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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Glen McCoy for old series writer on the new. It's about time (har!) Timelash gets a sequel
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# ? Oct 9, 2016 09:16 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 07:19 |
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Most viewers depart the series with a scream!
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# ? Oct 9, 2016 10:41 |
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Cleretic posted:So I have to ask, is it a good RPG? I'm taking that picture to mean you're at least a bit of an authority on it, while the closest I am to one is having listened to almost all of the System Mastery archive. I honestly haven't gotten it to the table. My IRL gaming group is consumed by either D&D or FFG Star Wars all the time. After the first couple purchases, I just started looking at the sourcebooks as basically hardcopy episode guides with fun RPG trappings sprinkled in. That said, reading through the rule book when I first got the system really didn't leave me with a good impression. The rules are presented as if it's this rules-lite story game, with the emphasis on storytelling rather than crunch...and then you have dozens of pages of traits and skills and modifiers and whatnot. Plus I feel that there's gonna be a lot of pressure on the GM to facilitate a LOT of player improvisation. Getting into any sort of actual combat is heavily discouraged, so every encounter has to be built around "the Doctor and his companions talk their way out of things or have some gadget to help". While that certainly is thematically appropriate to the franchise it runs very counter against most tabletop RPG experiences.
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# ? Oct 9, 2016 11:01 |
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Sounds to me like it could be very good at facilitating what a Doctor Who RPG should be, but the ideal Doctor Who RPG is indeed really loving hard to do. It should ideally be a way to facilitate all the weird outside-the-box problem-solving stories you hear when people talk about their best tabletop experiences. A game for the 'figured out all the crazy ways they can use Rope Trick' crowd. I'd be on board with that. Since I'm more familiar with computer RPGs, I feel like the closest to an ideal Doctor Who experience I've played is Fallout New Vegas. Where there's a fuckton of different ways to resolve things, most of which are so crazily esoteric they won't even occur to you in your first playthrough, and may well not include combat at all.
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# ? Oct 9, 2016 11:56 |
Cleretic posted:Since I'm more familiar with computer RPGs, I feel like the closest to an ideal Doctor Who experience I've played is Fallout New Vegas. Where there's a fuckton of different ways to resolve things, most of which are so crazily esoteric they won't even occur to you in your first playthrough, and may well not include combat at all.
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# ? Oct 9, 2016 12:20 |
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Cleretic posted:Sounds to me like it could be very good at facilitating what a Doctor Who RPG should be, but the ideal Doctor Who RPG is indeed really loving hard to do. It should ideally be a way to facilitate all the weird outside-the-box problem-solving stories you hear when people talk about their best tabletop experiences. A game for the 'figured out all the crazy ways they can use Rope Trick' crowd. I'd be on board with that. Yeah; if the GM and players are on board with the concept, the system does present extremely Doctor Who-y ways of solving problems. Heck, the conflict (not necessarily combat) resolution rules explicitly let people who are talking, doing things, or fleeing all act before people who are making a violent attack. My only real hang up is "look at how loose and free form our rules are" about 20 pages before "here's an exhaustive list of traits and all the types of checks each one can modify.
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# ? Oct 9, 2016 12:28 |
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Chris Boucher is still about, I'm sure he could write a good story ?
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# ? Oct 11, 2016 17:44 |
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I'm kind of tempted to grab December's Early Adventures release when it comes out. I don't have any particular love for the Sontarans themselves but I enjoy when these kind of licensed releases pit Doctors against enemies we never see them face in the show so Steven, Sara and the First Doctor meeting them is a bit of a draw for me.
Box of Bunnies fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Oct 12, 2016 |
# ? Oct 12, 2016 07:59 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:I'm kind of tempted to grab December's Early Adventures release when it comes out. I don't have any particular love for the Sontarans themselves but I enjoy when these kind of licensed releases pit Doctors against enemies we never see them face in the show so Steven, Sara and the First Doctor meeting them is a bit of a draw for me. I've got this series on subscription; I'd be happy to prioritize that one when it comes out and give you a (spoiler-free) review and yea/nay
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 08:33 |
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jivjov posted:I've got this series on subscription; I'd be happy to prioritize that one when it comes out and give you a (spoiler-free) review and yea/nay That would be brill, thanks!
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 08:54 |
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Short Synopsis: The Doctor has to find something he threw away and fix something he broke. Long Synopsis: The 5th Doctor is drafted into a hunt for the Key to Time, damaged by his previous handling of it and scattering of its pieces. He and his new companion find themselves at a pivotal moment in Martian history, the consequences of which will follow them across time and space. What's Good:
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Final Thoughts: The Judgement of Isskar kicks off the so-far underwhelming Key 2 Time, introducing a new companion and a new antagonist, both with potential who sadly feel a bit cliched and lacking in depth. It rushes through the collection of the first four segments so quickly there isn't much time for the supposed massive threat to really sink in and hardly makes it feel like an overwhelming task they're attempting. However, where the story pursues the actual titular character's obsession and the plight of the Ice Warriors it makes for a really interesting and at times compelling examination of the lengths a race will go to for survival, and how just the act of surviving itself can be the "death" of a culture. There was no reason that couldn't have been its own self-contained story with no tie-in to the Key 2 Time saga though, and I can only hope that once I've heard whatever other story(ies) that feature in it, the whole thing will make more sense in that context. By itself, it's just an interesting tale shoved into a less interesting overarching story.... but it does have one hell of a cliffhanger!
