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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 8:18:03 GMT
Smashed?no violence to discs please š Aussie slang, hit it hard intently. Lil boy asleep for the night - Headphones in-lights out- volume loud Bliss
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 9:00:11 GMT
Just the bathroom to clean now
Gallifrey- 6.3-Ascension-Justin Richards
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 15:41:47 GMT
Survivors 7 for me, resuming my morbid marathon. There are some mild spoilers for anyone who hasn't heard it.
{Spoiler} After working my way through the previous arc-informed sets, Iād forgotten how terrific these single-story box-sets are. Ironically beginning with a tale called āJourneyās Endā, this is Caroline Seymourās story really, but she gets terrific support from her co stars, especially Katherine Morley as Sonia and Brian Protheroe, who lends his excellent vocals to the ultimate tragic Abraham. Abrahamās condition is a āconvenientā plot device, but skilfully realised. Writer Roland Moore always produces the goods. Simon Clarkās āLegacyā is a cleverly told piece, with some successful twists and red-herrings throughout. Graham Seedās Ian Carmichael-like Barstow is a good character. Jennyās graduation into becoming āwell hardā takes a few steps forward here. āOld Friendsā by Matt Fitton takes full advantage of these single-story sets taking place in different time lines as a way of delivering some powerful revelations. And yet, when Jackie says āIām not mad,ā you fear you know how this story will go ā but it is difficult to guess the extent of Jackieās situation. A tour-de-force, this might be the highlight of Series 7 for me. Blistering, disturbing stuff, and a signpost for what is to come. Thatās the good thing about re-listening to these stories ā you spot all the seeds being sown for future plotlines ā and the final story āReconnectionā sets the tone for the next sets and their final arc: Jenny and Abbey meet up again after years apart. My revisiting these stories has been informed with some othersā opinion that events became very female-centric, and that the male characters became secondary. A handful of incompetent, racist, sexist men as the antagonists here, compared with Abbey and Jenny observing them with a degree of amusement would certainly fuel these opinions. For me, the antagonism and respect between the two women is my favourite part of the story. A terrific set, with some startlingly good performances.
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 12, 2019 16:27:58 GMT
Jago & Litefoot & Strax The Haunting again. As times I've heard it, I enjoy hearing it at least as much as I ever did.
Strax is such a brilliant character - no matter how much he's used for comic relief, I can still take him perfectly seriously as a Sontaran, but a very likable one.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Oct 12, 2019 17:30:12 GMT
Quote of the week "I do have a conscience, I just don't keep it on me" last week's was from Torchwood One:Retirement plan
other listening last week: Tartarus, the War Valyard, the Vardan invasion of Mirth Bernice Summerfield: Burrowed Time, River Song: Thge talents of Greel and the short trips #HarrySullivan and Batttlescars
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Post by Whovitt on Oct 13, 2019 0:28:06 GMT
Bernice Summerfield: 7.1. The Tartarus Gate
I decided to take a break from the Benny singles range a couple of months back. I listened to the first six series reasonably close together and I was starting to get very tired of the format. I found that the "hour long" episodes frequently overran by 10-20, and every story that did felt like it was 10-20 too long. Additionally, most of the stories seemed to have slightly incomprehensible plots, so they ultimately weren't that enjoyable to listen to.
Having jumped back into the range, I have to say that all my previous criticisms were reinforced. So much seems to be happening in The Tartarus Gate that didn't seem to get an explanation. For example: there was a side character who was Benny. Then somehow wasn't. Then was apparently on some sort of suicide run. And then was somehow dead. I've no idea what he was even trying to achieve, all I know is that he died. I think. I know we certainly never heard from him again.
The worst part about the "overrunning" feel of the episodes is that it's always the resolutions that feel needlessly stretched. Between the villains' plan coming to fruition and the story (finally) ending, there was 10-15 minutes of back and forth over what was happening, who was being taken over, even who was dead. A character is killed at some point during all that, and I know this only because they get resurrected later on. When did they die? I've no idea. How did they die? I've no idea.
