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Hamster Extra - Trailer · A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife - a Doctor Who Commentary podcast

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  Hi there. This is a small trailer for a
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  hamster with a blunt, penknife extra features for members.
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  Only should you wish to subscribe ahead to buy me a
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  A coffee.com stroke hamster, penknife and explore, the
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  membership options there. This is a trailer for hamster
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  extra which is existing contributors fans that are
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  talking about different It shows other than dokdo choosing five
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  episodes and yeah doing commentaries on those episodes.
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  So first of all, we will briefly here from frasor Gregory talking
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  about the five red dwarf episodes that he is going to
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  discuss. Enjoy.
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  And have you ever actually had a triple fried egg sandwich with
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  chili sauce and Chutney? I feel like I'm having a baby
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  you can talk about the show, not long.
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  My ID card is high anyway yes, I'll wait, I'll give you my
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  five, picks them gone. Ever since we've been talking
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  all about swords, I'll give you the five that I have picked,
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  which I'm going to say now will probably change but it's really
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  difficult just to get. Five is the first thing I need
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  to say because let's say everything was taught about you,
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  but could do those episodes and, you know, talked and talked top
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  because the saw so good, it was really difficult to not just
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  Pick all of series for because again, absolutely fantastic.
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  But what I'm going to pick is I want to pick terraformed from
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  Series 5 because like I said, that was, that was one of the
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  ones that really got me into it. And it's just every scene is
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  just a banger in that thing in front of my concept.
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  That's yeah, study. That's a good one.
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  I'm going to talk about the end. Which is the very first one
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  because I think that though the series one is it's very raw and
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  rough and finding its feet. You know, even in that episode,
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  you can see the beginnings of. If really, some really special
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  praise, I'll be. I've been eating the crew.
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  You trying to tell me everybody's dead.
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  Everybody is dead. Dave and queeg.
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  We're gonna go with Big golden because again, it's just, you
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  know, you've got a lot of Mi Nam.
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  Love it. That's, that's a really strong
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  episode for him. And I'm going to go with
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  polymorph. The secrets of the box of shells
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  but you are you sure? Oh, yes.
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  Betty, spaghetti. Honestly, your have anything
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  would you list up again? Just Just so many good Concepts
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  and you know, the give the Casimir new to do with their
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  characters which is which is fantastic.
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  And the last one is going to be probably my favorite all-time
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  episode of Red Dwarf ever. So, what is it?
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  It's a white hole that you're favoring.
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  Yeah, again it's just Again, it's one where every scene is
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  just full of laughs and you're full of great ideas.
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  I mean, paying playing pool with planets.
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  Oh, hi guys is brilliant. It's just, you know, and you've
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  got everything leading up to that of sort of like Holly and
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  talk is toaster coming in. Yes, just general.
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  Are you all the time? I go, was it given that the
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  universe is also infinite? Would you like a Dusty cheese
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  waffle? I'm just ready.
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  It's a bit currently as well those are absolutely brilliant.
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  Brilliant choices I will obviously go into why you chose
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  her nose in a lot more depth when we do the commentaries.
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  And next up we have the wonderful life and possibly from
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  flight for entirety skill and talk to podcast.
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  So you might have heard of discussing the five episodes of
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  press gang that he wants to talk about the Steven Moffat
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  children's comedy drama, enjoy well then why don't you tell
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  everybody? Then the five episodes that
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  we're going to be doing college. So because you said to me you
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  don't necessarily think these are all the best episodes.
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  So now I want to hear your reasons for choosing them Okay,
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  so I so a night in. So we're going to watch series
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  one. Like I said, one from each
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  Series. So we're going to watch series
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  1, episode 5 and 19. I don't think that's the best
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  episode of the season. I think probably the second last
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  episode of the Season Monday, Tuesday is the best because
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  something happens on Monday night and we see things
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  happening on Monday, leading up to the thing that happens on
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  Monday night. And then things happening on
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  Tuesday. The resultant as a result of it
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  and you've got spike in their deforming The Narrative as well,
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  by introducing a be plotting to the discussions and stuff.
