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Post by mbt66 on May 6, 2018 17:12:57 GMT
Unless they just have a single range for the Master and alternate the incarnation? A bit like the main range, but in box set form. I'd be fine with that as well. Big Finish now has 6 versions of the Master running around. As I've mentioned before, I'd be thrilled with an anthology style series of box sets featuring 3 or 4 versions a set. The Eighth Doctor can have three boxsets a year, so I don’t see why The Master in his/her many incarnations cannot have the same! Apart from the obvious problem of writing stories featuring a villain as the main character. It worked with the War Master and certainly I could see Missy have the odd moment of caring & kindness to help the audience embrace the character, but Beevers and Macqueen would be a lot more difficult...unless they are scheming against each other, so add in Dreyfus as the first Master and bring on The Three Masters!
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Post by sherlock on May 6, 2018 17:15:30 GMT
I’d love a Missy boxset, maybe set after The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar? Or maybe even earlier, before she set up the 3W plan, since IIRC, there’s an unspecified amount of time before then, so who knows what she could have been up to? Could start with her escaping the Daleks after The Witch's Familiar and end setting up her imprisonment prior to being executed in Extremis.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 6, 2018 17:18:18 GMT
I'd be fine with that as well. Big Finish now has 6 versions of the Master running around. As I've mentioned before, I'd be thrilled with an anthology style series of box sets featuring 3 or 4 versions a set. The Eighth Doctor can have three boxsets a year, so I don’t see why The Master in his/her many incarnations cannot have the same! Apart from the obvious problem of writing stories featuring a villain as the main character. It worked with the War Master and certainly I could see Missy have the odd moment of caring & kindness to help the audience embrace the character, but Beevers and Macqueen would be a lot more difficult...unless they are scheming against each other, so add in Dreyfus as the first Master and bring on The Three Masters! Writing for villains is tougher and a difficult sell. That said, it also has the potential to tell different kinds of stories.
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Post by mbt66 on May 6, 2018 17:24:44 GMT
The Eighth Doctor can have three boxsets a year, so I don’t see why The Master in his/her many incarnations cannot have the same! Apart from the obvious problem of writing stories featuring a villain as the main character. It worked with the War Master and certainly I could see Missy have the odd moment of caring & kindness to help the audience embrace the character, but Beevers and Macqueen would be a lot more difficult...unless they are scheming against each other, so add in Dreyfus as the first Master and bring on The Three Masters! Writing for villains is tougher and a difficult sell. That said, it also has the potential to tell different kinds of stories. And thinking about it having an anthology style release, with stories featuring different Masters in the same boxset could help with that as none of the Masters would outstay their welcome.
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Post by dasmaniac on May 6, 2018 19:54:35 GMT
I wonder if it will ever be made clear what incarnation Gordon Tipple briefly portrayed.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 19:57:00 GMT
I wonder if it will ever be made clear what incarnation Gordon Tipple briefly portrayed. Missy in drag.
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Post by shallacatop on May 6, 2018 21:32:13 GMT
A Missy set would be utterly delicious. You could go the War Master route and have it tie into existing continuity by setting it between her capture by the Daleks in The Witch’s Familiar and her execution in Extremis. Now that would be a bad couple of days! Alternatively, it could be a completely standalone set of stories.
The War Master set has certainly shown there’s potential for one-off Master sets, I think. Something substantial with the many incarnations, that isn’t always possible in Doctor Who releases, without going over the top.
I’d love for the originally planned Beevers set to get the green light; he’s a fabulous, silky incarnation. Roberts will hopefully happen now he’s on board with Big Finish. And a Simm set would be wonderful.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 6, 2018 22:38:53 GMT
If we accept that it was Missy that gave Clara the phone number to the TARDIS, there is all kinds of room to work with before she starts her time with the 12th Doctor.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 23:11:23 GMT
Ugh, of course we can have a Missy alone box set. Sorry, been doing multiple things at once
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Post by number13 on May 7, 2018 9:07:04 GMT
Maybe the Roberts Master story explains how he got in 8's Tardis without a Key Easy! The way the Monk and the Doctor did years back. You need sunlight and a special Gallifreyan ring. (Not a Time Ring, another sort but it's special. But not magic, no no.) Or he could just have clicked his fingers in the right resonance, I'm sure I saw that done once. Most importantly of all, you need the script to say it works and it does. All Time Lord technology is ultimately powered by the Inconsistent Typewriter Of Rassilon
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Post by icecreamdf on May 7, 2018 18:17:48 GMT
Maybe the Roberts Master story explains how he got in 8's Tardis without a Key Easy! The way the Monk and the Doctor did years back. You need sunlight and a special Gallifreyan ring. (Not a Time Ring, another sort but it's special. But not magic, no no.) Or he could just have clicked his fingers in the right resonance, I'm sure I saw that done once. Most importantly of all, you need the script to say it works and it does. All Time Lord technology is ultimately powered by the Inconsistent Typewriter Of Rassilon I don’t think the sun in Earth’s particular galaxy had the right kind of light for that to work. The answer is right in that movie. There’s a spare key in the cubby hole above the P.
