Noobs & the Whovian

Noobs & the Whovian


125 In the Forest of the Night

October 18, 2020

Live from Master Closet Studios, you’re listening to the only podcast on the internet recording in the forest: It’s the Noobs and the Whovian! 

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 125 covering the Series 8 episode 10: In the Forest of the Night.

This is the one where the Doctor and Clara save the day by doing absolutely nothing. The trees save us with an airbag.  

Production notes

* Story # 251* Originally aired October 25 to 6.29 million viewers * Written by: Frank Cottrell Boyce* Directed by: Sheree Folkson

Misc Trivia 

* The title comes from William Blake’s The Tyger

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare seize the fire?And what shoulder, & what art,Could twist the sinews of thy heart?And when thy heart began to beat,What dread hand? & what dread feet?What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water’d heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye,Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?William Blake, The Tyger

* In the scene where there’s a bus visible in the forest, there’s actually an ad for Series 8 of Doctor Who with Twelve and Clara on it. * It might be easy to write this off as a small mistake, but it’s a cardboard cutout that they placed in the forest!* You can see it in pics on this blog I found while googling it:

Cast

* Maebh Arden – Abigail Eames* Her sister, Daniella Eames, played the creepy spoon-headed girl on the stairs that uploaded Clara in The Bells of St. John

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Checklist

* Name of the episode spoken in dialogue?* Creature of the week* The Trees of Earth?* The Thoughts?* Stuff the Doctor loves* Jiggery Pokery* Sonic* It interacts with any form of communication you care to mention. Sadly, trees don’t communicate.* To communicate through the network, trees send chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals, which scientists are just beginning to decipher.* TARDIS * When you drink a can of coke, it’s only this big, but it’s got THIS much sugar in it. It works about like this.* One of the drawbacks of being the last of your species: no one to ask when your TARDIS won’t start

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Other stuff we noticed 

* Rapid afforestation* I thought you said they were in love, why are they shouting at each other? That’s what people do when they’re in love, don’t you know anything?* Catastrophes are the metabolism of the universe

Who’s Who?