125 – Genocide of the Daleks

We did it! Join Deb, Erika, Liz, and Lynne as we discuss the very last first for the year. We’re finishing off series one with “Bad Wolf” and “The Parting of the Ways”. We talk about this two-parter as well as its place in the context of all of new Who as a season-ender, and it gets a little personal as we discuss how Doctor Who has impacted our lives.

What do you think about these two eps? Do you think they’re the best example of RTD’s finales? And how did you take the regeneration? Was it your first? Or was this process old news to you? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Lynne squees over the trailer for the Christmas special!
• Erika lols at a fanvid of classic DW companions as Charlie’s Angels!
• Liz met Doctor Who fans 11 years ago and is giddy over set pics from the Christmas special!
• Deb attended an art show featuring a couple of Who-related projects!

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121 – Booming the Town

Series 1 continues! Join Deb, Erika, and Katrina as we discuss a serious Slitheen, a crowded TARDIS, immature breakups, and more! “Boom Town” tends to be a bit of a forgotten episode, so we tried to give it its due.

How do you feel about this ep? Did you forget about it? Or do you find the personal drama exciting? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Kat
  • awaits the first ep of the new podcast she’s been working on, Doctor Who’s Line Is it Anyway?!
  • wrote a new timey-wimey Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover fanfic, “Gene Roddenberry is Not a Timelord”!
• Erika enjoyed the hell outta the Now Hear This Podcast Festival, including
  • seeing Hello from the Magic Tavern live!
  • doing a live show of The Incomparable and hanging with her Incomparable Network pals.
• Deb can’t wait for Long Island Doctor Who 4!

Bonus link:
9th Doctor comics from Titan

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117 – Empty(?) Dancing

It’s another series 1 two-parter! Join Deb, Erika, Katrina, and Lynne as we discuss Steven Moffat’s first submission to the new era of Doctor Who. There’s a lot of love for both the 9th Doctor and Captain Jack, who may or may not be the physical incarnation of the Doctor’s libido. (Thanks, Lynne, for sharing that now-unseeable, though still unbelievable fan crack-theory!)

What are your thoughts on this two-parter? Do you like the Doctor as a “dancer”? Does that make you go all squicky? Do you like Captain Jack better here or later, in Torchwood? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Erika
  • has a new job!
  • continues to adore the Handwavium podcast!
• Kat
  • has a warm fangirl heart due to a minor lyric change by Frank Turner (and the Sleeping Souls) at the Reading and Leeds Festival 2016!
  • appreciates the work Frank Turner does to support Safe Gigs!
• Lynne
  • mega-appreciated meeting Verity! fans at WorldCon 2016!
  • FINALLY has the Captain Jack Harkness Funko Pop fig on her desk at work!
  • has a brand-spanking-new Doctor Who Colouring Book!
• Deb
  • recorded another delightful episode of The High Council podcast about “The Sea Devils”!
  • enjoyed a visit from Erik, who’s on two fantastic Doctor Who podcasts: The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast and Doctor Who: The Writers’ Room!

Bonus links:
Uncanny Magazine wins the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine!

Download or listen now (runtime 1:29:12) http://traffic.libsyn.com/veritypodcast/verityep117.mp3

115 – Father’s Day of the Dead

Our new-Who rewatch has reached Deb’s personal tipping point into super-fandom. Join Deb, Erika, Liz, and Tansy as we discuss feelings and poor choices and schmaltz and glorious 80s hair.

How do you like “Father’s Day”? Did it reach into your heart, give you the feels, and make you a devout fangirl? Or did it confuse you to have all these strange emotions in your Doctor Who? If the latter, has that changed? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Tansy
  • has some Big Finish on vinyl!
  • received a time-travelling postcard from Night Terrace season 2!
• Erika had fun recording a special ep of Verity! for Uncanny Magazine’s Kickstarter!
• Liz
  • is playing DOTA!
  • can’t wait to see (hear) Tom Baker in Star Wars Rebels!
• Deb got to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art with an expert (Kathleen Schowalter)!

Bonus link:
Lazy Doctor Who covers “Father’s Day”

Download or listen now (runtime 1:26:39) http://traffic.libsyn.com/veritypodcast/verityep115.mp3

111 – Losing The Long Game

It’s Eccleston time again! Join Deb, Erika, Katrina, and Lynne as we discuss a real workhorse of an episode, “The Long Game”. Adam, the not-quite-companion fails, the Doctor and Rose aren’t the most mature, and we play “we’ll fix it for you” to help Lynne handwave something that bugs her. Then we talk about potato chips. No, really.

What did you think of this one? Did it make an impression? Have you revisited it since the first time you saw it? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Lynne’s collection of Doctor Who DVDs is once again complete, with the purchase of The Underwater Menace!
• Erika inspired a Mexican Doctor Who podcast, Doctor Quien!
• Kat discovered the existence of a Doctor Who board game, Doctor Who, The Game of Time and Space!
• Deb’s heart is warmed by the goodness of fandom:
  • Listener Helen made it possible for a fellow fan to attend Awesome Con!
  • Chip, the Two-minute Time Lord, has made quite the contribution to fandom and podcasting, and we’ll miss him while he’s on hiatus.

