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CobiWann posted:On the third hand, those must be some drat amazing lunches Big Finish provides for their actors and actresses. I passed Terry Molloy in the hallway at a convention once and asked "are the Big Finish lunches as good as everyone says?" and he said "oh GOD yes"
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Cleretic posted:It's literally a Red Dwarf episode that they decided to play seriously, and it works so well it's amazing. So what is it?
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I just grabbed the Cushing films from Rifftrax during their Halloween sale as I'd never seen them before, and good god, the ways they stick so firmly to the original script is absurd given that they've fundamentally changed the composition of the cast. Sending Susan to get the drugs was a bit weird in the TV version, but at least she was (physically, anyway) a teenager, so not totally ridiculous. But why on earth do you keep that point when the film changes her into a precocious moppet, instead of sending the ACTUAL TEENAGE GIRL.
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CobiWann posted:On one hand, it amazes me just how hard Big Finish is leaning into the expanded universe. They're still releasing Vienna stories and I'm pretty loving sure no one's buying those.
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Nov 1, 2017 15:38
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I'm curious as to why all this stuff is always released in the box set format. It's always three or four series in a box, rather than single release (notable exception: the monthly Torchwood releases)
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jivjov posted:I'm curious as to why all this stuff is always released in the box set format. It's always three or four series in a box, rather than single release (notable exception: the monthly Torchwood releases) I legit think Brexit and changes to the price of international shipping and handling may have something to do with it - easier to ship one box of 4 CD's than 4 CD's by themselves.
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Nov 1, 2017 15:50
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People have mostly got to be ordering these digitally these days, right? I wonder if they're just trying to reduce confusion about what goes with what by boxing stuff together. It also gives the writers a bit of freedom to be less episodic (i.e., they can assume the listener has heard the previous stories in the set).
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I don't get why you guys are so down on the side ranges. A lot of them are pretty good. I'm particularly fond of Graceless, which I think is probably some of the best stuff Big Finish has released in ages -- though I'll admit doesn't start out the best. But the series really pushes the concept of the lead character's all-powerful abilities to the limit, and does really cool things with them. That, and the most recent season had Sian Phillips! I've not actually heard very much Vienna, but the list of writers attached are pretty strong. I can speak for I, Davros, the Benny stories, the Torchwood stuff and the Confessions of Dorian Grey line, which are all really good -- and tend to be of a higher general quality than the monthly releases. And, look, I don't know about you guys, but this year's had some absolutely terrible monthly releases -- and that was before people dubbed The Silurian Candidate the new Minuet In Hell (it's the one with the Australian Donald Trump). Apparently they're changing around executive producers next year, but I don't have an awful lot of confidence in their main stuff right now. They've had a couple of passable scripts this year, but only two of them were anywhere near good.
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I've been really enjoying pretty much all of the New Series stuff BF has been putting out. Their writes seem to have a real gift for capturing the "feel" of each Doctor's era, or each spinoff. They even managed to rehabilitate Torchwood.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I don't get why you guys are so down on the side ranges. A lot of them are pretty good. I'm particularly fond of Graceless, which I think is probably some of the best stuff Big Finish has released in ages -- I think a lot of the side ranges are really good (Gallifrey, Unbound, I, Davros, Jago and Litefoot), but on Graceless, we're just going to have disagree. I think it takes all the humanity and personality of the two sisters that made them interesting and throws it out in favor of a bunch of hypothetical "what if" questions involving blank-slate quasi-omnipotent beings. I've admittedly only heard the first "season," though. I really have to get back to Big Finish one of these days, but it's weirdly hard to fit time in for it without my commute and now that my wife is doing most of the grocery shopping (she has more access to the car). I got through about 325 stories back when I was stuck on the Green Line, walking across the bridge to friends' places in Cambridge, or walking halfway home to stop for groceries. I guess I'm just going to have to make my life harder somehow!
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Open Source Idiom posted:
Finally, I find someone else who enjoyed Dorian Gray.
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Tim Burns Effect posted:I passed Terry Molloy in the hallway at a convention once and asked "are the Big Finish lunches as good as everyone says?" and he said "oh GOD yes" They mention in the bonus features of "An Ordinary Life", that actor Ram John Holder, who was only booked for the first day of recording, returned on the second just for the lunch. And these lunches aren't take out. Their sound engineer Toby Hyreck-Robinson is the one who home cooks all these lunches.
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jivjov posted:I'm curious as to why all this stuff is always released in the box set format. It's always three or four series in a box, rather than single release (notable exception: the monthly Torchwood releases) Can't speak for anyone else but I buy boxsets at release (well, at the prerelease prices) and get stuff that's released individually like the main range, Early Adventures and Fourth Doctor stuff later on at sales prices so there might be something to that.
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What's interesting about the 2018 series of Fourth Doctor adventures is that it's 8 stories, split into 2 box sets, on CD or download. However, if you order any of the stories individually, they're only available on download.
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The_Doctor posted:Moffat! So she's gonna hang out with an Ood, a Dude, and a partial Cyberman? I'm in. 
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Excuse me, that appears to be Cyborg from upcoming blockbuster Justice League. 
