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Trip Report: The Keys of Marinus Second Episode  Kinky!  Oh, and did I mention this serial was  ? Cause it was. Realizing they are in front of a door and it's Marinus, they defeat it's security by leaning on it and fall in....to a luxurious room filled with the finest potted plants, fainting couches, and plaster statues from the BBC Props Dept! And who is chillaxing in a sexy dress being waited on by two hot blonde chicks? Oh it's BABS!   So even though Aribtan said their teleport bracelets only moved them through space and NOT time, in the 30 seconds it took them to teleport after her, bang on the door, and fall in, Barbara has been able to get into the city, find out all about it, have a dress made from scratch, change clothes, and start in on the wine and being fed grapes.  They are given trays of food by the vapid Stepford Blondes, and a poncy guy in a cape named Altos comes out to tell them they are in the city of Morphoton where every citizen gets whatever they want. Guess not all of Marinus fell into anarchy once the Conscience was shut down. Altos tells them they can have whatever they want, and they all munch away on food and order up dresses and "fully equipped laboratories with every conceivable instrument" in the case of the Doctor (a Time Lord, asking some primitives for a lab? And this is what he desires more than anything?) Ian isn't having any of it, suspecting a trap. Nowadays it would be the wise old Doctor who sees through everything, but he's still young here so you'll forgive that.  "Sleep, and tomorrow you'll learn EVERYTHING about Morphoton. MUAUAHAHAHAHAHA!" Apparently the food was drugged or had an adverse affect on Gallifreyan physiology because the Doctor and Susan are out like a light. Ian and Barbara have a smouldering conversation where I'm convinced they are going to make out at any second. I always wondered if the whole Ian/Barbara thing was just fan shipping in retrospect, but they were telegraphing it pretty hard here. He bitches about this all being too good to be true and she says "I don't know what you want?" HE WANTS YOU BARBARA JUST GET A ROOM ALREADY!!  During the night a creepy statue watches them and a Stepford Blonde comes out and puts devices on their heads. Barbara's falls off and she wakes up to a flashing light and screeching and passes out.  The next day, when they wake up, everyone is lovin' life and livin' large, except Barbara, who realizes that it's all an illusion. They still see the riches, the fine food and drink, while she sees it's all really dirty ruins, the fine silk clothes are rags, and the crystal goblets have been changed hilariously to white coffee mugs. Also when Altos comes in, he's no longer wearing pants. He tries to take Barbara away to their physicians to "get better" and she runs off.  Ian can't see the truth that Altos is wearing no pants. Can't see? Or won't see? Barbara hides and Altos goes into a room to meet with the true rulers of Morphoton, which are BRAINS in JARS with EYES!  Take it all in. This is a thing that happened on Doctor Who. We now found out how Morphoton solved their little loss of the Conscience problem--a device called "The Mesmeron", which they use to control the population. The girl who failed to properly affix the device on Barbara is to be punished, the Doctor, Susan, and Ian are to be prepared for final processing in a few hours, and Barbara is to be found and killed. They are taken to the Doctor's new "lab" which is just an empty room with old wooden tables and a chipped coffee cup which the Doctor believes he can use to fix the TARDIS.  "I WAGER 15 QUATLOOS ON THE NEWCOMER!" Turns out that Barbara chose to hide in a dungeon and is stuck there because the door is locked. Sabetha, the girl who hosed up putting discs on foreheads, is thrown in. Barbara tries to talk to her, but all she will say is "I am to be punished." Two lonely women, in prison, wearing torn rags, and an episode called "The Velvet Web"...I think you can figure out what happens next!  "Ian? Ian who?" Well nothing really, they just chat and it turns out Sabetha is Arbitan's daughter, and she managed to find one of the Keys and put it around her neck before she got Mesmeroned. Then they spend more time in the locked cell, where Barbara tries to get Sabetha to remember Arbitan. That's totally all that happened in there.  What happens in Morphoton stays in Morphoton. Altos comes in and interrupts them, so Sabetha clocks him on the head. Barbara leaves because she doesn't stay the night; that's not how she rolls. She gives a vague promise to come back for Sabetha and locks her in with Altos, which seems kinda rude. She finds Ian and runs into his arms.  "Oh Ian! Thank heaven I found you! I thought they had gotten to you! I never thought of anyone but you the whole time we were apart! Honest! Well, that is to say, I never thought about any man but you the whole time we were apart!" Ian's not having any of it and takes her to the Brains. Barbara takes one look and no-body shames them by immediately calling them "disgusting" which is displaying a lot of cis-body privilege on her part.  They command him to kill her and he all too eagerly does, because he totally knows all about her and Sabetha.  Chatterton gotta choke a bitch when she get outta line! Barbara fights back and breaks a bottle and shanks the brains and their machines, whereupon everyone wakes up and starts rioting and burning the city, because clearly destroying the place where you live is the best solution when your former masters have died.  Turns out Altos was actually cool--he was also one of Arbitan's people and he and Sabetha are going to help with the search. The Doctor decides to split them up to better search for the keys. So he splits them into 3 parties of two to look for the other 3 keys...oh no wait, William Hartnell needs a couple weeks off here. So instead he volunteers himself to go to the "highly civilized and advanced city of Millenials" which I assume is full of Gen Y types, and to keep Susan safe, sends her with the main party to the jungle. Seems the smart thing to do! Susan clearly sees this is stupid and takes off on her own in a huff, transporting to the next episode on her own. "THIS PLOT DEVICE MAKES NO SENSE!!!
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Trip Report: The Keys of Marinus Episode 3  Susan continues to freak out because there's this screaming all around her, because this jungle does what it says on the tin. When the others arrive, they can't hear it. They look around and find a big wall.  "Hi, I'm the BBC Soundstage Jungle! You might recognize me from The Daleks a few weeks ago!" Ian decides to do the exact same thing they did in Episode 1 and walk around the building, but makes the women stay behind. Except Sabetha, because he knows she's a little butch. Susan tells Barbara that the screaming she heard was something evil, and she'd heard it before, but she can't remember where. I only mention this because it's the exact sort of thing the Big Finish would pick up on for continuity porn if it's not followed up in the episode--like it turns out it was something she heard on a pre-Unearthly Child adventure. While Barbara looks at the building, Susan has a lie down on the  Predating Evil Dead by over a decade!. Barbara finds a way through the vines to the edge of the wall, and sees a big crazy statue, which has the Key up on top. It also has human arms which totally won't grab her (they do). The statue spins around into the wall, Ian rushes back too late, and after looking for literally 5 seconds for a way in with Altos, declares "IT'S HOPELESS THERE'S NO WAY IN! I NEED TO GO AWAY AND THINK!"  Altos picks up the key which Barbara dropped, and he just figures "gently caress, let's jet." Of course he doesn't say that, because he's pretty sly so he totally agrees with Ian that getting Barbara back is all that matters. Even Sabetha, in a terrible betrayal of their love from the previous episode is all like "well you know she probably just used her teleport bracelet to go to the next stop, so we should probably go." Ian decides they should again split up, and that Sabetha, Altos, and Susan should go on. "Well if you think that's best Ian, but we'd totally stay if you wanted us to. But yeah, we should go bye!" Before she leaves, Sabetha realizes that the Key they found is a cheap Chinese knockoff, so Ian still has to find the Key anyway.  "Look here...this one says 'Made in Mexico for GMC' and this one says 'Made in China' and it's shorter! It'll never work in a 2003 Chevy Tahoe. I told you the stuff at Rock Auto was knockoffs!" Ian gets intimate with the statue and spins inside. If this is just a regular door, folks on this part of Marinus have some odd ideas about entrances...  What happens in The Screaming Jungle stays in The Screaming Jungle Now he's inside the wall, but not inside the building. There's still vines and potted plants and Prop Dept statues everywhere and he's nearly killed by a statue of a knight with an axe. Yep, there's a knight with chainmail on Marinus. They also have orange juice and truffles too, as we saw in the last episode. Must be parallel cultural evolution. Or 1964 kids tv logic. He finds Barbara and she says the whole place is full of traps. While he's looking for a way to get in, some old dude opens the door and Barbara walks in. Ian gets stuck behind some bars and Barbara has a net fall on her which seems to weigh as much as a bedsheet, but she just falls down and starts freaking out like it's made of neutronium. Then the ceiling which is full of pencils someone threw up there, starts to come down on her.  "SHUT DOWN ALL TRASH COMPACTORS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL! SHUT DOWN ALL TRASH COMPACTORS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL!" The old man, Darius, stops the spikes and gives Barbara a hard time, saying she might be a Voord and not believing she's from Arbitan. He jacks her Travel Dial to see if she's legit and while she's untangling herself from the Net of Doom he gets strangled by a vine. Ian breaks out and saves him, but somehow he's now dying. He reveals that he set up the traps to protect the key, and "only those sent from Arbitan would know how to avoid them." So either he's lying or Arbitan was a dick because he never told the gang, or his daugher and Altos for that matter. He tells Ian a cheat code, "DE302" and dies. "Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk I'm dying. I'm dead." They go into Hootie's "highly advanced scientific laboratory" which looks a lot like old wooden furniture and potted fake plants. Guess technology fell a bit after the Voord started terrorizing things. In fact, outside of Arbitan's tinkertoy Conscience, the whole planet looks pretty shabby so far. They try the cheat code on a safe which was built by the Props Dept and clearly has a clay and paper dial so surprisingly it doesn't work. Ian finds the Info Dump book and discovers that Darius Rucker has been experimenting with accelerating the growth of plants, so pretty much the rape vines and overgrowth of his building is all his fault.  I wonder what Sabetha is doing now? Now it's getting dark, and the screaming is starting and despite reading a diary about Darius accelerating the growth of nature exponentially, seeing a vine attack Susan, and seeing a vine strangle Darius, they just can't believe THE JUNGLE IS ATTACKING US!! until giant thick phallic vines start busting through the building, zombies-in-Thriller style.  Ian and Barbara run around the room all  and Ian realizes DE302 is a chemical formula, in a jar. When Barbara finds it, it's apparently dirt. Ian the Chemistry Teacher doesn't even care that Darius discovered a new chemical forumla, he's just happy the Key is in there. They quickly turn the dials on their bracelets to find themselves in a snowstorm. Ian says they have to move and find shelter but Barbara just says "no, I'd rather sit down and die."  "OK, well if you insist we'll just sit here and die I guess." 
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Astroman posted:Barbara hides and Altos goes into a room to meet with the true rulers of Morphoton, which are BRAINS in JARS with EYES! I agree that Hartnell-era Doctor Who loving owns Astroman posted:They quickly turn the dials on their bracelets to find themselves in a snowstorm. Ian says they have to move and find shelter but Barbara just says "no, I'd rather sit down and die." Further proof!
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After The War posted:Barbara - Best Companion or Bestest Companion? Ian and Barbara have so much chemistry, it's amazing.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Ian and Barbara have so much chemistry, it's amazing. Opening scene of The Romans  
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I finished the last War Doctor volume. They finally realized their potential, they finally nailed the War Doctor's characterization, the final story and it's bittersweet ending is just perfect.... and it's the last we'll ever get  "Perhaps I'm the worst of them all" - goddamn am I gonna miss John Hurt (even more)
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Trip Report: The Keys of Marinus Episode 4  After having decided to give up and die in the snow, Barbara and Ian are having a lie down, covered in paper mache snow. Barbara begs Ian to sleep with her. "MUST SLEEP...MUST SLEEP NOW!' and Ian just doesn't get it "NO, NO, GET UP, BARBARA!" Dammit man, you're blowing it! Barbara wakes up for a second to see Grizzly Goddamn Adams standing over her and faints dead away, because wouldn't you? He immediately jacks the Key which they had just liberated from THE SCREAMING JUNGLE and also from DE302.  Sadly it appears he's wearing Ben.  Grizzly takes them to his rape cabin, where he wakes up Barbara and immediately begins to put the moves on her, rubbing her hand because of "frostbite" and telling her how most men fear him because he can break the back of a wolf with his bare hands, and I believe he also suggests he's down for a threesome with Ian. Must get lonely up there in the mountains...  "Your hand is slightly frostbitten. Put it in mine. We must help your friend like this too. Rub the hand slowly...like this...this...this." While the mountain man, who it turns out is named Vasor, gets them drinks, Barbara demonstrates his manual stimulation technique on Ian.  