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Post by Digi on Jun 7, 2017 12:08:39 GMT
Part 3 this morning. The monster couldn't be any more of a silly RTD-era monster if it tried, and I'm not sure whether that's exasperating or if it's simply brilliant. Regardless of which way you land on that though, the Jack/Alonso/Ginny interactions were fabulous. The chemistry between them, whether separately in twos or as a group, was just spot-on. I loved every minute that it was just the two/three of them.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Jun 7, 2017 14:22:06 GMT
I enjoyed this set, but not nearly as much as I did the UNIT releases, Jago and Litefoot or the War Doctor.
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Post by elkawho on Jun 7, 2017 17:39:05 GMT
Part 3 this morning. The monster couldn't be any more of a silly RTD-era monster if it tried, and I'm not sure whether that's exasperating or if it's simply brilliant. Regardless of which way you land on that though, the Jack/Alonso/Ginny interactions were fabulous. The chemistry between them, whether separately in twos or as a group, was just spot-on. I loved every minute that it was just the two/three of them. I'm definitely in the brilliant group. I loved this one. I completely agree with your assessment.
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Post by Zagreus on Jun 8, 2017 1:28:24 GMT
An interesting set. Way better than I was expecting, honestly. Katy's voice is always delicious on the ears, modulated or not. Each story was good, and had a different tone and feel to it, that each separated them out into distinct eras. We basically get episodes that slot in to Series 1, 2, and 4 of Doctor Who, and then somewhere further off. A good buy, and I'd get a second set if they felt the urge to make one, though I don't expect it prior to the end of Torchwood Series 5. PS: They always like to tease us with Vlahos, don't they?
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Post by elkawho on Jun 8, 2017 4:01:08 GMT
After my above post about the first story, I'm happy to say that I really enjoyed the rest of the set. Each and every one of the last 3 stories was great, and I just adore Camille Corduri. I have been pining for a story about Jack and his missing two years in the Time Agency, so I was really happy to hear Month 25. Highly recommended, and I hope they decide to give us another one of these sets.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jun 8, 2017 8:46:51 GMT
After my above post about the first story, I'm happy to say that I really enjoyed the rest of the set. Each and every one of the last 3 stories was great, and I just adore Camille Corduri. I have been pining for a story about Jack and his missing two years in the Time Agency, so I was really happy to hear Month 25. Highly recommended, and I hope they decide to give us another one of these sets. If they do another, it could be fun if they had Noel Clarke as Mickey in one of the stories.
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Post by Digi on Jun 8, 2017 12:12:06 GMT
Finished it off this morning. Part 4 was right up my alley--I love when I get to see/hear a story that provides some crucial backstory.
No idea whether it was a conscious choice of Guy Adams, but the Time Agency and its supervisor (whose name ever escapes me at the moment), before the reveals of later on in the story, really reminded me of Yvonne's Torchwood One in 'Before the Fall.' Big, bureaucratic, good people on the ground plagued by stick-in-the-mud leadership, etc. It wasn't what I was expecting of the TA, but once I'd been hearing it for a few minutes, I couldn't imagine it being any other way.
Barrowman is, as always, fun. Two Barrowmans might've been a bit much, but that concern is nicely allayed by a solid (and very welcome) appearance by the always-great Alex Vlahos.
If I have to make any complaint, it's only that I thought the villain council was a bit underserved. There was a great opportunity there to have them be really compelling, and I was half-expecting it to end up being the Committee, but ultimately it just ended up being a couple of voice-modulated no-names.
But if I'm being honest, that's a pretty minor complaint. I liked the final episode here quite a bit, and am glad that after being a bit cool to part 1, the other three ended up being very much to my liking.
I do hope this doesn't end up being a one-off set, and that it ultimately becomes a range unto itself. The format lends itself to so many possibilities spanning the ridiculously long and convoluted lifespan of our favourite '51st-century kind of guy.' Investigate the attack on the Boeshane Peninsula, let's have a Time Agent deep cover spy story, invite James Marsters for a story or two, tell us some stories about 18th-century Jack before Torchwood is founded...the possibilities are practically endless!
