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Class
May 6, 2019 17:35:47 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2019 17:35:47 GMT
Listened to Class 2.3 - In Remembrance.
This is the one of these six stories I was looking forward to because of the connection to Remembrance of the Daleks and it doesn't disappoint. It works because it plays off the only thing that made Class interesting - Quill's wretched situation being forced to protect the one person she absolutely loathes and her refusal to acknowledge the good the Doctor saw in her. Her cynicism played against Ace's optimism makes for some excellent conversations between the two, particularly when both reflect on how the absent Doctor has put them in the positions they're in.
It's typical of a story that retrofits a new tale into an old one - the rift causes a Dalek from Coal Hill 1963 to switch places with alien boy. In the past he meets young Ace, who then knows that in 2016 she must go back to Coal Hill to deal with the Dalek. Unusually for this series of audios that then means two parallel plot threads, the weaker being Charlie trying to survive in the past while the much stronger is Quill and Ace clashing in the present while trying to deal with the Dalek. Quill having to help the damaged Dalek because it has the technology to reopen the rift and get Charlie back is probably the best scene in all six of these stories. As an extension of Remembrance of the Daleks this is just fun to listen to, right down to the way the music mixes together elements of the Class soundtrack in the present with Keff McCulloch's 1980s synth in the past. Most of the audios in this series have felt ultimately hollow and pointless because the characters are so thin, but this one takes the strongest in Quill and mixes her with a worthwhile story that more moves her into the Doctor Who universe than it puts Ace into Class.
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Class
May 6, 2019 18:23:27 GMT
Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2019 18:23:27 GMT
I thought it was utter shit. I thought the other 5 episodes were passable but that one was just crap.
Update the counter, Phil!
Pinwig only has one more Class adventure to go: one novel!!!
-Ralph
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Class
May 6, 2019 18:34:11 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2019 18:34:11 GMT
Why shit? The writing was good, the idea was good, it made a sound appendix to the story it homaged. What's wrong with it?
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Class
May 6, 2019 18:40:34 GMT
Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2019 18:40:34 GMT
The story and script were poor. It didn't fit properly with Remembrance. It was bobbins!
-Ralph
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Class
May 6, 2019 18:42:28 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2019 18:42:28 GMT
I honestly don't know how you can say that in the context of the rest of the rubbish in that series, but each to their own! It even had the same shouty 'small human' Dalek in the past and Nick Briggs doing a passable impression of Roy Skelton!
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May 6, 2019 18:43:47 GMT
Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2019 18:43:47 GMT
It was easily the worst Class adventure by far!
-Ralph
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May 7, 2019 18:42:49 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 7, 2019 18:42:49 GMT
Erm, mods. 6/6 audios thank you.
Do keep up at the back, you started this!
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Class
May 7, 2019 19:41:59 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 7, 2019 19:41:59 GMT
Thang-yew.
I must read that book, then I can rid myself of the hideous Class count.
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Class
May 13, 2019 21:33:06 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 13, 2019 21:33:06 GMT
So when will it be time to get through that last novel?
-Ralph
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Class
May 19, 2019 22:00:40 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on May 19, 2019 22:00:40 GMT
Can't be long...
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Class
May 21, 2019 19:33:27 GMT
Post by The Doctor on May 21, 2019 19:33:27 GMT
Someone needs to update their Class Counter.
-Ralph
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Class
May 21, 2019 19:38:43 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 21, 2019 19:38:43 GMT
3 soundtracks now instead of one.
Although do I really have to open this record to play it? I've heard the CD. Seems a shame, and I don't have easy access to a player anyway.
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May 21, 2019 19:40:30 GMT
Post by The Doctor on May 21, 2019 19:40:30 GMT
Don't you have a record player...in the loft?
-Ralph
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May 21, 2019 19:41:39 GMT
Post by blueshift on May 21, 2019 19:41:39 GMT
3 soundtracks now instead of one. Although do I really have to open this record to play it? I've heard the CD. Seems a shame, and I don't have easy access to a player anyway. Just scrape a compass around the grooves really fast to make sound
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May 21, 2019 19:45:41 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 21, 2019 19:45:41 GMT
Don't you have a record player...in the loft? -Ralph Yes I do, but it's a shitty one that has built in speakers. I've only used it to transfer vinyl to MP3 with the USB connection it has, but the quality was very disappointing when I did that with the TF soundtrack. To do something like this justice I'll have to do what I did with the Star Cops 12" I got and take it round my parents' house to use Dad's stereo.
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Post by The Doctor on May 21, 2019 19:48:16 GMT
Then you have...a solution!
All the family can learn of...Class!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on May 21, 2019 19:53:34 GMT
Then you have...a solution! All the family can learn of...Class! -Ralph I feel like this is the answer
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May 21, 2019 19:55:36 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 21, 2019 19:55:36 GMT
You would.
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May 21, 2019 19:56:00 GMT
Post by Benn on May 21, 2019 19:56:00 GMT
3 soundtracks now instead of one. Although do I really have to open this record to play it? I've heard the CD. Seems a shame, and I don't have easy access to a player anyway. Just scrape a compass around the grooves really fast to make sound I actually winced.
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May 25, 2019 16:36:11 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 25, 2019 16:36:11 GMT
Bonus CD is 69 minutes. 46 tracks. A lot of them seem to be just stings less than a minute long. Here we go then.
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May 25, 2019 17:33:40 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 25, 2019 17:33:40 GMT
This is the very definition of tedious.
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May 25, 2019 18:19:11 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 25, 2019 18:19:11 GMT
Done. Dave Gilmour is now restoring sense to my living room. That bonus CD is even worse than the original soundtrack CD. None of it is really music. It's just snippets and off cuts. Every time you think it's about to get going it just stops again.
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May 25, 2019 21:12:52 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 25, 2019 21:12:52 GMT
TENTACLES!
-Ralph
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May 26, 2019 9:53:53 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 26, 2019 9:53:53 GMT
The count should be 2/3 soundtracks if we're doing CD/Bonus CD/Vinyl. Although the CD and Vinyl are identical in content.
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May 26, 2019 12:25:55 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 26, 2019 12:25:55 GMT
Ah, but they will *sound* different!
-Ralph
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May 26, 2019 13:32:48 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 26, 2019 13:32:48 GMT
Shit and even more shit?
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May 26, 2019 16:02:07 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 26, 2019 16:02:07 GMT
Such a happy camper.
-Ralph
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May 26, 2019 23:39:58 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on May 26, 2019 23:39:58 GMT
Indeed he is.
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May 26, 2019 23:50:17 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on May 26, 2019 23:50:17 GMT
Bastards.
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May 27, 2019 1:02:44 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on May 27, 2019 1:02:44 GMT
Heh heh heh.
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