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My name is Austin and I’m the Whovian, and these are my sons Corbin and Tripp and we’re the noobs!

This is the podcast that introduces a whole new generation to Doctor Who by watching an episode each week and discussing it from the perspective of a dad who’s seen it before, and two sons who haven’t. 

Welcome to Episode 106 covering the Series 7 episode 10: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara have to get to the centre, er center of the TARDIS to stop it from blowing up only to find out it already blew so they have to stop it before it starts using a big friendly button.

Production notes

* Story # 236* Originally aired April 27 2013 to 7.69 million viewers-ish* Written by: Steve Thompson* Directed by: Mat King

Misc Trivia

* This is the first TV episode to have the word “TARDIS” in the title. * How is this possible?!

Checklist 

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* almost…* Short cut: to the centre of the TARDIS* Creature of the week* The Time Zombies – two of the Van Baalen brothers and Clara are… burned by the star? And die, but live? It’s unclear.* CGI* The exploded TARDIS center in the white room* Bow ties are cool* Amy’s reading glasses* Hats* Geronimo* Just before the jump over the snarl* Running count – 13* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* TARDIS * Again, she and Clara aren’t getting along. The Doctor tries to let Clara fly her for a little bit to get to know her.* She has her own gravity* He manually cut on the extractor fans, why didn’t he just holler it from the doorway like before.* It has a self-destruct?!* There’s a room with the Doctor/Melody/River’s crib and Amy’s craft-paper TARDIS* The telescope from Tooth and Claw* The pool from Midnight?* The Eye of Harmony that we talked about last week!* Architectural reconfiguration system – reconfigures particles into anything you need* Library with A History of the Time War* Who in the world wrote The History of the Great Time War?!* A lot in this episode reiterating that the TARDIS is sentient, including Tricky picking up on it* Eleven describes it as infinite. I wonder if this is the first time this is explicitly stated* Psychic paper* Random

* Needless sacrificial death* Clara deaths* Sorta?* Running count – 3* The Question/Doctor Who?* While reading the History of the Time War, “so that’s who…”* You call yourself the Doctor, why? You have a name, I’ve seen it in a tiny corner.* Strax’s armory* Termy-wermy* Jammie Dodger sighting* Running count – 4* Existential Horror* Tricky’s brothers decided to pretend he was an android?!

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Other stuff we noticed

* The Encyclopedia Gallifreya apparently transmits knowledge in liquid form

Who’s Who? 

* Who is Clara Oswald?* A girl about so high, feisty* She died again… sorta* He finally confronts Clara. What are you?! A trick?! A trap?!* She has a freakout moment when he does this, but is calmed down when he saves her from falling.* The Doctor erases all of this by rewriting the whole adventure* You ran away with a spaceman in a box, anything could happen. I’m counting on it.* Who is The Doctor?