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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 122 covering Series 8 episode 7: Kill the Moon

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara have a fight after NOT killing the moon, which is an egg, with a dinosaur in it?

Production notes

* Story # 248* Originally aired October 4, 2014 to 6.91 million viewers* Written by: Peter Harness* Directed by: Paul Wilmshurst

Misc Trivia 

* This was originally written for Eleven

Cast

* Courtney Woods – Ellis George* This is her last appearance* Her next IMDB credit is a mini-series called Small Axe that is premiering on BBC like right now.

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Yes, many times* Doctor, how do we kill it? Kill the moon? Kill the moon.* Creature of the week* The bacteria spider – Corbin hates this* The egg/space dragon* Jiggery Pokery* TARDIS * She’ll turn up. Last time you said that, it ended up on the wrong side of the planet!* It can be run by DVD?* Also, if Courtney doesn’t hold onto the console, she’ll leave her behind?* Psychic paper* Courtney Woods was using it as a fake ID

Other stuff we noticed 

* My granny used to put things on Tumblr* That’s what we call a new moon

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Danny Pink? * He got his I told ya so moment

* Who is Clara?* Tell me what you knew or I’ll slap you so hard you’ll regenerate.* She’s tired of listening to the Doctor.* I don’t really understand her reaction to the situation. The whole ending of the episode is tonally weird.* Who is the Doctor?* Did he REALLY tell Courtney she wasn’t special? That’s not like the Doctor. * It’ll take a long time to shoot him to death cuz he’ll just keep regenerating. In fact, he’s not sure he won’t keep on regenerating forever* There are moments in time he can’t see. Little eye-blinks that are gray and hard to see.

Can We Talk About the Physics of Space and the Moon? 

* Let’s talk about aerodynamics* The moon creature flapped its wings and flew away. There’s no air in space, you can’t fly by flapping wings.* Let’s talk about the size of the moon* the “shell” just evaporates?! No, what the astronaut said would be true – bits of the moon would crash to earth* Let’s talk about conservation of mass and energy* How the heck did it gain 1.8 billion tons?! That’s not possible, unless it was eating stuff IN SPACE* What kind of creature is born pregnant and immediately gives birth?!

Classic Who Connection