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Post by themeddlingmonk on Sept 19, 2018 13:51:25 GMT
Great news. Rufus Hound looks like Henry VIII on the cover, I guess his episode is Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated that was mentioned on the obscure news thread a while back Not sure how I feel about post-Time War Missy meeting the pre-Time War Monk, assuming that it is a pre Time War Monk. If post-Time War Time Lords can meet pre-Time War Time Lords so easily then it makes a nonsense of the whole "lonely Doctor / last of the time lords" thing from Ecclestone/Tenant/Smith eras. Then again, maybe the Monk will be revealed to have survived the Time War? A post-War Monk has already shown up in a Twelfth Doctor story, but in a new incarnation. Entirely possible he rode out the war as Rufus and regenerated afterwards, though. But in the same sense, in a couple of comics, Ainley faced Matt Smith and Delgado faced Capaldi. And hey, Ainley knew the Valeyard somehow. I always assumed that travelling between the pre and post war eras was easy, it was just travelling it the war era that was locked off. And in terms of being the last, it’s really not the same thing to go back in time to before your people died as it is to have lived through their destruction and come out as the only one on the other side of it.
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Post by masterdoctor on Sept 19, 2018 13:58:56 GMT
A post-War Monk has already shown up in a Twelfth Doctor story, but in a new incarnation. Entirely possible he rode out the war as Rufus and regenerated afterwards, though. But in the same sense, in a couple of comics, Ainley faced Matt Smith and Delgado faced Capaldi. And hey, Ainley knew the Valeyard somehow. I always assumed that travelling between the pre and post war eras was easy, it was just travelling it the war era that was locked off. And in terms of being the last, it’s really not the same thing to go back in time to before your people died as it is to have lived through their destruction and come out as the only one on the other side of it. Very well said. This has always been my reasoning, but you have said in a better way than I have and ever will.
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Post by sherlock on Sept 19, 2018 14:28:11 GMT
Hmm interesting. I think I'll wait for more details, but the writers are promising.
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Post by fingersmash on Sept 19, 2018 14:41:30 GMT
Yep. I held out for about 3 hours before I preordered.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 14:46:47 GMT
I'll be getting this. Missy is a work of genius in my view. If she was introduced as 'the female Master', lots of people would have taken a dislike to her purely for that reason. Cries of "She can't be a girl!" would be followed by relentless outrage, tears and offence from people who love outrage, tears and offence. However, we got to know her first as a terrific, eccentric, dangerous character in her own right - once that had been achieved, then came the revelation of her identity. The reaction was then tempered by the fact that ... Michelle Gomez is pretty bloody good, actually.
Or to put it another way, I love the character and will be buying this.
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 19, 2018 14:52:55 GMT
Great news. Rufus Hound looks like Henry VIII on the cover, I guess his episode is Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated that was mentioned on the obscure news thread a while back Not sure how I feel about post-Time War Missy meeting the pre-Time War Monk, assuming that it is a pre Time War Monk. If post-Time War Time Lords can meet pre-Time War Time Lords so easily then it makes a nonsense of the whole "lonely Doctor / last of the time lords" thing from Ecclestone/Tenant/Smith eras. Then again, maybe the Monk will be revealed to have survived the Time War? A post-War Monk has already shown up in a Twelfth Doctor story, but in a new incarnation. Entirely possible he rode out the war as Rufus and regenerated afterwards, though. But in the same sense, in a couple of comics, Ainley faced Matt Smith and Delgado faced Capaldi. And hey, Ainley knew the Valeyard somehow. Fair point. That ship has well and truly sailed
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Post by Jeedai on Sept 19, 2018 15:29:08 GMT
Definite must-have for me. Missy was one of the better parts of the last few years of the show IMO. So if my reckoning is correct she can only ever meet Peter Capaldi or any Doctor later than him. Or David Warner. Not sure how I feel about post-Time War Missy meeting the pre-Time War Monk, assuming that it is a pre Time War Monk. If post-Time War Time Lords can meet pre-Time War Time Lords so easily then it makes a nonsense of the whole "lonely Doctor / last of the time lords" thing from Ecclestone/Tenant/Smith eras. Then again, maybe the Monk will be revealed to have survived the Time War? She put Eleven and Clara together, so she had/has access to him as well. It's the Tardises that keep Time Lords synched to each other, right? And to Gallifrey via the Eye of Harmony? IIRC Twelve shut down a safety function in the episode where Clara encountered Pre-Academy One. Outside of the Doctor's Tardis, Missy was only ever shown time-traveling through vortex manipulator, so she'd be free of that restriction. And possibly not even synched up with Twelve when he took custody of her. And perhaps the Monk just keeps that switched system off in his Tardis (or it was an unintended side-effect of One's sabotage), given the number of times Garden and Hound went backward to pester earlier Doctors.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 15:37:06 GMT
I will probably buy this eventually, I just never pre-order BF stuff.
