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'm still trying to catch up on the monthly range, the 4th Doctor Adventures, the 8th Doctor standalones AND all the currently running specials they've got going like UNIT, River Song, War Doctor, New Monsters etc - I'm not even gonna look at stuff like Companion Chronicles, Third Doctor sets etc until I get caught up. Yeah, I feel bad that I've neglected the Main Range so heavily in favor of all the "special release" stuff they've been doing...but I backfilled a whole lot of the really early (read: cheap) Main Range stories earlier this month, and I'm kinda looking forward to visiting Big Finish circa The Year Two Thousand.
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# ? Aug 18, 2016 23:59 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:45 |
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I've got 2 x 8 hour road trips coming up soon, so I'll be burning through a lot of Big Finish. I should get around to seasons 2-4 of the Lucie Miller era, but I also want the new stuff!
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 00:08 |
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jivjov posted:Yeah, I feel bad that I've neglected the Main Range so heavily in favor of all the "special release" stuff they've been doing...but I backfilled a whole lot of the really early (read: cheap) Main Range stories earlier this month, and I'm kinda looking forward to visiting Big Finish circa The Year Two Thousand. I have UNIT...then Real Time and the Excelis trilogy lined up! Then probably the 2nd Fourth Doctor series...
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 00:29 |
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That reminds me, I've listened to some Big Finish stuff, recently: The Natural History of Fear Very predictably dystopian. The shifting roles make it interesting, but the final reveal is just goofy. Still, I liked the more experimental nature of it all. 3/5 The Faith Stealer The multihaven seems like it should be an amazing setting, but it’s mostly used to make some half-hearted attempts at Monty Python-style humour. The villain is never really established very well, either. This feels like a standard Doctor Who episode, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I was just hoping for something fresher. 2/5 The Last With the farcical remnants of the state hiding in a bunker below their destroyed world, an army of ghosts roaming the surface and Charley paralysed, it’s hard to imagine how the Doctor is going to save the day. C’rizz finally gets some much needed character development. The resolution feels fairly rushed, though. When it is finally revealed what the importance of the Last is, the whole thing is almost over. The actors also seemed a bit too nonchalant about their fates. 4/5 The Next Life What a mess. A large chunk of time is wasted on Rassilon messing with Charley’s and C’rizz’ minds. Meanwhile, the Doctor is cleverly lured towards a place that he was trying to get to, anyway. Maybe this time should have instead been spent on properly establishing the three villains. When they finally reveal themselves, they barely feel like a threat. The finale consists of a bunch of plot twists that have to be explained because none of them were set up properly. Still better than Zagreus. 2/5 Overall, this was pretty rough. The writing is hokey, and it often ruins the interesting premises. Time Works This feels more like a modern Who episode than all the other audio plays, from the corny metaphors and alliterations to the triumphant revolution at the end. The narrative framing takes away a lot of the tension, though. After all the gloomy divergent universe stuff, it’s really refreshing, even if it’s not very deep. 4/5 I've also started reading Rob Shearman's Tiny Deaths. It's been really mad and inventive so far. Particularly the first short story about everyone on earth finding out how they'll die and the one in which a man goes to hell and bonds with Hitler's dog. It kind of lost me at the one about a mother dying separately for each person she knows. Not sure when I'll read the rest of it.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 00:56 |
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Jerusalem posted:I'm still trying to catch up on the monthly range, the 4th Doctor Adventures, the 8th Doctor standalones AND all the currently running specials they've got going like UNIT, River Song, War Doctor, New Monsters etc - I'm not even gonna look at stuff like Companion Chronicles, Third Doctor sets etc until I get caught up. It's really kind of amazing just how much stuff there is. The run time for the entire monthly range - more or less - is something like 430 hours - 18 solid days listening, non-stop. Just the monthly range. I've only just got round to listening to River Song. Still got to get around to the sizeable chunk of Jago and Litefoot (it's far too enjoyable for its own good ). And More posted:That reminds me, I've listened to some Big Finish stuff, recently:
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 01:49 |
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jivjov posted:I just dropped $50 on Big Finish, so expect a massive sale or something to start tomorrow! I was dubious about it, but I ended up really enjoying it. Tim Treloar's not too bad as Pertwee, and there's a few moments where he really nails him. The Havoc of Empires is the superior of the two in the box. Definitely picking up Vol 2 in Nov, and Vol 3 in July. The Lost Story, The Mega, however, is too long for its own good.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 02:01 |
