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OldMemes posted:I think. The real confusion is if the decayed Master is a destroyed version of the UNIT enemy Master body, a failed attempt to regenerate into a 14th incarnation, or a damaged version of Beevers as the 13th Master. All of which have been suggested by different writers, iirc. BF lore -- which is what a lot of your explanation is running off of -- argues that the Beevers Master is a separate incarnation to Delgado. Eventually Beevers is scarred on Terserus.
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OldMemes posted:It's rather odd that on the Wiki, every Time Lord character has a separate page for each incarnation, but the Master has just one for every version. I was only trying to work out if I could put a face to the baldy name from the audios (like the crispy one is easy to picture), but regardless of where he fits in, if he's never appeared he's not someone I might be able to remember. I think I'm going to have to listen to anything with Missy in the car instead of as a sleep aid. Last night as I was on the verge of sleep I heard "Oh no, I filled the world with killer plastic daffodils, come back to my quarry and see the size of my doomsday weapon" which left me wide awake and laughing.
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OldMemes posted:It's rather odd that on the Wiki, every Time Lord character has a separate page for each incarnation, but the Master has just one for every version. Ainley didn't decline as much as his demands were too much for BF, and they decided to go with Beevers (Ainley wanted script approval, casting approval, and wanted more money than even the actors playing the Doctor where getting.)
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Davros1 posted:Ainley didn't decline as much as his demands were too much for BF, and they decided to go with Beevers (Ainley wanted script approval, casting approval, and wanted more money than even the actors playing the Doctor where getting.) Which is so weird, because by all accounts he was fairly well off due to an inheritance his father had left him, which is why he pretty much just indulged his passion for cricket and playing the Master on TV without taking on many other roles during the 1980s. Perhaps it was one of those "I don't really want to do this type of work, but I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings either, so I'll just make some wild demands instead of outright turning it down" kinda things.
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TinTower posted:I mean, Chibnall's first ever episode for the entire Doctor Who franchise was the sentient sex gas episode. Oh, yeah, it's not an unfair thread meme or an unfair reason to be wary. The first two seasons of Torchwood sucked real bad, and even the better episodes are tainted by how much the beginning of the show makes you hate most of the characters. I don't think there's a single point in the series where Owen is likeable. It's been awhile, but I also feel like they made several half-hearted attempts to redeem him before immediately making him unnecessarily hateful again.
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Bicyclops posted:The bad one is called Exile. It's a shame that it's bad because it's an early attempt at having a woman play the Doctor, but they just play every note wrong. I thought I'd listen to that one first to get it over with. First impressions are poor. It's bad comedy and even David Tennant can't save that. The concept isn't bad; a Doctor who gave up and retreated to a pre-An Unearthly Child state of just keeping her head down and not doing anything is a good starting point for a story. And then holy gently caress, Time Lords who regenerate by committing suicide become women to punish the consciousness of the regeneration that did that. And this is apparently doing this is some great affront to the Time Lords. Yeah, that's a real low point for Big Finish. I had that in spoilers initially, but it's incidental to the plot and something that lovely shouldn't be buried.
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Random Stranger posted:I thought I'd listen to that one first to get it over with. First impressions are poor. It's bad comedy and even David Tennant can't save that. The concept isn't bad; a Doctor who gave up and retreated to a pre-An Unearthly Child state of just keeping her head down and not doing anything is a good starting point for a story. And then holy gently caress, Time Lords who regenerate by committing suicide become women to punish the consciousness of the regeneration that did that. And this is apparently doing this is some great affront to the Time Lords. Yeah, that's a real low point for Big Finish. I'd forgotten a lot of that, lol, it's so bad. I think it's also the one where the Doctor is drunk the whole time, but for some reason it feels like it was acted, written by and directed by a group of people who have never encountered alcohol in their entire lives. It probably has more weird burping in it than the first season of Rick and Morty.
