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Open Source Idiom posted:Miles doesn't give a poo poo about clout lol He declares he doesn't in a way that suggests he totally does. That interview linked upthread (and others pulled from the same site via wayback) paint a picture of a man determined to present himself as a Harlan Ellison-esque enfant terrible, and you don't strike that pose unless you want social cachet out of it.
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Davros1 posted:It's better than The Shadow of the Scourge Ugh, yeah, that one was bad. But his other efforts (all cowritten apart from his segment in 100) are a lot better.
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I find Shadow of the Scourge amusing if you parse it as a parody of the New Adventures, but on the other hand that's a very inside joke.
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Warthur posted:I find Shadow of the Scourge amusing if you parse it as a parody of the New Adventures, but on the other hand that's a very inside joke. Yeah but it's not, it's just an NA.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah but it's not, it's just an NA. I dunno, the gimmick of the Scourge being all about people succumbing to the worst versions of themselves feels like a jab at the NA's tendency towards grimdark edgelordery. It's not a particularly well-executed jab, even then. I enjoyed listening to it but it was very much car crash listening.
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Actually, on that note: what are regarded as being the actually good 7th Doctor audio adventures? I've started working my way through Big Finish but the Seventh ones seem to be the weakest - other than The Fearmonger none of those I've heard so far have been up to much (I've heard the main range ones up to Shadow of the Scourge).
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Live 34 and Colditz are good, I thought.
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Warthur posted:I dunno, the gimmick of the Scourge being all about people succumbing to the worst versions of themselves feels like a jab at the NA's tendency towards grimdark edgelordery. It seems pretty much of a piece to me, compared to stuff like Falls The Shadow, Cartmel's War trilogy or Strange England. Even Damaged Goods (RTD) have psychic presences encouraging angst and drama, mixed in with actual angst and drama. Warthur posted:Actually, on that note: what are regarded as being the actually good 7th Doctor audio adventures? I've started working my way through Big Finish but the Seventh ones seem to be the weakest - other than The Fearmonger none of those I've heard so far have been up to much (I've heard the main range ones up to Shadow of the Scourge). He gets a lot of weak stories, plus McCoy often delivers weak performances ngl. People like the stories with Hex a lot, though I think they go to pot after (the very good) A Death In The Family. If you're just going for random stories, I'd recommend Live 34, The Magic Mousetrap, The New Adventures Of Bernice Summerfield (Volumes 1 and 2), The Settling, Red, Valhalla, The Death Collectors and No Man's Land. Plus the Klein arc (the first four-five stories, not the second arc with Will).
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Warthur posted:Actually, on that note: what are regarded as being the actually good 7th Doctor audio adventures? I've started working my way through Big Finish but the Seventh ones seem to be the weakest - other than The Fearmonger none of those I've heard so far have been up to much (I've heard the main range ones up to Shadow of the Scourge). Personally (and looking at a list of 7th doctor audios) I would say Colditz (mostly just to introduce Klein) and then the batch that involve Klein (A thousand tiny wings, klein's story/survival of the fittest and the architects of history), because Klein is a good foil for 7 in my view. I also like The Harvest (first appearance of Hex and written by Dan Abnett), Live 34 and The Magic Mousetrap. Open Source Idiom posted:He gets a lot of weak stories, plus McCoy often delivers weak performances ngl. People like the stories with Hex a lot, though I think they go to pot after (the very good) A Death In The Family. If you're just going for random stories, I'd recommend Live 34, The Magic Mousetrap, The New Adventures Of Bernice Summerfield (Volumes 1 and 2), The Settling, Red, Valhalla, The Death Collectors and No Man's Land. Plus the Klein arc (the first four-five stories, not the second arc with Will). Hey look at that, lot of crossover in those recommendations. Edit: Just going to add a general recommendation to avoid any audio that starts with "Project" because while Cavan Scott may have gone on to greater things and seems generally well regarded, anything involving The Forge and Nimrod can get in the bin.
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Fil5000 posted:Edit: Just going to add a general recommendation to avoid any audio that starts with "Project" because while Cavan Scott may have gone on to greater things and seems generally well regarded, anything involving The Forge and Nimrod can get in the bin. I've got the first one of those but it's 6/Evelyn and I really enjoy them, so I will give it a chance and if it turns out I don't enjoy it on any level I won't expect improvement in the later ones.
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 I've always enjoyed them, and they're fairly essential if you're following several different arcs.Edit: wait, are you buying these, Warthur? A lot of them are available for free on Spotify.
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Open Source Idiom posted:
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I can only think of one real ongoing arc they're that important to and you get a brief recap of the relevant details in episodes that arc comes up without having to listen to Stephen Chance playing someone's Best Original Character Do Not Steal.