It annoys me most because I actually really like the main characters of this series: Benny, Brax, Jason, Adrian - they're all interesting characters. It just kinda sucks that so many of the stories are really hard to get into or understand. I really liked the first series (except Dragon's Wrath), but after that it's become a very mixed bag. I intend to eventually listen to the entire singles range, but I'm really not sure they're something I'm ever going to revisit. Hopefully the box set era is better, otherwise I'll only ever be revisiting the New Adventures range, and there aren't nearly enough stories in the range yet!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 0:49:37 GMT
Bernice Summerfield: 7.1. The Tartarus GateI decided to take a break from the Benny singles range a couple of months back. I listened to the first six series reasonably close together and I was starting to get very tired of the format. I found that the "hour long" episodes frequently overran by 10-20, and every story that did felt like it was 10-20 too long. Additionally, most of the stories seemed to have slightly incomprehensible plots, so they ultimately weren't that enjoyable to listen to. Having jumped back into the range, I have to say that all my previous criticisms were reinforced. So much seems to be happening in The Tartarus Gate that didn't seem to get an explanation. For example: there was a side character who was Benny. Then somehow wasn't. Then was apparently on some sort of suicide run. And then was somehow dead. I've no idea what he was even trying to achieve, all I know is that he died. I think. I know we certainly never heard from him again. The worst part about the "overrunning" feel of the episodes is that it's always the resolutions that feel needlessly stretched. Between the villains' plan coming to fruition and the story (finally) ending, there was 10-15 minutes of back and forth over what was happening, who was being taken over, even who was dead. A character is killed at some point during all that, and I know this only because they get resurrected later on. When did they die? I've no idea. How did they die? I've no idea. It annoys me most because I actually really like the main characters of this series: Benny, Brax, Jason, Adrian - they're all interesting characters. It just kinda sucks that so many of the stories are really hard to get into or understand. I really liked the first series (except Dragon's Wrath), but after that it's become a very mixed bag. I intend to eventually listen to the entire singles range, but I'm really not sure they're something I'm ever going to revisit. Hopefully the box set era is better, otherwise I'll only ever be revisiting the New Adventures range, and there aren't nearly enough stories in the range yet! Yeah, I can remember The Tartarus Gate was a bit vague. Thing is... The story immediately after that, Timeless Passages, has one of the best villains across all of Doctor Who. Almost purely from the performance and sound design. Daniel O'Mahony's stories stick with me for being intensely grounded in its characters, but thoroughly alien in its concepts, so you get this nice dichotomy of real people vs. unreasonable circumstances. I can offer a few recommendations of some pre-boxset stories that stuck with me, if you'd like?
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Post by Whovitt on Oct 13, 2019 0:55:59 GMT
Bernice Summerfield: 7.1. The Tartarus GateI decided to take a break from the Benny singles range a couple of months back. I listened to the first six series reasonably close together and I was starting to get very tired of the format. I found that the "hour long" episodes frequently overran by 10-20, and every story that did felt like it was 10-20 too long. Additionally, most of the stories seemed to have slightly incomprehensible plots, so they ultimately weren't that enjoyable to listen to. Having jumped back into the range, I have to say that all my previous criticisms were reinforced. So much seems to be happening in The Tartarus Gate that didn't seem to get an explanation. For example: there was a side character who was Benny. Then somehow wasn't. Then was apparently on some sort of suicide run. And then was somehow dead. I've no idea what he was even trying to achieve, all I know is that he died. I think. I know we certainly never heard from him again. The worst part about the "overrunning" feel of the episodes is that it's always the resolutions that feel needlessly stretched. Between the villains' plan coming to fruition and the story (finally) ending, there was 10-15 minutes of back and forth over what was happening, who was being taken over, even who was dead. A character is killed at some point during all that, and I know this only because they get resurrected later on. When did they die? I've no idea. How did they die? I've no idea. It annoys me most because I actually really like the main characters of this series: Benny, Brax, Jason, Adrian - they're all interesting characters. It just kinda sucks that so many of the stories are