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Post by newt5996 on Jan 27, 2019 18:12:42 GMT
Continuing the Eighth Doctor Adventures today now that I've got the first six EDAs (sans The Eight Doctors which I read way back when I could stand PDFs) and first six PDAs, with Vampire Science.
Kate Orman is always a delight and even though the Eighth Doctor hasn't really been given a real character outside of a more generic Doctor and Sam Jones is kind of trying to hard to beat Benny as a character. She's about as abrasive as Ace was at her worst in the VNAs. Can someone tell me if she's a well-loved companion because from the first two EDAs I can't see her as well loved?
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 28, 2019 13:37:40 GMT
Continuing the Eighth Doctor Adventures today now that I've got the first six EDAs (sans The Eight Doctors which I read way back when I could stand PDFs) and first six PDAs, with Vampire Science. Kate Orman is always a delight and even though the Eighth Doctor hasn't really been given a real character outside of a more generic Doctor and Sam Jones is kind of trying to hard to beat Benny as a character. She's about as abrasive as Ace was at her worst in the VNAs. Can someone tell me if she's a well-loved companion because from the first two EDAs I can't see her as well loved? As a character i think she does grow. But it does come down to personal preference
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 18:52:34 GMT
Scratchman of course! Why would any Dr Who fan be reading anything else?
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 2, 2019 19:16:15 GMT
About half-way through with the Scratchman audiobook. This is a lot of fun. And really quite good.
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Post by newt5996 on Feb 9, 2019 3:59:27 GMT
Starting Steve Lyons’ The Murder Game because any book with Shark People has to be at the very least fun and once I’m finished with that probably Scratchman if my copy arrives
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 8:35:41 GMT
Needed to flex my research muscles and I set my heart on finding the old Doctor Who Summer Specials from the mid-90s. I've found... A few? A few. Not counting partials, I can count them on one hand. The 1994 one has rather captured my interest. It's got an interview from Bill Hartnell in it circa '65, '66-ish, which includes what he'd take with him to listen if he were stuck on a desert island in perpetua. Pretty cool, right? Among them, tracks from Charlie Chaplin and Louis Armstrong:
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Post by Ela on Feb 18, 2019 15:30:14 GMT
Finish reading Cold Fusion yesterday morning. Starts out slow, gets interesting, great cast of characters, and ends oddly.
Haven't listened to the audio dramatization of it yet, that's next on my list.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 18, 2019 16:14:35 GMT
About Time 2
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Post by newt5996 on Feb 18, 2019 19:25:05 GMT
Started the third Eighth Doctor Adventure, Mark Morris's The Bodysnatchers. Thoughts so far: It seems so far to be your standard Zygon story, not bad considering this is Mark Morris' first novel. Three books in and I think this may be the best characterization of Sam, but she still boils down to 'I'm an activist' which doesn't really make a good character.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 23:20:47 GMT
Started the third Eighth Doctor Adventure, Mark Morris's The Bodysnatchers. Thoughts so far: It seems so far to be your standard Zygon story, not bad considering this is Mark Morris' first novel. Three books in and I think this may be the best characterization of Sam, but she still boils down to 'I'm an activist' which doesn't really make a good character. I don't want to say who she reminds me of some of the upcoming novels (mainly because it might prefigure your reading), but yeah, Sam does have a tendency to fluctuate early on. Alien Bodies does a fairly good job of giving us a solid Sam and introducing the idea that there's something... off, about her character. Maybe it's deliberate that she's just a little too perfect for the role of a companion.
But the very next book, Genocide, is the one that made me sit up and pay attention. The Tractites are the first wholly original creation of the EDAs and they're quite powerful in how they're used.
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Post by number13 on Feb 19, 2019 1:29:48 GMT
Needed to flex my research muscles and I set my heart on finding the old Doctor Who Summer Specials from the mid-90s. I've found... A few? A few. Not counting partials, I can count them on one hand. The 1994 one has rather captured my interest. It's got an interview from Bill Hartnell in it circa '65, '66-ish, which includes what he'd take with him to listen if he were stuck on a desert island in perpetua. Pretty cool, right? Among them, tracks from Charlie Chaplin and Louis Armstrong:
Good research! 'Desert Island Discs' has been a BBC radio institution since the 50s and it's still going, with only the 4th presenter in all that time. The complete archive is listed on the BBC website and rather wonderfully, most of the programmes are also available, but I'd never thought to look for Doctors, until now!
Sadly, Jon Pertwee's programme is 'lost' (from his pre-Who life in 1964) with some of the other older recordings and none of the other classic Doctors seem to have been invited on. But David Tennant's and Matt Smith's programmes are both in the archive.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 2:49:57 GMT
Needed to flex my research muscles and I set my heart on finding the old Doctor Who Summer Specials from the mid-90s. I've found... A few? A few. Not counting partials, I can count them on one hand. The 1994 one has rather captured my interest. It's got an interview from Bill Hartnell in it circa '65, '66-ish, which includes what he'd take with him to listen if he were stuck on a desert island in perpetua. Pretty cool, right? Among them, tracks from Charlie Chaplin and Louis Armstrong:
Good research! 'Desert Island Discs' has been a BBC radio institution since the 50s and it's still going, with only the 4th presenter in all that time. The complete archive is listed on the BBC website and rather wonderfully, most of the programmes are also available, but I'd never thought to look for Doctors, until now!
