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Class
Apr 17, 2019 7:44:29 GMT
Post by Benn on Apr 17, 2019 7:44:29 GMT
Now, he needs to get them all signed by the cast.
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Apr 17, 2019 7:59:12 GMT
Post by Pinwig on Apr 17, 2019 7:59:12 GMT
No, no he doesn't.
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Apr 17, 2019 8:07:27 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 17, 2019 8:07:27 GMT
No, too right, that would deface his mint condition collectors copies.
He needs second copies to be signed. If only someone could provide them and knew of a con where Class cast members would be attending .....
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Class
Apr 17, 2019 8:53:15 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2019 8:53:15 GMT
If only...
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Apr 17, 2019 17:56:43 GMT
Marx said that Class was self-perpetuating! |
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Apr 18, 2019 20:50:22 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2019 20:50:22 GMT
Actually, I could do some more audios this week. We're waiting. -Ralph |
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Apr 18, 2019 20:53:15 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2019 20:53:15 GMT
I'm still waiting to hear who's bought the books.
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Apr 18, 2019 20:59:32 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2019 20:59:32 GMT
Someone True Friended...Andu!
-Ralph
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Apr 18, 2019 21:00:11 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 18, 2019 21:00:11 GMT
Indeed they did.
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Apr 18, 2019 21:02:47 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2019 21:02:47 GMT
Nasty.
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Apr 18, 2019 21:22:56 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 18, 2019 21:22:56 GMT
It happens.
You can't be in the True Friending game and not take a knock or two every now and then.
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Apr 18, 2019 21:42:39 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2019 21:42:39 GMT
Unless you're Ralph.
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Apr 18, 2019 21:55:16 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 18, 2019 21:55:16 GMT
Actually Ralph is the one who generally has had it the worst in the True Friending stakes.
You can't beat Moomin dvds being hidden in his flat and revealed by audio recording months later...
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Apr 18, 2019 22:01:23 GMT
Post by blueshift on Apr 18, 2019 22:01:23 GMT
Moomins is awesome though!
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Apr 18, 2019 22:10:12 GMT
Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2019 22:10:12 GMT
Actually Ralph is the one who generally has had it the worst in the True Friending stakes. Justified no doubt. Oh that is devious! |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 18, 2019 22:20:01 GMT
Not my doing, but I was there to see the reveal...
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Apr 19, 2019 8:39:46 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 19, 2019 8:39:46 GMT
I believe Jii also hid several Dreamwave Micromasters comics in Ralph's flat and they were undiscovered for about a year.
The long game pays dividends chums...
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Apr 19, 2019 10:34:10 GMT
Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 19, 2019 10:34:10 GMT
One day, one day, Operation Triumph & Tragedy will reach it's fulfilment.
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Apr 28, 2019 13:56:21 GMT
Post by Pinwig on Apr 28, 2019 13:56:21 GMT
Listened to Class 2.1 - Everybody Loves Reagan
This show's version of the 'person who everyone thinks is great and has always been there except one who realises they haven't and they're up to no good' storyline. Which pretty much sums it up. No twists, no adaptation, just a straight Half-a-heart girl story where everyone thinks Reagan is great except her, and over the course of quite a slow hour manages to make enough people come round to see the truth. The truth being that Reagan is actually an alien from a planet called Manchester who gets her kicks by absorbing other people's woes. Resolution? Reagan is sent to Switzerland. Another tale in which the plot isn't actually resolved, the problem is just sent somewhere else.
This would have worked better over 30 minutes. It's a good radio idea, it's all talking with no visuals and it allows for a bit of introspection on half-a-heart's part, which deepens her character a bit, but the plot is blindingly obvious and there's nothing to take it away from that overused trope. I really wish the girl hadn't been an alien and half-a-heart was being paranoid, at least that would have been different. There is probably a story identical to this in the pages of Misty that reads brilliantly for its time*, but for 2018 it's a bit staid and unimaginative.
*actually, Survival Geeks did this idea in tooth a year or two back didn't it. At least that one was funny.
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Apr 28, 2019 14:55:27 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2019 14:55:27 GMT
Update the counter!
-Ralph
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Apr 28, 2019 17:07:59 GMT
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Post by Benn on Apr 28, 2019 17:07:59 GMT
Still time to get to that convention, Pinners....
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Apr 28, 2019 17:37:29 GMT
Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 28, 2019 17:37:29 GMT
Indeed there is...
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May 5, 2019 13:28:14 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 5, 2019 13:28:14 GMT
Listened to Class 2.2 - Now You Know...
This one wasn't too bad. Big Finish Class definitely has a fixed format - two/three cast members encounter a problem and find a solution to it. No twists, single plot thread, lots of talking, obvious conclusion. The problem with this is contriving a reason why the rest of the team aren't involved, which is made doubly hard in a story like this that revolves around the two most fringe characters - science girl and Polish hunk. They aren't a natural fit, and the fact they take on the challenge of solving the mystery of the ghostly character making revenge attacks on bullies without talking to any of the others is so unlikely that it's deliberately addressed in the plot with a really weak explanation - "Why don't we get the others?" / "I think we can solve this one by ourselves."
It's a story about bullies being given a taste of their own medicine by a rift-powered remnant of a boy who suffered at the hands of them in the past, who then, shock, realises that he himself has become a bully by picking on the pickers. This means of course everyone gets to live happily ever after and learn that bullying is a Bad Thing. The subject matter is relevant and right for the target audience and the dialogue is interesting and not as forced as some of the other stories. The sex references are kept PG for once because Science Girl is 14, which does this a favour because it stops the dialogue being OTT in a bid to prove it's 'cool' - something that blighted a few of the other stories. As a Class story it's fine, bar the obvious omission of most of the cast, but as a piece of radio drama it's fairly bland and predictable.
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May 5, 2019 13:52:20 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 5, 2019 13:52:20 GMT
Only one audio and one novel to go!
-Ralph
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May 5, 2019 14:01:07 GMT
Post by Bogatan on May 5, 2019 14:01:07 GMT
....Or is there?....
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May 5, 2019 14:09:43 GMT
Post by Pinwig on May 5, 2019 14:09:43 GMT
I would hope so at this point. I can't see a sudden Class resurgence! |
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May 5, 2019 20:46:35 GMT
Post by The Doctor on May 5, 2019 20:46:35 GMT
Update the counter!
-Ralph
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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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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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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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