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Post by bobod on Jan 27, 2018 12:37:56 GMT
Vat do jou mean 'Flash Gordon approachink'?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 12:43:38 GMT
Perhaps Susan and Ben/Polly will be in the next set of CC's instead. I think Big Finish was always going to have to relaunch the Early Adventures in light of The First Doctor Adventures . I'm not saying we're not going to get Ben and Polly Early Adventures stories, although it's possible Big Finish might want to pair David Bradley off with Anneke Wills and Eillot Chapman in light of Twice Upon a Time. Honestly, though, a mini-season approach is something I've wanted to see from the range for a long-time and I love that their doing modern introspective stories here (as with The Companion Chronicles), particularly with this TARDIS team.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 12:47:25 GMT
GUYS: A WHOLE NEW SEASON SET IN THE ERA JOHN DORNEY HAS FOUND A NEW AUTHOR FOR BIG FINISH: GUYS, HE COMES RECOMMENDED FROM JOHN DORNEY. THIS IS GOING TO BE BRILLIANT. CHARACTER PIECES FOR THE FIRST DOCTOR, STEVEN AND VICKI (OKAY, WE KNEW ABOUT VICKI ALREADY, BUT NOT THE FIRST DOCTOR OR STEVEN! EXCITING!) SEVEN MONTHS TO WAIT! YES IT'S EXCELLENT NEWS & GORDONS ALIVE. Weirdly enough, I've never seen Flash Gordon
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Post by shallacatop on Jan 27, 2018 13:14:54 GMT
The miniseries approach is really appealing. Part of the charm of the First Doctor era, for me, is that often the stories lead directly into another. Big Finish have done wonders essentially turning The Daleks’ Master Plan into its own season, so I’m very much looking forward to these audios.
I’d love some more First Doctor Adventures with Elliott and Anneke as Ben and Polly, but they could very well have plans to do them with David Bradley in the near future. Fingers crossed.
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Post by number13 on Jan 27, 2018 14:11:27 GMT
Lovely idea - a mini-season with First / Vicki / Steven, all episodes running consecutively as they normally did in the 60s. If anyone hasn't heard the two previous EAs with this TARDIS crew, they are most highly recommended - and clearly show why this is my favourite First Doctor audio team. (And a wonderful Hartnell Doctor from Peter Purves!) No offer on those earlier titles yet, but they're well worth full price anyway. A 4 story sub to either season is the best option, a big saving and all excellent stories. 'The Ravelli Conspiracy' by Robert Khan and Thomas Salinsky was my personal BF favourite of all ranges in 2016, so I'm excited to see another Steven/Vicki story coming from them, and another from Ian Potter who wrote 'The Bounty of Ceres'. And is that a prequel to 'The Rescue' from Jonathan Morris?. That could get timey-wimey, couldn't it? (Thinking of his 'Flip-Flop' and 'Vortex Ice', that could get very timey-wimey indeed!) Who are the other two actors in the news story image and do we know who they are playing, in which story? Friends of Vicki from her father's ship perhaps? (Apologies if I should recognise them from TV, but I don't.) I couldn't see anything about other cast members in the news story or the individual title stories, except for a certain gentleman playing the Daleks and we all know who that is (" Cor-rect!")
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Post by constonks on Jan 27, 2018 15:02:26 GMT
Hey confirmation that they're doing the style of EA I was hoping for - a mini-season.
Given that the Fourth Doctor spends a whole year with one companion, I wonder if this is going to be the norm from now on...
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Post by tardybox on Jan 27, 2018 15:54:44 GMT
Well, I'm excited! The Early Adventures have fast become one of my favorite Big Finish ranges, and this season sounds particularly marvelous!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 16:11:49 GMT
I'm excited at the mention of Flash Gordon... now that is something I'd love to hear BF tackle if they could ever get the rights!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 17:16:34 GMT
I think Steven is the only companion to have a 100% hit rate with BF stories - there's never been a dud yet. So high hopes.
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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 Jan 27, 2018 23:08:05 GMT
Perhaps Susan and Ben/Polly will be in the next set of CC's instead. I think Big Finish was always going to have to relaunch the Early Adventures in light of The First Doctor Adventures . I'm not saying we're not going to get Ben and Polly Early Adventures stories, although it's possible Big Finish might want to pair David Bradley off with Anneke Wills and Eillot Chapman in light of Twice Upon a Time. Honestly, though, a mini-season approach is something I've wanted to see from the range for a long-time and I love that their doing modern introspective stories here (as with The Companion Chronicles), particularly with this TARDIS team. If BF were going to do David Bradley with Ben and Polly they would have the choice of: (a) Wills and Chapman (b) The two actors from Twice Upon a Time (c) The two actors from An Adventure in Space and Time
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Post by number13 on Jan 27, 2018 23:28:28 GMT
I think Big Finish was always going to have to relaunch the Early Adventures in light of The First Doctor Adventures . I'm not saying we're not going to get Ben and Polly Early Adventures stories, although it's possible Big Finish might want to pair David Bradley off with Anneke Wills and Eillot Chapman in light of Twice Upon a Time. Honestly, though, a mini-season approach is something I've wanted to see from the range for a long-time and I love that their doing modern introspective stories here (as with The Companion Chronicles), particularly with this TARDIS team. If BF were going to do David Bradley with Ben and Polly they would have the choice of: (a) Wills and Chapman (b) The two actors from Twice Upon a Time (c) The two actors from An Adventure in Space and Time At least that would be one easy decision to make... Surely, on audio any other Polly than Anneke Wills is unthinkable. She's not only the real Polly, she's brilliant. Just listen to 'The Night Witches'. And Elliot Chapman is an excellent Ben, not just a Cockney voice, but a very good take on Ben as originated by Michael Craze.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 23:40:42 GMT
I think they would be more likely to go with the actors from Twice Upon a Time - I'm not sure the actors in AAISAT even had any lines (IMDB says they were uncredited). And they wouldn't use Anneke for the same reason the first two volumes don't use William Russell and Carole Ann Ford.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 0:10:00 GMT
I think they would be more likely to go with the actors from Twice Upon a Time - I'm not sure the actors in AAISAT even had any lines (IMDB says they were uncredited). And they wouldn't use Anneke for the same reason the first two volumes don't use William Russell and Carole Ann Ford. I haven't listened to The First Doctor box set, yet. I inferred it was due to William Russelll's health. Can someone tell me why it would specifically be the recast actors without spoiling the stories? I've also decided to abdicate from any further discussion on this topic because I haven't listened to the box set and do not want to impair discussion.
