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Post by mark687 on Apr 9, 2017 18:55:44 GMT
Sorry Nick just sounds generic attempted Northern to me and I've never liked Bruno Langley so unless it gets stellar reviews its still a pass.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 19:04:36 GMT
Really?! There's a lot I like about the Ninth Doctor and his era... but Bruno Langley is not one of them! I just didn't take to Adam at all. It will be interesting to see what people think of the character once these stories are released. Bruno Langley is great on Corrie. You know what's up
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 20:35:18 GMT
Sorry Nick just sounds generic attempted Northern to me and I've never liked Bruno Langley so unless it gets stellar reviews its still a pass. Regards mark687 That's my main concern. A number of people have said they liked his ninth on Night of the Whisper, but I didn't. It was about as good as Dick van Dyke's cockney impression. I'm hoping they do a big extract, 20 mins or so, so that I can get a better idea of the balance between narration, full cast and impression. If it's anything like Churchill Years, I'm buying. If it's more like Whisper then probably not.
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Post by aztec on Apr 9, 2017 20:48:09 GMT
just heard he trailer on the podcast, Briggs' Eccleston is uncanny. Stephen Beckett's Eccleston was more uncanny in The Kingmaker and he wasn't even attempting to do an impression... - Not at all suggesting they should recast the 9th Doctor, I just feel a tad uneasy that Briggs is doing all the voices for these releases, don't get me wrong I love the guy and his work at BF, but why not simply have the returning actors do the voices rather than this halfway recasting by stealth solution...obviously Nick Briggs has the connection with the show because of all his voice work, and it presumably saves BF some of the actor fees but it just feels kinda rushed/random decision? The CC's are one of the best ranges BF does and I really enjoy how they get inside the Doctor's psyche and stories from the companions point of view, working around the Doctors abscence with some of the old cast returning would have been fine...replacing the character with a narrator only serves to point out the abscence to me...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2017 22:09:35 GMT
Uncanny is not quite how I'd describe Nick's Ninth Doctor. Sounds like he couldn't find Salford on a map to me. Though Nick usually sound like Nick doing a voice rather than an actor inhibiting a part to me - except for when playing monsters. He's got a really strong range in Daleks, Cybermen and others. To be honest though, I'm not sure if he wasn't running the show at BF whether anyone else would really have cast him for this gig standing in for Eccleston. Hey, as long as the stories are good, it'll be fine I'm sure. I'm open minded but would be lying if I said I was hyped for it.
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Post by Zagreus on Apr 9, 2017 22:38:08 GMT
I mean, he's got a good vocal range, and has worked with much of the New Series cast, through various parts on the show or through prior audio work, and has done audiobooks of all the New Series Doctors bar Capaldi, so already has some practice there. I wouldn't be surprised if he's viewed as a pair of "safe hands" to start out this experiment with. I fully expect them to start changing things up and experimenting with the format a bit once we get beyond the first batch of releases, same as they did with the Companion Chronicles. That, and they're still feeling out who's actually interested in reprising roles for audio and such. It'll be interesting to see who they get for the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor sets.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 0:03:37 GMT
To be fair the Ninth Doctor doesn't have a great number of companions. John Barrowman is already doing Torchwood and The Lives of Captain Jack for Big Finish alongside his US dramas. He probably wouldn't have the time for this as well. Noel Clarke is a very successful indie film director now. As for Billie Piper, if the rumours are true that she has recorded something with David Tennant she might always end up in the next Ninth Doctor Chronicles. I think Big Finish have probably done the best with the people and resources they have available. Yeah that is a fair point (and I wouldn't want BF to create new companions with none of the main cast involved anyway) but I'm still uneasy with these chronicles releases, it just seems like recasting by stealth to plug a gap in the market rather than pushing the Doctors forward, I'd have actually been more excited by New Who short trips as they would have been nothing more than narrated short stories and probably more experimental, this hybrid solution tries to meet things in the middle and I'm not so sure it's going to be a hit.
But if your Big Finish, what do you do?
You effectivily relaunch your company to a much wider audience with one of the most well-regarded actors creating an era which had been left to the vapors outside of an incredibly popular anniversary anniversary special followed by a spin off series featuring an incredibly popular character, followed by an experimental boxset featuring a well-known historical figure and his relationship with The Doctor, with the box set featuring one of the most recgonisable Doctors in the world and the actor playing him is also now linked to an even more popular franchise. Your expanding to a new wider audience and you need to keep them engaged. You know that the avaliability of many of the actors is limited or currently not optional, so what do you to? Keep up that intrest or fade away as your audience moves onto other things?
I don't envy Big Finish and their chocies. Let's be honest - there is going to be many a revival listener who just isn't going to be engaged with the Companion Chronicle/Short Trips format. They want an experience as close to the original episodes as possible and the Churchill Diaries release went down well. Parents aren't going to be buying Torchwood for their kids and given his association with the adult spin-off, they might not be buying The Lives of Captain Jack for their kids. It's using the Churchill format or nothing. There really isn't much of an alterantive.
