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marktheando posted:It's funny how common the sentiment was, pre him doing big finish, that Eric Roberts was too big time now to do anything Doctor Who. It's like, people, he did A Talking Cat!?! after he was in The Dark Knight. I've mentioned it before, but he gave an interview in DWM, and when the subject of his vast IMDB page came up, he explained that he and his wife are heavily into charity work, so he'll do roles in all these bit movies, then donate the pay to these charities. The interview even ended with an ask for donations.
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It made sense that because Roberts does such a huge amount of acting in so many projects, he wouldn't remember (what was from his perspective) a failed pilot for a relaunch of a British TV show he did twenty odd years ago. It's nice to see that he not only remembers, but enjoys the plot - Roberts seemed a little miscast in the movie, but in hindsight, that seems more like the writing and directing instead. I've just finished Only the Monstrous, it started a little slow, but really picked up in parts 2 and 3.
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He also seems to be the type to take any role as long as it’s cool enough. He’s in the music video for Mr Brightside, after all.
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Apropos of this conversation, I should get this at some point.
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I'd rather donate $10 to a charity than watch that cat flick so I'd guess his plan is working.
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Rhyno posted:I'd rather donate $10 to a charity than watch that cat flick so I'd guess his plan is working. Eric Roberts apparently recorded all of his dialogue down the phone, in one take, in fifteen minutes. David DeCoteau basically makes movies in his house with random actors he knows as quickly as possible. At least Big Finish got Roberts into an actual studio!
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I'm finally watching the latest season, and I can't believe they ripped off the "it is broken, can you make it go" episode of TNG
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Off the Eric Roberts chat, Masterful is really loving good and worth the buy.OldMemes posted:Eric Roberts apparently recorded all of his dialogue down the phone, in one take, in fifteen minutes. David DeCoteau basically makes movies in his house with random actors he knows as quickly as possible. Though I think the upcoming Master! is the first time he's recorded any of his lines with another cast member, like BF usually does.
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Rhyno posted:I'd rather donate $10 to a charity than watch that cat flick so I'd guess his plan is working. it's so awful and confusing, the cat on the cover isn't even the cat in the movie
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Nicholas Briggs always sounds so enthusiastic and excited in interviews, it's endearing.
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OldMemes posted:Nicholas Briggs always sounds so enthusiastic and excited in interviews, it's endearing. He's a delight. I'll sit through terrible British morning show personalities just for him.
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Rhyno posted:He's a delight. I'll sit through terrible British morning show personalities just for him. The behind the scenes interviews on the audios are worth listening to, mainly because he's just so excited to tell the listener how the production came together.
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Spotted this in B&M a couple of days ago. I'm not sure about that date…
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TinTower posted:Spotted this in B&M a couple of days ago. There’s also a Remembrance of the Daleks set with Ace and an imperial Dalek, which they’ve got the date confused on! 
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BF actors: "I love doing audio; you don't have to dress up! You can wear jeans and a t-shirt! No one cares!" Miles Richardson: "I will wear a three piece suit, including pocket square, to recording." https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1357286493589536768?s=20
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I've been reading about the whole BBV video thing and its very confusing. Anyway, just about to start the second War Doctor boxset, knowing nothing about the rest of the series, should be fun. EDIT: Maybe "fun" is the wrong word. Just start and the bit with the Doctor remembering his pre-war days is bleak. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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I love how inevitable that was. Big Finish must have been salivating at the thought of Rory having 2000 years' worth of adventures.
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Rory is the 4th or 5th best companion of all time so I welcome this.
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Rhyno posted:Rory is the 4th or 5th best companion of all time so I welcome this. 50 pages of him sitting beside the Pandorica, 1 page of him lugging it from to a safe site when the place burned down.
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The Daleks work surprisingly well in audio form. I think its that whirrrrr that make while they move. Onto boxset 2, and why do the War Doctor stories seem to ignore regeneration for Time Lord soldiers? The plot seems to regard injuries to Time Lords who get killed as fatal, and they've only plot deviced away why a character won't regenerate once so far. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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OldMemes posted:The Daleks work surprisingly well in audio form. I think its that whirrrrr that make while they move. Time Lords have always been able to be killed before the regeneration process kicks in. Example: The Castellan in "The Five Doctors". He's gunned down before he's taken to the (Not The) Mind Probe, and he doesn't regenerate.
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happyhippy posted:50 pages of him sitting beside the Pandorica, 1 page of him lugging it from to a safe site when the place burned down. 1 page of him going to a printer to commission pamphlets which read "Dont trust Hitler: He's rubbish"
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Davros1 posted:Time Lords have always been able to be killed before the regeneration process kicks in. Example: The Castellan in "The Five Doctors". He's gunned down before he's taken to the (Not The) Mind Probe, and he doesn't regenerate. I just re-watched "The Deadly Assassin" the other day, so if anyone needs further proof of a story with numerous examples of Time Lords biting the dust without regenerating, there you go.