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Post by Zagreus on Jun 8, 2017 14:09:27 GMT
If I have to make any complaint, it's only that I thought the villain council was a bit underserved. There was a great opportunity there to have them be really compelling, and I was half-expecting it to end up being the Committee, but ultimately it just ended up being a couple of voice-modulated no-names. The Committee, finding flung into their lap a young Jack, prior in his life to everything he's done to them, from his perspective. What better revenge than to use him to help you set up your mastery over all of time and space? Yeah, that would have been neat. And then at the end, after all the retcon, young Javic is just left with a sense of unease, two missing years, and whispers about a "Committee" in the back of his mind... someone to look out for in future, obviously
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 15:08:51 GMT
I'm on Episode 3 this is away too much fun. Loved having Jackie back, I'd happily listen to Camille's own box set!
Also it's nice that they're 4 individual episodes rather than being an arc, I find that quite refreshing from the norm though I do love an arc!
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Post by melkur on Jun 8, 2017 23:23:24 GMT
Well, that was better than I was expecting!
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Post by pawntake on Jun 9, 2017 7:02:57 GMT
Its difficult to add anything that has not already been said.So I think we are all agreed this was a terrific Boxset!!! Brilliant performances from a stellar cast,4 above average stories(IMO) each with their own unigue atmostsphere written by 2 great writers.More please Big Finish!!!
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Post by IndieMacUser on Jun 12, 2017 9:44:20 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jun 12, 2017 12:51:46 GMT
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Jun 13, 2017 6:16:58 GMT
Right. I've lots of housework today so... I'm going to give this another go.
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Post by chapwithwings on Jun 13, 2017 18:46:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 19:24:42 GMT
Having heard the first two discs....I'm kinda thinking I wish I was listening to "The Estate Of Jackie Tyler" as she blows Barrowman away in her performance and it's really her story, not Jacks. Really enjoyed it - not many Who stories end with Knees Up Mother Brown!
LOVE the theme tune for the range, and there's some gorgeous incidental music.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jun 15, 2017 16:44:39 GMT
But no Interviews? Blah! DL for that please.
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Post by nottenst on Jun 16, 2017 13:53:28 GMT
Finished Hour 25 this morning. A great set. And while there was no full arc for the set, there was a mini one with Wednesdays for Beginners and Hour 25 tying together nicely. Definitely nice that I listened to Wednesdays first.
Now, just when did the stories fit in?
The Year After I Died - self-explanatory for the most part. During 200,101, the year after he died/was brought back in The Parting of the Ways. He apparently doesn't know he can't die yet.
Wednesdays for Beginners - sometime in the first (?) series of New Who. Jack is working with Torchwood Three at the time.
One Enchanted Evening - After Children of Earth, after Jack meets Alonso in The End of Time, the meeting being set up by the Doctor.
Month 25 - while being a time agent in the 51st Century. It seems both Jacks are from this period in his life? I don't think the second Jack is a much older immortal version. It doesn't seem that he has started becoming a con man in time. He has just been enjoying himself while unknowingly losing 2 years of his life being a time manipulator/assassin.
Does this sound right?
Did we know his original name was Javic Piotr Thane? Was that mentioned in the second series of Torchwood?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 14:28:40 GMT
Liked the box set a lot but LOVED Month 23. I can still remember watching the first series of new Who air and thinking 'ooh can't wait to find out what Jack's reference to the Time Agency stealing 2 years of life is about' - I now have closure!
They had such great chemistry together that I now want an entire box set of Barrowman and Vlahos touring the universe as The Two Jacks :-)
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Post by kimalysong on Jun 16, 2017 22:16:37 GMT
Enjoyable boxset. I definitely enjoyed that there wasn't one overarching plot and instead we had different stories from throughout Jack's long life. The guest cast was also sublime in this. Special mentions to Katy Manning and Sarah Douglas being wonderful villains and of course I always love hearing Alexander Vlahos (I liked how he was playing another immortal here. That was very fitting ) I didn't even recognize Katy Manning as Mother Nothing. I think Wednesday for Beginners was my favorite. Camille Coduri is fantastic as Jackie. Personally I think at this point I want a Jackie Tyler spin off. I also really loved Russell Tovey as Alonso. Alonso and Jackie are two characters that speak to me because they don't see their own worth. I think they are the type of heroes in stories I particularly like. The message that everyone can be special or a hero is an important one I think.
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