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Post by mbt66 on Sept 19, 2018 16:23:05 GMT
Missy was an instant pre-order for me,
She was the best aspect of the Capaldi era for me and as a side note I really hope that if/when Big Finish get Matt Smith into studio they give the Eleventh Doctor his own Master.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 17:23:52 GMT
Mark me down as "interested...but wanting a bit more detail before I commit." 😊
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 17:35:47 GMT
Fantastic! The best version of the character getting her own boxset!
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Sept 19, 2018 18:04:09 GMT
Missy was one of the high points of the Moffat era, so having Gomez enter the Big Finish domain is a no-brainer. This is one of those cases where I'd like to have seen a female writer or two but it is hard to argue with the track record of all the writers that are involved with volume one. And here is hoping for many more.
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Sept 19, 2018 19:09:52 GMT
Is this the first Master and Monk story or am I forgetting something obvious? Either way, this looks great.
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Post by mark687 on Sept 19, 2018 19:10:41 GMT
A chance to hear Missy sort out the Monk? That'll do nicely.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 19:51:56 GMT
Is this the first Master and Monk story or am I forgetting something obvious? Either way, this looks great. The first together yeah though in Quantum Archangel The Master remembers being part of The Deca with The Doctor, Rani, Monk and Drax so there's at least one time The Master mentioned "Mortimus".
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Post by dorney on Sept 19, 2018 19:58:33 GMT
Is this the first Master and Monk story or am I forgetting something obvious? Either way, this looks great. The first together yeah though in Quantum Archangel The Master remembers being part of The Deca with The Doctor, Rani, Monk and Drax so there's at least one time The Master mentioned "Mortimus". I don’t entirely hold with the idea that the Monk and the Doctor are contemporaries, but I’ve not included anything to contradict that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 20:01:15 GMT
Missy was one of the high points of the Moffat era, so having Gomez enter the Big Finish domain is a no-brainer. This is one of those cases where I'd like to have seen a female writer or two but it is hard to argue with the track record of all the writers that are involved with volume one. And here is hoping for many more. I'd thoroughly recommend Jacqueline Raynor's Girl Power from The Missy Chronicles book. It's fantastically imaginative and very much through the gender spectrum. ALL of the other stories are great too. James Goss' is tremendous. Like Missy doing Dr. Phibes. Lovely book, more should read it.
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Post by kinghumble on Sept 19, 2018 20:07:56 GMT
Goddammit Big Finish stop taking my money. I LIKE MY MONEY JUST AS MUCH AS YOU.
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Post by bobod on Sept 19, 2018 20:10:00 GMT
I didn’t realise John Barrowman had done Torchwood recordings outside of a Big Finish studio. That’s interesting, thanks. Oops, my mistake, apologies! Loads of the Dark Shadows have been done with the stateside cast recording in the US (Harvest of Souls was recorded with KLS in the US and Colin Baker in the UK), and it was the same for the Stargate stories. One of the difficulties in recording the box sets was that some recording sessions involved Skype! Almost - ALMOST - every Dark Shadows audio has had US recordings. So BF have been doing regular recordings for those over there for about twelve years.
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Post by veryfactualdalek on Sept 19, 2018 20:11:33 GMT
The first together yeah though in Quantum Archangel The Master remembers being part of The Deca with The Doctor, Rani, Monk and Drax so there's at least one time The Master mentioned "Mortimus". I don’t entirely hold with the idea that the Monk and the Doctor are contemporaries, but I’ve not included anything to contradict that. I like to think The Monk is slightly younger than the Doctor
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