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  You just delicious. If you describe that to me, I
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  oughta just said, Steven Moffat straightaway.
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  Yeah, it's very Moffat e and it's like his 11th, you know,
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  the eleventh episode of TV that he's written that airs.
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  So a 19 is is kind of a little bit business as usual.
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  It's a little bit is a little bit.
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  Current. I mean we're having we're going
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  to watch another one whether in The Newsroom at night and
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  there's Series 2 opens with an episode called breakfast at
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  czar's, which is also them working all night in The
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  Newsroom. And but this is this allows us
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  to concentrate on the main characters.
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  So we've just got the main characters in in The Newsroom.
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  Everyone else is not there and we just get to see that into
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  play and I think we start to see a relationship forming between
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  spy. Bike and Linda we see.
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  Yeah, I think it's where we kind of get to know people.
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  We get to see what Collins like. It is just a sort of business as
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  usual episode and I thought that that was a good start.
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  I think it's properly funny. You know it's clever it's sort
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  of a bit unexpected. I enjoyed a lot.
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  That's why we doing that one. But I mean, there are other real
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  really stunning ones, and I do think that that ends with the
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  Monday Tuesday and then the final episode of the series
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  shouldn't I be taller? Is it like a two-part thing
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  which kind of rounds the series off and gives Linder a crisis of
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  confidence? Which she then overcomes, and
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  And I think that that's some pretty strong writing as well.
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  Series 2, so series to so series to we are doing an episode
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  called gosh, there are some good ones here.
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  We're doing the last episode so it's called the big finish and
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  it's episode 13 and ye tile before somewhere, you know?
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  Yeah. I I think that, that, that big
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  finish is named after. Oh, absolutely slow.
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  They cheer makes it. Yeah, yeah.
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  So so eats again, sort of part 2 of 2 parter and part. 1, episode
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  12 is about Kenny. It's called Rock Solid and it's
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  got a double meaning because it turns out, he's, you know, he
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  can sing and play guitar. But it's also about Kenny's role
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  kind of keeping everything together and dealing with the
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  people Linda is horrible to and dealing with leaner and stuff
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  and it's really strong and it introduces some of the themes
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  that come up in the big finish. But the big finish is the sort
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  of costs of the show. So it's their last day of school
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  and eat, is the day that the decision is being made, whether
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  they're going to be allowed to take over the junior Gazette, as
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  the As and do it properly for money, you know, cut the Apron
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  Strings to the parent paper and actually just run it as a proper
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  newspaper as adults with them in charge, or whether it's going to
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  be given to another group of kids.
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  So that they can do the same thing that they did the previous
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  year. And again it it's Linda waiting
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  for the phone call and then into cutting between that and the
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  events of the day that have led up to the phone call.
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  And it ends with Spike and Linda way it is way up there.
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  The phone rings phone rings, it could be spikes.
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  Father, it could be matka the newspaper.
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  What does Linda say? It's time to grow up or so.
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  I think it's time, yeah. Or for one of us are grow up and
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  then of course, it just ends with her saying hello jr.
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  Gazette. As you answer the phone, it goes
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  to Black at the series ended there, where it potentially may
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  have, because it was facing cancellation, that would have
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  been the perfect ending that your Sunday and there's a
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  lovely, this like a crane shot as the phone rings.
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  I just like, yeah, yeah, we seriously good.
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  Yeah, and it's that phone, which has been so important.
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  Portent. They steal the phone you know
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  they run a cable into the parent.
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  Yeah. And they're stealing the phone
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  and then they eventually get given it.
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  But it's the one phone as well which is then light on the wall
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  of The Newsroom framed for series for Series 3 to 5 when
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  they have proper phone systems. What about are truncated Series
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  3 then. Okay, so series 3, Starts with
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  like starts with Spike returning.
