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Little_wh0re posted:After finishing Storm warning and enjoying it a lot i'v picked up... errr The Marian Conspiricy, The Holy Terror, Colditz, Chimes of Midnight, Seasons of Fear and Ish You have chosen very, very wisely. All those ranged from "decently solid" with ...ish to "fantastic" with Colditz/Seasons of Fear to "amazing" with The Chimes of Midnight. And  for The Holy Terror.As an aside, a conversation with a friend today led to a neat idea of a IDW/Dynamite Comics crossover. The Sixth Doctor...and Ash Williams.
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Bicyclops posted:You'll catch up! I don't know, I was closing in on 100 and then they dropped the prices on 50-100 so I ended up going back and filling up the gaps in my collection, and now I'm slowly working my way back up again. Oh woe is me, I have too much NEW Doctor Who to enjoy! Mid-90s me would beat the poo poo out of me.
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CobiWann posted:You have chosen very, very wisely. All those ranged from "decently solid" with ...ish to "fantastic" with Colditz/Seasons of Fear to "amazing" with The Chimes of Midnight. A part of me is still waiting for the Quantum Leap/Doctor Who crossover.
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CobiWann posted:You have chosen very, very wisely. All those ranged from "decently solid" with ...ish to "fantastic" with Colditz/Seasons of Fear to "amazing" with The Chimes of Midnight. Fourth Doctor and Red Sonja.  Let's see him deal with a REAL warrior woman that doesn't give a poo poo about science.
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Little_wh0re posted:After finishing Storm warning and enjoying it a lot i'v picked up... errr The Marian Conspiricy, The Holy Terror, Colditz, Chimes of Midnight, Seasons of Fear and Ish These are some quality Big Finish choices. Jerusalem posted:
I know, right? Once I finally do catch up (I've been calculating when this will happen and it will be in late 2017 if I continue at the rate I'm going), I'm just going to complain that I have to wait a whole month for more Big Finish!
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Bicyclops posted:
This is me. I started in 99 with Sirens, and never looked back.
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Bicyclops posted:These are some quality Big Finish choices. a Whole week more likely. Last year there was 50ish Doctor Who related releases, including quite few boxed sets.
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adhuin posted:a Whole week more likely. Last year there was 50ish Doctor Who related releases, including quite few boxed sets. Nick Briggs must be some kind of a machine. Like, some kind of a brain that's just encased in a metal shell.
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It's a bit ahead (read: not on sale) of all the ones you guys are talking about, but I listened to Heroes of Sontar the other day and it's the best story I've heard in quite some time. Easily the best Sontaran story, possibly the best Turlough story, and it handles the rest of the characters, including a squad of seven Sontarans, extremely well. It pulls the same trick as the new series in making the Sontarans comic relief, but it turns out there's a reason why these particular soldiers are so funny, and it uses this to dovetail into an emotionally strong finale. It's like just, really good, man.
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Rochallor posted:It's a bit ahead (read: not on sale) of all the ones you guys are talking about, but I listened to Heroes of Sontar the other day and it's the best story I've heard in quite some time. Easily the best Sontaran story, possibly the best Turlough story, and it handles the rest of the characters, including a squad of seven Sontarans, extremely well. It pulls the same trick as the new series in making the Sontarans comic relief, but it turns out there's a reason why these particular soldiers are so funny, and it uses this to dovetail into an emotionally strong finale. It's like just, really good, man. Yeah, it's a highlight so far of what I've heard of the rebooted 5/Nyssa/Tegan/Turlough adventures. If you like Turlough stories you'll love Kiss of Death, the next one. CobiWann posted:Speaking of emotional content, personal drama, and amnesia... So I can get all the rest of the 8th Doctor episodes I don't have (besides Dark Eyes 2 and 3) for $50?  I should start paying more attention to the sales...I've bought almost 100 audios in the past year...
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Bicyclops posted:You'll catch up! The Companion Chronicles, EDAs and Dalek War are slowing me down. It's probably a bad thing that I'm putting more time into planning how I'm going approach the next block of BFAs than I am into work, the record label I co-own, or the convention I'm trackleading. Probably. Soooo.... Should I do do the next clump as release date for the monthlies and CC's, then do all of Dalek Empire 4 in succession?
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And speaking of Conventions I'm involved in, East Coast Goons - a) Who all is going to Regeneration Who next month? b) Is anyone going to Balticon? (Same hotel, Memorial Day weekend.) I'm ensuring that there will be at least two Doctor Who panels, ideally three, so that we can hold one at the Sacred Witching Hour of 11pm on Saturday night, as this year is the thirtieth anniversary of Doctor Who in Maryland.
