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https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/audio-guide/ Hey has anyone used this particular Big Finish audio guide before? Through skimming it I think I broadly agree with what the author considers 'essential' and 'stand-alone/skippable'. I think I listened to about 200 of the audios years ago but I don't think I'd like just starting where I left off since I don't really remember a lot and I'd like to revisit some of the more plot-critical stuff. I've got a lot to go through, admittedly, but this seems like a good guide so I can skip the ones I need to. (Needless to say I was skipping Minuet in Hell anyway).
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CobiWann posted:
Jerusalem posted:It's not a bad story, it's just not well executed. It's worth a listen if only to marvel at how far they've come since they started, and it's always neat to hear more of Davison, Baker and McCoy. If I'd been aware of Big Finish back during the wilderness years I can't even begin to imagine how I'd have reacted to discovering there was NEW Doctor Who featuring the original actors, and it's wonderful to be in a position now where it's just one of many hundreds of new stories whether on audio or back on television where it belongs. Crap Re-Listening: Monthly Adventures #001, The Sirens of Time I remember back when I was a noob in this thread all those years ago, being introduced into the full pantheon of secrets and mysteries that is Doctor Who canon by the learned masters CobiWann and Jerusalem through their reviews of Big Finish audios. Up until I happened to read this thread I had no idea the audios existed, and so was keen to start listening. The Sirens of Time, since I always listen to things chronologically, was the first one I listened to. And it baffled me completely. I was initially hooked by the idea that the three different Doctors were on their own adventures before getting mixed in to something together, but the whole concept and the villain.. just fell flat. Why were these people suddenly more powerful than the Time Lords, who while being bureaucratic and megalomaniacal generally are not this stupid? Temperon? Sirens of Time? It was all a bit slipshod. Just purely based on my impression of that, I should have dropped the audios altogether and not listened to another minute of them, no matter what the Grand Grognards of Goon Who said. But I didn't. Why? Five words. Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker. Having watched Old Who as a kid partially in reruns and largely more familiar with New Who as a fully functioning adult, I didn't really have much an impression of Six and Seven. But these audios really did show why they had a following to this day. They acted their hearts out in the middle of this baffling script and I wanted to hear more of it. Peter Davison wasn't bad, but he was just kind of *there*. As others say, he does get better but it took him a lot longer to find his groove than the other two. So I relistened to it, and I was somehow able to follow the plot more. I'd forgotten the fine detail and even the reveal of the villains, but maybe I was paying more attention this time around. To be fair, my first listen occurred in buses, taxis and on walks to work in Jiangsu Province, China about eight years ago so perhaps I was a bit distracted. But it was still all over the place, and I know how much better they can do, and did do. So I'll give them half a point as interest. Original Crap Score: 2/5 Re-Listened Crap Score: 2.5/5 Next up, the return of Vislor Turlough and Cricket Man in: Monthly Adventures #002, Phantasmagoria.
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Confusedslight posted:Briggs can write a story but so many of his doctor who ones are extremely hit or miss, paired with the fact he doesn't take criticism well at all I tend to largely avoid them. Any more information on this? Did he blow up on Twitter about something?
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Aug 31, 2022 12:20
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, he'd have to suffer multiple explosive cases of amnesia to make it all make any sense. How likely is THAT!?! When The Bad Wolf/The Moment called Eleven the "Doctor Who Forgets" in Day of the Doctor, I half-imagined an anguished scream coming from Paul McGann's house.
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Confusedslight posted:Doctor who audio is truly a land of contracts in terms of quality. Home to some of my favorite doctor who but also sometimes it can get quite dire. god I am so far behind on the relisten, I'm still on the The Spectre of Lanyon Moor, but I forgot how much I goddamn love Evelyn Smythe. First original Big Finish companion and they just knocked it out of the park.
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Where is his neck lol.
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Astroman posted:Presented without comment: and I thought Minuet in Hell was bad
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Sep 13, 2022 09:21
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Crosspeice posted:Next episode will be great. Amen. I wasn't around in this thread when it was announced he'd be the new showrunner, but I'd imagine a few people in here predicted how his run would be in every way, based on prior form alone.
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I pretty much saw the whole first season of Chibnall Who and in the break between seasons I pretty much decided I'd give up watching week to week and wait a couple years for it to improve based on reviews and general feeling. It did not. Then I watched Jay Exci's magnum opus The Fall of Doctor Who (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8_A7n83Rh0) and that pretty much put the nail in the coffin as far as my opinion was concerned. Then RTD got announced as the successor and I'd never thought I'd want him back again (I saw the End of Time, after all), but it was a relief. I'm just sorry that Jodie Whitaker's run was blighted by a very poor writer. She had so much potential, and it was shining through the whole time but just drowned in nonsense.