Bonus links:
The Audio Guide to Babylon 5
The Terrible Zodin fanzine is looking for female reviewers
Lazy Doctor Who covers “The Long Game”

Download or listen now (runtime 1:13:10) 

107 – A Tale of Two Families

The first year of new-Who continues with its first two-parter. Join Deb, Erika, Lynne, and Tansy as we delve deep (I mean DEEP) into the relationships and characterizations and implications in “Aliens of London” and “World War Three”. Yes, we touch on the farting aliens, but there’s so much more in this story. It’s a bit of an anchor point for the arcs of several of our characters, and we tug hard on that anchor.

In addition, we talk about the importance of libraries (Happy National Library Week!), the Doctor as a soldier, and someone utters the phrase “barfing emotions”. It’s quite a ride.

What do you think of this two-parter? Did the farting aliens or the domesticity turn you off? Or did you enjoy the drama? And is your reaction any different now than the first time you saw this (assuming you have seen it before)? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Lynne has 13 hours of David Tennant to listen to, as they re-released his BBC audios in a boxed set!
• Erika is getting excited for the spin-off, Class!
• Tansy
  • heard gales of laughter as her daughters discovered Catherine Tate: comedic actress!
  • helped her daughter through the DW rite of passage that is learning about the missing episodes.
• Deb
  • was cheered greatly by the lovely “firsts” comments on our last Extra!
  • thanks Leah Flanagan for pointing her towards Galliday at Disney!

Bonus link:
Doctor Who Confidential

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104 – The End of the World is Unquiet

Our sojourn through series 1 continues. Join Deb, Erika, Katrina, and Tansy as we talk about “The End of the World” and, to a lesser extent, “The Unquiet Dead”. (If you want a more in-depth Verity! discussion about “The Unquiet Dead”, check out episode 83.) We talk about Rose’s first proper outings with the Doctor and what they mean to that burgeoning relationship. And yes, “relationship” can mean many things to many viewers.

How do you feel about these episodes? Have your feelings changed as much as Erika’s? Were you a baby-fan like Deb the first time you watched? And how do you view the interactions of Rose and the Doctor in these early outings? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Erika has (mostly) podcast-related joy (no surprise there):
  • The Cornell Collective, live from Gallifrey One!
  • a new accountant (yes, really), Andrew Carroll!
  • The One podcast, recorded with Steven!
  • an upcoming Lazy Doctor Who “marathon”!
• Tansy
  • started a new fiction podcast, Sheep Might Fly!
  • delights at Michelle Gomez dressed in (and tweeting about) River Song’s Christmas dress!
• Kat
  • loves the hell outta Paul Cornell’s This Damned Band!
  • records a new podfic, “These Are the Days We Live Now”!
• Deb
  • finally has delightful new Doctor Puppet to watch!
  • enjoys a Star Wars: The Force Awakens/Doctor Who series 1 mash-up!

Bonus links:
Verity! Ep 83 – The Unquiet, Headstrong Companion
Tansy is a Ditmar Award finalist in 3 categories!
Lazy Doctor Who covers “The End of the World” and “The Unquiet Dead”
P.R.O.B.E. – The Zero Imperative (for next week!)

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101 – A Rosey Outlook

It’s the first official episode of our fourth year! Join Deb, Erika, Liz, and Lynne as we start off our year-of-firsts with “Rose”, the first episode of Doctor Who‘s 2005 re-launch! We discuss our thoughts (if any) at the announcement of the show’s return, our reactions to the episode as it aired, and our feelings about it now.

There’s also some fascinating LiveJournal archaeology and at one point, Erika has a “Liz” moment. It’s loads of fun to kick off a new year!

What do you think of “Rose”? And were you excited about the show’s return? Were you nervous? Or did you not even know about it at the time? Let us know in the comments!

^E

Also covered:

• Lynne squees supersonically to see John Barrowman announcing a Captain Jack FunkoPop vinyl fig!
• Liz delightedly learns Companion Piece is on the non fiction long-list for the British Science Fiction Association awards!
• Erika enjoyed several lovely Doctor Who podcasting experiences:
  • The Incomparable‘s series 9 round-up!
  • Lazy Doctor Who‘s New Year’s Eve 3-ep-extravaganza!
  • Lazy Doctor Who‘s coverage of “Rose”!
• Deb looks forward to some great DW stuff:
  • The Adventures of River Song!
  • Doctor Who LEGO Dimensions Cyberman fun pack!

Bonus links:
Press reactions to “Rose”
Doctor Who: Project Who?

Download or listen now (runtime 1:31:45) 

Lynne’s Two Cents: What I Did For Love

I’m totally bummed to have missed out on the Who’s In What discussion, so I thought I’d weigh in on some of the things I have experienced because they have Doctor Who actors in them.

Some of them were excellent, and some of them were… experiences. So, here you go. Benefit from the rabbit holes that I have explored. 🙂

Verity! Episode 4 – Number 9 … Number 9 …

This week, Deb, Erika, Kat, and Lynne cover the 9th Doctor’s era through the lens that is “Dalek.” We also spare a few moments for “The End of the World.” We spare at least as many moments arguing about whether there’s hanky panky taking place in the TARDIS.

What do you think is the most representative 9th Doctor Story? Let us know!

^E

Also covered:
Who Is the Doctor
Gallifrey One
An Adventure in Space and Time – Casting News!
Splendid Chaps

Download or listen now (runtime 1:05:52)