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Post by SoundableObject on Aug 3, 2017 22:11:53 GMT
The lack of Peri/6 stories is the most disappointing thing about the current Big Finish output.
It is my favourite companion and my favourite Doctor so more is always on the top of my list of wants (aside from more Frobisher).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 10:22:20 GMT
The lack of Peri/6 stories is the most disappointing thing about the current Big Finish output. It is my favourite companion and my favourite Doctor so more is always on the top of my list of wants (aside from more Frobisher). I've heard it mentioned in podcasts that one of the very few problems with the Main Range's trilogies is that you sometimes have to wait longer for your favourite companion to show up. Which is fair enough, as is BF's current idea of mixing former companions with current ones. Keeps things interesting. Having said all of that, I really miss Peri. Can I be honest? I had really high hopes for her long-awaited post Trial appearances, but either I'm thick, or her return in The Widow's Assassin was far too convoluted - especially as subsequent stories showed her to be more or less the same Peri she had always been. She was really well written for in Masters of Earth and The Rani Elite, and Nicola is always great. So yes, I miss her. But give her a few moments that allude to her life after she was separated from The Doctor, I say. |
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Post by omega on Aug 4, 2017 12:05:00 GMT
The lack of Peri/6 stories is the most disappointing thing about the current Big Finish output. It is my favourite companion and my favourite Doctor so more is always on the top of my list of wants (aside from more Frobisher). I've heard it mentioned in podcasts that one of the very few problems with the Main Range's trilogies is that you sometimes have to wait longer for your favourite companion to show up. Which is fair enough, as is BF's current idea of mixing former companions with current ones. Keeps things interesting. Having said all of that, I really miss Peri. Can I be honest? I had really high hopes for her long-awaited post Trial appearances, but either I'm thick, or her return in The Widow's Assassin was far too convoluted - especially as subsequent stories showed her to be more or less the same Peri she had always been. She was really well written for in Masters of Earth and The Rani Elite, and Nicola is always great. So yes, I miss her. But give her a few moments that allude to her life after she was separated from The Doctor, I say. Her life between Mindwarp and Widow's Assassin is covered in the latter story. {Spoiler}
She's been exiled into her own mind by the mind parasite Mandrake, who possessed her body and manipulated it from the end of Mindwarp to the final half of Widow's Assassin. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 12:19:35 GMT
The lack of Peri/6 stories is the most disappointing thing about the current Big Finish output. It is my favourite companion and my favourite Doctor so more is always on the top of my list of wants (aside from more Frobisher). I've heard it mentioned in podcasts that one of the very few problems with the Main Range's trilogies is that you sometimes have to wait longer for your favourite companion to show up. Which is fair enough, as is BF's current idea of mixing former companions with current ones. Keeps things interesting. Having said all of that, I really miss Peri. Can I be honest? I had really high hopes for her long-awaited post Trial appearances, but either I'm thick, or her return in The Widow's Assassin was far too convoluted - especially as subsequent stories showed her to be more or less the same Peri she had always been. She was really well written for in Masters of Earth and The Rani Elite, and Nicola is always great. So yes, I miss her. But give her a few moments that allude to her life after she was separated from The Doctor, I say. There are two stories which I can recommend, one is a great deal harder to find than the other. The first is a nice little short story called In Alien Soil, which covers some of Krontep culture. The last follows a similar route and was written by Colin Baker with Frobisher as a companion called The Age of Chaos. The Peri in that continuum has grandchildren, one of whom we meet. If you can find a copy for a reasonable price I'd snatch it up at once, it's incredibly difficult to locate. |
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Post by fantasticalice on Jul 21, 2018 20:28:44 GMT
Does anyone have any news of the future 6 and Peri stories?
I heard they have been confirmed but as a box set?
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Post by constonks on Jul 21, 2018 20:40:50 GMT
If my memory's right, I think Nicola Bryant teased some more post- Trial Peri stories could be coming up on her Twitter recently. If I recall correctly, Briggs said Peri was returning with thw Sixth Doctor soon in something other than the Main Range, but he never said "post-Trial," and I'm not suuuure if he said full-cast... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 22:28:29 GMT
If my memory's right, I think Nicola Bryant teased some more post- Trial Peri stories could be coming up on her Twitter recently. If I recall correctly, Briggs said Peri was returning with thw Sixth Doctor soon in something other than the Main Range, but he never said "post-Trial," and I'm not suuuure if he said full-cast... Intriguing... I wonder if it's a Short Trip or something else they have brewing? It'd be very cool to see these guys pop up in a Special Release. |
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Post by barnabaslives on Jul 22, 2018 2:48:29 GMT
I'm hoping for a box set since that's what I seem to remember hearing also.
Maybe The Next to Last Adventure? :-)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2018 8:47:12 GMT
I'm hoping for a box set since that's what I seem to remember hearing also. Maybe The Next to Last Adventure? :-) ?  If they do decide to pick up the post- Trial Peri stories at some point, I'd be very interested in another Valeyard tale. You can never have too much Michael Jayston.  |
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Post by omega on Jul 25, 2018 0:56:55 GMT
Nick's said something about an upcoming box set with the Sixth Doctor and Peri, but that's in the Jekyll and Hyde, Travis Oliver and comic strip adaptations box of vague promises with no dates or details attached.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jul 25, 2018 11:21:37 GMT
I love the Constance and Flip dinamic and don't want it to end. But agree with more Peri Got to agree.But if I am honest I prefer Peri with Peter Davison Doctor. Same and Briggsy has said we wont get anymore of 5 with Peri as he feels that gap has been exhausted now |
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Post by mbt66 on Jul 25, 2018 11:44:41 GMT
I am assuming that the hints of Peri’s return in a boxset, along with the hints about the comic strip adaptions are one of the same.