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Just saw The War Doctor box set has the subtitle "Only the Good" (The first War Doctor was called "Only the Monstrous")
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OK have we talked about Bradley's comments from MCM Comic Con yet - "The First Doctor's going to be a sexist" is the short (non-plot spoiler, just character traity) version. Who on earth thought that this was a good idea
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MrL_JaKiri posted:OK have we talked about Bradley's comments from MCM Comic Con yet - "The First Doctor's going to be a sexist" is the short (non-plot spoiler, just character traity) version. Well I suppose doing it on purpose is better than half the things Moffat wrote for Eleven to spout! Maybe? No, it's still a really bad idea.
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Ah, now that's how you tarnish a legacy!
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For the love of Christ For the love of loving God drat It Why would the Doctor EVER be sexist Why should ANY iteration of the Doctor be sexist He was never written to be sexist He was belligerent and some times he said things that were sexist but that wasn't a character flaw, that was the 1960s screaming through. The CHARACTER wasn't supposed to be sexist but misanthropic and he got over that mostly. I'm super sure Verity Lambert would be THRILLED about this revision to history
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At a guess Moffat is having a last go at easing fans into the lady Doctor by having the first doctor overcome some mid-20th-century era prejudice. What people will think of the next series of Doctor Who is no longer Moffat's concern so frankly I wish he'd stop worrying about it and just write a good adventure for Capaldi to go out on
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2house2fly posted:At a guess Moffat is having a last go at easing fans into the lady Doctor by having the first doctor overcome some mid-20th-century era prejudice. The trouble with this is that recent events (including the idea that we have to ease fans into a female Doctor) have shown that "mid 20th century era prejudice" is not merely a matter of history, but a very real current state of the world. It's also fundamentally confusing the character of the Doctor (who is an alien from space) and the actor who played the Doctor (who was a man alive in the 1960's). All in all it strikes me as the same kind of self-congratulatory bullshit as the attempted subversion of racist tropes in The Talons of Weng Chiang.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:OK have we talked about Bradley's comments from MCM Comic Con yet - "The First Doctor's going to be a sexist" is the short (non-plot spoiler, just character traity) version. This sucks.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Isn't there a spoiler thread I'm not empty quoting this, I'm just concerned that people didnt see it, or cant read or something.
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It's a non-story spoiler that he put in spoiler tags, it's probably not worth dragging out the spoiler thread (it hasn't been posted in since August) for something that minor. People should tag stuff when responding to it, though.
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Really, no matter how they write him, if he's not undoing the bad guys' plans by starting fires and other acts of general mischief, he's just not the First Doctor to me. 
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I cringed a little when I heard that, but I tend to take such reporting with a grain or ten of salt. Willing to wait and see on this one.
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Maybe this is before he gets jammed into London and is still getting over how stuffy Time Lord society is. Maybe we'll even see them work with my favorite companion, Mr. Rock!
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Chokes McGee posted:Maybe this is before he gets jammed into London and is still getting over how stuffy Time Lord society is.  I was also partial to his other close companion - Mr Shovel-smash-back-of-someones-head.
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The Phurst Doctor, as he departs: Well, I didn't learn anything from this experience, and I'd like to further tarnish my legacy by saying that I am definitely a cynical authoritarian. Also, in my Sixth incarnation, I'm going to strangle someone, and it's going to be completely on purpose, and I'm going to really mean it, but not mean any of the apologies. It's what all of my incarnations will consider their greatest accomplishment.
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Bicyclops posted:The Phurst Doctor, as he departs: Well, I didn't learn anything from this experience, and I'd like to further tarnish my legacy by saying that I am definitely a cynical authoritarian. Also, in my Sixth incarnation, I'm going to strangle someone, and it's going to be completely on purpose, and I'm going to really mean it, but not mean any of the apologies. It's what all of my incarnations will consider their greatest accomplishment. Must be a parallel universe Thirst Doctor from the so-called "pilot" of An Unearthly Child. Here's a short comparison.
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Big Finish: Of course the First Doctor wouldn't share 1960s attitudes towards homosexuality, he's from an advanced alien civilisation. Stephen Moffat: gently caress it, the show was made in the 60s, the Doctor's sexist.
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^^^ [e]: Yeah, I hope so too. I'll judge when the special finally airs. I hope it's not true. Box of Bunnies posted:Big Finish: Of course the First Doctor wouldn't share 1960s attitudes towards homosexuality, he's from an advanced alien civilisation. On that topic, probably one of the neatest companion chronicles they did revolves around Big Finish First Doctor companion Oliver Harper and his "secret crime". The Doctor doesn't give two fucks and already knew, and Steven Taylor laughs because he's from the 23rd Century and who could give a gently caress?. There's also a pretty funny exchange in Terms of Office, where a Time Lord political commentator is discussing the previous President Flavia, and it's something like; "Blah blah inauspiscious Madame President - I've got nothing against women, I was a woman myself in a previous regeneration."
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"Now look young lady, make yourself useful. This young fellow looks as though he needs some refreshment, and I know that Susan and I do too." Firsty has never exactly been captain progressive.
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First 4 seasons of 4th doctors adventures for 3 £$€ per episode. https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/fourth-doctor-special-offers
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Quick query for book readers, what’s the best Who book that uses time travel as a central concept (outside of turning up/departing)? I keep coming back to the EDA ‘Anachrophobia’, but what else?
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