"I’m gonna pull time apart for you."
-- Older Amy Pond to Rory Williams, Doctor Who: "The Girl Who Waited"
Hello again, Whovians! Special guest companion Lee Leonard returns to Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast to help me discuss "The Girl Who Waited", the tenth episode from Doctor Who Series Six in 2011, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, and Imelda Staunton as the voice of Interface!
In this episode, Lee and I discuss things like time travel geek porn, Rory's horrible dilemma of having to choose which version of his wife he wants to save, director Nick Hurran making a complicated story flow smoothly, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rory waiting 2,000 years for Amy compared to Amy waited just 36 years, hearing Harry Potter villain Dolores Umbridge as Interface, Karen Gillan's Older Amy makeup prosthetics, Karen Gillan's lack of skill with a katana, Older Amy's resentment towards the Doctor, Older Amy getting the raw end of the deal not once but twice, Rory calling out the Doctor and question traveling with him, wondering what happened to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, Lee's defense of Older Amy as the "real" Amy Pond, how Nebula could've changed the outcome of Avengers: Endgame, comparisons to the video game Portal, wondering who designed the Handbots to look so hostile and menacing, Tim Burton style sculpted hedges, our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, some feedback from Holly from Wisconsin, and more!
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Be sure to come back next week as special guest companion John Takacs returns to help me discuss "The Brain of Morbius", the fifth serial from Doctor Who Season 13 in 1976, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, Philip Madoc as Dr. Solon, and the introduction of the Sisterhood of Karn! Look for more of Next Stop Everywhere on iTunes, Google Play Music, YouTube, Libsyn, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and the official Southgate Media Group website!