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Diabolik900 posted:She has pictures of all his faces, but I don't think she ever said she saw them all personally. Is there any evidence she knows about War?
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Jun 27, 2015 13:37
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qntm posted:Is there any evidence she knows about War? I did not have temporal relations with that woman!
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Jun 27, 2015 13:40
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Tomtrek posted:Big Finish just announced a whole bunch of new series related content: Holy gently caress. I love you, Nicholas Briggs.
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Jun 27, 2015 13:47
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qntm posted:Is there any evidence she knows about War? No reason why not. We'd better get John Hurt into the studio at some point. EDIT. Oh poo poo. They've got Barrowman for the Torchwood stuff, now we have River.. The River and Jack show can happen! How much smug can you fit onto a cd?
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Jun 27, 2015 13:47
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I'm actually in a foul mood over the Churchill Years thing.
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Jun 27, 2015 15:29
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DoctorWhat posted:I'm actually in a foul mood over the Churchill Years thing. Hopefully they'll cover his experiments into alternative fighter navigation. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WyYbZj_8
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Jun 27, 2015 15:31
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I fear there is a limit to how much River Song even the most enthusiastic fan can take and Big Finish risks hurtling across that line at a thousand miles per hour with not a care in the world.
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Jun 27, 2015 15:52
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Holy gently caress this is everything I ever wanted from Big Finish, I love River and Eight is my favourite doctor.Jsor posted:Didn't River say she went and met all of his prior incarnations anyway? I recall some line where she said she met all of them, but did something to make them forget about it. This is from the "River Song's Diary" collectible thing in that terrible PS3 game they released that stars River and Eleven. There's a page in it about her going and meeting all his incarnations and writing little comments about them and mentioning that she was using some alien gas or something to make him forget. And yes it does contradict the show although I guess you could argue that she's lying to him. She doesn't go and meet Ten in that page about her meeting all the previous doctors so maybe she knew that he was Ten when he first met her and that when she met him as Ten that was meant to be their first meeting?
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Jun 27, 2015 16:06
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River's diary was probably the best thing about that terrible, terrible game. I especially enjoyed the page about meeting the 1st Doctor, where she's trying to be discreet and ends up getting chased down the street by him waving his cane and yelling at her to mind her own business and stay away from him 
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Jun 27, 2015 16:09
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Dabir posted:I fear there is a limit to how much River Song even the most enthusiastic fan can take and Big Finish risks hurtling across that line at a thousand miles per hour with not a care in the world. On the other hand, it's Big Finish writing for her, and I think they can tone her down a bit. I mean, look at Sixie . . .
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Jun 27, 2015 16:12
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I kind of want a 6/River story where it's nothing but them trying to out-smug each other. Done right, it'd probably be funny. I give it a year before we have a full-on 10th Doctor story, Tennant and all. Hopefully with Donna as his companion.
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Jun 27, 2015 16:16
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Tomtrek posted:Big Finish just announced a whole bunch of new series related content: I don't even like River Song, or Churchill that much, but this is great news! Just inching closer and closer to the possibility of New Who Doctor full audioplays. Just them even being allowed to play in the New series sandpit is pretty great!
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Jun 27, 2015 16:44
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I haven't been this happy since the end of Earthshock! What a great way for Big Finish to expand their portfolio and range. There is so much ground to tap in the new series, even without the actual Doctor (9, 10, 11, 12) himself, and I have absolutely no doubt BF will be up to the task. DoctorWhat posted:I'm actually in a foul mood over the Churchill Years thing. Let me guess - you're concerned that BF will retcon or get rid of the first time the Doctor and Churchill met in the novel Players?
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Jun 27, 2015 16:46
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I assume that now that they have the ability to use both characters and both actors have agreed to voice things for them, the next thing they'll announce is the River Song/Jack Harkness series I've been waiting for them to make for years.
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Jun 27, 2015 16:53
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CobiWann posted:I haven't been this happy since the end of Earthshock! I'm curious whether you were happy because Adric was dead or because "Earthshock" was over. Bit of both, I'll wager.
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Jun 27, 2015 17:15
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Cleretic posted:I can't imagine the Weeping Angels being very good in audio form, though. I feel like this could be amazing if done right, but it'll be very difficult for them.
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Jun 27, 2015 17:27
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CobiWann posted:Let me guess - you're concerned that BF will retcon or get rid of the first time the Doctor and Churchill met in the novel Players? Nope. I'm with Jack Graham on this one.
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Jun 27, 2015 17:37
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I am a bit worried about River showing up, as her character seemed to get less interesting and more MacGuffin-y in every apperance, but the concept itself is sound and I've very excited in general.
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Jun 27, 2015 17:37
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I would bet money at this point that they have the rights to do nine stories and haven't convinced Eccleston to sign up. Dan Starkey has also been hinting a lot and I would actually bet money they've got something in the works related to the Paternoster Gang. This is all really fantastic news, and I wouldn't be surprised if we get a Companion Chronicle or something with Rose before the end of 2016. The River stuff all depends on execution, of course, so there will probably be some great stories and some terrible stories, but it will be soooo worth it for the great stories. Of course she's starting with Eight, because the Doctor has to forget about her before meeting her in Silence in the Library, and what's one more bout of memory erasure for Eight. 
