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Post by omega on Jul 29, 2018 19:26:36 GMT
Back to The Reaping, wasn't it implied that Nate had a thing for Peri? One of his strategies could have been to bond over their weird names (hormonal teenager/young adult, it happens), since the context of the dialogue is Peri trying to comfort Nate. Peri had a thing for Nate, for his part Nate sort of fancied Peri's Mum!
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Nate would have been better for her than Davy proved to be.
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Post by fantasticalice on Jul 29, 2018 22:37:16 GMT
Peri had a thing for Nate, for his part Nate sort of fancied Peri's Mum!
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Nate would have been better for her than Davy proved to be. Understatement of the year. A life size Jason statue that made Sh Sh Sh sounds whenever the lights were out would have been better.
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Post by omega on Jul 30, 2018 0:17:46 GMT
Nate would have been better for her than Davy proved to be. Understatement of the year. A life size Jason statue that made Sh Sh Sh sounds whenever the lights were out would have been better. At least Davy didn't marry Peri to feed her to a giant spider. Poor Donna had bad luck in the love department until she met Shaun.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 3:09:34 GMT
Honestly, while I love that Nicola wants to line-up with her TV stories, I'd rather she did a new take on her performance. And I'm saying this as a Peri fan
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 3:11:30 GMT
JNT was ahead of his time - getting Nicola to keep the accents up in public appearances. If this forum had been going in the 80s, as soon as someone said they didn't like her accent, someone would have linked to her on Breakfast Time and said 'No, look, it's her own accent!'. To be honest, as much as I hate aspects of fandom nowadays, I dread to think what fandom would have been like if the internet was around in the eighties.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 3:14:54 GMT
Personally I think it tends to be the way the character is written rather than Peri's accent that can be occasionally grating. The accent sounds fine to this particular American - in fact I think Peri is a brilliant effort on Nicola's part, the only thing I could find that would give away Nicola not actually being American during her TV tenure was a couple of times she read "idears" for "ideas". The only other person I can think of who's done that good of a job making me think they're from the US is John Barrowman. I think maybe it's a giveaway that Peri might be somewhat traditionally written to be slightly annoying (same with TV Tegan) that I do sometimes find her slightly annoying, and yet I find nothing annoying about the delightful if animated Peri fest that is Peri and the Piscon Paradox. I also think of Peri as THE Classic Sixth Doctor TV companion - Five has already had 4 others, and now that Seven has absconded with Mel once again on audio (without whom TV Seven would only have Ace)... Ta da, it's all in the arithmetic :-) I love it that Peri's a botanist, at least that's something that stands between her and being just another pretty malcontent :-), but getting to identify a plant every 15 or 20 stories might not be all that much in the way of actual character development, even it lends a little bit of justification and jubilation to my fondness for Peri. It might be interesting to see what happened if Big Finish found occasion to perhaps write her character to a little bit wider range? If the Doctor and Peri cross over into the DC 'verse, then Peri could be the archenemy of Poison Ivy. Her encountering Bat's rogue gallery would be fun. "They dress worse then you do!"
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Post by omega on Aug 16, 2018 3:16:04 GMT
Could the Sixth Doctor and Peri release be part of the 20th anniversary at Big Finish? Nick has confirmed there will be releases celebrating all the incarnations of the Doctor.