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Fil5000 posted:I can only think of one real ongoing arc they're that important to and you get a brief recap of the relevant details in episodes that arc comes up without having to listen to Stephen Chance playing someone's Best Original Character Do Not Steal. 1. Project Lazarus directly sets up Evelyn's leaving arc. 2. Project Destiny is fairly essential to Hex's arc 3. Project Destiny introduces Aristedes, who then goes on to be in a bunch of stories that take the events of PD into assumed knowledge. And they all rely on Project Twilight.
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UNIT: Dominion is a good 7 story. Especially if you go into it unspoiled.
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Open Source Idiom posted:1. Project Lazarus directly sets up Evelyn's leaving arc. Oh right - I forgot about 1 and 3 completely!
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I enjoy Red, though mostly for McCoy's performance when he gets infected. Red. Red. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrred!
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Isn't Red also the one with the pleasant white noise that plays throughout the whole thing or am I misremembering?
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I really enjoyed Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, but I think that depends how you feel about a story which would fit in with Season 24, spoofing 70s sci-fi and is overall very camp and silly. Plus I think it was a Gareth Roberts one…
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Bicyclops posted:Isn't Red also the one with the pleasant white noise that plays throughout the whole thing or am I misremembering? That describes a lot of big finish's output
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Red's story isn't very good for a lot of reasoms but the sound design is great. There is a lot of very soothing white noise present as part of the story, in addition to a very strong vocal performance for the computer system/AI running the facility literally called White Noise.
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It requires a lot of knowledge going in, but A Death in the Family is an incredible 7th story. Other great stories: The Fires of Vulcan Dust Breeding The Dark Flame Night Thoughts Robophobia The Defectors The Quantum Possibility Engine
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MrL_JaKiri posted:5 months is not bafflingly long Season 13 aired late 2021. They released 4 episodes at the end of 2023. How is it not a long gap that the start of season 14 isn't until mid May?
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It's a long gap between the last full series and the next one, but not between the Christmas special and the next full series
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MrL_JaKiri posted:That describes a lot of big finish's output lol. Jerusalem posted:Red's story isn't very good for a lot of reasoms but the sound design is great. There is a lot of very soothing white noise present as part of the story, in addition to a very strong vocal performance for the computer system/AI running the facility literally called White Noise. Yeah, this is the one I was thinking of, I don't even remember what happened it but it was very soothing.
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TRAILER (Disney plus didn’t want to wait, apparently) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhL5ihOUUcs
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The_Doctor posted:TRAILER (Disney plus didn’t want to wait, apparently) lmao, the David Bowie overlay. I'm excited, it feels like it will have the typical RTD flops but that he'll give Ncuti Gatwa a lot to chew on. Betting he'll give Matt Smith a run for his money in terms of young talent.
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It's loving bananas that out of fourteen doctors, there has never been a single bad one, but Gatwa just danced his rear end right into it like it was written for him from the start.
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I hope there's a multi-doctor episode sometime soon with RTD writing 13, 6, and 8 with 15. It'd be nice for them to all have a good TV episode.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I hope there's a multi-doctor episode sometime soon with RTD writing 13, 6, and 8 with 15. It'd be nice for them to all have a good TV episode. I mean 8 got a quarter of a good episode. Ish. About. I also feel like Whittaker is going to take a long time away from the show if she ever does come back.
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Pretty sure if we didn't get a multi-doctor story for the 60th (the last few minutes of The Giggle notwithstanding,) we're not geting one, which makes me quite sad. Have they ever done one that wasn't an anniversary?
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LividLiquid posted:Pretty sure if we didn't get a multi-doctor story for the 60th (the last few minutes of The Giggle notwithstanding,) we're not geting one, which makes me quite sad. The Two Doctors wasn't as far as I recall.
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If they could recapture Eleven's Series Five energy and pair him with Ncuti... Perhaps with Twelve filling the Grump role
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I still don't understand why we haven't done one with every living Doctor and maybe even all the old companions. I'm shocked the 50th didn't do it, and it wasn't so amazing I'd be angry about it.
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You realize how many Doctors there have been, right? The Five Doctors had too many mouths to feed, and there were only four Doctors in it!
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Yeah, the idea of every living Doctor coming back sounds awful. Also, you kind of got that with the last episode for Thirteen. RTD has also gone on record saying he doesn't like multi-Doc episodes.
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Lawrence Miles is the Harlan Ellison of Doctor Who novels. Some brilliant ideas and writing, possibly some of the best books in the EDA range. Also a complete inability to play nicely with others, and a grudge list he's determined to hold onto.
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Theres the rub, the more multiple Doctor episodes we get the less special they'd become.
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True, but it's awesome watching The Doctor talk to themselves.
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