Fuck Yeah, Doctor Who - S13E02 - War of the Sontarans

The thing that really upsets me about this episode is they have Dan Starkey playing a Sontaran who was captured, treated by an enemy medic, then was disgraced in the eyes on the Sontarans and it isn't a Strax origin story of how he became a nurse. I mean...talk about a wasted set up

MxChatter

a trans companion would be cool, but i think an enby doctor whould be rad

Amelia Liggins

Great podcast as usual, but disappointed in Dan for reinstating his TV licence. Conditional Allyship isn't allyship.

Stellar Star

https://youtu.be/bteLQh8dRb4

Brian

No Guys, don't do a Mission Impossible podcast, you'll ruin it! Dr Who was good, then you talked about it, now it’s shit. Picard was good, then you talked about it, and now it’s shit as well. If you release an episode called “Fuck Yeah Mission Impossible” Tom Cruise is going to die, calling it now

Batcat

If the Sontarans have to go to sleep on their ship to refuel their suits every 27 hours, how did the injured Sontaran survive without being able to return to the ship?

Ian Hutchison

i don’t even watch doctor who anymore i just listen to this

allegedly-Welsh

At the end of this episode, I was very confused about what happened with the 1800 Miner Guy. He was on the planet time and then just kinda disappeared. Also, how did he get there? I can up with a stupid theory, when Claire got sent back in time by the weeping angel she took the place of the 1800 man (Because you know you she was in Liverpool, he was in Liverpool) and then he got sent somewhere else and ended up on time. I was like haha Chibnall is going to fuck with weeping angel rules... but if this turns out to be the origin story for the weeping angels then Chibnall might use it as a way to get around that issue. The guy ending up on time could be explained by the angels going "fuck, we have nowhere to put this bloke" and then just going "fuck it, we'll send him to time (the start of the weeping angels timeline)". Classic Chibnall writing.

Justin Norman

One of my major issues with this episode is that it made the Sontarans into moustache-twirling villains, whereas previously they were a lot more complicated than that. I mean, they're a warrior race, so they're not exactly meant to be relatable, but previously they were rationale and honourable as well. Hell, Tennant's doctor seemed borderline fond of them, and now suddenly they're just generically evil.

Well Read Nomad

The reason for the Sontarans invading back in time at the Crimean war was very simple, Dan: Chibnall wanted to talk about Mary Seacole.

Well Read Nomad

Doctor who did that first! “It’s Sontaran, it needs three fingers!” “…You’ve got three fingers!”

The WWTDD scene just made me laugh because Yaz apparently relies on the Doctor so much that she needs to look at her hand, think for a second and then do the incredible action of… saying “yes”.

Sarah Jane adventures established that sontarans have 3 fingers so you just need to split your hand into three

Craig (CraigUntlNytTym) Penfold