It’s time to set it straight: was Mummy on the Orient Express the best episode of Doctor Who Series 8, or has everyone just gone mad, seeing things that aren’t there and only living for another 66 seconds?
Christian Cawley, Brian Terranova and James McLean find out…
Shownotes
- Peter Capaldi, John Sessions, David Bamber and Christopher Villiers in Midsomer Murders. (Also, Peter Davison and Mark Gatiss.)
- Fry & Laurie sketch, “Critics”
- Neil Gaiman vs Steven Moffat and lack of female writers on Doctor Who
- Recommendations: Doctor Who: The Secret Lives of Monsters
, The World Is Not Enough
, Moonraker
, Double Indemnity
(1944), Withnail & I, Twin Peaks return, Millennium comic series from IDW.
Introduction by John Guilor; this week’s podKast theme is Jim Parker’s theme tune to Midsomer Murders.
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Good to hear the chaps unanimously positive about this episode and responding to points made by site users about previous podcasts.
The reason this episode has gone down better with most fans than Kill the Moon is that it held up well all the way through, which I don’t think KTM did. The latter started strongly but snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with iffy moon-ness and a no-brainer moral debate. The Mummy was guilty of cod science and being another misunderstood creature, just as KTM was, yet it was all just done so well and worked within the parameters of the fantasy world it portrayed.