Which non-Power of the Daleks story would you like to see an episode found from? This poll is closed. |
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Marco Polo | 36 | 20.69% | |
The Myth Makers | 10 | 5.75% | |
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve | 45 | 25.86% | |
The Savages | 2 | 1.15% | |
The Smugglers | 2 | 1.15% | |
The Highlanders | 45 | 25.86% | |
The Macra Terror | 21 | 12.07% | |
Fury from the Deep | 13 | 7.47% | |
Total: | 174 votes |
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Jerusalem posted:I love how lived-in the world seems, stuff like the mother and daughter living in the cabin who sell them out to the Daleks for a few scraps of food for instance. Regardless of all other complaints (we should do a countdown of them!), this is one thing Terry Nation was very good at. IceAgeComing posted:i'm in the middle of watching dalek invasion of earth, please don't spoil the 50 year old story for me Yeah, well, too bad. Glorious.
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# ? Mar 1, 2016 23:56 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:15 |
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After The War posted:Regardless of all other complaints (we should do a countdown of them!), this is one thing Terry Nation was very good at. The first episode of Blake's Seven is absolutely brilliant for this as well
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# ? Mar 1, 2016 23:59 |
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Click for HUGE Even before I was old enough to know the significance of the location, this image was seared into my brain.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 01:30 |
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Jerusalem posted:Click for HUGE Where's Cillian Murphy?
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 05:39 |
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CobiWann posted:I made the decision to watch School Reunion right after this episode. It really put the "hello Sarah Jane" scene in a whole new light, and this is from someone who drat near teared up the first time I saw it. As a now 34 year fan of this show, watching School Reunion the day it originally aired was so fantastic.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 06:07 |
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 11:27 |
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What ridiculous waste in the defence budget! A deux cheveaux for an officer? Back in my day they only got un cheval!
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 14:16 |
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Big Finish posted a full trailer for the 10th Doctor Adventures. I'm stupid hyped for this one.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 18:35 |
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jivjov posted:Big Finish posted a full trailer for the 10th Doctor Adventures. I'm stupid hyped for this one. I made a cringey face at "I'm hanging from a banner with a skeleton around my neck". Come on, BF, you've worked out how to do audio by now.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:34 |
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The_Doctor posted:I made a cringey face at "I'm hanging from a banner with a skeleton around my neck". Come on, BF, you've worked out how to do audio by now. I dunno...that really seems like something 10 would say even in a televised story.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 20:38 |
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There's a story I'd like to talk about - an old villain from the classic series of Doctor Who returns at the head of a mad scheme. She has co-opted the "afterlife", storing the minds of the dead in a piece of Gallifreyan technology and using them for her schemes of domination of first the world and then later all nearby galaxies. The Doctor is given the choice of what to do with the power of this "heaven", and in the end only one person can return from it to life. I'm talking, of course, about 2009's season 3 finale of the Eighth Doctor Adventures. Short Synopsis: Lucie's out of her mind and the Doctor is the devil. Long Synopsis: The Eight Fold Truth spreads across the galaxy, creating a hive mind gifting great power to the true leader of the cult. The Doctor has to figure out how to break the brainwashing of hundreds of billions of people all at once, restore Lucie to her own body, and clean up the leftovers of the previous season's finale. What's Good:
What's Not:
Final Thoughts: Worldwide Web wraps up what was ultimately a pretty disappointing "season" of the Eighth Doctor Adventures. Mostly notable for its clever and unexpected use of an old Who villain, as well as surprisingly superficial similarities to the 2014 finale of Season 8 of the Revival (Dark Water/Death in Heaven), it is otherwise very much in keeping with the rest of the season - perfectly fine and listenable but not standing out in any way. The penultimate story - The Eight Truths - was a strong set-up, but unfortunately what worked for Eddie Robson in season 1's Human Resources 2-parter doesn't quite have the same effect here. As a demonstration of the acting skills of the main cast - particularly Sheridan Smith - and the skillful sound design and editing of Big Finish, it's impressive. But the underlying story doesn't really live up to that level, providing a competent but ultimately average episode. Recurring characters who have effectively lived out their welcome