really hard to get into or understand. I really liked the first series (except Dragon's Wrath), but after that it's become a very mixed bag. I intend to eventually listen to the entire singles range, but I'm really not sure they're something I'm ever going to revisit. Hopefully the box set era is better, otherwise I'll only ever be revisiting the New Adventures range, and there aren't nearly enough stories in the range yet! Yeah, I can remember The Tartarus Gate was a bit vague. Thing is... The story immediately after that, Timeless Passages, has one of the best villains across all of Doctor Who. Almost purely from the performance and sound design. Daniel O'Mahony's stories stick with me for being intensely grounded in its characters, but thoroughly alien in its concepts, so you get this nice dichotomy of real people vs. unreasonable circumstances. I can offer a few recommendations of some pre-boxset stories that stuck with me, if you'd like? I suppose The Tartarus Gate might just have been a bad reintroduction story, but like I say I've been struggling with the range as a whole. I will be listening to every story too, so you can offer recommendations if you like but I'm probably not going to skip ahead or anything like that. It might make getting through the more difficult ones easier if I know there's something good coming up though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 1:15:00 GMT
Yeah, I can remember The Tartarus Gate was a bit vague. Thing is... The story immediately after that, Timeless Passages, has one of the best villains across all of Doctor Who. Almost purely from the performance and sound design. Daniel O'Mahony's stories stick with me for being intensely grounded in its characters, but thoroughly alien in its concepts, so you get this nice dichotomy of real people vs. unreasonable circumstances. I can offer a few recommendations of some pre-boxset stories that stuck with me, if you'd like? I suppose The Tartarus Gate might just have been a bad reintroduction story, but like I say I've been struggling with the range as a whole. I will be listening to every story too, so you can offer recommendations if you like but I'm probably not going to skip ahead or anything like that. It might make getting through the more difficult ones easier if I know there's something good coming up though. Sounds like a good way to approach it. I'll largely steer clear of spoilers and just list some of the names: The closer you get to the end of the range, the harder it commits to the ongoing arcs and the better the stories often tend to be.
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 13, 2019 11:31:57 GMT
Sontaran Saturday continued with re-listens to The First Sontarans, The King of Sontar, and Heroes of Sontar.
Appropriate enough, I think, because unless I saw Ark in Space and still can't remember it, The Sontaran Experiment was the first episode of Doctor Who that I ever watched one fateful Saturday. I saw it a few years ago and instantly recognized all of it.
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Post by number13 on Oct 13, 2019 11:33:39 GMT
Ravenous 4
Whisper: alien world 'ghost story', did I mention I love ghost stories? Planet of Dust: now we're really moving... great story. (We need more stories with Geoffrey Beevers, what an actor, what a Master!)
(And today is... The Day of the Master...)
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Post by ljwilson on Oct 13, 2019 14:37:57 GMT
Taking a dash of inspiration from our colleague number13, today I shall be revisiting...ISH.
Followed by Energy of the Daleks.
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Post by glutamodo on Oct 13, 2019 23:56:32 GMT
Yes, the original drama was not a series, more like one big story, and the chapters were not broke down into segments that would fit radio broadcast slots.
Talking about this made me pull it up on Amazon, and found that original saga to be about 18 dollars, but for whatever reason, I know I paid a lot less for it for my download of it... looking up my records, I only paid $3.15 including tax, for over nine hours of audio drama. I guess I got a good deal then. I still think 18 bucks is worth it too.
It took a bit of juggling between Uk and American Amazon and then Audio Cd showed instead of MP3 cd. Am Listening to TICONDEROGA now loving it got that audio CD for Ā£9.82 Season 1 for Ā£14.00 shipped from states that one though. Season 2-for Ā£4.52( blooming marvellous) The Alamo for Ā£2.71 š¤Ŗ Powder River season 2 and 4 for Ā£9.82 So since Ticonderoga and Powder River series lasts for 9 hours I would say a Ā£1 an hour is wonderful deal. I love all genres and had none like this so am very grateful for your helping hand,I think i had no problem delving into this company as The Martian Chronicles was so magnificently done. Thanks again I've not looked in on DU much lately, been working, so I missed this comment. Glad you got it. I really do like Jerry Robbins - he writes well and his rather deadpan delivery the lines he gives himself to perform are done well.