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Oh yeah, I know regeneration is meant to be a traumatic process, and they're vulnerable before and after it. It's just like, in the War Doctor audios, there's a bit where a Time Lord gets shot by a Dalek, and they don't double tap him to prevent regeneration, which I thought stood out. Regeneration is a great story device - not only since it always recasting, but also because there's so many interesting things you can do with it storywise (that aren't the Timeless Child).
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I just went back and watched the unearthly child, which was one we couldn't get when I was a kid. Whe n they got to caveman times I thought we were heading for a twist where they discovered it was a post nuclear future. I guess the story was supposed to be around the ice age? It felt like there was a missed opportunity somewhere with the observations made about how cold the sand was and how ORB had gone from the sky. Regardless it was entertaining. The doctor doesn't end up in the distant earth past too often.
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The reason the Doctor doesn’t go back to the far past is because that story happened. It’s hard to imagine another Doctor Who story involving cavemen without people saying “wait a minute, this is just An Unearthly Child!”
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Gameko posted:I just went back and watched the unearthly child, which was one we couldn't get when I was a kid. Whe n they got to caveman times I thought we were heading for a twist where they discovered it was a post nuclear future. I guess the story was supposed to be around the ice age? It felt like there was a missed opportunity somewhere with the observations made about how cold the sand was and how ORB had gone from the sky. IIRC, that story was commissioned back when DW's original remit as a series was "purely historicals" with the only sci-fi elements being the Doctor and pals and the TARDIS, so that's why they didn't do the post-apoc earth, because the idea was to plunk our heroes down in the middle of history as a sort of way to get British schoolkids interested in historical studies. Of course, the very next episode knocked that idea for six. 
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OldMemes posted:
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Something I adore about An Unearthly Child is the antagonist caveman attempting his hardest to articulate the notion of thinking/speculation/visualization to another cavewoman, because he doesn't quite understand what is going on either but he knows he sometimes can figure out how things are without explicitly seeing them happen. "My eyes tell me what has happened. As they do when I sleep and I see things." Sydney Bottocks posted:IIRC, that story was commissioned back when DW's original remit as a series was "purely historicals" with the only sci-fi elements being the Doctor and pals and the TARDIS, so that's why they didn't do the post-apoc earth, because the idea was to plunk our heroes down in the middle of history as a sort of way to get British schoolkids interested in historical studies. Of course, the very next episode knocked that idea for six. I always heard that the original idea was always meant to be "one historical, one sci-fi" with the idea being that the sci-fi stories would be about exploring potential interesting speculative ideas about the future which in turn would stimulate the minds of kids and keep within the educational remit intended for the show? From memory Neuman was very much about the historicals and wasn't entirely happy about the Daleks even if it was speculative about the dangers of nuclear war, but welp then the ratings came in.... As noted, it basically ends up being largely abandoned and the sci-fi stories are just rip-roaring space adventures and eventually the pure historicals (which I deeply miss) just got eased out.
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Jerusalem posted:I always heard that the original idea was always meant to be "one historical, one sci-fi" with the idea being that the sci-fi stories would be about exploring potential interesting speculative ideas about the future which in turn would stimulate the minds of kids and keep within the educational remit intended for the show? From memory Neuman was very much about the historicals and wasn't entirely happy about the Daleks even if it was speculative about the dangers of nuclear war, but welp then the ratings came in.... Yeah, I did some light reading after the fact, and that seems to have originally been the idea (with the two human companions being history and science teachers, to make "here's a history and/or science fact" dialogue more plausible, instead of sounding forced). And after the success of "The Daleks", the production team (at least at the time) began to really dislike doing the pure historical stories (to say nothing of the Beeb's insistence on finding the next alien creature to replace the Daleks in pop culture fads), which is why they eventually got kicked to the curb. And by the time they tried bringing them back during Davison's run with "Black Orchid", the audience was pretty solidly used to sci-fi being the dominant focus of the show.
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Are you saying The Fires of Pompeii isn't historically accurate?
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It's true. Peter Capaldi is not a Roman.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Are you saying The Fires of Pompeii isn't historically accurate? Not only that, but it turns out "The Mark of the Rani" totally is.
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It's too bad, because something like Vincent and The Doctor would have totally worked without the monster. It felt shoehorned in, honestly, like "whelp, suppose we have to have an alien in there somewhere." 
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I was really disappointed when The Witchhunters brought in some aliens at the end, as for the bulk of the story it felt like a proper pure historical!
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Yeah, The Witchhunters is a ton of fun (mostly due to Alan Cumming just loving hamming it up good and proper) and then suddenly it's all about some aliens in a tree or something and the whole thing falls apart.
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I honestly feel like Chibnall would be the showrunner to bring back the pure historical. Much more so than RTD and Moffat.
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The_Doctor posted:I honestly feel like Chibnall would be the showrunner to bring back the pure historical. Much more so than RTD and Moffat. why, just because everything he makes sucks and is boring? or because the one backstory he can't possibly gently caress up is actual history
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Davros1 posted:Oh, wait until you get to a certain ep in Vol 3, Agents of Chaos If its The Eternity Cage, I liked that one. It's interesting how so much of Big Finish's Time War lore is based on throwaway lines from the show.
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