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  So what we discover is that in series that in between the two
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  series, Spike has decided to go back to America, which was the
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  decision that he faced in the big finish because Spike and
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  Linda have a relationship during series to during a few episodes.
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  But then it stops and it stopped in episode 11.
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  And so the big finish has him saying you know I love you and
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  her refusing to say it until she says will be S, of course.
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  I love you. I you know I don't know what to
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  do with that. All right you guys was it off
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  course. I love you.
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  Yeah. But I have to run a newspaper
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  like I don't know what to do, you know?
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  And it is that sort of cusp of adulthood thing.
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  So, he goes off. He turns up in series 3 and at
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  the end of a really sort of ridiculous comedy.
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  Beside which has lots of telephones and stuff in it.
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  She you know the camera tracks down and we discover that she's
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  stolen spikes passport. And so this is season 3 episode
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  2 which we're going to watch killer on the line is another
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  night in The Newsroom with just a few people.
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  Sarah's been dumped by her boyfriend.
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  Spike is ransacking the place trying to find.
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  He's he's passport, it's actually like just a few hours
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  after episode 1. One.
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  It's on the same day. It's playable, what's wrong?
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  There's there's our tent. I saw very little comedy in that
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  episode. I thought it was well traumatic,
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  but there's lots of sort of, like, I think Linda Linda is
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  funny in this episode as a cell, but great at the beginning,
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  where spy walks in and he goes, oh, don't ask and then he looks
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  around The Newsroom and someone's lying on the floor and
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  he goes, well, don't ask then. Yeah, yeah, it's just terrific.
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  So I think it is funny. I think it does have The lines,
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  but it's another one of moffatt's.
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  It's another telephone Century episode that and yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, I thought the ending was really, really properly.
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  Good. And we'll talk about it when we
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  do it, but it is one of those things where there's phone call
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  things. Like someone calls The News Room
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  by mistake and it turns out during the course of the episode
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  that they're committing a crime that they've that they've
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  assaulted someone in a shop. In order to Steal the till but
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  they've been maced and so they can't escape a shop.
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  And so they're calling. They think they're calling
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  someone else but they're calling The Newsroom and, and Sarah
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  manages to solve that crime of during the course of the
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  episode. It's good.
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  But are immature. Yeah, yeah and it, you know,
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  like it's the sort of thing he loved end up doing Sherlock,
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  where someone does deductions about how things work and the
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  whole thing hinges on phones. Obviously, why did you have to
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  bring up Sherlock honestly? Yeah.
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  You know, like that is the sort of thing where he has he wants
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  smart characters. It Sarah is the smartest
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  character like the smartest person and so she's able to come
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  to the relevant conclusion. So I think that I think that
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  does exemplify what I was saying earlier about when he's given a
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  lot of time and though Sherlock episodes like two hours long,
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  very long and now our pretty agonizing, they are clever but
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  some of the majority is aren't so they look pretty great.
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  But yeah, this Has nice and tight. 25 minutes is exactly our
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  say, the series 4 episode that you chose which I watch last
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  night in bed and was trying desperately hard not to laugh
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  because my other office next to me.
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  Oh my God. It was amazingly good.
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  It was so funny. So it's Spike, comes back so
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  Spike and we get this explained to us in the episode and we'll
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  talk about it then. But that whole Arc in series 3
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  about Spike coming back with his What Linda concludes is his
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  fiancee and then the way that Linda ends that relationship in
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  such a spectacularly. Funny moment, it's in the last
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  moment, the last scene of the episode, we see that she's
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  ruined their relationship. It's just a perfect thing.
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  And he comes back and the two of them meet Kind of unexpectedly
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  in their sort of. I thought that was one of the
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  sharpest things that we'll never really know I've seen.
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  It's so funny. The dial is just so good and she
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  and you could never been more about Sourpuss with a.