Vasor is a trapper, and got them back to his cabin with the help of a "madman" who came down ranting and raving about two girls in a cave. They figure this is Altos who is not adapting well to life outside The Velvet Web. Though to be fair, I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that all Marinus is less a cohesive planetary society and more a bunch of Planets of the Week that Uncle Terry strung together for a story.  Ian makes a string of poor decisions by first deciding to leave Barbara with Vasor to go to The Village to look for Altos and rescue Susan and Sabetha from the cave. Then he gives Vasor his Travel Dial as collateral for a swank fur stole to stay warm. Probably not that Village "There. We're alone." "Oh, he'll be back, I know it." "We'll see. Well, I'll go get us some food. We must fatten you up, eh?"  I wonder what Sabetha is doing now? Ian walks through The Fur Forest (THE FOREST OF FURS might have been a cool alternate episode title) past stock footage of wolves. Ian finds Altos in the snow, who you will remember is still not wearing pants so he's not faring well. Also turns out he's tied up Back in the cabin during an awkward dinner, Vasor remarks to Barbara that she has no need to fear the wolves howling outside, because his door will "keep anything out. Or in." (That is an exact quote by the way!) Barbara snoops and finds the other three's Travel Dials as well as Sabetha's necklace with the Keys. Vasor says he found the girls in a cave and gave them food and flint in exchange for their bling and left them to die or whatevs. Altos found him and asked him to go up the mountain to get the girls, and that's when they found Ian and Babs. Meanwhile, on the mountain, Ian rubs Altos' thighs to save him from frostbite. Because that's how frostbite works.  "This guy I knew, Bear named Vasor, he taught me this technique. Totally necessary to relieve frostbite. Trust me!" Turns out Vasor gave Ian raw meat to attract the wolves. When Altos reveals that it was Vasor who tied him up, Ian throws his purse of meat at the stock footage wolves and they race back to the cabin. Vasor is chasing Barbara around the rape cabin while she chucks furniture at him. Ian and Altos arrive just in time and Vasor's all "aw shucks golly I didn't mean it honest!" Altos wants to kick his rear end, but Ian instead forces him to take them up the mountain. Meanwhile, in Box's ice cave from Logan's Run, Sabetha has already forgotten about Barbara and cuddles with Susan who apparently failed Gallifreyan Woodcraft and can't start a fire. Susan talks her into going outside, even though Sabetha points out they aren't dressed for the weather. Susan knows her superior Time Lord physiology will allow her to survive so she coerces Sabetha into certain doom.  "Or...we could find other ways to keep warm."  "What?" "Um nothing...you're right, let's just go outside and try to get help."Ian and the gang find their way into the Cello Caves and start after Sabetha and Susan, who instead of going out the door just wandered deeper. Vasor doesn't want to go on because there's "DEMONS!" in there. Susan and Sabetha (who I have to say is coming into her own and would probably have made a pretty cool companion) cross a janky rope bridge and find a bunch of anachronistic knights a lot like the one from Darius' pad in THE SCREAMING JUNGLE who are standing there silently.  "Fish, plankton, sea greens and protein from the sea!" Susan and Sabetha run out and right into Ian, Barbara, and Altos who have just crossed the bridge. Vasor, who is pissed off that he got rape-blocked, throws the bridge into the ravine and bails. As they wander in the cave at around 15:29, one of the best things ever happens...they're walking against the cello "ice" walls and somebody's costume rubs against them and there's a big rubbing sound, but hey gently caress it, it's late and we can't do another take so leave it!  Ian starts getting brain freeze and decides that the Key must be somewhere in this mountain and they must search every cave. Because it couldn't be anywhere else, of course! They run into the Grail Knights, who are frozen and don't move (except when they wobble and waver a bit because it's a long shoot). Turns out Ian was right, and the Key is in the center of them, suspended in a block of ice surrounded by pipes that pump hot water when Barbara turns a spigot. The advanced technology of Marinus! "If only my father Arbitan was here to see this advanced technological wonder. Erm, well maybe it's best that he's not actually." Of course, the dead frozen knights come back to life and attack them, but instead of just saying "Yo, the guy that runs the Conscience sent us, we're legit" they run screaming from the cave. These guys could probably help them, and are the guardians from a former age, but nah gently caress 'em let's get out of here! Ian holds them off by knocking down giant blocks of Ian