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Well apparently the "Key to Time" box set is out of print in R1. I found this out by trying to order it in December when they had it marked down to $45 and them not sending it to me because they ran out. And now there's only used ones that are $90+ 
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After The War posted:
I'm only halfway through, but Dalek Empire IV has been a bit of a slog so far, Noel Clark and Maureen O'Brien notwithstanding. I thought they were finally done with the Angel of Mercy thing, but it's still there. I'd break it up with other stories.
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From toxx-threadLittle_wh0re posted:this is both not true and has never been true and I really wish people would stop saying it, they meet out of order, but not reverse Eh. the Show heavily implies that it is mostly in reverse order with "His First Time and her Last."-stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wavWtkIgnDQ
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adhuin posted:From toxx-thread Yeah, I remember them remarking that it's based on The Time Traveler's Wife, where, if I remember correctly, that is the tendency.
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God I hate discussing River's character without the full context. Because she IS a Mary Sue- it's just if she's a well done one that matters. But without the bullshit Mels/Timelord/PERFECT SUPER ASSASSIN/Daughter Of The Ponds trainwreck, you just have a very competent woman who happens to be meeting the Doctor out of order. River, as we have seen her, isn't a Mary Sue just because she fits so well with the other characters. She's no different than Jack in a lot of respects. Dump in the rest and that's the fanfiction motherload.
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It's amazing how quickly next season shits the bed and how every one after it rolls around in the mess.
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I was rolling with it up to the end of A Good Man Goes To War, but then the instant Mels regenerated into River I knew the wheels had fallen off the Moffatmobile.
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2house2fly posted:I was rolling with it up to the end of A Good Man Goes To War, but then the instant Mels regenerated into River I knew the wheels had fallen off the Moffatmobile. I was fine with it until Day of the Moon decided to be non-linear for no reason at all and didn't resolve the previous cliffhanger.
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I'd say the 7th season was the season that dropped the ball. 5th & 6th Season had so many balls in the air, that I didn't care if 1 or 2 got dropped in the background. As a whole it worked. 7th Season dropped the heavy continuity and tried more individual stories and no two-parters. I like both of those and clearly Moffat is better at doing serial-stories. It didn't help that we had half year of companions that had overstayed their welcome and rest of the season was spend with one that didn't get any characterization until the 8th season.
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adhuin posted:From toxx-thread it broadly tracks backwards but isn't just backwards
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I mean, Smith leaving early didn't help Moffat stick the landing, but when only you're take off is smooth there's probably no chance you'll land well any way. In fact, thinking back on Season Five, it's odd to see how much more RTD-lite the last season was. The historical celebrity episode has shifted from Vincent and the Doctor into that Robin Hood nonsense, and even a single badly realised robot soldier can wipe out the entire planet. Little_wh0re posted:it broadly tracks backwards but isn't just backwards Exactly, if it was backwards we would never see River Song again after Let's Kill Hitler.
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I would agree season 6 is a disaster, although I love the Flesh 2-parter, The Girl Who Waited, and The God Complex. And then the last half season with the Ponds was such a nothing. Ugh. Although I appreciate on an intellectual level what Moffat was trying to do with The Angels Take Manhattan, and it works on a thematic level. But the actual episode is sort of erratic, and the Statue of Liberty turning into an Angel is never, ever going to be topped in terms of "ideas that seemed great on paper but when actually executed are in fact insane nonsense". but then I liked much of the second half of season 7.5, although Clara was sort of ill-defined. and then I dislike The Name of the Doctor, loved Day of the Doctor, and had VERY MIXED FEELINGS on The Time of the Doctor. and then of course I loving love season 8, because Peter Capaldi is great and Clara is now an actual character rather than a plot device. And Missy! 
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I hated the Missy-teasers inside the earlier episodes. She was great in the finale, but the teasers felt just pointless manic pixie badguy-stuff.
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I don't think Angels Take Manhattan works on any level, thematically it feels like such an odd, silly ending to Amy and Rory's storyline. The entire season and a half before that had been seemingly building up to them leaving the TARDIS willingly, and living long, happy lives, but nope, instead there just zapped away by Angels and unable to reach the Doctor for nonsense plot reasons. It's especially dumb because as soon as you think about the reason he can't just pick them up there's so many holes in it. Clara was okay this season I guess, but I'd rather she had vanished for good than have to put up with Danny and hers horrible scenes together. I can't think of a single moment they were on screen together that didn't bring episodes to a screeching hault and lower the quality of every character in the scene. Mummy, Boneless and the Christmas Special were good. I'll probably never rewatch another episode outside of them. Missy I couldn't care less about, I guess she was okay, but the episodes she featured in were terrible.
