NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 350: "The Ncuti Gatwa Era" Is Up!

 
"I'm a much bigger bang than you bargained for. I'm a lot more explosive than I look, and, honey, I know how I look. Put a quantum chain reaction through me, and I will shatter this silly little battlefield of yours into dust. All of it, in a heartbeat, into dust."
-- The Fifteenth Doctor, Doctor Who: "Boom"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back for another new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we're oined by special guests DJ Nik and Holly Mac to discuss Ncuti Gatwa's era as the Fifteenth Doctor, exploring the highs and lows from Doctor Who Series 14 and 15, including the 2023 and 2024 Christmas Specials!

In this episode, Jesse, Nik, Holly, and I discuss things like Jesse and I coming off our Superman movie high, our somewhat incestual podcast relationship, Ncuti's first season in Series 14/Season 1, all the baggage with becoming a new Doctor, Christopher Eccleston and Ncuti Gatwa having too short of runs as the Doctor, Russell T Davies not giving Ncuti the strong start he needed, Doctor Who needing to try for an Emmy nomination for Best Drama Series instead of Best Choreography, "Dot and Bubble" deserving better ratings than it got, the Doctor and Ruby Sunday having a shared life experience of being foundlings, the disappointment of Ruby's birth mother turning out to be just an ordinary person after so much buildup, our favorite and least favorite episodes of the first season, Nik and I encouraging Holly to watch Mindhunter, the overall improvement of Ncuti's second season in Series 15/Season 2, wondering if RTD would've improved more with a third season, Nik crushing on Varada Sethu, RTD's poor handling of Belinda being saddled with Poppy, Belinda being sidelined once RTD brought Ruby back into the series, everyone losing their minds over the Rani's return, our favorite and least favorite episodes of the second season, the Doctor's regeneration into Billie Piper, wondering why RTD didn't write a proper ending for the series if he didn't know what the future was, Ncuti Gatwa being forced to leave the series, the lack of information and vagueness of what's going on behind the scenes not reassuring fans, the need for the show to go back to basics, Nik attending a Bruce Springsteen concert in Italy, our upcoming discussion of "The War Games in Colour", our next 350 episodes, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "The War Games in Colour", the recut and colorized version of the seventh serial from Doctor Who Season Six from 1969, featuring the final regular story of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon, and Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot!