting for us oh that's right hey yes we're still in the running
• 48:49
  there were still a few weeks away in the voting as far as the uh the podcast tonight awards for
• 48:56
  2026 which will be wrapping up towards the end of January uh still get your votes in for the
• 49:03
  people's choice award the link is in the show notes uh you look for us there uh we're really looking forward
• 49:10
  to number one it's it's an industry wide event it's an opportunity for us to get ourselves
• 49:17
  rated and they're going to be doing reviews of the podcast and what they like what they don't
• 49:25
  what we can do to improve ourselves that's part of this is it's actually a peer review as well as
• 49:31
  it is an award show um we're really looking forward to the opportunity to to hear from the
• 49:38
  panel of experts on what we can do to make our show better you know whether it's sound quality whether
• 49:44
  it's our intro outros whether or not it's having a more lockdown format please know um we kind of
• 49:51
  like this banter yes but um you know that's coming if you look our links in our social media we've got
• 49:59
  the link to uh the podcast awards there as well so you can find that on on yeah i'm gonna set it
• 50:07
  on instagram on facebook and on threads we are work my tardis we are also work my tardis at fandom
• 50:16
  frontier dot c a as an email address you can find out about the show on fandom frontier dot c a
• 50:22
  that's our website as well as there are links there to the podcast tonight awards website specifically
• 50:29
  to our page to allow you to vote for the people's choice award yes and with that being said of course
• 50:37
  we have our sister show uh oh that's right geeks with days watch for that uh geeks with days there's uh
• 50:43
  there's a couple of episodes out there's a couple more coming there's probably going to be something
• 50:48
  done over the christmas holidays i haven't decided what yet but uh and even on the choreolis front
• 50:54
  that i am running uh we have our friend in town we will actually have hopefully every single member
• 51:01
  of the crew in country uh maybe not necessarily at the same table but we will we'll do our best to
• 51:09
  kind of bring you content in that front as well so yes uh i guess that's about it i mean our year and
• 51:19
  review has been insane we've had a lot of craziness happen we've covered a lot of
• 51:26
  content we had a we ran a live event we ran a live event that again you got a shoot uh i i i
• 51:36
  said this to someone at frankin mess recently where i said look with all the things that we're doing
• 51:44
  and we were we were juggling a lot at the time too so it was it was insane to try but we had to do it
• 51:51
  but the resolution that that at least i've found is you got to shoot for the stars if you make it to
• 51:59
  the moon on the way there uh it it's good and it shows you the start but you got to shoot for it
• 52:07
  anyways but if you don't then you know yeah it's a long road to get there it's a long road to get
• 52:15
  there but it's an awful lot of fun getting there oh great i'm i'm now thinking of uh now hearing jack
• 52:20
  black for school rock that one it could have been worse it could have been you know the theme from
• 52:25
  enterprise well anyway i have been i have not quite finally been yet so we're not so that one up
• 52:36
  so he has been security damn security and you have been kj and we will see you in the new year with
• 52:45
  season 10 of wortmytardis yes for now from us at wortmytardis happy holidays
• 52:52
  happy new year you safe safe holidays and a prosperous new year to all then we will see you next year bye
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