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adhuin posted:7th Season dropped the heavy continuity and tried more individual stories and no two-parters. I like both of those and clearly Moffat is better at doing serial-stories. It didn't help that we had half year of companions that had overstayed their welcome and rest of the season was spend with one that didn't get any characterization until the 8th season. I have somewhat mixed feelings about season plotting in New Who. It's obviously something audiences expected when the series came back in 2005 (RTD wanted to emulate Buffy, at least to some extent, and J. J. Abrams had just finished Alias and just started Lost, which I think changed a lot of expectations about large-scale "macro" plotting in genre shows between them), but I'm not sure whether or not I'd enjoy a Who season that went for this kind of all-out, every-episode-counts style of serialisation you sometimes see. I think you need to have the monster-of-the-week episodes which are significant in and of themselves in between, because, like The X-Files, they're often what makes the programme fun. In terms of the overarching story, season eight felt to me like a weird halfway house between RTD's style, where there's a pattern you can pick out, but the big bad's connection to it isn't usually revealed until the finale, and Moffat's, which I think has leaned more towards the "somebody is orchestrating everything against the Doctor but we don't know who it is yet" (perhaps that's not the best way to distinguish them, but I've no peculiar talent for writing or plotting myself, so I realise I may be making some inelegant misrepresentations there).
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adhuin posted:I hated the Missy-teasers inside the earlier episodes. She was great in the finale, but the teasers felt just pointless manic pixie badguy-stuff. Yes, this exactly.
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Season 6 has some really great episodes but a lot of complicated fluff that doesn't pan out. Season 7 isn't bad, it's just aggressively mediocre a lot of the time, which is unfortunate for a season that says goodbye to some longtime companions and introduces another. Season 8 was mostly great, though.
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PriorMarcus posted:The historical celebrity episode has shifted from Vincent and the Doctor into that Robin Hood nonsense, What's it like to hate fun?  adhuin posted:I hated the Missy-teasers inside the earlier episodes. She was great in the finale, but the teasers felt just pointless manic pixie badguy-stuff. Yeah, but rewatching them after the reveal they were much better.
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Bicyclops posted:Season 8 was mostly great, though. Agreed. All 10 episodes of the Season 8 were mostly great!
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I kinda like the idea that she started collecting all the Doctor's friends and acquaintances personally, then eventually got bored and programmed Chris Addison to do it for her.
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Astroman posted:What's it like to hate fun? Ask him about being allergic to positivity!
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Yeah, it's really unfortunate how 7.0 is Amy and Rory's farewell. It's really underwhelming. I guess Dinosaurs on a Spaceship had a few moments (and the Mitchell & Webb robots owned), and A Town Called Mercy was sort of interesting as a "moral dilemma" episode, but I didn't like Asylum of the Daleks (and it seemed like Amy and Rory were shoehorned into it, anyway) and The Power of Three. And I thought The Angels Take Manhattan had great atmosphere and structure, but the whole thing was brutally soured by being kind of an upsetting end for Rory and Amy. But as I have said before, I love Hide, Cold War, The Crimson Horror, The Snowmen, and Day of the Doctor, and like The Bells of St. John, The Rings of Akhaten, and Nightmare in Silver. And while I don't really like either The Name of the Doctor or The Time of the Doctor, they never reach the colossal badness of the season 6 plot episodes.
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adhuin posted:Agreed. All 10 episodes of the Season 8 were mostly great! Forest of the Night .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Forest of the Night Not that great at counting?
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BSam posted:Not that great at counting? Evidently not  .
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adhuin posted:I hated the Missy-teasers inside the earlier episodes. She was great in the finale, but the teasers felt just pointless manic pixie badguy-stuff. They also serve to make those episodes weaker on rewatches by inserting plot from the finale that is out of place. It was fine to set things up in Deep Breath and I didn't care about the "promised land" namedrop in the Robin Hood episode, but they're super annoying in every other episode. I really dislike how these over-arching plots have morphed from a one word mention like Torchwood or Bad Wolf to stuff on the level of the Key to Time. This is Doctor Who, not Burn Notice, we don't need to revisit the plot of the season all of the time. We don't even really need a plot of the season every season. The episode with the instance of this that I particularly hate is the conversation between Amy and Rory about watching the Doctor die during The Doctor's Wife, which is a reminder of a lackluster over-arching plot during what is a fantastic episode. I'd rather just rewatch a great episode like The Doctor's Wife without having to think about that.
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BTW, updated the review index on the first page of this thread, per request.
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