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There is always injustice to fight. There is always a new danger for the universe. But what if the Doctor found a way to put things right, once and for all? Would it really be so terrible to take a stand? Would the end justify the means? And would his friends agree? The Seventh Doctor’s last day is coming…

Joining Sylvester McCoy, the story stars his television co-stars Sophie Aldred as Ace and Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush.
Plus, from the worlds of audio drama, Lisa Bowerman as Professor Bernice Summerfield, Philip Olivier as Thomas Hector “Hex” Schofield, Amy Pemberton as Sally Morgan, Maggie O’Neill as Lysandra Aristedes, Yasmin Bannerman and Travis Oliver as Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester, and Chase Masterson as Vienna Salvatori.

We’re also promised the returning menace of Geoffrey Beevers as the Master, and Dan Starkey as the Sontarans.

Open Source Idiom posted:

I'm an episode in, and I'm mostly being annoyed with how mediocre Joe Kraemer's score and sound design is. I'm used to him self-plagiarizing, I'm used to him ripping off John Williams, but the bit where the newscast jingle comes on made me do a double take. It's the opening to the DS9 theme.

Open Source Idiom posted:

Yeah like I'm one episode in it's okay so far. They're basically doing Infinity War, as far as I can tell, which is fair enough. But they're also trying to stitch together the work of a bunch of different recording sessions and unfortunately BF have sent their worst director and sound guy to solve the problem.

There's cool stuff, like some of the structural cleverness in the first episode -- I'm a fan of how the first episode basically explains exactly what's going on without anyone actually being told anything -- but, on the other hand, I'm also pretty sure Bonnie Langford has no idea what's going on either.

It's the kind of story where you actually need a director who's got a strong handle on the material because the plot relies on a bunch of references to other stories, it's being relayed to us via implication, it's jumping around all over the place, it's being recorded without actors being anywhere near each other (seven recording sessions for something that would normally take three)... and Samuel Clemens is just not up to that IMO. So, you end up with a reliable actor like Langford actively struggling to track her character's emotional state from scene to scene. Feels like a bit of a mixed bag.

Infinitum posted:

Mickey and Jack Harkness fuse together to form The Face Of No

Infinitum posted:

Anyway the only eps of Capaldi's run that I can never seem to get into is the double parter Under the Lake & Before the Flood - Just think the villains a bit naff, with its romper stomper boots, and there's too much faffing about.

Otherwise I think 12 had a really solid run that was such a tonal difference to what people were used to that it probably threw them off a lot.

Open Source Idiom posted:

"my wife, who is at home right now being pregnant, would be very sad if anything happened to me, so I hope nothing bad happens to me because of my pregnant, pregnant wife"

Open Source Idiom posted:

James Goss relocated to a cave in Turkey

Davros1 posted:

Yep. Fun as hell. For the most they're pretty much comedies.

lines posted:

What sort of view?

lines posted:

Yeah, that makes sense. Though I would say in 2011 "transvestite" was a reasonably normal word to use (though people would probably use it in a way that distinguished from transsexuals). Like, as in, I am saying this as a British trans person - it's not a term I've ever identified with but I'm fairly sure I know some people who at the very least did in the recent past, and I wouldn't necessarily consider use of it problematic now - though it depends how he was using it for sure. The misogyny sounds pretty unambiguous though! (As you say, could very much be a character view thing, but yes I agree at best that is definitely a misogynistic character.)

Fil5000 posted:

I think that's how I read it - Peter is a young smart arse that alternates between being sure he knows everything and realising he knows nothing. He gets better as the books go on.

Bicyclops posted:

Say hi to Martha for us.

TheBigBudgetSequel posted:

I really like the noise of the window opening on the TARDIS. Mainly because it reminds me of the "Look, Rocks!" bit which kills me everytime I think of it.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Do some Troughton, era owns

Hollismason posted:

What serials should I cherry pick from Troughton and Pertwee. I know one of them has to be original appearance of the Master.

Open Source Idiom posted:

BF really needs to stop telling stories about Indigenous Americans.

This new First Doctor story has Vicki, who's fully aware that Custer is a racist..

Open Source Idiom posted:

I'm not McGann, but speaking of Minuet...

I was never that down on that story as a lot of others are, so take my read on it with a grain of salt, but the story of a popular religious demagogue running for the President on the basis of a right wing reform policy while also running a secret (child?) sex ring feels very modern. It's a stupid play, but the wild satirical mashup kind of works.

