NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 320: "Empire of Death" Is Up!

 
"I clung to your infernal machine. And for so many years...I hid. I have travelled with you all this time, riding the spine of your ship, staring into eternity and evolving into my true godhood. Now I know every beat of the heart of your time machine, and I can bend it to my will. It will stand as my altar, the temple of my empire of death."
-- Sutekh, Doctor Who: "Empire of Death"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we're joined by special guests DJ Nik and Holly Mac to discuss "Empire of Death", the eighth episode of Doctor Who Series 14, featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush, and Gabriel Woolf as the voice of Sutekh!

In this episode, Jesse, DJ Nik, Holly, and I discuss things like the Dallas Mavericks not getting an NBA championship, Jesse's sister turning 60, Russell T Davies taking a page from X-Files creator Chris Carter, whether "Empire of Death" stuck the landing, rushing to watch "Pyramids of Mars" again after last week's episode, my annoyance that Ruby referred to Louise as her "real" mom, Russell T Davies getting the story idea about Ruby's mother being an ordinary human from Rey's story arc in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Doctor being fond of spoons, Sutekh revealing how he survived the events of "Pyramids of Mars", the explanation for the multiple Susans, Sutekh's reset of the Thanos Snap from Avengers: Infinity War, Jesse waiting for confirmation that Gallifrey returned, Nik feeling a nuclear holocaust metaphor vibe from the episode, Sutekh forcing the Doctor to change his moral code, wondering what the point was of having the Fourteenth Doctor work through his PTSD only to traumatize the Fifteenth Doctor all over again, wondering where the Fourteenth Doctor was during Sutekh's assault, the Memory TARDIS from the Tales of the TARDIS framing sequences, RTD being like Lucy from Peanuts cartoons yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, wondering where the explanation for Ruby causing snow to fall was, Ruby's big gamble in confronting her natural mother, wondering why Carole Ann Ford hasn't been brought back as Susan Foreman by now, more Mrs. Flood speculation, our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, new listener feedback from Dave Proctor, Megan from Oregon and Sandi from Oregon, Jesse finally getting his heart's desire with "The Daleks in Color", and more!

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Be sure to come back in one week for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I are joined by special guest companion Holly Mac to discuss "The Daleks in Color", the 2023 colorized and recut version of "The Daleks", the second serial from Doctor Who Season One in 1963-64, featuring William Hartnell as the First Doctor and introducing the Daleks!