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God the Divergent Arc, so much promise (and Scherzo delivered!) and then..... what we got.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 02:48 |
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CobiWann posted:I have UNIT...then Real Time and the Excelis trilogy lined up! Then probably the 2nd Fourth Doctor series... Excelis is going to feel rough after hearing so much later stuff. It's pretty much EarlyBigFinish.mp3. Speaking of the Divergent Arc, you know what goes on concurrent to that*? Gallifrey! You should listen to Gallifrey. I may have thrown the entire series back onto my iPod since I'm coming up on Season 4 after the next round of Jago & Lightfoot. * In as such as a concept like "concurrent" makes sense for something with with that much time travel.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 03:44 |
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echoplex posted:Only S12, which isn't the series coming out next month, but the one some time in 2017. Fun job, but the best bit was fun as saying hi to Carrie Fisher walking her dog or just bumping into spaceships in storage. Holy balls I wanna work on a Star Wars. Wait, there's new Red Dwarf coming out this year AND next year?! jivjov posted:I just dropped $50 on Big Finish, so expect a massive sale or something to start tomorrow! Yeah, that's probably my next purchase, once I finish The Prisoner.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 04:57 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:Aside from maybe revisting, Scherzo, I keep deliberately skipping over the Divergent Arc stuff. Ironically, I lose all concept of time listening to it; it's simultaneously far too short to properly develop its concepts, but each individual episode drags itself out impossibly long. Yeah, I kind of crawled my way through these audio plays. McGann's run had been so good up until Zagreus, but then it just takes a step back. Jerusalem posted:God the Divergent Arc, so much promise (and Scherzo delivered!) and then..... what we got. Scherzo definitely sets the bar impossibly high. It doesn't help that it feels like most of the other writers don't really want to properly integrate the divergent universe into their stories. There are some recurring themes, but the concept is more often used as a cheap plot twist, instead. The only one that really left a lasting impression was The Last, and even that has minor issues that almost ruin it, like the voice actors seemingly phoning it in.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 08:11 |
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CobiWann posted:I have UNIT...then Real Time and the Excelis trilogy lined up! Then probably the 2nd Fourth Doctor series... I want to like Real Time more than I do because Lee and Herring are in it. But it's really not great.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 08:13 |
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Who was it who didn't want a BF sale? It's Sylvester McCoy's birthday, so BF are doing a sale on some of his stories all weekend! https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/happy-birthday-doctor-who-sylvester-mccoy
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 09:45 |
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Fil5000 posted:I want to like Real Time more than I do because Lee and Herring are in it. But it's really not great. Well, they can't all be David Warner.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 09:56 |
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After The War posted:Excelis is going to feel rough after hearing so much later stuff. It's pretty much EarlyBigFinish.mp3. It's a bit "We've got Anthony Head! Quick, throw together a story for him before he has to go back to America!" (I think Excelis came out while Buffy was still on the telly.)
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 10:07 |
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The_Doctor posted:Who was it who didn't want a BF sale? It's Sylvester McCoy's birthday, so BF are doing a sale on some of his stories all weekend! Goddammit; I KNEW it. Every time I make a big big finish purchase, they start up a sale. Thankfully this time nothing I just bought is included, so I am now over my anger and am excited to buy more things.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 10:11 |
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The_Doctor posted:Who was it who didn't want a BF sale? It's Sylvester McCoy's birthday, so BF are doing a sale on some of his stories all weekend! Should I just buy all of these? People like the Hex stuff, right?
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 10:30 |
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The_Doctor posted:Who was it who didn't want a BF sale? It's Sylvester McCoy's birthday, so BF are doing a sale on some of his stories all weekend! Only 1.99 for the comedy Fly Me To The Moon with Syl and India!?! Still too much. Avoid this, it's awful
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 11:56 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:Should I just buy all of these? People like the Hex stuff, right? The Hex stuff is pretty solid...more importantly it's 10 stories for $70 bucks (US dollars), including some recent ones. On CD, it came to $95 (shipping to the US). Hell, it's more Doctor Who, what else could one ask for?