don't help, especially as one of them is talked up by the Doctor in a way that doesn't feel particularly earned or merited, smacking more of the writer wanting their pet character to be praised by an established one. However there is a sense by the end of the story that the baggage of the last three seasons has essentially been set aside, apart from one hanging plotthread of the Time Lords not being visibly present in the universe, this feels like a wiping clean of the slate so that the Doctor and Lucie can just head off and have some adventures. Their chemistry has been reestablished, they've put the past and all machinations/schemes/manipulations behind them and just want to go have some fun, and the ending where they head off for Christmas in Lucie's home of Blackpool is quite an endearing one. It remains to be seen (for me) what changes in season 4, but after that it seems like Big Finish realized they needed to shake things up, shifting away from aping the revival TV format in favor of big events like Dark Eyes and Doom Coalition. There's nothing particularly wrong with this story, but if this finale and season 3 in general was an indication of what was to be the norm going forward (and season 4 may be completely different for all I know) then I'm glad they decided to make a change and go for something a little more grandiose and exciting.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 00:47 |
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Huh. BF just announced the new Benny Summerfield/Who crossover set will feature Benny and the Third Doctor... David Warner's Third Doctor, battling Mark Gatiss' Master.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 15:42 |
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Gaz-L posted:Huh. BF just announced the new Benny Summerfield/Who crossover set will feature Benny and the Third Doctor... David Warner's Third Doctor, battling Mark Gatiss' Master. This idea is intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to Big Finishs newsletter. CobiWann fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Gaz-L posted:Huh. BF just announced the new Benny Summerfield/Who crossover set will feature Benny and the Third Doctor... David Warner's Third Doctor, battling Mark Gatiss' Master. Holy poo poo i love those Unbounds.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 16:58 |
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Different strokes for different folks obviously, and I have no doubt the performances will be great - but I just can't buy into the idea of an alternate universe Doctor. It's purely something in my own head, but I just associate the idea of Time Lords being unique in time, in all the multiverse there is only one of each of them (just in the case of the Doctor and the Master there are multiple incarnations of that one running around in time and space having adventures!)
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 20:39 |
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PriorMarcus posted:I just assumed that Rose, being clever, knew she couldn't be in any of those pictures because she had already seen that she wasn't. She's always holding the camera. Davros1 posted:In a recent DWM feature, "The Fact of Fiction" about "Rose", RTD confirms that Ninth had NOT just regenerated. jivjov posted:I'd be willing to blow my entire 2016's worth of good luck if it was magically Chris Eccleston in box 3.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 21:44 |
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:Not that canon matters in this show. Any show
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 22:50 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Any show My stepdaughter is writing an Arrow/Jurrasic World crossover as we speak...
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 22:59 |
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CobiWann posted:My stepdaughter is writing an Arrow/Jurrasic World crossover as we speak... YOU HAVE FAILED THIS THEME PARK
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 23:00 |
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STORM WARNING Starring The Doctor Paul McGann Charley Pollard India Fisher Lord Tamworth Gareth Thomas Lt-Col Frayling Nicholas Pegg Chief Steward Weeks Hylton Collins Triskele Helen Goldwyn Rathbone Barnaby Edwards XXXXXX Writer Alan Barnes Director Gary Russell Producer Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery Executive producer Jacqueline Rayner XXXXXX October, 1930. His Majesty's Airship, the R101, sets off on her maiden voyage to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Empire, carrying the brightest lights of the Imperial fleet. Carrying the hopes and dreams of a breathless nation. Not to mention a ruthless spy with a top-secret mission, a mysterious passenger who appears nowhere on the crew list, a would-be adventuress destined for the Singapore Hilton... and a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. There's a storm coming. There's something unspeakable something with wings, crawling across the stern. Thousands of feet high in the blackening sky, the crew of the R101 brace themselves. When the storm breaks, their lives won't be all that's at stake... The future of the galaxy will be hanging by a thread. XXXXXX The Engineer Prime saying "Charrrlieeeee" all the time was very distracting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus And it has "I don't know about art, but I know what I like" as a line unironically!!!!