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  Yeah bar but boy, she's happy with it.
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  Yeah yeah. And she's also getting over like
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  Kenny's departure in between Seasons as well and so she's
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  just being extra horrible to everyone but we don't actually
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  see that like That's one of the things too.
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  We do get to see her, be horrible to people.
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  But the way that she's talked about, you know, you use the way
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  that she's talked about to make her seem even worse.
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  So we never get to see anything that is, you know, truly, truly
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  awful, but she's clearly been horrible to everyone fabulous
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  bit, where she's called out on how horrible she is.
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  That is forced to apologize. I was punching the air, I
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  thought. Yeah.
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  So it's the return of Lucy Benjamin as well, which is the
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  other thing that's happening. Sassy And shit.
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  And I was loved and episode 1 of a new show as well like a like a
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  new episode one. You know, like I've said before
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  on Ft and on title start row project but I love a series 2
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  episode 1 and in this is series 4 episode 1, but he's clearly,
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  let's see, it's retooling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  What about season? Five of them so I've chosen
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  season 5 episode 1 which I don't think is the strongest episode.
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  Load. And I think.
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  Series 6, AB series series 5 episode 6.
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  I think he's a strong ending but I think it does tip over the
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  border into being a bit unpleasant.
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  And I also think because it it also features the kid who kills
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  himself the end of Monday Tuesday as well.
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  So and it's called, there are crocodiles in it very, very
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  difficult. Italy kind of leans into the
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  idea that Linda is a terrible person.
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  And so I thought we would do Series 5 episode 1 instead which
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  isn't the strongest episode of the season.
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  But it is very much about her being a bad person and her using
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  her sort of monomania her obsession with doing the job of
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  a newspaper person and doing it. Well, blinding her.
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  The fact that she's she's causing damage in someone's life
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  and it's also the episode where we kind of kind of decide that
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  just spiked a Linda and together and the two of them disagree
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  about what she's done, but they do it in a way that doesn't
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  wreck their relationship or anything.
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  I think it's quite like, I'd like the portrayal of the spike
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  Linda relationship, where it's just a settled thing and it
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  features David. Links?
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  Who he's in serious, one and two.
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  I don't exactly know how often, but he plays the Headmaster of
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  the school and so we get to see him again there.
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  So I think that that's again that's a little bit of a
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  procedural episode but it does have a central kind of moral
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  question, which I think is makes it worth looking at.
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  Next up we have the Glorious Simon, heart long-serving,
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  hamster, contributor practically co-host nowadays and Talking
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  about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and why that is six
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  episodes long. They have to choose five
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  episodes would have been a bit mean but we discuss that here
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  and just why you love the show so much.
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  Yeah. Enjoy.
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  I barely made with lalla Ward, you know.
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  Yeah, absolutely. When that's, that's bad.
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  She'll never let us forget, that was quite right, too.
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  If you had Douglas Adams, as your best mate, you would never
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  let anyone forget that it's true.
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  Oh, I don't begrudge you. I love a lot of work.
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  Me too well, looks like I don't have to ask you the question,
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  which five episodes would you like to do commentaries on?
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  Because as you have already said, there are only six
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  episodes but I'm going to ask you this.
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  Are you have a favorite installment of this.
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  It's very hard to beat the first one.
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  The first one is magnificent and clever, and does everything.
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  And, and again, and it's full of wonderful lines, like, the ships
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  that hung in the air, exactly, the way that bricks don't and
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  things. Like I think the first episode
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  is absolutely tremendous. All right.
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  Yeah, I think that what's really inside with deep for its that
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  threads episode 3 and then 5 That was really great as well.
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  Yes. Only, because they do this
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  elaborate ten-minute sequence all for that joke. 42 know.
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  It's episode 4. Isn't it with that one?
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  That's last. Yeah, for yeah.
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  Well, I'll say this to you. I'm salivating to get going with
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  this off it. We are called wait.
