The Interstellar Song Contest 🎤 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 2

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…

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Discussions about Doctor Who, its three showrunners, and more! Notes, sources, and YouTube versions linked at www.whocares.fun

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• Latest episode: 2025-05-24
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