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Post by number13 on Mar 28, 2024 9:19:23 GMT
6DAs: The Quin Dilemma (one episode per day)
5: The Thousand Year Thaw. Unexpectedly thoughtful and philosophical to start with - then the Doctor's normal life stampedes over them, again, and chaos reigns! Five episodes in, all sorts of questions and at least one seeming paradox and I haven't the faintest idea how the final episode is going to resolve all this! Did I mention how much I'm enjoying this story?
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Post by bonehead on Mar 28, 2024 14:25:33 GMT
8DAs - In The Bleak Midwinter: Twenty-Four Doors.
I can listen to a story called In The Bleak Midwinter at the end of March, can't I? Especially when it features the always excellent Paul McGann, and he's assisted by India Fisher and Jaye Griffiths in a story written by John Dorney? Doesn't matter that's out of season does it? The Eighth Doctor stories - great all the year round!
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Post by number13 on Mar 28, 2024 16:02:27 GMT
8DAs - In The Bleak Midwinter: Twenty-Four Doors.
I can listen to a story called In The Bleak Midwinter at the end of March, can't I? Especially when it features the always excellent Paul McGann, and he's assisted by India Fisher and Jaye Griffiths in a story written by John Dorney? Doesn't matter that's out of season does it? The Eighth Doctor stories - great all the year round!
Considering that it's freezing cold, blowing a near gale and hail was pelting down on me very recently, it seems a most appropriate story for the season... Spring? Equinox? Summer Time? Bah, humbug!
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Post by bonehead on Mar 28, 2024 16:44:26 GMT
8DAs - In The Bleak Midwinter: Twenty-Four Doors.
I can listen to a story called In The Bleak Midwinter at the end of March, can't I? Especially when it features the always excellent Paul McGann, and he's assisted by India Fisher and Jaye Griffiths in a story written by John Dorney? Doesn't matter that's out of season does it? The Eighth Doctor stories - great all the year round!
Considering that it's freezing cold, blowing a near gale and hail was pelting down on me very recently, it seems a most appropriate story for the season... Spring? Equinox? Summer Time? Bah, humbug! Agreed. Pass us a slice of that plum pudding, could you? 😁
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Post by tuigirl on Mar 28, 2024 18:18:02 GMT
Started on the latest audiobook of the amazing German Meerkat murder mysteries. Yeah, these are crime stories featuring Meerkat detectives, who operate from Berlin zoo. It even has the silverback gorilla as a Mafia godfather. The series is amazing and very popular, mainly because the actor who reads the audiobooks does a different voice for each of the fantastic characters. It is pretty much "full cast". I love the series. And I finally felt like listening to it, after I did not feel much like anything in the past months. So there is a tiny silver lining between all the dark clouds in my head.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Mar 28, 2024 21:13:33 GMT
the children of the future
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Post by number13 on Mar 28, 2024 21:17:52 GMT
Considering that it's freezing cold, blowing a near gale and hail was pelting down on me very recently, it seems a most appropriate story for the season... Spring? Equinox? Summer Time? Bah, humbug! Agreed. Pass us a slice of that plum pudding, could you? 😁 Easter just wouldn't be Easter without... no I'm sure I've got that wrong somehow.
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Post by number13 on Mar 29, 2024 8:48:30 GMT
6DAs: The Quin Dilemma (one episode per day)
6: Firstborn. End of a terrific set, I 'got it' within about the first minute but the question of who will inherit the throne was secondary to the sheer fun of lots of Sixies and friends doing things with Time that a well-behaved Time Lord probably shouldn't! No matter how many of him there happen to be in the same instant! Great set, the tone was just right for a celebratory story and much fun was had by me.
Happy 40th to my favourite audio Doctor!
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Post by sherlock on Mar 31, 2024 12:57:47 GMT
Chase the Night
Another good recreation of what works about Season 18, just with more refined character dynamics making this TARDIS crew sing. A story really contrasting ways of survival; hard individualism versus an extreme form of collectivism. The only beat I missed was how they got back to the TARDIS at the end.
