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Post by number13 on May 13, 2019 11:53:56 GMT
Technophobia
I've had these for ages and this is my first listen! (No, its, not self-restraint, it's a BF backlog and trying to at least keep up-to-date with current releases.) Then I thought I'd save the set until just before Vol 3 - so finally it's allons-y time!
Rather surprised at some of the comments above - if this is the weakest story in the set I'm in for a treat. I enjoyed it so much, a fast-paced contemporary Earth adventure with evil (and very cunning) aliens to defeat and a great twist which with hindsight is right there in the title. (The tech works, we don't.) I do agree that Donna sounds a bit more upmarket to start with than on TV, but she's still the same Donna (shut door? bulldozer!) and her friendship with Ten comes through perfectly.
I liked the sometimes frenetic action, found the Kognossenti voices perfectly understandable and really appreciated them being classic-style all-round evil aliens who want to drain our minds and steal our planet, the rotters! And a proper Who ending for them too - boom!
Great start to the set from Matt Fitton.
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Post by number13 on May 14, 2019 21:49:29 GMT
Odd technical question if someone could help confirm this please: How long is 'Death and the Queen' including the Big Finish ident at the start and the end cast & credits reading. (So I know we are both measuring exactly the same content.)
I have 46m:55s but I wonder if there might be a bit missing...
Thanks in advance
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Post by barnabaslives on May 14, 2019 22:44:18 GMT
Odd technical question if someone could help confirm this please: How long is 'Death and the Queen' including the Big Finish ident at the start and the end cast & credits reading. (So I know we are both measuring exactly the same content.)
I have 46m:55s but I wonder if there might be a bit missing... I don't have the BF ID or the credits reading with mine, just the story and 4:49 of soundtrack music, but I get 55:53 from the start of the story to the end of the story.
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Post by number13 on May 14, 2019 23:46:37 GMT
Odd technical question if someone could help confirm this please: How long is 'Death and the Queen' including the Big Finish ident at the start and the end cast & credits reading. (So I know we are both measuring exactly the same content.)
I have 46m:55s but I wonder if there might be a bit missing... I don't have the BF ID or the credits reading with mine, just the story and 4:49 of soundtrack music, but I get 55:53 from the start of the story to the end of the story. TEN MINUTES! That's even worse than I thought! ('a bit missing' ) Thanks very much for the help, now I can find out why...
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Post by number13 on May 18, 2019 22:55:45 GMT
I don't have the BF ID or the credits reading with mine, just the story and 4:49 of soundtrack music, but I get 55:53 from the start of the story to the end of the story. TEN MINUTES! That's even worse than I thought! ('a bit missing' ) Thanks very much for the help, now I can find out why... I discovered the problem - I got the 10DAs Vol 1 as a special offer on Audible (yes I know, but as a £2.99 daily deal for the set I was tempted and gave in) and DATQ Track 8 is missing from the Audible DL. Tracks 7+9 are merged into one long track with 10m46s lost from the story!
So I took advantage of the BF bookclub offer and got the proper DL for DATQ, now I'm good to go again. Lesson learned.
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Post by mark687 on May 18, 2019 23:30:56 GMT
TEN MINUTES! That's even worse than I thought! ('a bit missing' ) Thanks very much for the help, now I can find out why... I discovered the problem - I got the 10DAs Vol 1 as a special offer on Audible (yes I know, but as a £2.99 daily deal for the set I was tempted and gave in) and DATQ Track 8 is missing from the Audible DL. Tracks 7+9 are merged into one long track with 10m46s lost from the story!
So I took advantage of the BF bookclub offer and got the proper DL for DATQ, now I'm good to go again. Lesson learned. That's what you get from not buying the Goods from the Source!
Regards
mark687
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Post by number13 on May 19, 2019 1:53:14 GMT
I discovered the problem - I got the 10DAs Vol 1 as a special offer on Audible (yes I know, but as a £2.99 daily deal for the set I was tempted and gave in) and DATQ Track 8 is missing from the Audible DL. Tracks 7+9 are merged into one long track with 10m46s lost from the story!
