The Spirit of the Stairwell

“Wide-spread contagion amongst cast and crew, means that Silurians are being made to wear verruca socks whilst on set.”

How excited are we? I mean, just how EXCITED are we?!

With just a handful of days until the new series starts, we’ll tell you exactly how excited we are in this week’s Ood Cast. But that’s not all we have to say.

We’ll talk about news things – in our own way; knitted, sewn and generally marvellously created things, and we’ll hear how the Doctor gets on when he has to stop on a distant planet for a… comfort break. We’ll also have a bit of feedback from our incredibly intelligent, discerning listeners, and a special musical treat in store too.

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“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea’s asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we’ve got work to do.”

If this episode of the Ood Cast was a breakfast cereal, it’d be so packed full of nuts, chocolate shavings, oats, wheat, honey, marshmallows and dried fruit that no one would ever want to eat anything else again. We’re lousy with content this week – Sonic Wiimotes, Global Statistics, Rose/ Amy Cat Fights, Pre-School Doctors and Classic Quotes from all eras of the series.

And if that wasn’t enough, we finish with a scene set on the Vinvocci home world in which we attempt to explain why the Immortality Gate acted in such a bizarrely lethal way towards the Tenth Doctor in “The End of Time”.

There’s even a sound effect of a space ship landing. You don’t hear that every day.

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I’ll just let this speak for itself.

“I like to think of the Doctor as a Liver Fluke. Now if you don’t know what a Liver Fluke is, it looks a bit like a fried mushroom and you tend to find them in abattoirs …”

This week on the Ood Cast we discuss Chris’ attempt at a unified theory of time travel within the Doctor Who universe. That’s right, we spend half an hour earnestly debating a fictional concept. That’s how we roll on the Ood sphere. Apparently.

Despite acknowledging early on that the real reason that Doctor Who’s approach to time travel doesn’t make sense is because the writers make it up as they go along, we press on regardless and come up with a pretty reasonable explanation that encompasses water mazes, fixed points in time, a technological reading of evolution, calcified internal organs and the fact that the Doctor is probably part-TARDIS.

Bon appetit!

P.S We believe our theory of time travel to be bullet proof and challenge you to find examples that prove us wrong. Write to us at oodcast@me.com or at www.facebook.com/theoodcast. Or you could address your tweet to @theoodcast. Go on … we dare you.

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“There’s texture to it, there’s weirdness to it, there’s a Hinchcliffe Doctor Who-ness about it.”

And so with the grinding and wheezing of millennia-old engines, the second season of the Ood Cast pulls itself into corporeal existence. This week on the show we get a bit over-excited about the new series, wave aside petty disputes about season numbers and bow ties, reaffirm our mission statement to be a force for optimism and enthusiasm in Doctor Who fandom and then spoil it all by talking about James Corden. We then descend into a heated discussion about things that are pink and deadly. Plus, in an Ood Cast exclusive, we present an audio trailer for Richard Curtis’ episode of the new series. All this and a jingle about geeky pedantry.

Classic Ood Cast!

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