So, did you start with the original saga before the episodic series?
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Oct 14, 2019 2:13:38 GMT
Dark Eyes S0102 "Fugitives". Revisiting the 8th Dr journey of the boxsets...
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Post by inchmix on Oct 14, 2019 3:11:45 GMT
As there was a 6th dr sale a few weeks back i received 'Quicksilver' and 'Absolute Power' on CD. So listening to these now
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2019 4:39:56 GMT
It took a bit of juggling between Uk and American Amazon and then Audio Cd showed instead of MP3 cd. Am Listening to TICONDEROGA now loving it got that audio CD for Ā£9.82 Season 1 for Ā£14.00 shipped from states that one though. Season 2-for Ā£4.52( blooming marvellous) The Alamo for Ā£2.71 š¤Ŗ Powder River season 2 and 4 for Ā£9.82 So since Ticonderoga and Powder River series lasts for 9 hours I would say a Ā£1 an hour is wonderful deal. I love all genres and had none like this so am very grateful for your helping hand,I think i had no problem delving into this company as The Martian Chronicles was so magnificently done. Thanks again I've not looked in on DU much lately, been working, so I missed this comment. Glad you got it. I really do like Jerry Robbins - he writes well and his rather deadpan delivery the lines he gives himself to perform are done well.
So, did you start with the original saga before the episodic series?
Yes I did the original, was confusing sorting what was a season and what was saga at first. Still awaiting the delivery of Season 1 lol from the States but have Season two here already. Powder River canāt seem to get Season 1 at moment but have managed 2 ,4,6 and had a sneak listen and love them 2.The Alamo one was excellent .Eventually got at a very cheap price My Martian Chronicles Physical copy (MP3) and luckily for me I didnāt know my old CD player could play MP3s.That opens up a whole load of listening possibilities for me hahaha.
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Post by glutamodo on Oct 14, 2019 12:25:44 GMT
Season 1 of Powder River is a good thing, it was what kicked it off and was designed as a story arc of its own. There's a couple of other Powder River standalone stories that slot into around the timeframe of that first series as well, but are not part of that continuity. Hope you can find them on disc... for me, I long ago switched to downloads, just don't have room for the discs... and since I listen on an MP3 player, I might has well have them in that format to begin with. Whenever I get stuff on CD, I just have to rip them to MP3 anyway!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2019 16:31:50 GMT
Season 1 of Powder River is a good thing, it was what kicked it off and was designed as a story arc of its own. There's a couple of other Powder River standalone stories that slot into around the timeframe of that first series as well, but are not part of that continuity. Hope you can find them on disc... for me, I long ago switched to downloads, just don't have room for the discs... and since I listen on an MP3 player, I might has well have them in that format to begin with. Whenever I get stuff on CD, I just have to rip them to MP3 anyway!
I can if i want rip them ,as you do. i see Beacon Hil,that you have it is it any good? Worth buying?Is it an Upstairs Downstairs/DownTon Abbey sort of thing?
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Post by glutamodo on Oct 14, 2019 17:13:54 GMT
Uh, Beacon Hill is kind of like you say. I've listened to some of it, but it's on my back burner, so to speak. It is, frankly, an historical soap opera, and it's OK at doing it, but the fact that I have NOT gone and listened to it all might tell you something. I think Yankee Clipper was more worth listening to, IMHO. Also, depending if you have a sarcastic sense of humour, the Dibble series really scores.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2019 17:20:00 GMT
Uh, Beacon Hill is kind of like you say. I've listened to some of it, but it's on my back burner, so to speak. It is, frankly, an historical soap opera, and it's OK at doing it, but the fact that I have NOT gone and listened to it all might tell you something. I think Yankee Clipper was more worth listening to, IMHO. Also, depending if you have a sarcastic sense of humour, the Dibble series really scores. Been listening to Jarrem Lee snippets on amazon so actually got 3 of them to try out ,they sound good and more enticing to myself as Its Victorian London without Lizard Women and Sontarans lol...the Doctor who Victorian sceneās a little overcrowded will check out Dibble š
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