The Empty Child | The Doctor Dances 🍌 Discussion & Review | Doctor Who: Series 1

Technology & technofarce, mechanisms of control, contested history, joint authorship, iterations in Moffat's career, matrices of ideas, repressive morality, sitcom structure, evaluating Captain Jack, sex in Doctor Who, what's changed from 2005 to now, & more are discussed in this review of Steven Moffat's 2005 The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances episodes of Doctor Who. Neo, Ingiga, and Tomtit discuss Steven Moffat's 2005 Doctor Who episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, from Series 1. Listen to us on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HG4adm... Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/who-... TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Cul... PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/2537864 Neo can also be found at   / neo_whocares   Ingiga also runs a blog, over at https://gigawho.wordpress.com Tomtit's other appearances on the channel can be found here https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/tag/... More at https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/2022... TIMECODES: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:55 Moffat’s career & writing women 00:07:44 Nancy & sexual repression: changing perspectives 00:13:38 Rose and RTD’s attitudes 00:17:37 Jack and the Doctor’s journeys 00:22:50 Matrix of ideas 00:25:16 Representations of history 00:35:35 Sex storytelling; script parallels 00:39:07 Who created Captain Jack? 00:49:10 Technology & normalisation 00:58:10 Chula warship; class & colonialist readings 01:04:35 Final thoughts 01:08:02 Deleted lines from the script 01:13:01 Debrief: sex, tech, & war 01:24:02 Debrief: Moffat & gender 01:27:33 Debrief: Barrowman & the 2020s 01:51:32 Debrief: RTD to RTD2 SOURCES: (there are too many sources here to fit within YouTube's character limit for video descriptions, so this is an abbreviated list — for the full list, see https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/2022...) 1. Eccleston, Christopher. “Christopher Eccleston | His favorite Dr Who episode.” YouTube, uploaded by FAN EXPO HQ, 31 May 2022, 00:51-01:30,    • Christopher Eccleston | His favorite Dr Wh...   2. “Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner.” BBC Media Centre, 24 Sep. 2021, https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202... “Noel Clarke accuses John Barrowman of exposing himself on Doctor Who set in resurfaced video.” The Independent, 30 April 2021, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en... 3. Moffat, Steven, John Barrowman, and Dave Houghton. Audio commentary. Doctor Who, series 1, episode 10: The Doctor Dances, 32:53-33:14. BBC, 2005. DVD. 4. Moffat, Steven. “The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.” Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts [2005 series], edited by Russell T Davies. BBC Books, 2005, p. 387. 5. Moffat, Steven, John Barrowman, and Dave Houghton. Audio commentary. Doctor Who, series 1, episode 10: The Doctor Dances, 08:37-09:33. BBC, 2005. DVD. 6. Original source seemingly located at “web.archive.org/web/20100803171432/http://p216.ezboard.com/ftheanorakzonefrm17.showMessage?topicID=302.topic”, but the link is now dead and seemingly not saved on any archival site Secondhand reference at: Spatula / Nick Johnson. “A line of dialogue in the latest episode of Doctor Who has stirred up controversy among fans...” Morons.org, 19 April 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/201008031... 7. Edgerton, David. “Emden Lecture 2018: Professor David Edgerton.” YouTube, uploaded by St Edmund Hall, 5 Dec. 2018,    • Emden Lecture 2018: Professor David Edgerton   8. Moffat, Steven. “The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.” Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts [2005 series], edited by Russell T Davies. BBC Books, 2005, p. 382. 9. Barrowman, John, Steven Moffat, and Dave Houghton. Audio commentary. Doctor Who, series 1, episode 10: The Doctor Dances, 38:13-39:02. BBC, 2005. DVD. 10. Moffat, Steven, John Barrowman, and Dave Houghton. Audio commentary. Doctor Who, series 1, episode 9: The Empty Child, 03:37-04:12. BBC, 2005. DVD. 11 & 15. Moffat, Steven. Doctor Who: The Inside Story, edited by Gary Russell. BBC Books, 2006, p. 172. 12. Moffat, Steven, John Barrowman, and Dave Houghton. Audio commentary. Doctor Who, series 1, episode 9: The Doctor Dances, 21:33-22:04. BBC, 2005. DVD. 13. Moffat, Steven, John Barrowman, and Dave Houghton. Audio commentary. Doctor Who, series 1, episode 9: The Doctor Dances, 06:12-07:50. BBC, 2005. DVD. 14. Moffat, Steven. “The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.” Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts [2005 series], edited by Russell T Davies. BBC Books, 2005, p. 363. #doctorwho #stevenmoffat #thedoctordances