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 10:03 |
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Oh my giddy aunt! http://www.bbcwpressroom.com/bbc-am...wide-one-night/ quote:New York – October 12, 2016 – BBC AMERICA and Fathom Events announced today a one-night special theatrical screening event of Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks, a six-part animated series on Monday, November 14, at 7:00pm local time – 50 years after the original BBC broadcast – in advance of the premiere on BBC AMERICA on Saturday, November 19, at 8:25pm ET. The cinema event will also feature exclusive bonus content including interviews with members of the original cast.
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 18:37 |
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Finally, a Doctor Who cinema event I feel strongly about attending!
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 20:43 |
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Oh man I wonder if there is any chance that'll go worldwide
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# ? Oct 12, 2016 21:38 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:I'm kind of tempted to grab December's Early Adventures release when it comes out. I don't have any particular love for the Sontarans themselves but I enjoy when these kind of licensed releases pit Doctors against enemies we never see them face in the show so Steven, Sara and the First Doctor meeting them is a bit of a draw for me. Basically all you need to know is: quote:Steven, Sara and the First Doctor Peter Purves is fantastic as Steven, amazing as 1, and has done great stories with Jean Marsh's Sara. Pretty much any story with this combo is a must buy for me.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 00:29 |
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Astroman posted:Basically all you need to know is: Yeah, I loved hearing them together again in The Anachronauts (and have An Ordinary Life waiting in my queue) so that's another draw for me. It's one pair I was initially kind of iffy about having extra adventures inserted into their telly story given the seeming urgency in Daleks' Master Plan but then I thought of Feast of Steven and decided that that was kind of a silly concern.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 07:12 |
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Speaking of The Early Adventures...The Fifth Traveller is out now! Edit: I guess judging by the synopsis and the cover, this is the Doctor Who edition of that Torchwood story where suddenly there's a random new guy that nobody in-story realizes is new. Neat! jivjov fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Oct 13, 2016 |
# ? Oct 13, 2016 10:38 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:Yeah, I loved hearing them together again in The Anachronauts (and have An Ordinary Life waiting in my queue) An Ordinary Life has... interesting things to say about immigration. It'd make an excellent double-feature with The Zygon Inversion, basically.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 10:47 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:An Ordinary Life has... interesting things to say about immigration. Oh. Oh... That's a shame, given these ranges have tended to be a bit more progressive than the eras they're based on (or than the modern show occasionally dips to) like Bill getting a gay companion for a few Companion Chronicles.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 10:53 |
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The Bernice Summerfield + Unbound Doctor set is a nice antidote for that. Even in an alternate universe capitalism is still evil.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 11:38 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:An Ordinary Life has... interesting things to say about immigration. I listened to Ordinary Life mostly while stocking the cooler at work; I must've missed the problematic bits....what did I miss?
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 12:11 |
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jivjov posted:I listened to Ordinary Life mostly while stocking the cooler at work; I must've missed the problematic bits....what did I miss? The story clearly wants to be a pro-immigration, anti-racist story, but the alien plot just ends up muddling everything -- particularly when it's revealed that the non-white characters have accidentally brought an infectious alien virus to England -- one that wants to infiltrate and replace contemporary British culture and replace it with its own. It's basically every argument that reactionary anti-immigration arseholes wrapped up into a Doctor Who monster. Immigrants are dangerous because they're infectious vectors. They want to infiltrate our lives and replace our culture with theirs. Ban halal food! It's like the story wants to be one thing, but then turns around and starts being the complete opposite of what it wanted to be. And that second thing is kinda racist.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 13:38 |
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I mainly remember An Ordinary Life as having great Steven and Sara interactions. It's always cool when they take people from the far future and you try and watch them survive for long periods in the present. And in a lot of these stories we get more into Steven's head and hear about his life in the future, what it was like for him to be imprisoned, adjusting to the past and time travel, etc. Far more than we did superficially on the show in the 60s when character arcs weren't really a thing.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 13:46 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:The story clearly wants to be a pro-immigration, anti-racist story, but the alien plot just ends up muddling everything -- particularly when it's revealed that the non-white characters have accidentally brought an infectious alien virus to England -- one that wants to infiltrate and replace contemporary British culture and replace it with its own. Ohh, yeah, I completely didn't make that connection of the "immigrants brought the "contagion" with them thing. I was focused on specific character actions and missed the less-explicit connotation made.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 13:51 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:The story clearly wants to be a pro-immigration, anti-racist story, but the alien plot just ends up muddling everything -- particularly when it's revealed that the non-white characters have accidentally brought an infectious alien virus to England -- one that wants to infiltrate and replace contemporary British culture and replace it with its own. Ah, the same metaphor that could be put on the Gelth in the Unquiet Dead.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 14:38 |
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The_Doctor posted:Ah, the same metaphor that could be put on the Gelth in the Unquiet Dead. Yeah, except this story is actually about immigration.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 16:26 |
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I think the point the author was trying to make was definitely "bad stuff is not the fault of immigrants". But there's definitely a reading there of "look at all the bad things that came along with immigrants".