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The_Doctor posted:How dare, that’s the best Christmas song, and my own personal Whamageddon. When I hear that on the radio, the Christmas period has officially started. Unfortunately I watched Last Christmas (the one with Nick Frost as Santa) right after a lovely breakup that occurred over the Christmas period that year so that song is forever ruined for me.
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Sep 20, 2022 12:08
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And I assume Big Finish got some kind of deal to use the Daleks, when the books couldn't? Probably involving Dalek Empire?
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Sep 23, 2022 05:25
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McGann posted:Either way, somebody is gonna gently caress that car. Hopefully consensually, knowing Torchwood.
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Sep 27, 2022 06:21
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Narsham posted:Just because you’re capable of being really clever doesn’t mean you always are. I think it was Hbomberguy's video on Sherlock (which is also partially a video on Jekyll) that soured me on Moffat once and for all. I recommend everyone give it a watch if you haven't already. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM
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Infinitum posted:Wish she had better stories. I don't think there's many people that see Chibnall in a positive light, are there? There was a lot of knee-jerk reaction to criticism of him, as far as I recall, but maybe things have gotten even worse. There's a lot of poo poo lore that has to be undone here. It's a real shame that Jodie Whittaker had been saddled with a showrunner that had twice the ambition for lore-fuckery but only half the talent of Moffat (the half that writes poo poo episodes and not the half that writes the good ones).
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The_Doctor posted:Fit her between 2 and 3, extended Season 6b. We never directly see Troughton turn into Pertwee. The Two Doctors implies the Time Lords were sending 2 on missions anyway. There's the out, right there. I hope RTD realized it as well and we get an explanation we can live with. Because yes, the police box Tardis for her does not make sense. e: but then there's the whole business about the counted regenerations in that period and that's one too many... gently caress it, maybe that one was a freebie?
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Open Source Idiom posted:Finished Moffat's new thing Reviews on IMDb would agree with you: an IMDb reviewer posted:It's fair to say writer & executive producer Steven Moffat just doesn't seem to be able to catch a break since leaving the position as showrunner of Doctor Who in 2017; Sherlock S4 (excluding "The Lying Detective") was critically panned & rejected by fans, his BBC reimagining of "Dracula" was torn apart by audiences before his adaptation of "The Time Traveller's Wife" was then subsequently cancelled by HBO after 1 season (due to the fact that it barely made any impression whatsoever, good or bad) & now, as if all that weren't bad enough, his new series "Inside Man" is unfortunately abysmal... another IMDb reviewer posted:I had so much hope and excitement for this series and sadly couldn't watch past the first episode. The material and writing are so bad and insult the viewers - it is almost unpalatable . I don't take any issue with a vicar having moral dilemma but the choices made and the way they are made feel unbelievable given that there is no premise built up in advance . The viewers are left to imagine 'why on earth would someone make such idiotic decisions' and what is with the annoying introduction to Stanley Tucci ? I absolutely love his work and to see him reduced to this is frankly painful. The smug unanswered questions ... the complete lack of respect for the viewers ... zero character build up ... I could go on and on ... just annoyingly bad - especially because I wanted so bad for this to be good!! yet another IMDb reviewer posted:No, but seriously?! How ridiculous is this??!! A 'Silence of the Lambs' type killer guru; a jovial cannibal sidekick with a photographic memory; a hapless 'no credentials' journalist from UK manages an audience with this crime solving duo - oh, they're in US on Death Row (course they are);in the meantime David Tennant is 501 wearing vicar who has locked a woman (was she the maths tutor? Who knows - no explication) in his cellar over something which could have been resolved in 10 mins with a discussion and a visit to the Police. Embarrassingly bad. Someone in BBC needs to give up smoking crack.
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The_Doctor posted:It’s amazing how new unknown actor Louis ugh
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Barry Foster posted:Honestly I'd stop wasting your time. Go back and do Capaldi's last season, which is one of the strongest of the revival Agreed. I'm not watching a frame more of Chibnall's era than I have to. I will watch Power of the Doctor though.
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https://twitter.com/SawbonesHex/status/1581597643729383424?s=20&t=ARwEUe3t6hqgHxNgg_JBow 
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Infinitum posted:Best mate who is a massive Doctor Who fan has just totally given up on it, for no other reason than the episodes are just back to back garbage. I'll watch it, if only for Ace and Tegan.
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Rhyno posted:DST is probably the unintentional result of one of the Doctor's adventures. It sure as hell isn't related to loving logic.
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Ace and The Master: "Last time I saw you, you were half cat." "A man's allowed to experiment."
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Rhyno posted:rear end in a top hat Doctor is my favorite flavor of the character. I'm partial to a Chessmaster Doctor style myself. Dunno if they'll bring that back.
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