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Jun 27, 2015 17:37
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With the exception of the Cromwell story, Big Finish is a bit better about not whitewashing historical figures, though. There are hints even in the TV episode that his friendly, Uncle Brittanica routine is all a facade to try to get access to some of the Doctor's technology and become a real tyrant, which, if they introduce a team working for him similar to the way people in stuff like Dalek War work for their superiors, could be interesting. I won't hold my breath for that, but you never know.
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Bicyclops posted:I would bet money at this point that they have the rights to do nine stories and haven't convinced Eccleston to sign up. Dan Starkey has also been hinting a lot and I would actually bet money they've got something in the works related to the Paternoster Gang. This is all really fantastic news, and I wouldn't be surprised if we get a Companion Chronicle or something with Rose before the end of 2016. You probably already know this, being a Cool and Good Big Finish listener, but Dan Starkey's already been in a couple of stories - I think the latest one was Dark Eyes IV - as a variety of Sontarans (not just oafish Straxalikes, either). So he's already well involved in the audio scene. Dan Starkey is the Nick Briggs of Sontarans, basically, and so long as he doesn't wind up feeling typecast, that's pretty cool.
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Barry Foster posted:You probably already know this, being a Cool and Good Big Finish listener, but Dan Starkey's already been in a couple of stories - I think the latest one was Dark Eyes IV - as a variety of Sontarans (not just oafish Straxalikes, either). So he's already well involved in the audio scene. Well, he did get to branch out and play that elf.  I think he really is in love with the role of Strax and all of his Sontaran clone-kin, though, and Big Finish is the kind of platform that may even give him the opportunity to do some writing. Big Finish is slowly blending the classic series and New Who together and making a bunch of interesting cocktails, and I look forward to trying them all.
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Jun 27, 2015 17:58
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Hopefully they'll get Christopher Ryan back for the Sontarans too.
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Jun 27, 2015 18:31
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Finally finishing up the Capaldi season and on Dark Water and man Clara went from actually quite likeable to a total awful maniac insanely quickly. If I was the Doctor I would have taken her to an actual volcano and booted her in. That was OTT even for grief-mania. Overall though I really enjoy this season, the best since 5 easily
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Bown posted:Finally finishing up the Capaldi season and on Dark Water and man Clara went from actually quite likeable to a total awful maniac insanely quickly. If I was the Doctor I would have taken her to an actual volcano and booted her in. That was OTT even for grief-mania. Make sure you watch the Christmas special, it kinda deals with that.
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Jun 27, 2015 18:56
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Will do! Also I'm about 85% certain Occ will give the forest episode an F entirely based on the whole screed against mentally ill children taking their tablets, even ignoring the fact it's a pretty poor episode overall.
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Jun 27, 2015 19:18
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Bown posted:Will do! If he gives it anything more than an F for any reasons that aren't ironic, we'll have to just salt and burn the entire experiment.
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Jun 27, 2015 19:23
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Burkion posted:If he gives it anything more than an F for any reasons that aren't ironic, we'll have to just salt and burn the entire experiment. It will be self-immolating at that point. Even if he takes a pretty long break, he's going to be drat close to being caught up by the time we get there.
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Jun 27, 2015 19:47
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Nerdy asthma UNIT girl is being set up as a future companion in the finale because they thought Coleman was leaving at the time, right
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Jun 27, 2015 20:10
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Not... quite, no.
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Jun 27, 2015 20:14
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WHAT THE gently caress drat I totally fell for that. I didn't think I'd like the finale as much as the middle episodes but this is fun so far. Missy is probably my favourite of Moffat's smug and/or villainous female characters.
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Jun 27, 2015 20:18
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Her earlier build-up was bit lacking, but she really steals the show in the finale.
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Jun 27, 2015 20:33
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Bown posted:Nerdy asthma UNIT girl is being set up as a future companion in the finale because they thought Coleman was leaving at the time, right Bown posted:WHAT THE gently caress  I love Doctor Who.
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Jun 27, 2015 20:35
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And now my watch has begun... ...with Robot.
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Jun 27, 2015 20:49
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CobiWann posted:And now my watch has begun... Robot is fun. Not great, but I like it. Tom's first season is one of my favorites.
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Jun 27, 2015 21:31
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With all the new posts, I thought someone had died. Nope, good news! And my thread title remains accurate.
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Jun 27, 2015 21:50
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"Robot" is awesome because Benton has a genuinely useful idea and is just SO drat HAPPY ABOUT IT. Also, "there is just one teeny weeny little thing".
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Robot is fun. Not great, but I like it. Tom's first season is one of my favorites. Baker, Pertwee and Smith all have really great first seasons. Which doctor has the worst do you think? It's probably Colin isn't it? Even if you charitably ignore Twin Dilemma as the back end of a Davison season. I would say McCoy but I think Paradise Towers saves it.
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Bown posted:Overall though I really enjoy this season, the best since 5 easily Yeah I agree, the first half of Deep Breath had me genuinely concerned, but by the back half of that episode I was relieved. Then the season (with the exception of Forest of the Dead and Doctor Who and the Space Spiders) turned out to be very good with a bunch of good to exceptional episodes and some absolutely stand out moments. The reveal of who Missy was is handled incredibly, and Capaldi and Gomez just loving knock it out of the park with their performances. 
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