Fil5000 posted:

WHELL SAAAH, I DOOO DEE-CLARE, YOU ARE MAKING A TERRIBLE MAHSTAKE

Bad accents and amnesia, as far as the eye can see.

Open Source Idiom posted:

Hey now, that's an authentic Malebolgian accent.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

It's also written by the guy who played the cyborg waiter dude in Deep Breath!

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Not super relevant to the question but that was a different dude

The_Doctor posted:

A.o.D. posted:

Y'know, we've seen the Master be the Doctor (sort of) as Prof. Yana, and we've seen the Doctor (particularly #10) do some poo poo that would make the Master say "oh my!", what I'd like to see is a story where they have to take up the other's role and the find out to their dismay that they're way too good at it for their own liking.

Also, it should be a rule that whomever plays the Master should either be IRL buddies with the actor playing the Doctor, married to them, or even better, divorced from them.

Open Source Idiom posted:

In what's an unfortunate trend, someone else in the company saw the success this series had and decided to capitalise on it in ways that undermined the original story. Turns out the Master almost immediately killed every single person in that universe, then built four sex robots to hang out with and then killed them too.

It's not a great story.

Open Source Idiom posted:

It's one of the War Master stories, the Dalek one. It's sort of aiming for ironic camp, but mostly just ends up being a bit poo poo.

It's a very good set. Some really awful stuff, done very well, and a really cool revisionist take on Tomb of The Cybermen.

Actually, speaking of Benny, have you heard Timeless Passages?

Fil5000 posted:

I think the Alice in Wonderland one is Zagreus, which has a ton of weird nonsense going on (Colin Baker playing a vampire in a flashback being a highlight) and also an old recording of Pertwee that sounds like they found it in a burning bin being used purely so they could say they'd put him in it. Pre revival era Big Finish was an amazing mixed bag.

Random Stranger posted:

This amused me more than it probably should have (click for vid):

DoctorWhat posted:

There's an arc of Seven stories (largely recorded when McCoy was triple-booked making The Hobbit) about two groups of 7's companions discovering he was two-timing them.

DoctorWhat posted:

It looks like some of those ideas are making their way into The Last Day, but The Last Day is not getting good reviews.

DoctorWhat posted:

Live 34 might be in the top 10 BFs of all time. And in a very casual way, it doesn't feel like it's trying to be amazing, it just rules.

Big Finish posted:

5.3 Sins of the Flesh by Alfie Shaw
Is your child exhibiting sinful behaviour? Have they set themselves on the road of eternal damnation? Has everything you tried failed? Feel like you’re out of options?

Don't worry. We can help. Bring them to the Rebirth Organisation today. Bring them to be converted.

McGann posted:

The box finale from Volume 5:

DoctorWhat posted:

Big Finish has been on a decent kick with over queer inclusion and social themes lately but they have a big problem: their audience.


.... Snip..

I understand that their Torchwood and New Series material is much less trepidatious.

SirSamVimes posted:

Just watched It Takes You Away and it's the closest this season has been to good.

Open Source Idiom posted:

This didn't end up being a laugh? Shame about the recommendation, I figured you might find it funny in a sort of camp/ironic way like I found it to be when I dipped back into it last year. Sorry and condolences my goon.

Flying Zamboni posted:

After finishing up The Black Guardian Trilogy I decided to jump back to Troughton and watch The Enemy of the World. I thought this was pretty good with the notable exception of Troughton doing brownface along with a pretty rough attempt at a Mexican accent. He plays Salamander well outside of that but it does drag it down

Fil5000 posted:

Cmon man, we both know that if we total up both of their "they were paying up front" credits Roberts is going to have a huge lead. Guy turns in a solid performance near enough every time but he's done a TON of garbage.

Fil5000 posted:

Regardless of gender if there's one defining characteristic of multi doc stories it's that they get on each other's nerves.

Edit: which makes a lot of sense to me, if I had to hang around with multiple younger versions of myself I'd be sick of them pretty quickly.

Open Source Idiom posted:

Ravenous is pretty bad. You can tell they changed their plans for the arc multiple times -- even this first boxset is them throwing out one of the plot points they just set up -- and the overall threat is very bad. There's a lot of awkward trend chasing going on too e.g. the Westworld gimmick in World Of Damnation, so the villain is modeled after another popular-ish(-ish) pop culture phenom from that time: making this spoiler box bigger to hide the spoiler: IT

The two opening standalones are, in the end, some of the strongest stories, as is the double feature from the centre of the next boxset. But the arc, overall, was being tuned to be more standalone, not less, so the actual story is very slight even by the standards of these things.

Ravenous bad.