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 23:06 |
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It's obviously quite rough around the edges, which is understandable, and I don't think they quite have the Doctor's idiom down yet. I think that actually helps the story, though - you come away with the instinctive feeling that the roughness is hiding something potentially really great, when actually it's just covering up that the story is fairly by the numbers.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 23:14 |
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:But was that what he intended when he was writing the episode? It seems like the scene where 9 looks at himself in the mirror could only be referring his recent regeneration. That doesn't have to mean minutes after, but I don't imagine the doctor goes months without seeing a mirror. If that was his intention and he's changing it now since 9's season was shorter than expected then I consider the original intent of the author canon. Not that canon matters in this show. Honestly, I like the idea that Nine just adventured around for centuries without ever taking a look at himself in the mirror. Either because that would be a quirky, Doctor-y thing to forget to do, or because he's just coming out of the Time War and doesn't want to look at himself.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 23:17 |
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Gaz-L posted:Huh. BF just announced the new Benny Summerfield/Who crossover set will feature Benny and the Third Doctor... David Warner's Third Doctor, battling Mark Gatiss' Master. So is this set after Masters of War?
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 23:58 |
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You guys write good reviews. Is there any centrallized platform for your reviews anywhere so I can read and make reference to them as I watch episodes?
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 00:39 |
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Agreed, my reviews of audios are the best!
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 01:15 |
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Jerusalem posted:Different strokes for different folks obviously, and I have no doubt the performances will be great - but I just can't buy into the idea of an alternate universe Doctor. It's purely something in my own head, but I just associate the idea of Time Lords being unique in time, in all the multiverse there is only one of each of them (just in the case of the Doctor and the Master there are multiple incarnations of that one running around in time and space having adventures!) That's not quite what the Unbound series is - there's no indication that they're considering these in an Inferno/Rise of the Cybermen/Mirror, Mirror sense where they exist parallel to "our" universe, and I'd be disappointed if they ever incorporated that. Rather, they're more "we'll do a different version of Doctor Who starting from this point" (mostly The War Games). They still feature characters and events from the stories we know, but treated more as pieces to pull from the toy box and incorporated how the writer sees fit. And Masters of War is really, really good. After The War fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Mar 4, 2016 |
# ? Mar 4, 2016 01:28 |
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CommonShore posted:You guys write good reviews. Is there any centrallized platform for your reviews anywhere so I can read and make reference to them as I watch episodes? Thanks, the first posts by Cobi and myself on the first page has a link to all of the reviews we've done. MrL_JaKiri posted:Agreed, my reviews of audios are the best! And I also agree that part of Storm Warning's charm is that it is rough around the edges, which helps to hide the (many) parts of the story that aren't all that great. After The War posted:That's not quite what the Unbound series is - there's no indication that they're considering this an Inferno/Rise of the Cybermen/Mirror, Mirror sense that these exist parallel to "our" universe, and I'd be disappointed if they ever incorporate that. Rather, they're more "we'll do a different version of Doctor Who that starting from this point" (mostly The War Games). They still feature characters and events from the stories we know, but treated more as pieces to pull from the toy box and incorporated how the writer sees fit. Well that's far more palatable, it might be something to look into if I ever get caught up on the monthly range.... and the Eighth Doctor Adventures.... and the 4th Doctor Adventurers.... and the 10th Doctor Adventures..... and the War Doctor range.... and the special one-offs/box-sets like The Last Adventure and the Fifth Doctor boxset..... and the spin-offs like UNIT and River Song..... oh my God
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 01:39 |
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:
To put it this way: ever look at yourself in the mirror, and think "Eh, I don't like the way my [facial feature] looks?" Is it the first time you've ever seen it? It's a little gag, like how every incarnation seems to believe that he is the only one with a impeccable fashion sense. The Doctor looks in the mirror, thinks he looks good, except for his ears.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 02:52 |
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Jerusalem posted:and the spin-offs like UNIT The first UNIT spin-off, which is also quite good and sadly overlooked, features a character introduced in the first David Warner Unbound story! Played by a Scottish fella, David something. Doesn't matter, now you have to listen to Sympathy For The Devil.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 06:01 |
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After The War posted:Played by a Scottish fella, David something. Doesn't matter, now you have to listen to Sympathy For The Devil. Heard he was a bit of a fanboy, he'll never make it in this business!
