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Post by The Doctor on Feb 21, 2010 18:01:58 GMT
Episode 2. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You can't polish a turd! -Ralph Mission To Magnus. Ah, yes. I remember reading the Target version of this way back when. It....um.... did not impress me at the time. |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2010 19:14:34 GMT
Big Finish have a sale on with some of their stories knocked down to a fiver. So I grabbed Masters of War. I look forward to David Warner V Davros! Colditz is a fiver in the sale btw. Great story, only let down by some unusually dodgy sound design. Some bloke called David Tennant is in it. Whatever happened to him.
Navigation on their site is still not the best, but where they have improved is when you buy a CD, there's a digital copy in your account page you can download as often as you like. So if your CD gets knackered or your MP3player/computer has an accident, you can still access a copy without having to buy it again.
Planning on putting in a sub for the Klein/7th Doc and 6th Doc/Jamie run.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 2, 2010 19:44:21 GMT
I've been getting back into the audio plays of late and subscribed to ' The Lost Stories', season 1. First up was The Nightmare Fair. This probably would have been bobbins on TV and to be honest is of only of interest to people like, er, me but I enjoyed it anyway. David Bailey is the epitome of fruityness as the Toymaker. Not really something for non-hardcore 6th Doc fans though! Story 2 is Mission to Magnus and it's fucking dreadful*. Well episode 1 is, I haven't been able to bring myself to hear episode 2 yet! Decent production (it really does sound like it comes from 1985) but proves that not all lost scripts really deserve to be made! -Ralph Story 3, Leviathan, is bloody excellent. Stonking weird-shit-going-down-in-medieval-village stuff with many twists throughout and pretty damn good sound design. Had it been made for season 22 it would easily have been the stand-out story. It would have been way over-budget if shot as scripted but some clever script-editing could have got round that. As it is though, very good audio story. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2010 10:17:31 GMT
Meanwhil, on audios: Blue Forgotten Planet was stonking stuff, with very filmic sound design and the Viyrans are bloody spooky. Point off though for not actually being the advertised end of Charley's story. For the second time. Two episodes in and A Thousand Tiny Wings is great. Very New Adventures, and a great idea to team up Doc 7 with an evil time-displaced Nazi companion (Klein from Colditz). Tracey Childs is really good in the role. -Ralph |
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Post by Dave on Mar 11, 2010 13:10:37 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 11, 2010 19:42:47 GMT
Oooo! Quite a surprise that the talking books of the Target books are getting a radio broadcast.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2010 19:22:55 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 17, 2010 18:31:13 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Mar 17, 2010 18:46:46 GMT
They agreed to the companion who was a talking cabbage then? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2010 18:49:51 GMT
I heard some of David Troughton reading Abominable Snowman on a recent DVD and that sound superb - he does a great impersonation of his Dad. |
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Post by legios on Mar 17, 2010 22:26:17 GMT
Hell has frozen over. Lord Tom has finally agreed to do something for Big Finish: Now that is rather unexpected. Mind you after "Hornet's Nest" it is fair to say my interest in such a project is more muted than it might be. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2010 18:20:24 GMT
Fourth Doctor Audio Rumour Control: www.bigfinish.com/news/Fourth-Doctor-Rumour-ControlFingers crossed. As for BBC Audio, excellent job done on the missing episode soundtracks and the two Target talking book adaptations I've heard were good though when it comes to original stories I'd rather go with Big Finish. I'm sure even on a bad day they could do better than the dreadful BBC 'Hornet's Nest'. -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Mar 18, 2010 20:03:59 GMT
Started listening to Big Finish's "Colditz" this week. Currently halfway through and rather enjoying it. The setting is quite good - and actually does makes Ace's "I hate Nazi's" schtick work quite well dramatically (partly because the story clearly knows a bit of history and realises that "Wehrmacht Officer" does not necessarily equal "Member of National Socialist Party or Sympathiser with its aims").
In fact I think the only thing that lets the production down is its sound design - which is truly woeful. A shame really because there seems to be a good story under there.