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Post by omega on Aug 16, 2018 3:19:51 GMT
If the Doctor and Peri cross over into the DC 'verse, then Peri could be the archenemy of Poison Ivy. Her encountering Bat's rogue gallery would be fun. "They dress worse then you do!" The Sixth Doctor and Alfred, while Peri has issues with Damian. Sixie and Peri encountering the 60's Adam West Batman would be hilarious, with the villains competing with the Sixth Doctor for most flowery language and worst puns. Peri spends time with Aunt Harriet.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 3:24:00 GMT
I know this isn't popular, but I really would love it if Big Finish revisited Season 22 intact, rather then the more 'safe journey to' version of the Lost Stories. I get WHY Big Finish did it, doing the Lost Stories was big way to reintroduce Colin to new listeners and showcase him as The Doctor 'proper'. (Let's not forget that hell, it was a risk back in the day for Big Finish to push forward with Six) But for me, I think Peri, as a character is owed that much and I'd rather see it dealt directly, rather then simply blowing up in future Peri stories or passingly mentionced, since we never saw the resolution onscreen and Big Finish have kind of always skirted around it when they've revisited that era. Even across the Short Trips instead of the main range and incorporating those elements with Six moving forward.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 3:26:08 GMT
Her encountering Bat's rogue gallery would be fun. "They dress worse then you do!" The Sixth Doctor and Alfred, while Peri has issues with Damian. Sixie and Peri encountering the 60's Adam West Batman would be hilarious, with the villains competing with the Sixth Doctor for most flowery language and worst puns. Peri spends time with Aunt Harriet. Eh, I don't think Damien could surrive the look
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Post by omega on Aug 16, 2018 3:26:58 GMT
The Sixth Doctor and Alfred, while Peri has issues with Damian. Sixie and Peri encountering the 60's Adam West Batman would be hilarious, with the villains competing with the Sixth Doctor for most flowery language and worst puns. Peri spends time with Aunt Harriet. Eh, I don't think Damien could surrive the look The one that the United Nations would ban if they found out?
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Post by Ela on Aug 16, 2018 3:29:24 GMT
For the record, Peri’s American accent is okay, but the giveaway that she’s not American comes up periodically when she uses outright Britishisms, rather than the analogous American expression.
And comparing her accent with John Barrowman’s is not really a fair comparison. John moved to the US as a kid and learned to speak “American” fast to avoid teasing from his classmates. So he genuinely speaks “American”.
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Post by omega on Aug 16, 2018 3:46:00 GMT
For the record, Peri’s American accent is okay, but the giveaway that she’s not American comes up periodically when she uses outright Britishisms, rather than the analogous American expression. And comparing her accent with John Barrowman’s is not really a fair comparison. John moved to the US as a kid and learned to speak “American” fast to avoid teasing from his classmates. So he genuinely speaks “American”. I don't have any issue with the American accents. Even if they're outrageously stereotyped, like in Minuet in Hell, one could rationalise it by saying the TARDIS translation circuits are exaggerating them. We get alien societies using Earth human idioms after all. Jack's accent makes a lot of sense in the context of his backstory. He grew up on an alien world where it's plausible that "American" was the native accent.
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Post by Ela on Aug 16, 2018 3:50:05 GMT
Agree with you about Jack. Regarding other non-American actors’ attempts at an American accent - well, some are good and some are painful to hear.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 3:55:15 GMT
(...)in canon, it was a few months(...) Er, in The Kingmaker, Erimem and Peri are separated from the Doctor for two whole years... Whoops. But, yeah, it's an era that just feels done to me.
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Post by constonks on Aug 16, 2018 4:01:32 GMT
Er, in The Kingmaker, Erimem and Peri are separated from the Doctor for two whole years... Whoops. But, yeah, it's an era that just feels done to me. Aye, fair enough. I'd rather see Peri with Six anyway, to move their story together forward rather than filling a gap.
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Post by omega on Aug 16, 2018 4:02:39 GMT
Agree with you about Jack. Regarding other non-American actors’ attempts at an American accent - well, some are good and some are painful to hear. Do you reckon the difficult recording of Minuet in Hell (Nick was deciding on the spot during recording what scenes to record or cut due to length) gives it something of a pass, or are the utter stereotypes irredeemable? What do you think of Richard Cordery's performance in A Town Called Fortune? I don't see many complaints about that character's accent.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 4:09:30 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. Eh, strongly disagree. Part of the darkness of Masters of Earth was Peri barely getting her bearings before being confroned with the horror of the Dalek Invasion of Earth and being infected by the Varga and it's very much invoked with Peri trying to figure out her life out in The Rani Elite and getting back into the gears of being a companion.
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Post by TimPendragon on Sept 24, 2018 5:32:44 GMT
Has Nicola been announced in anything coming up? It's been what, four years since she was in a monthly story? Is it just that since BF got Matthew Waterhouse on board they've wanted to focus on that era of Five's tenure, or has Nicola been too busy?
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Post by TimPendragon on Sept 24, 2018 5:41:48 GMT
If this gets asked one more time someone is in for a spanking
Hey, at least I found an appropriate thread instead of starting a new one.
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