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Jan 28, 2018 0:16:25 GMT
I think they would be more likely to go with the actors from Twice Upon a Time - I'm not sure the actors in AAISAT even had any lines (IMDB says they were uncredited). And they wouldn't use Anneke for the same reason the first two volumes don't use William Russell and Carole Ann Ford. The actors in AAISAT were literally just models/extras. I don’t think from what I saw on their IMDb page that either of them had ever done anything other than “man/woman in coffee shop” type roles, ie. standing in the background because of their looks. The ones from Twice Upon A Time are more likely, but I have a feeling that eventually Bradley will become THE audio First Doctor rather than just another take on the First Doctor. There’s a chance he might appear alongside Wills and Chapman but I doubt he’ll ever appear alongside Carole Ann Ford.
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Post by barnabaslives on Jan 28, 2018 2:58:56 GMT
I think Chapman would make a fine First Doctor for Ben and Polly stories. In fact, I liked his convention performance even better that his take on The Doctor in Big Finish audio and I guess it was probably because with YouTube quality audio he sounds more authentically The Doctor's age whereas I think Big Finish faithfully recorded the youthful lower resonance of his voice, making him sound (to me anyway) less plausibly that age and harder to accept as such. I'm not sure there was otherwise much difference in Elliot's performances and I thought he did a commendable job channeling The Doctor in both.
As for the AAISAT troupe, they do already have their own range and I'm happy enough if they don't end up in everything - or at least I do hope the 1DAs become an ongoing range.
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Post by shallacatop on Jan 28, 2018 8:59:33 GMT
I think they should get away from putting David Bradley with the AAISAT cast. He’s an official First Doctor now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 10:57:58 GMT
I think they would be more likely to go with the actors from Twice Upon a Time - I'm not sure the actors in AAISAT even had any lines (IMDB says they were uncredited). And they wouldn't use Anneke for the same reason the first two volumes don't use William Russell and Carole Ann Ford. I haven't listened to The First Doctor box set, yet. I inferred it was due to William Russelll's health. Can someone tell me why it would specifically be the recast actors without spoiling the stories? I've also decided to abdicate from any further discussion on this topic because I haven't listened to the box set and do not want to impair discussion. It's because the whole *point* of the set is to tell First Doctor stories with the AAISAT cast (remember the plans for it were in motion before David Bradley was going to play the Doctor on television).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 11:14:00 GMT
I haven't listened to The First Doctor box set, yet. I inferred it was due to William Russelll's health. Can someone tell me why it would specifically be the recast actors without spoiling the stories? I've also decided to abdicate from any further discussion on this topic because I haven't listened to the box set and do not want to impair discussion. It's because the whole *point* of the set is to tell First Doctor stories with the AAISAT cast (remember the plans for it were in motion before David Bradley was going to play the Doctor on television). I've kind of been depressed lately, so while I've read all the news items for the last five months, I haven't listened to the podcast in awhile, so I didn't know. Which is not your fault or anything, that's just me. Seriously, thanks
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Post by number13 on Jan 28, 2018 11:18:08 GMT
I think Chapman would make a fine First Doctor for Ben and Polly stories. In fact, I liked his convention performance even better that his take on The Doctor in Big Finish audio and I guess it was probably because with YouTube quality audio he sounds more authentically The Doctor's age whereas I think Big Finish faithfully recorded the youthful lower resonance of his voice, making him sound (to me anyway) less plausibly that age and harder to accept as such. I'm not sure there was otherwise much difference in Elliot's performances and I thought he did a commendable job channeling The Doctor in both. As for the AAISAT troupe, they do already have their own range and I'm happy enough if they don't end up in everything - or at least I do hope the 1DAs become an ongoing range. BF now have two excellent ranges which cover the Hartnell years between them; if they really wanted Vicki/Steven, Polly/Ben to appear in 1DAs with David Bradley I'm sure the results would be great, why wouldn't they? (Of course I mean with the original classic series companion actors + Elliot Chapman.) However, the EAs are not the 1DAs, there's a different feel to the part-narrated stories which I know not everyone likes, but I certainly do. In fact the autumn EAs have become a highlight of my BF year. I would very much like to hear Polly/Ben EAs with Elliot Chapman also playing the First Doctor. BF gave this TARDIS team a 'test drive' in the First Doctor CCs Vol 2 and I thought they were excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 11:25:21 GMT
I think it's possible we could get 1DAs with Lily Travers and Jared Garfield as Polly and Ben. However, it seems very unlikely we would get any with Vicki and Steven - I don't think we even know who played Maureen in AAISAT, and IMDB indicates that the guy who played Peter Purves only works as an extra.
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