Sadly, Jon Pertwee's programme is 'lost' (from his pre-Who life in 1964) with some of the other older recordings and none of the other classic Doctors seem to have been invited on. But David Tennant's and Matt Smith's programmes are both in the archive.
Oh, that's a lovely discovery. Thanks for finding it.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 19, 2019 14:54:30 GMT
Started the third Eighth Doctor Adventure, Mark Morris's The Bodysnatchers. Thoughts so far: It seems so far to be your standard Zygon story, not bad considering this is Mark Morris' first novel. Three books in and I think this may be the best characterization of Sam, but she still boils down to 'I'm an activist' which doesn't really make a good character. I don't want to say who she reminds me of some of the upcoming novels (mainly because it might prefigure your reading), but yeah, Sam does have a tendency to fluctuate early on. Alien Bodies does a fairly good job of giving us a solid Sam and introducing the idea that there's something... off, about her character. Maybe it's deliberate that she's just a little too perfect for the role of a companion.
But the very next book, Genocide, is the one that made me sit up and pay attention. The Tractites are the first wholly original creation of the EDAs and they're quite powerful in how they're used.
Interestingly I prefered Bodysnatchers over Genocide
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 6:59:57 GMT
I don't want to say who she reminds me of some of the upcoming novels (mainly because it might prefigure your reading), but yeah, Sam does have a tendency to fluctuate early on. Alien Bodies does a fairly good job of giving us a solid Sam and introducing the idea that there's something... off, about her character. Maybe it's deliberate that she's just a little too perfect for the role of a companion. But the very next book, Genocide, is the one that made me sit up and pay attention. The Tractites are the first wholly original creation of the EDAs and they're quite powerful in how they're used.
Interestingly I prefered Bodysnatchers over Genocide Oh, I didn't say I didn't like The Bodysnatchers. Ghoulish, gristly and grim in the grey-blue fog of Whitechapel, what's not to love? It's like Fable. We even get a Zygon invasion of the TARDIS. Brilliant. Genocide was just the first time that this Doctor was pitted against an adversary we'd never seen before and he handles himself extraordinarily well. The time trees are a wonderful invention and having Sam, of all people, be conned into starting the plague that will wipe out the human race was a great touch. There's a real weight to the fate of Paratractis as well. He can't stop humanity's invasion, but he can ensure that they have breathing room to heal after all is said and done.
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Post by newt5996 on Feb 20, 2019 20:54:59 GMT
Interestingly I prefered Bodysnatchers over Genocide Oh, I didn't say I didn't like The Bodysnatchers. Ghoulish, gristly and grim in the grey-blue fog of Whitechapel, what's not to love? It's like Fable. We even get a Zygon invasion of the TARDIS. Brilliant. Genocide was just the first time that this Doctor was pitted against an adversary we'd never seen before and he handles himself extraordinarily well. The time trees are a wonderful invention and having Sam, of all people, be conned into starting the plague that will wipe out the human race was a great touch. There's a real weight to the fate of Paratractis as well. He can't stop humanity's invasion, but he can ensure that they have breathing room to heal after all is said and done. I've read the back of Genocide and it sounds like the type of plot Paul Leonard excels at. Wonder why he never wrote for Who past the EDAs?
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Post by newt5996 on Feb 20, 2019 20:56:09 GMT
Currently reading Scratchman, but I'm only a few chapters in. Tom Baker has an interesting writing style though in the back of my mind is what's Tom and what is James Goss? There's definitely a quality of this is Tom Baker telling us a story and part of me wants to buy the audiobook as well to have him just read it to me as I fall asleep.
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Post by Star Platinum on Feb 20, 2019 21:41:37 GMT
Having heard Goss' pirate planet before this, I think there is definitely more of Tom than him.
Also, the audiobook is fantastic. Tom knocks it out of the park, well worth the pricetag.
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Post by newt5996 on Feb 20, 2019 23:39:57 GMT
Having heard Goss' pirate planet before this, I think there is definitely more of Tom than him. Also, the audiobook is fantastic. Tom knocks it out of the park, well worth the pricetag. Knowing Goss's prose and audio formats (I read City of Death) it feels like Tom did a lot. I think the interludes with the Time Lords may be Goss because it doesn't quite sound like something Tom would write, but sounds like someone imitating Tom's style adding in the Time Lord lore.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 0:27:18 GMT
Oh, I didn't say I didn't like The Bodysnatchers. Ghoulish, gristly and grim in the grey-blue fog of Whitechapel, what's not to love? It's like Fable. We even get a Zygon invasion of the TARDIS. Brilliant. Genocide was just the first time that this Doctor was pitted against an adversary we'd never seen before and he handles himself extraordinarily well. The time trees are a wonderful invention and having Sam, of all people, be conned into starting the plague that will wipe out the human race was a great touch. There's a real weight to the fate of Paratractis as well. He can't stop humanity's invasion, but he can ensure that they have breathing room to heal after all is said and done. I've read the back of Genocide and it sounds like the type of plot Paul Leonard excels at. Wonder why he never wrote for Who past the EDAs? Yeah, it's odd, isn't it? There doesn't appear to be any ready explanation. He's one of those authors that just vanished not long after the millennium.
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Post by newt5996 on Feb 22, 2019 4:11:49 GMT
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