Doctor Who: THE POWER OF THE DALEKS! Oh, and a Christmas special.

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The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve	33	44.59%
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Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Clip from this year's X-Mas special:

https://twitter.com/DWMtweets/status/799718696306479104

# ¿ Nov 18, 2016 22:12

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 17:02

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Big Mean Jerk posted:

Huh, I thought I was the only person on Earth who preferred III to II.

I thought everyone thought BttF 3 was better than BttF 2?

# ¿ Nov 21, 2016 21:31

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

CobiWann posted:

"This popcorn is making me SICK TO MY STOMACH!"

The_Doctor posted:

I love you all

PHUCKERS!!!!

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 02:56

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Just realized that CW "Legends of Tomorrow" actually has TWO former companions to the Doctor in it. Arthur Darvill everyone knows about, but 7's former companion Pvt Sally Morgan, played by Amy Pemberton, voices the ship's computer, Gideon.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 20:08

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Good news. It appears Power of the Daleks isn't going to be a Barnes & Noble exclusive. It's available on Amazon for pre-order. Love that cover too!

https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Power-Daleks/dp/B01LTHYIAU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480977224&sr=8-1&keywords=power+of+the+daleks

# ¿ Dec 5, 2016 23:36

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Eight vs the Weeping Angels:

https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doom-coalition-4---details

# ¿ Dec 6, 2016 21:20

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

I was terrified that the TVM was going to be something along the of Virgin's NAs, so I was greatly relieved that it was actually good!

# ¿ Dec 7, 2016 21:19

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Astroman posted:

Somewhere out there, Nick Briggs is seeing this and saying "whelp, if Steven's not gonna do it..."

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/return-to-the-web-planet-455

# ¿ Dec 15, 2016 10:14

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

LordZoric posted:

I remember my much younger self first listening to Kromon and being super creeped out by Charlie turning into a giant worm monster that I basically never wanted to listen to it again.

It was written by Phillip Martin, who wrote Vengeance on Varos, which, if you recall, had Peri turning into a bird monster.

A couple of years ago he wrote the Six Doctor audio Antidote to Oblivion. Care to guess what befalls Flip in this story?

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 23:10

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

So BF announced that for 2018, the series of Tom and Leela, instead of being released at the rate of 1 a month, are going to be released as 2 boxsets. Can't help to wonder if it's just a cost cutting measure, or if someone else is going to take up the January to August slot.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2016 10:15

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

FreezingInferno posted:

Is Twilight Kingdom the one with the weird cave thing?

Yes.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2016 10:09

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Jerusalem posted:

The way it used to work is Terrance Dicks would ring up Robert Holmes in a panic saying,"Where's my script? Where's the script? Gimme the script? " and Holmes would drolly reply,"In a moment, dear boy ", hang up, say boo to a passing child and then smoke a pipe for an hour or two before rolling his chair over to the typewriter and cheerfully bang out something brilliant in half an hour.

Then Robert Holmes became the Script Editor and drolly smoked a pipe while reading other people's scripts and tutting gently while making corrections, occasionally saying boo to a passing child

Ms Boods will agree that this is an 100% accurate assessment of the situation.

The best story is about the novelization to The Time Warrior. Holmes had agreed to write it, but kept getting sidetracked. Terrence kept bugging him about needing it, until one day, a manuscript showed up. In it was the prologue, followed by a note that read "You finish it."

# ¿ Dec 29, 2016 10:12

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Been listening to the new Colin story "Absolute Power", and am genuinely blown away by the score. Then I find out the composer did the scores to "Jack Reacher" and "Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation".

# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 22:51

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

While BF have yet to announce any further War Doctor sets, they did announce they're doing adaptations of six H.G. Wells stories, the first being "The Invisible Man" starring John Hurt. So hopefully this bodes well for him coming back to do more Who stories.

https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/hg-wells-comes-to-big-finish

# ¿ Jan 1, 2017 14:45

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

CobiWann posted:

Look, I just want someone to build a wall and keep the Cybermen out.

But they can fly now!

# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 16:21

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

After The War posted:

Here, this will keep me from emptyquoting:

Clive Merrison :colbert:

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 21:00

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Grrr ... Got the Power of the Daleks DVD, and the spine doesn't match the rest of the releases.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2017 14:40

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Not the US release. At least the DVD version. Don't know about the Blu-Ray.

Differences are:

Dalek instead of the Troughton picture at the top.
The McGann logo is white instead of blue, and is stacked instead of in a single line
The graphic of the title is the same on the spine as it is on the cover.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2017 15:23

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Jerusalem posted:

What a shame, tremendous actor and by all accounts just a wonderful person.

It almost feels crass to be upset that we're not getting any more War Doctor stuff beyond what they already recorded, but we got far more than we probably could have expected.

