|
|
Post by blueshift on May 5, 2017 17:37:28 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on May 5, 2017 20:29:19 GMT
I have listened to House by the Sea and it is fab.
The first 2 full-cast series are great tosh and very entertaining. I also heard the 13-part soap but it wasn't my cup of tea.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on May 7, 2017 20:22:06 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on May 14, 2017 19:00:27 GMT
But will Rex be there?
Andy
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on May 14, 2017 19:17:39 GMT
It would seem not.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on May 18, 2017 18:05:48 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on May 18, 2017 19:26:28 GMT
Very good news, very good news indeed. So that's another sixteen full cast adventures in all. Fantastic. Just a shame they're now restricted to Season C and Josette Simon still doesn't want to play.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2017 18:00:17 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2017 9:25:08 GMT
I've listened to the first 2 (of 4) stories and it is an odd beast. So far it has been remakes of TV episodes. They're well done but adhere very close to the originals so there is very little surprise other than Number 9 having more of a role. Music is good but trying a bit too hard to be 'swinging 60's' at times. Mark Elstob is fabulous as Number Six. As close to McGhoohan as possible while still being distinctive. It's stated outright Number Six was a secret agent whereas it was a bit more obtuse in the original. Despite niggles, I am enjoying it and looking forward to hearing the rest though remaking episodes is a let-down: it's why I held off from buying it at full price. Far better than the awful reboot that was on TV a few years ago!
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2017 18:15:47 GMT
Story 3 is original, well suited to audio and very good. Episode 4 was another remake.
A very puzzling set. It is enjoyable and well made but I just can't fathom who it is aimed at. At full price it is quite pricey and The Prisoner TV show is a bit obscure these days so I would imagine most of the buyers for this would be fans of the original but how sellable is it when 3/4 of it is recycled TV scripts, especially when the original was only 17 episodes long? A real head scratcher. As well made as it is (and there isn't a duff performance in it) I really can't recommend it as anything more than a curio and at sale price.
BE SEEING YOU!
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 7, 2017 17:25:27 GMT
The set has a behind-the-scenes documentary with a second one as a download if bought from the BF site. Having listened to them you can tell the production was a real labour of love for all involved yet no-one seems to find it odd that so much of it is remade TV episodes. Briggs' even gets excited about what other TV episodes they can remake in the future. I had thought perhaps there was a licensing issue restricting BF to reworking existing TV scripts but episode 3 was entirely new. So strange!
It was a good set of plays but I just wish more of it had been 'new'. Its frustrating because the production of them is top-notch and Elstob is just so good as Number Six.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 27, 2017 23:03:14 GMT
I tend to forget BF have done books. I guess most customers do too as a pile of them are £1-3 in a sale: www.bigfinish.com/news/v/spooky-special-offersI recommend the audiobook of LOVE SONGS FOR THE SHY AND CYNICAL by Rob Shearman which I got in a previous sale. -Ralph |
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2017 22:03:56 GMT
So I grabbed a few cheap books and audiobooks from the sale.
Five chapters in to the audiobook of the SURVIVORS novelisation. It's grim. So grim. Utterly unrelentingly grim. Unusually underproduced for a BF production: no music or sound effects. Just Carolyn Seymour's voice of doom as she reads the book. Brrr.
I've never actually seen the original show, just the first series of the reboot.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Oct 28, 2017 22:21:25 GMT
It's fantastic. A series I have enormous fondness for because of the bleakness you mention. Unrelentingly grim, as you say, but absolutely gripping.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2017 17:59:58 GMT
What does keep pulling me out of the doom laden scenario though is that despite every facet you can imagine of trying to survive being described in vivid and frightening detail: the struggle to find food and material from dwindling resources and to find shelter etc...all of the characters appear to be chainsmoking through endless magic supplies of cigarettes! It does break the illusion of desperation somewhat. I know the book was written when smoking was very common and an everyday part of life but it seems daft there is an endless amount of that resource and no other!
It is good though I don't think I'll bother with the TV show or the full-caset BF boxsets. While it is gripping it is a tad too grim to be something I'd want to follow via an ongoing basis.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2017 18:26:57 GMT
On the last chapter. This is easily the most depressing bit of fiction I have come across in quite some time. Unrelenting despair.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2017 19:59:09 GMT
And of course it ended with a SUDDEN SAVAGE MOMENT OF UTTER DOOM with a 'didn't see it coming' twist.
Clucking hell.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Oct 30, 2017 20:51:18 GMT
I'm not sure which episodes the novelisation covers so I don't know which cliffhanger that is, but as you've had so much fun with this I've bought a copy of the audiobook myself.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2017 21:46:08 GMT
It was certainly good value at £3 as it took four days of walking to get through it all! It has a duration of several hours.
I wanted to go hug someone by the end of it though.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 16, 2017 22:20:48 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 17, 2017 11:49:32 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2017 12:46:31 GMT
Ooo, I have not heard Dalek Empire IV. Having that.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2017 12:56:03 GMT
Wallet dying.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2017 13:02:09 GMT
*checks after red hazing*
Jings. My BF account now has 462 download releases in it. They own my soul.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2017 13:06:30 GMT
Well I had only planned on Jago & Litefoot series 12 and Sherlock Holmes series 5 this month until this sale! Will grab the downloads of the DW first 50 that I don't have cd's of anymore next month. I was going to get Counter Measures series 4 but that will now have to wait unless I do crypt time.
Big Finish own my soul.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Nov 17, 2017 23:04:20 GMT
Nice! I shall be having the stage plays and that sale is on long enough to get destiny of the doctors too. Rather have CDs, but you can't sniff at 99p
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Nov 18, 2017 0:52:41 GMT
The stage plays are worth a punt.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2017 16:15:44 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by legios on Dec 3, 2017 18:49:19 GMT
It is a rather good one isn't it. And quite correct. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without it!
Karl
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Dec 7, 2017 12:04:11 GMT
|
|