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 07:07 |
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Jerusalem posted:Heard he was a bit of a fanboy, he'll never make it in this business! His accent is ridiculous. It's too bad he wasn't English.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 07:13 |
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Jerusalem posted:Well that's far more palatable, it might be something to look into if I ever get caught up on the monthly range.... and the Eighth Doctor Adventures.... and the 4th Doctor Adventurers.... and the 10th Doctor Adventures..... and the War Doctor range.... and the special one-offs/box-sets like The Last Adventure and the Fifth Doctor boxset..... and the spin-offs like UNIT and River Song..... oh my God Remember when you told me that there was so much classic Who I haven't watched? So much? Welcome to the club.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 11:14 |
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Jerusalem posted:
Thank god I started at release 1, in 1999.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 13:52 |
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CobiWann posted:Remember when you told me that there was so much classic Who I haven't watched? So much? I wish BF included PDFs of the script with each story so that I could follow along, rather like closed captioning.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 16:35 |
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Davros1 posted:Thank god I started at release 1, in 1999. On the flip side, you had to sit through the Divergent Arc in real time, you poor bastard.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 21:25 |
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Jerusalem posted:On the flip side, you had to sit through the Divergent Arc in real time, you poor bastard. Ooof. Here, have something to lighten the mood...
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 21:36 |
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Picklepuss posted:If there's any good thing about having impaired hearing, it's that I've not been spent all my money on Big Finish audios. I have picked landmarks up like I, Davros and Spare Parts and made it through them, but trying to listen was too much of a struggle to justify regular purchases. for the later ones you get a PDF of the script if you subscribe: but I dunno how early that starts and you'd have to put down £50+ quid at a time, so its probably not worth bothering unless there's a run of interesting stories at a time that you'll be interested in. Its actually a pretty good deal if you're interested in a run of monthly stories: it reduces the cost to about £9 per story regardless of whether you do a six or a twelve story one (they're both very similar: the twelve release one is slightly more expensive if you ignore the fact that you get a "bonus" release, which I'm pretty sure is limited to companion chronicles and such things). i did it last year for the locum Doctors trilogy since it worked out only a few quid more to subscribe and get six rather than buy three separately: and if I can get the money together I'm definitely doing it for the Two Masters trilogy thing and the three Seventh Doctor/Mel/Ace stories afterwards since both sound very interesting and I'm very intrigued as to exactly how the Ace/Mel stuff is going to work.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:38 |
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CobiWann posted:Ooof. Here, have something to lighten the mood... I'm partial to this one.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:57 |
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That hair looks like a cross between Bruce Lee's and a bomber cap.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 01:03 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 08:15 |
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I was in Tesco earlier and saw this month's issue of DWM - I don't normally get it (collected it regularly about 10 years ago, have bought it maybe three times since Eccleston left) but this issue is a twentieth anniversary telemovie retrospective with never-before-seenTM behind-the-scenes photos and interviews with McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Yee Jee Tso and (!) Gordon Tipple. (No word on whether CGI Snake is interviewed.)
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