The Interstellar Song Contest 🎤 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2
Update: 2025-05-20
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Torture, honey, morality, physicality, camp, regression, edginess… there’s lots to discuss in Juno Dawson’s Eurovision episode of the 2025 season of Doctor Who.
(00:00:00 ) Thoughts, plot, Die Hard
(00:06:19 ) Belinda, character interiority
(00:11:34 ) ‘Wonderful’ cool Doctor, sidelining morality drama, gendered characterisation
(00:21:21 ) Eurovision context & politics
(00:35:27 ) Honey, Hellia, sponsorship, ideology
(00:46:49 ) Fifteen characterisation, novelty vs regression, ‘scary’ Doctor
(00:58:51 ) Torture scene, neutralising drama, The Good Doctor
(01:08:05 ) Imagery & physicality in the torture scene, icy heart
(01:22:16 ) Cora’s song, resistance, Andor
(01:30:11 ) Camp, writing Belinda & the Doctor, RTD stasis
(01:41:35 ) The music
(01:57:46 ) Susan Foreman, brink of death, Anita Dobson
(02:09:30 ) Technobabble, side characters
(02:19:34 ) The Ranis
(02:28:38 ) Another bigeneration, another Delta Wave
(02:37:08 ) Spectacle, horns, protector, the Doctor’s rage, Nursedoc shipping
(02:45:53 ) Leak Zone: villains, future, casting, telos…
(00:00:00 ) Thoughts, plot, Die Hard
(00:06:19 ) Belinda, character interiority
(00:11:34 ) ‘Wonderful’ cool Doctor, sidelining morality drama, gendered characterisation
(00:21:21 ) Eurovision context & politics
(00:35:27 ) Honey, Hellia, sponsorship, ideology
(00:46:49 ) Fifteen characterisation, novelty vs regression, ‘scary’ Doctor
(00:58:51 ) Torture scene, neutralising drama, The Good Doctor
(01:08:05 ) Imagery & physicality in the torture scene, icy heart
(01:22:16 ) Cora’s song, resistance, Andor
(01:30:11 ) Camp, writing Belinda & the Doctor, RTD stasis
(01:41:35 ) The music
(01:57:46 ) Susan Foreman, brink of death, Anita Dobson
(02:09:30 ) Technobabble, side characters
(02:19:34 ) The Ranis
(02:28:38 ) Another bigeneration, another Delta Wave
(02:37:08 ) Spectacle, horns, protector, the Doctor’s rage, Nursedoc shipping
(02:45:53 ) Leak Zone: villains, future, casting, telos…
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