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Post by sherlock on May 7, 2018 19:08:12 GMT
Easy! The way the Monk and the Doctor did years back. You need sunlight and a special Gallifreyan ring. (Not a Time Ring, another sort but it's special. But not magic, no no.) Or he could just have clicked his fingers in the right resonance, I'm sure I saw that done once. Most importantly of all, you need the script to say it works and it does. All Time Lord technology is ultimately powered by the Inconsistent Typewriter Of Rassilon I don’t think the sun in Earth’s particular galaxy had the right kind of light for that to work. The answer is right in that movie. There’s a spare key in the cubby hole above the P. But the key's still in the cubby hole later in the film, so did the Master put it back after using it? Plus he'd need a leg-up to reach the P, wouldn't he?
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Post by icecreamdf on May 7, 2018 19:25:36 GMT
I don’t think the sun in Earth’s particular galaxy had the right kind of light for that to work. The answer is right in that movie. There’s a spare key in the cubby hole above the P. But the key's still in the cubby hole later in the film, so did the Master put it back after using it? Plus he'd need a leg-up to reach the P, wouldn't he? Putting the key back when he was done was the polite thing to do. The Master probably stole a stool, and then threw it away when he was done.
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Post by constonks on May 7, 2018 19:28:16 GMT
I'd find it a bit disappointing if they did contradict 'Mastermind' and 'The Centenarian' stories that had him escape as, basically, the Deathworm in the form a vapourous gas, possessing innocent victims over the course of a century. Id like to think they'll be smarter than that though, when it comes to their own continuity. One thing that always struck me about 'Mastermind' is that the Master was determined to not alert the Doctor or the Time Lords to fact he was still alive. Could they have simply ressurected him in the body of Bruce, unaware of his body-hopping adventures, eventually offering him that same deal they made when he was in Tremas' body? Let's just say this isn't the first time I've wondered if the entire story the Master tells Ruth & Charlie in Mastermind is purely intended to mess with their heads and doesn't have much truth in it at all. Twould be just like him. The only thing is, the first bit of the story he tells (when the Master mentions Edward Grainger let him out of the Eye of Harmony) was from The Centenarian - so something that definitely happened. I'd rather just see Bruce diverted during his San Francisco story. Just have River steal the TARDIS and find the Master already onboard. At the end, she takes his leather jacket and leaves him unconscious in the TARDIS wardrobe.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 8, 2018 11:41:20 GMT
Maybe the Roberts Master story explains how he got in 8's Tardis without a Key That could work. While the Master is trying to figure out how to get into the TARDIS, he sees River show up and enter it with her key. He sneaks in after her, and River pilots the TARDIS somewhere else in space and time. The Master and River have an adventure elsewhere in the universe, and in the end the Master leaves River stranded and takes the TARDIS back to San Francisco so that he can steal the Doctor’s body. I like it
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Post by whosonfirst on May 12, 2018 9:28:55 GMT
In regards to some previous comments: We need a MacQueen boxset. Writing a villain protagonist isn't too hard; there are some challenges, but their easily worked around. If everyone at Big Finish can't write it right now, do to busyness on all their wonderful projects, I'll gladly volunteer.
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Post by saxty on Sept 3, 2018 17:41:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 17:45:49 GMT
Michelle really is a hit with her witty one liners am looking forward to Eric and glad he participated in it funny though no ALEX MCQUEEN\ AND AM NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO ANY SPOILERS
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Sept 3, 2018 19:57:40 GMT
Eric Roberts, at first blush, sounds like an American actor who hasn't done a lot of audio drama.
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Post by Ela on Sept 3, 2018 20:46:36 GMT
Eric Roberts, at first blush, sounds like an American actor who hasn't done a lot of audio drama. He does sound American, not surprisingly. I didn't hear enough to make an estimation of his experience doing audio work.
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