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 12:12 |
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CobiWann posted:more importantly it's 10 stories for $70 bucks (US dollars), including some recent ones. On CD, it came to $95 (shipping to the US). Well, can't argue with that. Especially since the way Big Finish price their Who downloads means it's only $45 Ausland Funbux (32 USD or 26 GBP in real money) for the nine of the lot I need (already have Protect and Survive, apparently)
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 12:33 |
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Came out to $50 USD for me, an actual USD user.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 12:36 |
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Thanks for triggering the Big Finish sale, jivjov, I got some good stuff
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 12:37 |
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jivjov posted:Came out to $50 USD for me, an actual USD user. Yeah, I just meant that the way they do a flat [local currency units] for downloads means that what I end up paying with my worthless Australian Dollarydoos almost feels like a bit of a cheeky "discount" compared to if they actually charged me the 5 GBP or did an actual conversion to come up with an Australian price or whatever. As opposed to CDs which are $10.32 AUD each for the sale items compared to the 6 GBP in the news article.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 12:48 |
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I remember liking A Death In The Family quite a bit; that might partially be because Evelyn is in it and there are some quite nice moments between her and Hex.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 15:26 |
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Protect And Survive is good, but it's very, very dark, so don't listen to it if you're looking for a goofy magic spaceman adventures.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 15:45 |
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Just based on the name I'd guess that
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 16:22 |
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There's also barely any Doctor in it, if that matters to you.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 16:23 |
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Oh look, it's the start of at least 20 Pertwee stories.
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 16:35 |
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Quick, has anybody seen a crass but lovable poacher or his endearingly harping wife about?
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 17:37 |
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And the rest are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1SZrZbRMA
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# ? Aug 19, 2016 20:01 |
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Oh no, Vervoid larvae .
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# ? Aug 20, 2016 09:08 |
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Sea potatoes? They really expect us to believe that? Next they'll be saying it was all a mass hallucination caused by swamp gas.
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# ? Aug 20, 2016 12:19 |
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Finished up the Fate of Krelos/Return to Telos two parter that closed out last year's 4DA series. I liked that there were no silly multi-doctor shenanigans, and I'm hella impressed that Frazer Hines records 2/Jamie dialog all in one go, rather than one characters' lines followed by the other's.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 03:55 |
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Frazer is so fantastic as a voice actor. He can go from narrating, to playing Jamie, to playing 2 and it all sounds different. He once flipped from Old Jamie to Young Jamie in the same audio--he could play a 20 year old version of his character as easily as a 60 year old one.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 04:28 |
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Short Synopsis: What if the Industrial Revolution..... but robots!?! Long Synopsis: The 7th Doctor investigates a technologically advanced alien investigating ANOTHER technologically advanced alien on an industrial revolution-era planet with the unfortunate distinction of unknowingly being a Cyberman tomb-world. Can any good come from Cyber-technology or are intentions meaningless against its underlying imperative to survive? Who can be trusted with secrets, who will throw their own society under the bus for personal power, and what does it really mean to be "human"? What's Good:
What's Not:
Final Thoughts: Kingdom of Silver is another enjoyable 7th Doctor audio - it's odd that despite liking Ace and Hex so much the stories seem to improve when it's "just" the 7th Doctor showing up and meeting a new quasi-companion and dealing with the situation. McCoy clearly enjoys himself in the role and brings an infectious sense of fun to the story, he's a guy who clearly knows more than everybody else but never comes across as particularly superior or condescending, more than willing to accept or defend alternate ways of thinking. The setting is an interesting one, the characters have a fair amount of interesting moral discussions, and like most good Cybermen stories it has interesting (if not particularly unique) things to say about the nature of humanity. It does rather openly blow the "secret" of the baddies though, serves largely as an advertorial for the Cybermen audio series, and it all has to wrap up too quickly. But despite the issues I had with it, it was a story I really enjoyed listening to and one I would have no issue with recommending - ironically despite just mentioning how it's intended as part of the larger Cybermen series, I think at its best this is a really good standalone piece.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 06:23 |
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It's so weird that the Cybermen keep getting spoiled when they're supposed to be a BIG reveal...Human Resources did it SO drat well because the Cybermen weren't near the cover of Part 1!
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 16:18 |
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The Romans sure starts off weird. You'd think the TARDIS falling off a cliff would have SOME immediate follow-up, as opposed to taking a three-week time-skip.
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# ? Aug 22, 2016 04:25 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:The Romans sure starts off weird. You'd think the TARDIS falling off a cliff would have SOME immediate follow-up, as opposed to taking a three-week time-skip. I love The Romans and I can't really blame the Doctor for taking the excuse to go chill in a Roman villa for the summer on the flimsiest of pretexts. "Oh no there is no way to get the TARDIS up just yet, let's go eat grapes and drink wine!"
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# ? Aug 22, 2016 06:02 |
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The trailer for The War Doctor Boxset 3 is up!
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# ? Aug 22, 2016 09:21 |
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Not much clever or insightful to say other than it sounds great!
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# ? Aug 22, 2016 09:45 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:45 |
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Also, Dalek Time Controller! EDIT: Today's TeeFury shirt is cute. The_Doctor fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Aug 22, 2016 |
# ? Aug 22, 2016 10:39 |