Noobs & the Whovian

Noobs & the Whovian


123 Mummy on the Orient Express

October 04, 2020

Live from Master Closet Studios, you’re listening to the only podcast on the internet recording for the FIRST time… from this studio… : It’s the Noobs and the Whovian! 

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 123 covering the Series 8 episode 8: Mummy on Oriental Express

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara fight a mummy… on a train… in spaaaaaace!

Production notes

* Story # 249* Originally aired October 11, 2014 to 7.1 million viewers * Written by: Jamie Mathieson* Directed by: Paul Wilmshurst

Misc Trivia 

* Murder on the Orient Express was a Poirot novel by Agatha Christie published in 1934. It was made into a TV movie for ITV in 2010 and by CBS in 2001. It was also a 1974 film and a 2017 film… none of which we’ve seen…* There’s a deleted scene where Maisie was nearby on the beach at the end. It’s revealed that when the Doctor used her bad memories to trap the mummy, he actually removed them from her for good.* Twelve mentions that Gus had been trying to lure him here for a while. At the end of The Big Bang, Eleven got a call on the TARDIS phone saying that an Egyptian goddess was loose on the Orient Express in space!

Cast

* Jazz singer – Foxes* Grammy-award winning singer* She was singing a jazz version of Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now* BBC actually did a full music video for this song featuring Series 8 clips that’s pretty good

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* The Foretold – a SPAAAAACE MUMMMYYYYYYY!* It’s not just a mummy, it’s a vampire.* There’s a small plothole with it* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* It didn’t work because of a suppression field.* Which is more convenient, a sonic that can do almost anything, or a suppression field that nullifies it.* Psychic paper* I’m your worst nightmare. Oh great, a mystery shopper?* Random 

Other stuff we noticed 

* Turns out it’s three. The number of people who have to die before I stop looking the other way.* The pic for the Doctor on Clara’s phone is a stick insect wearing a top hat!

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Who’s Who?

* Who is Perkins?* Was he a companion-that-never-was?* He actually turned it down!* Who is Danny Pink? * He is freakin supportive! “Go enjoy your space train.”* Who is Clara?* I can’t do this anymore, at least not the way you do it* Twelve or the doctor in general?* This is their last hurrah.* Just kidding!* She changes her mind at the very end, and even goes back to lying to the Doctor and Danny.* Who is the Doctor?* Well, what kind of doctor are you? Now that’s not a question asked often enough* Let’s say he’s a doctor of intestinal parasites* The doctor is talking to himself like he’s a different person. And being rhetorical to himself.