Welcome to the first episode of the Soof and Flo Show! For our first episode, we’re digging into the 2005 revival of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, covering everything from the Doctor’s saviour complex to the campness of Doctor Who to our own escapist relationship with the show.

• Note: Florence speaks so fast. Feel free to play the episode on a slower speed.
  
  


• We were both nerds as young teens and got very into the first series of the reboot in 2005
  
  


• Florence used to do a podcast all about David Tennant. On reflection it was a little creepy.
  
  


• Soof enjoyed the similarities between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor Who and it helped them get into the show
  
  


• Russel T. Davies published a memoir that Florence read from front to back as a very cool teenager but they seem to remember it was literally 500 pages of emails
  
  


• Christopher Eccleston is a very SERIOUS Shakespeare actor and it suited the gravitas of someone who was essentially traumatised by the Time War
  
  


• Hugh Grant was considered for the role of the Ninth Doctor?! What a different show that would have been
  
  


• The older series of Doctor. Florence and their brother got each other the same episode of Doctor Who for Christmas one year, The Pyramids of Mars, and it was terrible.
  
  


• We were surprised at how good the CGI was. Cheap but not terrible. They used real people and models which helped.
  
  


• The Doctor is a sugar daddy. In the post MeToo era it doesn’t age well.
  
  


• The doctor has a saviour complex. Is the Doctor a dark tourist who goes to places that fulfil his saviour complex?
  
  


• The episode Boom Town was supposed to be an episode where it turns out Rose’s life was manipulated by the Doctor to mould her into the ideal companion and we definitely think that remnants of this weird weird storyline are still in the script.
  
  


• The Doctor Dances: fun banter between Jack, Rose and the Doctor.
  
  


• What do aliens represent if we look at Doctor Who through a postcolonial lens?
  
  


• Doctor Who as escapism. Queerness and Doctor Who fandom.
  
  


• Doctor Who episodes as moral puzzles. Doctor Who has always posed moral conundrums, in the old series and the new. What does it mean to make a choice for the greater good?
  
  


• Theme music was Blur and Coalesce by Podington Bear, from Free Music Archive.