So I took advantage of the BF bookclub offer and got the proper DL for DATQ, now I'm good to go again. Lesson learned. That's what you get from not buying the Goods from the Source!
Regards
mark687
First time and last time! Audible are great for book readings and their own dramatisations too, but normally I always buy BF from BF, Bafflegab from Bafflegab, etc. DRM-free DLs from the source and as you know I generally like to have the CDs as well!
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Post by number13 on May 20, 2019 0:41:39 GMT
Time Reaver
From the squid-faced villain laying claim to all who are 'lost', to the excellent music, to Donna finding that "wench" is the only fashion style available there's a strong 'Pirates of the Caribbean' vibe about this one and I expected a new-Who 'romp' of piratical pillaging on the spaceways - and I got it, cutlasses and all.
But like the other famous BF tale of pirates, this great story does so much more than the comedy and surprised me with the tragic story of Cora and her father. The two strands flow together perfectly in Jenny T Colgan's brilliant script and the horrible prolonging weapon of the title which reaves (or robs) Time is one of the best imagined in any Doctor Who imo, its power finally absorbed by the Doctor as he faces the prospect of 'eternity - but not yet'. What a twist ending.
Outstanding performances from all and David Tennant and Catherine Tate spanning the comedy and tragedy are just amazing. And Donna shows again that regardless of the local dress code, she is nobody's "wench". Gripping stuff - and the fun is fun too.
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Post by number13 on May 22, 2019 1:35:52 GMT
Death and the Queen That was brilliant, best of the set imo and I enjoyed the others very much too. But for the mix of mystery, comedy and even moments of emotion this would be hard to beat and it has the vibe of the era so much that I could hardly imagine it as anything except a Ten and Donna story; they own it from start to finish. Great guest cast, great script packed with quotable one-liners superbly delivered and suitably epic sound design. A lovely mix of the funny, the ominous and the absurd (in one month Donna taught the maids to read, ride and throw javelins ) and how could I not love a story which references such classics as Faust, Brigadoon, Death and the Maiden and the works of Ms. Collins and has lines like "Lucky pants!" ? And such a polite ballroom dancing Grim Reaper: "Good evening. I am Death." I was surprised that Hortense's ruling title wasn't Prime Minister or President but Generalissimo - like Franco!! But I'm sure she turned out to be a benign dictator! And presumably after their run-in with Napoleon's army and finding out that the world really was full of war and disasters as they'd always been told, the new Republic of Goritania retreated behind their perception filter - which is why we haven't heard of them, obviously. (I wonder what Hortense did with Rudolph and the Borg Queen? )
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Post by project37 on May 22, 2019 8:33:05 GMT
Death and the Queen That was brilliant, best of the set imo and I enjoyed the others very much too. But for the mix of mystery, comedy and even moments of emotion this would be hard to beat and it has the vibe of the era so much that I could hardly imagine it as anything except a Ten and Donna story; they own it from start to finish. Great guest cast, great script packed with quotable one-liners superbly delivered and suitably epic sound design. A lovely mix of the funny, the ominous and the absurd (in one month Donna taught the maids to read, ride and throw javelins ) and how could I not love a story which references such classics as Faust, Brigadoon, Death and the Maiden and the works of Ms. Collins and has lines like "Lucky pants!" ? And such a polite ballroom dancing Grim Reaper: "Good evening. I am Death." I was surprised that Hortense's ruling title wasn't Prime Minister or President but Generalissimo - like Franco!! But I'm sure she turned out to be a benign dictator! And presumably after their run-in with Napoleon's army and finding out that the world really was full of war and disasters as they'd always been told, the new Republic of Goritania retreated behind their perception filter - which is why we haven't heard of them, obviously. (I wonder what Hortense did with Rudolph and the Borg Queen? ) Death and the Queen is easily my favorite of the Tenth Doctor releases (including the latest batch of stories). The others have been solid for the most part, but this one is on a level of its own and is just a joy from start to finish.
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