We’ll keep things brief! In this episode, we get revved up for the Doctor Who Christmas special and discuss the latest news about the potential Who film. (And Rudy gets bugged about Terra Nova, as per usual.) Then! We celebrate the joy of giving — as long as it has something to do with time travel! Below are links to our picks for what to get the time travel lover in your life; please enjoy.
If you have other ideas, please let us know in the comments, or Twitter, Facebook and email! And thanks so much for listening.
Hey, new episode time! First things first: Doctor Who! Our friend the Doctor not only starred in a quick scene for Children in Need, but is going to be reappearing for Christmas — and maybe in feature film? Our enthusiasm for each thing varies wildly!
And Liz and Rudy also touch on the precarious position that Community (and, ergo, its homage to the classic time travel series Inspector Spacetime) currently occupies on television! And also Family Guy did a time travel episode! And Terra Nova is still on the air! So much to discuss!
But don’t worry, Liz and Rudy eventually get around to 11/22/63, Stephen King’s JKF assassination-focused novel. How many references to other King books did Rudy catch? What did Liz think of the time travel mechanics meticulously detailed by the book? How many fun facts about Lee Harvey Oswald did we all learn? There’s both spoiler-free and spoiler-y discussion for you if you haven’t read the book yet, never fear.
As always, tell us what you think about ANY of this via Twitter, Facebook, email or the comments right here on this post! And thanks so much for listening.
Hey, friends! We’ve got a fun episode, full of time travel fun, for you today. First off, we discuss the timey wimey news of the day, including the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special — which may or may not include Amy and Rory? There’s a bunch of speculation on our part.
And we also make plans to read Stephen King’s new book 11/22/63: A Novel, because reading is fundamental and King’s take on time travel could be very interesting.
Plus it’s the continuation of our ever-popular segment, Liz Nags Rudy About Terra Nova! Rudy isn’t watching this show! Liz still is! Has it improved? Has the number of people being eaten by dinosaurs increased? Are those things related? The answer is yes!
Then finally, due to popular demand, we discuss the extremely popular Quantum Leap, which ran for five seasons on NBC and was extremely formative for one young Rudy Jahchan. When looked at with modern eyes, though, how does it hold up? We will tell you!
As always, we welcome your thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, email or the comments right here on this post! And thanks so much for listening.
Apologies for how overdue this post is, but this, humble readers/listeners, is your official notification that Timey Wimey TV will be switching to a bi-weekly schedule for the foreseeable future (i.e. — “until a show we want to cover on a weekly basis starts airing”).
But don’t feel like this about it!
Feel like this about it!
Because we’ve got some very exciting stuff in store for you as we explore time travel telly’s past and discuss its future. Special guest stars! New mediums! Other things! Because after 25 episodes, we’ve learned one thing for sure: When it comes to Timey Wimey things, there is plenty of potential.
In this VERY special episode of Timey Wimey TV, we invited romance author and supplier of genetic material Janet Miller to discuss her favorite time travel shows and films, from past classics to recent favorites.
Well, that was the original idea, anyway. What ACTUALLY ends up happening is Liz and Rudy and Janet discussing how romance works as both a genre and a storytelling element in science fiction. It was a fun conversation! Hopefully you’ll enjoy it.
But what about next week, you ask? Now that Doctor Who and Torchwood are over, what shall we discuss? Well, we’re turning that question right back around on YOU! With a POLL!
You can also tell us things via Twitter, Facebook, email or the comments right here on this post! And thanks, as always, for listening.
…as due to work and life doing the things they do, we do not have a new episode of Timey Wimey TV for you this week. How sorry are we? This is how sorry:
We WILL have a new episode for you NEXT WEEK, though, and will continue covering Timey Wimey-related issues up until our holiday break this December. So see you next week! Or, rather, you will hear us next week! That is what will happen.
You might have THOUGHT Doctor Who was done for the year, but you would be wrong! For one thing, there’s going to be a Christmas special. And for another, Timey Wimey TV hasn’t done an end-of-season round-table episode!
Topics discussed include our favorite and least favorite episodes of the season, what writers we’d like to see take on Doctor Who and the even-longer-running British time travel series Inspector Spacetime. There is also a rousing game of marry-boff-kill! And some profanity. Sorry about that.
It’s a long one — we just BARELY managed to fit in your Tweets and comments! But we’d love to hear what you guys think of the topics discussed, so please share your thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, email or right here in the comments! As always, thanks for subscribing and listening.
It’s a very exciting, very engaging, very pterodactyl-filled episode of Timey Wimey TV! First, Liz and Rudy discuss “The Wedding of River Song,” the potentially controversial season six finale of Doctor Who. How awesome was that first twenty minutes or so? How huge a debt is owed to Douglas Adams? Is The Awl right about the episode’s flaws? Who initiates the Bitchy Feminist Moment of the Week? Unlike “The Wedding of River Song,” we will leave no question unanswered!
And then Rudy and Liz talk about Terra Nova some more, with additional nuance now that Rudy has actually seen the show. Is adding dinosaurs and time travel mystery enough to spice up a pretty standard family drama? One of us thinks yes! The other one, not so much! (That means we’ll probably still continue to cover it.)
Plus, you guys have thoughts as well, which we discuss! Please continue to sound off via Twitter, Facebook, email or right here in the comments! And seriously, thanks for subscribing and listening.
NEXT WEEK: Season 6 Round-table, with SPECIAL GUEST STARS. You should get excited for that!
Huge show this week! Huge! Not only do Liz and Rudy cover the penultimate episode of Doctor Who season 6, “Closing Time,” but a lot of other stuff happens! For one thing, there was news about the premiere of Who season 7! And Liz asked Warren Ellis what he would do with Doctor Who, and he replied! Unexpected!
Oh, and if you like poorly rendered CGI dinosaurs and potential time travel malarkey, Terra Nova is the show for you! At least, that’s what Liz tries to make Rudy believe. We’ll find out how successful she was next week, probably.
And we really do discuss “Closing Time”! How did the return of James Corden to the show pan out? How cute is it that the Doctor speaks baby? How exciting was that cliffhanger, huh?
And what did you guys think about it? You used your Internet powers to tell us! That was great! You should do that again! Please share your thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, email or right here in the comments! And seriously, thanks for subscribing and listening.
It’s a new Timey Wimey TV! The only excuse for not listening to it is if you’re trapped inside a spooky hotel filled with your worst fears. Hopefully that is not happening to you!
It is what happened to our friends on Doctor Who, though, in Episode 11, “The God Complex.” And Liz and Rudy have a whole bunch of thoughts about it. They also have thoughts about San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson showing off some fancy future sneaks, and what we should prepare for as Doctor Who approaches the end of season six.
And Rudy delivers on our Torchwood: Miracle Day bet, penning and reading a truly inspired piece of fan fiction. It might be part one in a series! Only time will tell.
As always, your comments fill us with joy, laughter and love, so please share your thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, email or right here in the comments! And seriously, thanks for listening.
Timey Wimey TV is an opportunity for two big Doctor Who nerds to get together and discuss not just the most recent iteration of the classic British series, but the general state of time travel-oriented media -- past, present and future. Because time travel is AWESOME.
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