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 16:28 |
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Hey so it used to be I'd be the guy answering these questions but I'd taken a step back from BF for a bit so I'm kinda fuzzy. But I met someone who wants recommendations for T.Bakes audio dramas and if anyone could throw together a quick list that'd be spectacular.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 17:10 |
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Whichever season of 4DAs that has their favorite companion.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 17:16 |
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jivjov posted:Whichever season of 4DAs that has their favorite companion. Sarah Jane.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 17:22 |
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The_Doctor posted:Sarah Jane. indeed
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 17:26 |
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DoctorWhat posted:But I met someone who wants recommendations for T.Bakes audio dramas and if anyone could throw together a quick list that'd be spectacular. Last of the Colophon is pretty enjoyable, and is pretty much The Invisible man in the same way that Brain of Morbius is Frankenstein. Destroy the Infinite is also enjoyable - introduces the Eminence. Wrath of the Icini - historical, with Leela and Boudica. The Auntie Matter - Romana I - PG Wodehouse pastiche. Darkness of Glass - moody setting. Gallery of Ghouls is kinda fun too - waxworks, IIRC. They're all stand-alone stories too. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Oct 13, 2016 |
# ? Oct 13, 2016 17:47 |
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Also The Justice of Jalxar because Jago and Litefoot are in it and The Foe from the Future because it owns.
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 19:42 |
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Jerusalem posted:By itself, it's just an interesting tale shoved into a less interesting overarching story.... This is how I felt about Destroyer of Delights, but at least that one has a great take on the Black and While Guardians. Also it's fantastic, especially the Farsi-talking robot .
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# ? Oct 13, 2016 21:00 |
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My Big Finish has gotten way lazier lately because my commute changed and putting them on my phone takes so much time. If Nick Briggs could just find a way to beam the stories into my brain, I'd be grateful.
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# ? Oct 14, 2016 04:34 |
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Big Finish's offer this weekend is on the Novel Adaptations.quote:The first four stories in the range (Love and War, The Highest Science, The Romance of Crime, The English Way of Death) are each £6 on Download and £7.50 on CD, with gorgeous limited edition set Doctor Who - The Novel Adaptations Volume 1 (containing The Romance of Crime, The English Way of Death and an exclusive extras disc) currently priced at £20 on Download and £25 on CD (as ever, unlocking a download version for instant access). If you want the lot it actually turns out a tenner cheaper to do the 1-6 and 7-11 bundles separately rather than just grabbing the 1-11 bundle. I'm a bit torn on getting them or not. I have Love & War and didn't really love it but between that and The Unbound Universe I do quite like Lisa Bowerman's Benny so I'm kind of interested just to get some more of her with the Doctor, and a couple more Tom Baker stories never go amiss. The BBC are also running an offer with BF so if you go to this link and enter the code golddust you can get the post-50 Main Range stories featuring Cybermen as downloads for 5.99 each. So if you need some Lidster or Jamie with your Cybermen there you go.
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# ? Oct 14, 2016 07:48 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:The BBC are also running an offer with BF so if you go to this link and enter the code golddust you can get the post-50 Main Range stories featuring Cybermen as downloads for 5.99 each. So if you need some Lidster or Jamie with your Cybermen there you go. Oh cool, I'll just click on that link an- "You have already purchased these items."
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# ? Oct 14, 2016 08:27 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:Big Finish's offer this weekend is on the Novel Adaptations. Highest Science is good, as are the Toms, though I's rate Romance of Crime over English Way of Death
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# ? Oct 14, 2016 09:12 |
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Bicyclops posted:My Big Finish has gotten way lazier lately because my commute changed and putting them on my phone takes so much time. If Nick Briggs could just find a way to beam the stories into my brain, I'd be grateful. Do you not have the app? It's not quite direct to your brain...but it's way handier than managing files manually. I went from owning a dozen or so things to owning over 300 since the app released. Edit: man, I wish the pricing on the novel adaptations was a little friendlier. I picked up the first 2-pack bundle back on the recent Tom Baker sale, so I don't really need the 1-6 bundle...but stories 5 and 6 aren't discounted, so all I picked up was 1 and 2 jivjov fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Oct 14, 2016 |
# ? Oct 14, 2016 10:03 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 07:19 |
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Box of Bunnies posted:
Probably worth noting that Legend of the Cybermen is the end of a three story arc with Jamie. It's probably my favourite of the three but just be warned that if you grab it you're going in at the end of the three.
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# ? Oct 14, 2016 10:36 |