As the Seventh Doctor, and in a small part the Fifth Doctor, got a good run in the novel adaptations it seems only right for the Sixth Doctor to get his chance with the comic strips.
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Post by OneTen on Jul 25, 2018 12:54:28 GMT
Got to agree.But if I am honest I prefer Peri with Peter Davison Doctor. Same and Briggsy has said we wont get anymore of 5 with Peri as he feels that gap has been exhausted now I thought that seemed a rather odd statement to make, when I saw it in Vortex. As if, with well over 3+ years passing for Peri during the audios between Planet of Fire and Caves, one extra story would tip the balance and render us all unable to continue suspending our disbelief! Of course Big Finish aren't required to justify why they aren't producing any particular story, so to volunteer this as the reason really surprised me! |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jul 26, 2018 11:25:18 GMT
Maybe he got tired of being asked and snapped lol
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 13:38:25 GMT
It looks like the Peri triolgey just didn't do as well as hoped, despite a lead-in from Scavenger. Love it or leave it: a lot of fans prefer Big Finish take on Six and his adventures and don't want that much of a handover. Personally, as someone who really wanted Peri's story to be resolved (and Peri and The Psi-Con Paradox opened a gap for 'our' Peri, only for The Widow's Assain to subvert it wonderfully) and while not enterily happy with some of how it was resolved (I love you Big Finish and I get you wanted to subvert expectations about the fallout, but Peri deserved better), I did love the direction that Big Finish was leading Peri into: the lost years she'd never get back after so much suffering and loss, the horrible randomness of it. I'm still holding some hope that Peri is going to be attached to the next Team TARDIS after either Constance or Flip leave (Flip would be VERY intresting), but I don't think it's going to happen.
But Big Finish know that there is a push and it seems like their going to resolve the arc in a future one-off release. It's not what I wanted, but it's the reality of the situation and Big Finish being Big Finish are making the best of it - hell, taking a gamble on it, for fans like me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 13:40:35 GMT
Same and Briggsy has said we wont get anymore of 5 with Peri as he feels that gap has been exhausted now I thought that seemed a rather odd statement to make, when I saw it in Vortex. As if, with well over 3+ years passing for Peri during the audios between Planet of Fire and Caves, one extra story would tip the balance and render us all unable to continue suspending our disbelief! Of course Big Finish aren't required to justify why they aren't producing any particular story, so to volunteer this as the reason really surprised me! Eh, Psicon gave the era a good ending. I don't think you would want to push further then that, even retrospectivily. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 5:30:04 GMT
I wouldn't mind a release or two in that Five/Peri gap at some point in the future. It's one of their earliest and strongest examples of taking a closed circuit (re: Turlough or Sara Kingdom) and fleshing out a really nice sub-era for these characters. Even conjuring up an entirely new companion in the gap. There's something about Five during this period that I really like. He's been forced to go through this personal re-evaluation of sorts after Resurrection and Planet, and some other facet of his personality has been pushed to the forefront. He's not proving to himself he's determined, he is determined...  Got it. He feels relaxed. All that nervous energy of his feels as though it's been burnt off and we're left with the wise, old man; it becomes so easy to forget about the young body. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 7:32:30 GMT
I wouldn't mind a release or two in that Five/Peri gap at some point in the future. It's one of their earliest and strongest examples of taking a closed circuit (re: Turlough or Sara Kingdom) and fleshing out a really nice sub-era for these characters. Even conjuring up an entirely new companion in the gap. There's something about Five during this period that I really like. He's been forced to go through this personal re-evaluation of sorts after Resurrection and Planet, and some other facet of his personality has been pushed to the forefront. He's not proving to himself he's determined, he is determined... Got it. He feels relaxed. All that nervous energy of his feels as though it's been burnt off and we're left with the wise, old man; it becomes so easy to forget about the young body. I wouldn't mind another adventure if it was part of a box set (an epic adventure across Five's life) or a release tieing to a wider arc (in the vein of The Emmience stories) or part of the anniversary stuff next year, otherwise to me, it just feels...done. While the Five/Peri/Erinem adventures spanned years, in canon, it was a few months with leaving Peri relativily still green around the ears for Six to arrive and be shaken up by Five's regeneration and the unknown universe without her friends beside her. All feels very much said, to me. |
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Post by sherlock on Jul 27, 2018 19:18:57 GMT
I enjoyed the older Peri trilogy so do hope they follow up at some point. I think the problem was that Masters of Earth and The Rani Elite (Good as they were) didn't feel like they would have been any different with young Peri, so it just seemed a waste of potential.
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Post by constonks on Jul 28, 2018 8:31:09 GMT
(...)in canon, it was a few months(...) Er, in The Kingmaker, Erimem and Peri are separated from the Doctor for two whole years... |
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If they do decide to pick up the post-Trial Peri stories at some point, I'd be very interested in another Valeyard tale. You can never have too much Michael Jayston. 
Got it. He feels relaxed. All that nervous energy of his feels as though it's been burnt off and we're left with the wise, old man; it becomes so easy to forget about the young body.