throws the rope bridge back down and one knight falls off Wilhelm Screaming into the abyss while the others run around hilariously on the ledge. "Haha hope you Guardians of the Key who have nobly survived for 500 years in this ice cave protecting this for the Conscience and are working for the same guys we are like being stuck here forever! Don't gently caress with Arbitan's Posse bitches!" Back at Vasor's cabin, he's combed his hair and is playing with the Travel Dials and Keys when the gang bursts in, followed by the White Knights who are trying to kill them instead of protecting m'lady. Vasor tries to hold Susan hostage but is run through with a sword, and the gang *POPS* away with a twist of their dials. Then we cut to a room with some cheap wood and glass museum cases, one of which has another Key. Just what the gently caress has The Doctor been doing these past two episodes that he didn't already have this Key? Oh that's right, he was off at Brighton with Heather Hartnell. Anyway, there's some dude laying on the ground. Ian, who is now somehow alone because I guess these Travel Dials are poo poo for keeping everyone together, walks over to him and is clocked in the head by a Black Gloved Man who takes the Key and puts a mace into Ian's hand so it looks like he killed the other guy.  "Hold my staff, will ya?"
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Marinus PD: Ian, did you murder this man? Ian: No, I was busy abandoning an entirely different person to die when the murder was happening!
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My big problem with the Big Finish stuff showing up on Humble is that the stories don't get attached to your Big Finish account, and as such can't be managed through their app. It's a great deal, to be sure...but the loss of the convenience factor is a major negative to me.
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Jerusalem posted:I finished the last War Doctor volume. They finally realized their potential, they finally nailed the War Doctor's characterization, the final story and it's bittersweet ending is just perfect.... and it's the last we'll ever get Yeah, that was a pretty good send-off. Literally just finished it during lunch at work, and while I agree fully with the general consensus that for most of the stories you could slot in any Doctor you want, but they got it right in that last story. John Hurt, you were a goddamn genius.
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Also Leela's description of Ollistra is loving perfect  jivjov posted:My big problem with the Big Finish stuff showing up on Humble is that the stories don't get attached to your Big Finish account, and as such can't be managed through their app. I'm glad I'm not the only one irritated by this very first world problem 
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So very very first world. I still have stuff from the first Big Finish Humble Bundle that I haven't bothered to listen to because I don't want to manually manage the mp3s.
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How was Class? How was the Christmas special? Also, oh god Jeru is a mod now, the bar has been lowered as far as it could possibly go when Doctor Who goons are calling the shots.
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:How was Class? How was the Christmas special? Also, oh god Jeru is a mod now, the bar has been lowered as far as it could possibly go when Doctor Who goons are calling the shots. Christmas special was decent and inoffensive. Matt Lucas was surprisingly good.
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:How was Class? How was the Christmas special? Also, oh god Jeru is a mod now, the bar has been lowered as far as it could possibly go when Doctor Who goons are calling the shots. I'm not sure anyone watched more than a couple of episodes of Class.
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:How was the Christmas special? Not very good unfortunately, the best things about it were just aping stuff done way better in Richard Donner's original Superman film. It was a letdown even for a Christmas special, let alone after a full year of no new Doctor Who. The Doctor casually leaves a man to be brutally murdered at one point too!
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Jerusalem posted:the best things about it were just aping stuff done way better in Richard Donner's original Superman film. The most fun part from a nerd perspective is that they were literally doing this behind the scenes. That movie, and the Adam West Batman show, were being used as reference for how to shoot some of the stuff they weren't used to doing. ...But now I just wish they made the tone of the story more like Adam West Batman, that would've been fantastic and exactly the dumb feel-good tone that suits a Christmas special.