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Bicyclops posted:I'd forgotten a lot of that, lol, it's so bad. I think it's also the one where the Doctor is drunk the whole time, but for some reason it feels like it was acted, written by and directed by a group of people who have never encountered alcohol in their entire lives. It probably has more weird burping in it than the first season of Rick and Morty. Yeah, I don't drink and even I noticed how bad the drunk acting was.
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 Also, has anyone read any of the Black Archive books? They are properly daunting, I'd love to dig into one but there's so many and they are so long. I can't imagine another TV show getting a thesis on each episode. Also, those covers are so sexy. Who is the graphic designer? Updog Scully fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Updog Scully posted:Also, those covers are so sexy. Who is the graphic designer? Oh god, they really are.
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Updog Scully posted:
I’ve got friends who have written some, but I’ve yet to actually read any.  The covers are the iconography of Blair Bidmead, all chopped and changed around.
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The_Doctor posted:I’ve got friends who have written some, but I’ve yet to actually read any. 
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Random Stranger posted:Yeah, I don't drink and even I noticed how bad the drunk acting was. Christ, it embarassed me and I was listening to it on headphones, home alone.
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Doctor Whordle!
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Doctor Whordle 3 4/6 ⬜️⬜️⬜️🟧⬜️clara ⬜️🟧🟧⬜️🟧prose ⬜️⬜️🟦🟦⬜️angel 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦roger (purely a guess fro mavailable letters, had no idea what whoroger was before they told me) The hardest part is just thinking of Who specific 5 letter things.
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Doctor Whordle 4 5/6 🟧⬜️🟧⬜️⬜️ ROGER 🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️ GRADE 🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️ GRAMP 🟧⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ FULLY 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 GRAFF No idea what a Graff is. I'm a fake fan that way.
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Also, as much as I love Murray Gold, I'm hoping they bring Anna Meredith in to compose. She would be a perfect fit for the show.
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Updog Scully posted:Doctor Whordle 4 5/6 The Ribos Operation, one of my favourites.
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I feel like Murray Gold probably won’t come back, but this feels so much like 2005 again (even Phil Collinson is coming back as exec producer).
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Never tried this type of word game before, but I can tell you it's broken. Doesn't recognise "farts" as a word. 
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I like the current composer. He manages to sneak a little of the Murray Gold bombast in without overwhelming things. I liked Murray too, but the change was fun.
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Rhyno posted:I mean, all TW is pretty much tainted by Barrowman now, not that it was ever worth revisiting. goddamnit what did I miss about Barrowman.
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Khanstant posted:slings his dick on people on set Also did a "it was meant in good fun, I was a different person all those years ago, sorry if anyone got offended" non-apology
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It's a little like Jeffrey Tambor and Arrested Development in that the way he was bad feels a little too close to his character in a way that makes a lot of it hard to watch.
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Bicyclops posted:I like the current composer. He manages to sneak a little of the Murray Gold bombast in without overwhelming things. I liked Murray too, but the change was fun. I miss Gold’s leitmotifs though.
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BF has cast Stephen Noonan as the First Doctor in their range of First Doctor Adventures https://twitter.com/bigfinish/status/1492151445004505092?s=20&t=plxONX3FNB6dlfgqTpip7Q Voice is way too high, I think.
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When did BF change their stance on hiring soundalikes or whatever to play the Doctors that had passed on? I remember many years ago they used to have a FAQ with a line that said something like "you could hire David Troughton to play his dad, Sean Pertwee to play his dad, etc" and their response was "we wouldn't want to do that because we wouldn't want to risk potentially disrespecting the memories of Hartnell, Troughton, or Pertwee". Obviously their stance on that has changed, but I was curious as to when that happened; like was it after Frazer Hines started doing his very credible Troughton impersonation during the Companion Chronicles, or was it when the Beeb hired David Warner to play Hartnell in the TV movie about the show's origins (and also to play the First Doctor in Capaldi's last couple of episodes)? E: David Bradley, not David Warner (though Warner did of course do some DW stuff for BF) Sydney Bottocks fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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Davros1 posted:BF has cast Stephen Noonan as the First Doctor in their range of First Doctor Adventures Yeah, it’s close, but very high. I guess David Bradley doesn’t want to do it any more?
