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Flip-Flop ⏪ Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Christmas Audio Dramas
2022-12-25
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Experimental formats, the ‘War on Christmas’, greener grass, fatalistic myopia, the nature of satire, ergodic literature, silliness vs seriousness, embedded narratives, & more are explored in this discussion over Flip-Flop, the 2003 Doctor Who Christmas audio drama.
(00:00:00) Christmas stories
(00:04:53) Jonathan Morris as a writer
(00:10:02) Ergodic literature
(00:18:54) Promotion of the story + CD details
(00:26:51) Looping the story
(00:30:42) (So seminal)
(00:37:32) Doctor Who Magazine coverage
(00:42:02) Antagonistic attitudes towards stories + choices theme
(00:54:00) Structural choices + more magazine coverage
(01:00:56) The art + grab-bag of racism
(01:10:22) Satire & anti-intellectualism
(01:17:41) Inspiration & morality
(01:24:36) Incoherence & bleakness
(01:28:52) Clip #1: Armed refugees + blindness
(01:37:05) Clip #2: Hard-hitting philosophy + slavery
(01:42:12) Clip #3: Committee inclusion + signal boosting
(01:54:30) Satire in Doctor Who
(02:02:13) Clip #4: Grass is always greener (White)
(02:04:20) Clip #5: False flag attacks
(02:06:27) Clip #6: Minorities
(02:09:59) Clip #7: War on Christmas
(02:14:22) Clip #8: Presidency & power
(02:19:11) Clip #9: Grass is always greener (Black)
(02:22:59) 2011 interview: Iraq War, Devil’s advocate
(02:28:39) 2021 interview: Hindsight & horseshoe theory
(02:31:47) Tweetalong: Parody, Daily Mail, discomfort, Iraq
(02:41:44) Tweetalong: Dialogue, sex, pride, firsts, books
(02:50:57) 2019 Twitter thread; ‘progressive bona fides’
(02:57:55) Final thoughts…
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