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Post by sherlock on Apr 1, 2024 9:40:17 GMT
A Full Life
A sidestep in my runthrough of Season 18 which gives Matthew Waterhouse some meaty material.
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Post by sherlock on Apr 1, 2024 22:28:43 GMT
The Planet of Witches
There’s not much I can say that I haven’t before for this series of 4DAs. It’s just such a good mix of Season 18-style concepts and a refined take on this TARDIS. It just fits so well and makes enjoyable listening.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Apr 2, 2024 19:12:42 GMT
relistening to the Hunting Ground
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Post by dangfish on Apr 3, 2024 18:54:49 GMT
Diary of River Song volume 2- The Unknown...I had fun listening to this. The time-wimey stuff was well-described. Usually I get a little more confused during these time distortion stories but I was able to keep up with this one for the most part. Sylvester McCoy was great here. Love the bit where River asks him to 'elaborate' on his past experiences & the bit between the two with the sonic screwdriver. I've only heard a few of his stories so far but I've been pretty entertained by Guy Adams work thus far. My only complaint would be about the voices. I didn't feel they were as distinct as they could've been. There were several times throughout where I had difficulty working out whether it was River or the captain speaking.
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Post by Ela on Apr 4, 2024 5:12:44 GMT
Subscriber's Short Trip "Neptune". It was an okay story, nothing to write home about.
Also listened to "The Coming of the Martians" by Sherwood Sound Studios, which was a very well done adaptation of HG Wells' War of Worlds.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Apr 4, 2024 20:01:31 GMT
CDNM - Invasion of the Body Stealers
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Post by number13 on Apr 5, 2024 7:54:54 GMT
8DAs Sisters of the Flame
My Eighth Doctor listening is all over the place; I've heard all of Charley (in order, amazingly, especially amazingly given what Time has to put up with from Charley) several sets of Helen+Liv and the recent Audacities but Lucie is - well, scattered. Or indeed, well scattered! So, I thought it was high time I at least dropped in on Lucie's seasons again for the Morbius stories, before the new Morbius story.
Enjoyed this Lucie-focused 'part 1' of the story pair and Straxus is back! One question I may find answered in 'part 2': {Spoiler} How have the Sisterhood managed to leave Karn? I thought their existence was tied to the Elixir and thus the Flame, and that is definitely part of Karn's geology. Did someone 'synthesise that stuff by the gallon' after all? Perhaps I will find out tonight.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Apr 5, 2024 21:20:14 GMT
Star Cops - I was killed Yesterday
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Post by number13 on Apr 6, 2024 7:26:58 GMT
8DAs The Vengeance of Morbius
The Doctor is back and so is you-know-who! Suitably dramatic ending to the series and (no spoilers) that was a surprise. (I really should have listened to all these Lucie stories in order, naughty number13, they're very good and deserve proper listening as they were written. I will try, back to the start of S2 and then on!)
Still didn't get the answer to the question I posed after 'Sisters of the Flame' though. {Spoiler} Where do they get their essential tipple now they're not on Karn? Or did someone decide to forget about that rather key point for story reasons? I'll have to assume they have a space-tanker of the Elixir parked in a lay-by somewhere.
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Post by sherlock on Apr 6, 2024 12:52:05 GMT
The Quest of the Engineer
This one didn’t land with me quite as well as rest of the E-Space audios. The guest characters were fun and concepts decent, but so much of the runtime being the Doctor and co fleeing robots just dragged a bit.
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Post by bonehead on Apr 6, 2024 16:27:40 GMT
Dark Gallifrey - Morbius 1.
An early revisit for this. It's absolutely my cup of tea. Profoundly weird, and weirdly profound. Great use made of Gallifreyan history and engineering, and mercurial Sisterhood mumblings. This is a great story, a great audio and really whets the appetite for what's to come. A lovely, immersive production.
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