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The_Doctor posted:Yeah, it’s close, but very high. They said they're keen to do more with Bradley. Maybe it's an availability issue? Or maybe they want to only use him with Ian, Barbara, and Susan (since this is just First and Dodo)? This is also part of their new "Monthly Range" schedule. They may do a Bradley set as a separate release like they did with last month's Eighth Doctor and Charley boxset (which wasn't part of the new "Monthly" boxset range). Sydney Bottocks posted:When did BF change their stance on hiring soundalikes or whatever to play the Doctors that had passed on? I remember many years ago they used to have a FAQ with a line that said something like "you could hire David Troughton to play his dad, Sean Pertwee to play his dad, etc" and their response was "we wouldn't want to do that because we wouldn't want to risk potentially disrespecting the memories of Hartnell, Troughton, or Pertwee". Obviously their stance on that has changed, but I was curious as to when that happened; like was it after Frazer Hines started doing his very credible Troughton impersonation during the Companion Chronicles, or was it when the Beeb hired David Warner to play Hartnell in the TV movie about the show's origins (and also to play the First Doctor in Capaldi's last couple of episodes)? I think it was the whole Companion Chronicles and Lost Stories thing that got the whole ball rolling. Plus I think the original stance might have been more a Gary Russell thing when he was the BF producer (The CC started after he left and Nick Briggs took over). Davros1 fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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The_Doctor posted:I miss Gold’s leitmotifs though. Yeah, me too. I do hope some of those come back, whoever takes the reigns.
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Bicyclops posted:I like the current composer. He manages to sneak a little of the Murray Gold bombast in without overwhelming things. I liked Murray too, but the change was fun. The composer is OK, but whoever has been doing the sound mixing for the last few years needs a good slap. I've had to watch the last 3 or so seasons with subtitles on as the music and sound effects blow out most of the dialogue in the show most of the time.
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Heads up: just had it pointed out to me that BritBox on Amazon US is streaming BLAKE'S 7.
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Mr Beens posted:The composer is OK, but whoever has been doing the sound mixing for the last few years needs a good slap. I've had to watch the last 3 or so seasons with subtitles on as the music and sound effects blow out most of the dialogue in the show most of the time. This feels like everything lately. I've tried tweaking my own sound settings so many times, but it always feels like you're either getting blown away by sound effects or the dialogue is a whisper. Also the opening credits for everything are like three times as loud as the rest of the show. I have gotten very "old man yells at cloud" about sound mixing.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:When did BF change their stance on hiring soundalikes or whatever to play the Doctors that had passed on? I remember many years ago they used to have a FAQ with a line that said something like "you could hire David Troughton to play his dad, Sean Pertwee to play his dad, etc" and their response was "we wouldn't want to do that because we wouldn't want to risk potentially disrespecting the memories of Hartnell, Troughton, or Pertwee". Obviously their stance on that has changed, but I was curious as to when that happened; like was it after Frazer Hines started doing his very credible Troughton impersonation during the Companion Chronicles, or was it when the Beeb hired David Warner to play Hartnell in the TV movie about the show's origins (and also to play the First Doctor in Capaldi's last couple of episodes)? Entirely down to a change in management -- Gary Russell was strongly against the idea of recasts, while Nick Briggs and Ken Bentley are very much for it.
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Flesnolk posted:Why is Whittaker already out 3 seasons + specials is on par with most modern doctors?
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Flesnolk posted:Why is Whittaker already out She's been the Doctor since 2017, even if the BBC forgot to make any episodes. Also I had a really dumb dream last night that for the 60th Anniversary special Big Finish got the rights to the Peter Cushing Dr. Who, and the story was him (recast) traveling to the main universe and trying to convince the increasingly unimpressed incarnations of the Doctor of his status.
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