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Post by mark687 on Apr 11, 2017 10:25:33 GMT
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 11, 2017 10:32:20 GMT
You can really tell its not Christopher Eccleston. Sure it will still be a good set of stories though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 10:39:43 GMT
Still not sure what to make of this after listening to the trailer. Really hope they release a free excerpt next month. There were a couple of moments where he sounded great. Other times, not so much.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 11, 2017 10:53:29 GMT
Still not sure what to make of this after listening to the trailer. Really hope they release a free excerpt next month. There were a couple of moments where he sounded great. Other times, not so much. I agree. In places it sounded too much like an impression - and if you want an impression, you're better off getting someone like Jon Culshaw to do it. In other parts of the trailer it wasn't as distracting.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 12:00:48 GMT
Oh God he sounds like a clown with a cold.
Mind you, the music and atmosphere seems spot-on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 12:35:03 GMT
I was waiting for the trailer to make a decision on ordering - but after listening to it I'm still torn!
That Murray Gold-esque music track is superb, but I'm not quite sure what the balance will be between narrated incidents and dramatised scenes. With Nick Briggs performing the Doctor, Rose and the narration, it seems the stories will be more like straight audiobook readings with some guest appearances.
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Post by mark687 on Apr 11, 2017 12:44:31 GMT
I was waiting for the trailer to make a decision on ordering - but after listening to it I'm still torn! That Murray Gold-esque music track is superb, but I'm not quite sure what the balance will be between narrated incidents and dramatised scenes. With Nick Briggs performing the Doctor, Rose and the narration, it seems the stories will be more like straight audiobook readings with some guest appearances. Surprisingly the music in the trailer really bugged me reminded more of the SJA's then the 9TH Doc.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 11, 2017 12:46:07 GMT
I was waiting for the trailer to make a decision on ordering - but after listening to it I'm still torn! That Murray Gold-esque music track is superb, but I'm not quite sure what the balance will be between narrated incidents and dramatised scenes. With Nick Briggs performing the Doctor, Rose and the narration, it seems the stories will be more like straight audiobook readings with some guest appearances. I'm still going to pre-order, although I hope for the next releases they consider changing it so the companions narrate a first person story like the Companion Chronicles.
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Post by Bazoolium on Apr 11, 2017 13:02:32 GMT
I quite like Nick's impression, he certainly has the pattern of speech down. I am just not very interested in Jackie and Adam. I hope they can get Jack for a subsiquent release.
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Post by elkawho on Apr 11, 2017 13:18:15 GMT
I was waiting for the trailer to make a decision on ordering - but after listening to it I'm still torn! That Murray Gold-esque music track is superb, but I'm not quite sure what the balance will be between narrated incidents and dramatised scenes. With Nick Briggs performing the Doctor, Rose and the narration, it seems the stories will be more like straight audiobook readings with some guest appearances. This is one of the first times that I have ever listened to a trailer of something I might buy and was so put off that I decided against it. Am I the only one that hates Nick's Eccleston impression? I didn't love it in the DOD story, but it was passable. I was so put off by the trailer. I don't think I could listen to it for too long.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 11, 2017 13:30:33 GMT
I was waiting for the trailer to make a decision on ordering - but after listening to it I'm still torn! That Murray Gold-esque music track is superb, but I'm not quite sure what the balance will be between narrated incidents and dramatised scenes. With Nick Briggs performing the Doctor, Rose and the narration, it seems the stories will be more like straight audiobook readings with some guest appearances. This is one of the first times that I have ever listened to a trailer of something I might buy and was so put off that I decided against it. Am I the only one that hates Nick's Eccleston impression? I didn't love it in the DOD story, but it was passable. I was so put off by the trailer. I don't think I could listen to it for too long. I certainly don't think it's as good as people make out. Nicholas Briggs' Ninth Doctor sounds a bit too much like a tribute act to Christopher Eccleston.
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Post by mark687 on Apr 11, 2017 13:31:42 GMT
I was waiting for the trailer to make a decision on ordering - but after listening to it I'm still torn! That Murray Gold-esque music track is superb, but I'm not quite sure what the balance will be between narrated incidents and dramatised scenes. With Nick Briggs performing the Doctor, Rose and the narration, it seems the stories will be more like straight audiobook readings with some guest appearances. This is one of the first times that I have ever listened to a trailer of something I might buy and was so put off that I decided against it. Am I the only one that hates Nick's Eccleston impression? I didn't love it in the DOD story, but it was passable. I was so put off by the trailer. I don't think I could listen to it for too long. I don't Hate it I just don't find it similar at all. 4hrs of it would a stretch to listen to I agree.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 14:12:55 GMT
This is one of the first times that I have ever listened to a trailer of something I might buy and was so put off that I decided against it. Am I the only one that hates Nick's Eccleston impression? I didn't love it in the DOD story, but it was passable. I was so put off by the trailer. I don't think I could listen to it for too long. I think it's a passable enough impersonation but not strong enough to be an actual character, and not a solid representation of the Ninth Doctor. Based on the jokey snippets from the trailer I can't imagine any weightier dialogue being pulled off.
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