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  I'm finally on this trailer, you have me.
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  I've chosen show show myself which wasn't dr.
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  Related. And that was the X-Files.
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  And here's me, desperately trying to pin down five episodes
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  of The X-Files to talk about. A squat challenge.
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  Yeah, okay then so we know what type of story you like.
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  We heard that there is five the five.
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  We've got to conspiracy ones and three Monsters of the week.
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  So drum roll, please order Baba. Okay.
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  So my first episode is Duane Barry from season two.
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  It's probably the tightest hostage drama I've ever seen.
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  It's really it's really Written and directed by Chris Carter.
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  And I wanted one the he was heavily involved in.
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  He's utterly unpredictable. Yeah, he's either going to
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  produce something Incredible or something shocking.
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  And and there's rarely anything in between this is incredible.
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  And I also wanted an episode that showcase David Duchovny.
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  And this is where scully's out the action and he's terrific in
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  it. The second conspiracy.
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  One is a two-parter. Sorry.
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  Series, a is Essence and existence at the end of series.
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  A, it's a massive movie of the week to part of either love is
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  block is full of action. So one where Scully has a baby,
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  but most importantly, It's the episode that showcases that
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  Ensemble. Yeah, at their best.
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  Robert Patrick is brilliant. In it, he gets a replay.
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  All the Terminator 2 seen us. He's the victim this time, and
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  the super soldiers after him. Yeah, excellent.
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  Look, what about them? My third one is bad blood from
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  the series 5, which is a is written by Vince Gilligan, who
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  went on to ride the grief, why is that show hero?
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  The fellow, who grows the the drugs, everyone loved it, Rick
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  and Bud. Thank you very much.
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  That one. That was the show that really
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  made it but this was his first work in television and is
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  X-Files episodes are brilliant. And I wanted to do one that was
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  a bit subversive and this is an episode is a comedy episode.
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  We're Half it's told from oldest point of view, Half is told from
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  scully's point of view and you get to see how they actually see
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  each other because Duchovny and and some play, those two halves,
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  as the other characters, he's clever, it's genius.
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  And finally, I wanted a Darin Morgan episode, he wrote five
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  five episodes, 6 episodes all comedies they're held up as the
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  best of the show. I've chosen for a pretty
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  controversial. Ali, the Lost Art of forehead
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  sweat, which is from the very last season, and I chose it
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  because I the Lost Art of forehead sweat.
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  That's what it's called, okay? It's from the last season's from
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  season 11, I wanted to choose something from the Revival.
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  I wanted a Darin Morgan episode and it is smart and funny.
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  It's all about memory and sort of how you remember things as a
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  child yet. So how they actually are now and
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  it has very A very profound things to say about that.
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  It's brilliant. That's my fave.
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  And as well as all that, there is a host of hamster.
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  Contributors coming in with other shows as well, they're
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  fabulous. Steven, Alexander will be
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  talking about Mad Men, Mark. Dodik will be talking about
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  Blake 7 Toby hey toke, will be talking about quite a mess on
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  the pit. Gary Russell is brave enough to
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  talk about the tomorrow people and much much more There's 14
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  computers signed up now. So there will be a host of extra
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  episodes as well as that there are Advanced episodes coming
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  out. The Impossible Planet.
• 23:46
  That's a to a and episode. One of the Romans is already
• 23:49
  been released, but there will be extra Advanced episodes coming
• 23:53
  out every week. I will be sending out
• 23:56
  merchandise mugs to all the contributors and we will be
• 24:00
  having a lot of fun in the new year with socials and live
• 24:03
  commentaries and all that side. Of things as well.
• 24:07
  So yeah, come join in the fun. You'll find me on hamster or
• 24:12
  goof. Buy me a coffee stroke.
• 24:15
  Hamster, blunt pain, Enjoy. I really hope you enjoy it.
• 24:20
  It's been a lot of fun to put together.
• 24:22
  Cheers.