Karl
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Post by Dave on Apr 21, 2010 16:01:22 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2010 21:53:17 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 2, 2010 23:31:32 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2010 21:40:50 GMT
Play.com have a sale on DW audio books: BBC and BF. Target audio book of Daleks Master Plan part1 was a fiver so I thought why not.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 1, 2010 17:26:20 GMT
BF have put up a short animated feature to promote their Benny Summerfield DW spin-off range: www.bigfinish.com/bernice-summerfield/I gave up on the line when stories that began in audios would finish in books and vice versa and the mixing of media irritated the hell out of me. It is very strange that they're making a push to get people interested in the latest season of audios when the first two are also being heavily promoted as being the resolution to several years of plot-points with the last two being a jumping-on point. I would have thought the latter would be a more logical point to try to bring new listeners in. It's a bit of a head scratcher. Taken on it's own merits, it's a decent wee freebie to watch, but it fails in making me want to buy the audio it cliffhangs into when I have to go listen to x years of stuff to understand it! Which is more of a marketing problem though. -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Sept 13, 2010 13:39:08 GMT
Can anyone recommend me some decent Big Finish stories to get hold of? I have a sudden urge!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2010 14:09:05 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2010 12:42:12 GMT
Just got wind of a WHO fanzine about the audios: www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=110715595628343&ref=ts My copy just plopped through the letterbox. EDIT: Link won't copy. Search for the 'The Finished Product' on Facebook. -Ralph EDIT 2: Just needed to go in a url tag. Sorted. Philip. |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2010 17:07:35 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2010 10:35:11 GMT
As I'm unwell and bright light is annoying I'm lying down in darkened room a lot. Good chance to catch up on my backlog of BF audio subscriptions. Generally, the standard has got back to pre-2004 levels. I gave up on them in early 2005 after a year of mostly-shit stories (the sense of fun had gone away, lost of angst and overlong tales, the line was dying on its arse) after being a die-hard fan and with the show back on telly felt no urge to go back. Heard the odd release in the interim on loan but nowt to bring me back. But good reviews have tempted me back. The format of the monthly releases has been overhauled for the better. Much tighter scripting for one thing. Even the Companion Chronicles are mostly decent, the 1st Doctor ones in particular. Hooray.
And thanks to Marc Platt, I have now heard Nyssa say the line: "I always knew I was a self-righteous prick." Damn near creased myself when I heard that. It's what fans have thought for 25 years!
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Post by jonathan85 on Sept 19, 2010 11:46:00 GMT
"Just got wind of a WHO fanzine about the audios: www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=110715595628343&ref=ts My copy just plopped through the letterbox." What'd you make of it Ralph? It's a work colleague of mine that does it. Jonathan |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 19, 2010 11:49:46 GMT
"Just got wind of a WHO fanzine about the audios: www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=110715595628343&ref=ts My copy just plopped through the letterbox." What'd you make of it Ralph? It's a work colleague of mine that does it. Jonathan I've got a bit of a mild flu so only been able to skim it so far due to sneezing a lot but on first impression looks like it has some decent content in it. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 20, 2010 20:18:35 GMT
"Just got wind of a WHO fanzine about the audios: www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/group.php?gid=110715595628343&ref=ts My copy just plopped through the letterbox." What'd you make of it Ralph? It's a work colleague of mine that does it. Jonathan I am now reading them. Recommended for anyone interested in how the Who audio dramas are put together. -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Sept 29, 2010 9:06:34 GMT
I have arranged to buy a stack of Big Finish stuff at a fiver each. Mostly Colin B!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2010 10:11:10 GMT
I have arranged to buy a stack of Big Finish stuff at a fiver each. Mostly Colin B! What you grabbing, boy? -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2010 12:55:07 GMT
Also Ralph, I have bought: 9 The Spectre of Lanyon Moor 14 The Holy Terror 25 Colditz 27 The One Doctor 35 …ish 36 The Rapture 37 The Sandman 38 The Church and the Crown 43 Doctor Who and the Pirates 46 Flip-Flop The Holy Terror is amazing. Colditz is good so long as you can get past the shittest sound design possible. There's a reason why those sound designers didn't get to do another one -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Oct 6, 2010 9:05:44 GMT
Doctor Who and the Pirates was amazing! Absolutely marvelous! Part of me wishes the entire thing was a musical not just episode 3, but that would probably be overkill.
The CD started to skip at the end which made my heart sink, but it turned out my drive was dodgy; sticking it in another one was fine. Just another reason why I need a new computer!
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Mission To Magnus. Ah, yes. I remember reading the Target version of this way back when. It....um.... did not impress me at the time.