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Cleretic posted:...But now I just wish they made the tone of the story more like Adam West Batman, that would've been fantastic and exactly the dumb feel-good tone that suits a Christmas special. Oh yeah that would have been way better, and the kind of thing you can usually only really get away with in an Xmas Special
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jivjov posted:So very very first world. I still have stuff from the first Big Finish Humble Bundle that I haven't bothered to listen to because I don't want to manually manage the mp3s. I'm still rocking BF through iTunes like it's 2003.  Mostly because I do my listening through the last generation of big iPod (My phone barely functions as a phone, let alone a media center), but I actually really like the way it handles audiobooks and podcasts.
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When my Big iPod Classic got stolen I lost the best audiobook device in history, god Audiobook management in Apple products just only gets worse and worse.
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Just turn the audio plays into a standard music playlists and tell Itunes to skip the tracks on shuffle. Itunes can't be trusted, but you can trick it into doing what you want it to do. 
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The_Doctor posted:The fact it doesn't display the individual covers for stories any more is my biggest problem. This was actually legit one of the selling points of finally downloading the Big Finish app for me! 
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Can I add files into the BF app? I've got a ton of audios in MP3/m4a format already.
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The_Doctor posted:Can I add files into the BF app? I've got a ton of audios in MP3/m4a format already. You can't add anything manually, but anything you've purchased from their site is automatically integrated into your app library.
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jivjov posted:You can't add anything manually, but anything you've purchased from their site is automatically integrated into your app library. That's a negative. 
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Oh goodness. The newest Torchwood audio that just came out the other day, Visiting Hours, was proper hilarious. And also creepy. And the behind the scenes interview was one of the best 9 minutes of audio content I've ever heard from Big Finish.
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Listening to the second series of Fourth Doctor Adventures over the last couple of weeks and hearing David Warner pop up in them has reminded me that we must surely be getting close to an announcement of the next New Adventures of Benny set which, if it follows on directly from the previous one, should include more of his Doctor. Though just skipping her getting back to the proper universe and doing a set with McGann would also be acceptable.
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jivjov posted:Oh goodness. The newest Torchwood audio that just came out the other day, Visiting Hours, was proper hilarious. And also creepy. And the behind the scenes interview was one of the best 9 minutes of audio content I've ever heard from Big Finish. I binged Torchwood the series (with the assistance of a lot of alcohol and skipping through a lot of the first two seasons...) and it was mediocre at the best of times, but I'll be damned if they're not hitting it out of the park with the Audios (for the most part). Working on Before the Fall right now and it's proper lush. Still think Ghost Mission is the best so far, though. Have you been listening to the whole series? Be curious to hear someone else's top picks, as I'm likely going to do a relisten of a few once I'm caught up on main range + torchwood and/or my wallet cries uncle. edit: Fall to Earth gets a nod as well for being both funny and decent storytelling. McGann fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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I actually was rather lukewarm on Before the Fall. My favorites thus far have been Ghost Mission, Fall to Earth, Forgotten Lives, Broken, and now Visiting Hours. I didn't like Archive or Before the Fall much at all. Outbreak was decent, but not spectacular. Made You Look had a LOT of promise and a tepid ending. I liked the sound of the preview for Corpse Day. Anything with Andy is great, I'm glad they were able to get Burn Gorman back...but I'm just still not sold on Owen as a character. It's one thing to present a flawed character...but torchwood the TV show presented his sexual assault, nigh rape, as something funny, which I'm not okay with.
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The Big Finish Humble Bundle just added all four parts of "I, Davros."
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jivjov posted:I actually was rather lukewarm on Before the Fall. My favorites thus far have been Ghost Mission, Fall to Earth, Forgotten Lives, Broken, and now Visiting Hours. I can agree with Archive, it was kinda meh. Thinking back on it, all I remember is some guy going out to the archive with his secretly evil/replaced/controlled/something newlywedded wife. That and Jack being about as smug as possible. Haven't actually listened to Outbreak, now that I think of it. May give it a pass in favor of a Victorian Age relisten. Oh, and the latest 4th Doctor teamup with Jago/Litefoot is pretty good.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:The Big Finish Humble Bundle just added all four parts of "I, Davros." Ooh, didn't have those and don't remember seeing the "more to come" thing on the bundle last week so that's a nice surprise bonus.
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Box of Bunnies posted:Ooh, didn't have those and don't remember seeing the "more to come" thing on the bundle last week so that's a nice surprise bonus. Get them, they're way better than they have any right to be.
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