Please Attend Carefully

https://bio.link/attend The Doctor Who podcast dedicated to the lives and times of the renegade time lord known universally as, The Master. Hosted by Ciarán and Amber, two Doctor Who obsessed Aussies. Proudly Queer, Proudly inclusive. Send us a message about anything Master related!

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You can now listen to Please Attend Carefully (the only Doctor Who podcast EXCLUSIVELY about the renegade Time Lord known, universally, as The Master) on YouTube!

All of our episodes are now available as a podcast with special graphic episodes coming over time for those of you who want something a bit more dynamic on your screen.

You can of course still find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you'd like via our RSS feed. New episodes coming fortnightly! (Along with extras here and there)

Follow the link in our blog header to find out more and start listening now!

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Favourite Guest Appearance in Doctor Who: Anthony Head as Brother Lassar / Mr Finch

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Vale.

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Someone take this game away from me.

He was excited to get his copy.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the island.

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Have you added/do you plan on adding Valeyard to your Tomodachi Life island? 👀

Oh! I absolutely should!

Thank you for the suggestion, I had forgotten all about them.

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Full line up of TV Doctors and Masters on my Tomodachi Life Island.

I still need to make Fugitive and War, plus the Big Finish Masters. All Doctors have 1-3 companions, but I'll post them another time.

Bruce Master always finds a way to make me laugh.

Decayed Master just enjoying the peace on Gallifrey Island

I'm obsessed with the Meddling Monk, but the Rani is constantly annoyed by him.

I'm having so much fun with all of them, especially all the Masters.

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I’ve always thought it was such a wasted opportunity that Nyssa and the Tremas!Master don’t have more of a dynamic.

Maybe I’ve seen too much Supernatural (one of the leads is an angel who possesses the father of a young girl, who comes back later and hates him for it to the point of trying to kill him) I guess, but you would think that a person would react to seeing the guy that ruined her life and killed her father walk around in his body.

Hell! I think about how the Ainley Master looks a bit like Tremas as a younger man, and how that might mean that the Master looks the way her father did when Nyssa was small! It could’ve been a really interesting motivation for someone who is supposed to be one of the main characters, giving her this connection to one of the most popular recurring antagonists.

As you can probably tell, I really enjoyed the new episode of the podcast! So glad you guys are back! <3

It is one of the biggest wasted opportunities of the show. Perhaps just an example of how JNT didn't care about that particular dynamic. The regeneration out of Four and into Five is the next episode, so that was probably more their focus.

If you haven't listened to it, the War Master audio boxset "Killing Time" has a story called "The Orphen". The Orphan in question is Nyssa, so the two of them have an entire audio story together. They do have a conversation about the entire situation. I think this audio touches on the subject the most, although it still isn't heaps.

Thanks for listening! We're glad you enjoyed our first episode back. I see you in our tumblr notes all the time and it means so much that you stick around and support us!

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New episode out now!

We're discussing "The Keeper of Traken". We dusted off an old VHS copy to watch together for this, which was a lot of fun.

Check our pinned post for details on where to listen!

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Have you read Harvest of Time?

Yes

No, but I've read a summary

No, I have never heard of this book

Why is it a giant metal pen-

Voting ended onMay 20

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Did you know WE'RE BACK?

There is a brand new episode available on our feed! We discuss why we've been away, do a round up of all the things that happened since we last recorded, and include some clips of recordings we did that never made it out.

We sat down and recorded a brand new episode, plus we have a few that were recorded but never released. So there's new content coming soon!

Enjoy!

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MAY I JUST SAY. How much it fucking filled my bitter old Whovian heart to hear the absolute exhausted exasperation in Ciarán's voice in this most recent ep when he referred to 'the fucking rock death'. THANK YOU YES.

Because my god if I never had to hear about the bloody rock death again. I recognise, because I am committed to making a good fandom space, that everyone is entitled to their own opinions and that I'm not going to improve anyone's day, least of all my own, by shitting all over that, so I refrain from doing so on other folks' posts, but GOD, the bloody Torvic rock murder thing is just. Whichever way you slice it, it is literally the *least* interesting explanation for the Master's character. Idk why the current iteration of D/M fandom has latched onto it as hard as it has. Kinda feels of a piece with insisting on 'Thoschei' as a shipname, this thing of wanting to boil the entire complexity of the relationship down to their school days, which is just soooooooo boring.

IDK, that's a whole other rant that I don't need to go on in your inbox, but I just wanted to raise a proverbial internet glass to Ciarán for that. Cheers, mate, I fuckin feel you.

Also, so chuffed to have you back! *throws confetti*

Thank you for sharing! Ciarán is glad to know there are others who feel the same way. Quote: "There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

It's good to acknowledge that keeping fandom spaces positive is the best approach to situations like this. We like creating a space where people can voice opinions in an honest but constructive way.

It was disheartening to me when I recieved the first and only negative feedback to the pod which was, "How can you call yourself a Master podcast when you've never done an episode on the Rock Death?"

Really?? I just deleted the ask out our inbox because, honestly, I found it rude. There are 50 rich years of other content that the RD is just a small piece of.

I feel like there is some kind of "let he who is without sin cast the first stone(rock)" joke here, but I can't quite figure it out.

Continue to love and enjoy the parts of the fandom that speak to you the most.

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pick a mismatched thoschei!!

10th doctor/war chief

8th doctor/spymaster

7th doctor/delgado master

2nd doctor/reborn master

9th doctor/missy

first doctor/bruce master

war doctor/saxon master

the valeyard/proffessor yana (war master)

13th doctor/ainley master

Voting ended onMay 13

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Another Tomodachi Life update!

All was well in Thoschei land (not the actual name of the island, but four separate versions of Thoschei are developing. Only Eight and Bruce Master are holding out). I've had no interference in this, they are naturally pairing up.

Threegado has been having some issues, but I haven't lost hope for then yet. Sadly another pair have run into trouble.

He's confessing! They live together already and have a great level of friendship, so I thought it would be okay.

But then.... JACK HARKNESS?

Oh no....

She said no. But he wasn't accepting that.

It didn't matter though, because she didn't even turn up for the second confession of love.

Instead she was at home, doing the most in character thingI can imagine.

Talking to a vacuum tube....

He's not taking the rejection very well.

Maybe they will recover from this, or they'll just stay friends instead.

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A Tomodachi Life update.

Firstly, here are all the Miis I've made so far:

How the day started:

How it ended:

Neither of them will initiate actually starting a relationship, and as a result both are getting bored.

Meanwhile Bill confesses to Jo and they are now living together.

The Lesbians are winning.

These two are getting very meta.

And Suave Master has a lot to say about extended universe canon.

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So... here's how Tomodachi life is going so far.

And of course,

This game is the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Thoschei is thriving in multiple pairings, Bill Potts has a crush on Jo, and the Brigadier won't stop riding the springy frog.

I'll be adding more and more characters, I need them all here.

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I feel like the audience of a Master podcast are not the best people to ask "Would you go with Koshei or The Doctor?" to. I fear we may be biased. <3 Great episode!

Thank you! True, especially when Koschei still cared about other people's lives.

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will you ever do a academy era dedicated episode? The fandom is SEVERELY lacking canon info on this and it would be much appreciated 🙏

I'm so sorry, this ask got lost to the Sands of time, but I have just seen it!!!

I have a copy of Divided Loyalties, and hope to read it soon. The lack of canon information makes it a hard topic to discuss properly, but we will be covering what does exist. If they are any specific requests, we would be happy to hear them!