At least we still have one more set to go, not to mention The Invisible Man

# ¿ Jan 28, 2017 13:52

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Jerusalem posted:

That movie is loving gorgeous and the cast is amazing. It never quite reaches the height of the old TV series (Alec Guinness' Smiley is astonishing) but it's a hell of a movie, and Hurt is great (as always) in it.

Kathy Burke, who played Connie Sachs in the film version:

https://twitter.com/KathyBurke/status/825280680988905472

# ¿ Jan 29, 2017 00:16

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/826475162379825152

More Ice Warriors

# ¿ Jan 31, 2017 20:49

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Burkion posted:

The "New Kind of Ice Warrior" worries me greatly.

We're all in agreement- the work they did on the Ice Warrior in the suit was great. The CGI thing...not so much. Right?

I really don't want them to take away the clunky suit look.

Might be talking about something along the lines of how the Ice Lord is different from an Ice Warrior.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2017 22:07

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

King Plum the Nth posted:

All the talk of women and/or "PsOC" in the role -- and many great suggestions among them -- but It got me wondering why we've never seen an Irish Doctor.

For that matter, have they ever said why Tennant played him with an English accent? Not that I minded because it made his audio book readings awesome. (The Doctor was separete voice from the narrator.) But McCoy and Capeldi got to be Scottish.

It was Tennant's decision.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 08:42

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Matt Berry

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 21:14

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

For one week, BF is having a sale on the Main Range, from stories 51-125

https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who---main-range-special-offers

# ¿ Feb 13, 2017 09:53

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

https://twitter.com/claytonhickman/status/832946303873273857

# ¿ Feb 18, 2017 15:24

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Jerusalem posted:

It won't occur to the Master that Trump will doublecross him until the Doctor brings it up, at which point he'll go,"" and then ally with the Doctor to stop him.

I wish the last part was true

The best bit was in the 8th audio "Master of the Daleks", and when delivering a report to the Supreme Dalek, a strategist Dalek reports "There is a 100% certainty that the Master will betray us." Not a 99.9% chance, nope, he's going to betray us a some point.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 13:20

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

PriorMarcus posted:

Of course it was planned, why do you think it wasn't?

Because RTD said it wasn't?

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 11:47

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Jerusalem posted:

It's really drat good, River being plonked into the Classic Doctors period works surprisingly well.

Apparently, that was Moffat's suggestion. I just hope next year we get River and Tom.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 23:27

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

New trailer!:

https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/835504640670064640

New Ice Warriors at the end?

# ¿ Feb 25, 2017 16:01

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Astroman posted:

Oh I know it's the format, I just don't think they'd waste a "Jago and Litefoot meet the X Doctor" story on a Short Trip or Companion Chronicle if there was a shot at getting a Doctor actor.

They're doing Short Trips set during the Time War where Eight encounters Nyssa and Susan. They could've done those as full cast, but didn't. Briggs set the only hold up is Tennant is adamant about recording with everyone together. He even said recently that he visited Tennant while he was filming Broadchurch Series 3 to talk about it. Tennant doesn't want to record separately, so it's about getting the schedules with him and, presumably, Catherine Tate, to sync up. BF said it took over a year to line up everything just to record the first set.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 21:51

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

cargohills posted:

e: On a similar note what's up with the weirdos on those awful Doctor Who forums who claim to only listen to Big Finish instead of watching the new series? I understand being critical about Steven Moffat as a showrunner but at least there's less obsessive continuity porn on TV.

Better than those who claim that every single episode of the classic series is far superior to ANYTHING the new series has ever done. And how dare they make the Master a woman! And introduce a lost incarnation of the Doctor!

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 09:58

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Colin to battle the Carrionite Witches:

https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/coming-soon---doctor-who-classic-doctors-new-monsters-2

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 10:16

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

What? No, I don't have a tear in my eye. It's just dust. Yeah, dust.

https://twitter.com/DWMtweets/status/837270658715377664

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 21:30

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

BBC officially tweeted it.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 20:35

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Open Source Idiom posted:

Yeah, Alistair Lock is the best. I really wish Big Finish hadn't driven him or Jim Mortimore away. They were BF's best sound designers.

Lock's been back for a couple of years now.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2017 12:52

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

The_Doctor posted:

I had a lot of trouble understanding the Cyber-Committee

I did too, until I realized that it was supposed to be a bunch of people talking over/arguing with each other all at once, at which point one of them would make a statement. Which is why, near the end, it's all the more terrifying when finally, all their voices merge into one thought, one voice, instigating the birth of the Cyber Planner.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2017 14:51

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 17:02

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Tim Burns Effect posted:

I feel like Russell's voice sounds closer to Hartnell's but Purves is better at nailing the mannerisms, so both are great for different reasons imo

What's awesome about Russell's and Purves' portrayals of the First Doctor is they're both playing the Doctor how he interacted with their characters. The First Doctor was a little more sharp tempered with Ian, and far more relaxed with Steven, because Steven was always willing to defer to the Doctor, whereas Ian wasn't willing to put up with the Doctor's poo poo.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2017 23:35

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