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Post by newt5996 on Feb 9, 2019 3:16:26 GMT
So the Well-Mannered War ends with the Doctor and Romana pressing the button which in The Mind Robber sent the TARDIS into the Land of Fiction. To this day, this cliffhanger has not been solved so my question is how would you solve it?
My personal thought would be that instead of going into the Land of Fiction, the Doctor and Romana end up in another realm of the Gods of Ragnarok and have to compete for their lives in an Olympic like series of trials OR have pressing the button free the TARDIS but the Black Guardian is still on their tail and they have to defeat him.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Feb 9, 2019 4:02:00 GMT
I thought it was a case of “we have no idea what will happen when we press this button” and not “we’ll endnd up in the land of fiction”
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Post by eric009 on Feb 9, 2019 5:22:34 GMT
And This was the final book in the Missing Adventures Range we may never know where they went next
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 7:13:50 GMT
How about the proto-universe? The universe before this one. Where space was an emerald green, the stars hyperaccelerated rings and the Animus and the Great Intelligence weren't as unusual as they are in our universe. Back when magic, irrationality and superstition reigned king.
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Post by Timelord007 on Feb 9, 2019 8:31:12 GMT
Come on Big Finish how about a box set.
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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 9, 2019 9:00:25 GMT
They went to the JNTverse and things were never the same again ....
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Post by bobod on Feb 9, 2019 10:03:48 GMT
So the Well-Mannered War ends with the Doctor and Romana pressing the button which in The Mind Robber sent the TARDIS into the Land of Fiction. To this day, this cliffhanger has not been solved so my question is how would you solve it? My personal thought would be that instead of going into the Land of Fiction, the Doctor and Romana end up in another realm of the Gods of Ragnarok and have to compete for their lives in an Olympic like series of trials OR have pressing the button free the TARDIS but the Black Guardian is still on their tail and they have to defeat him. It wasn't written as a cliff-hanger, it was written as a comment on the JNT era. |
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Post by mbt66 on Feb 9, 2019 10:36:35 GMT
The three Gareth Roberts novel adaptations for the Fourth Doctor and Romana are some of my favourite ever Big Finish.
It would be great if they could get the original author back for some original audio stories, even if only in a Gareth Roberts Presents style cooperation with another writer.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 11:15:11 GMT
So the Well-Mannered War ends with the Doctor and Romana pressing the button which in The Mind Robber sent the TARDIS into the Land of Fiction. To this day, this cliffhanger has not been solved so my question is how would you solve it? My personal thought would be that instead of going into the Land of Fiction, the Doctor and Romana end up in another realm of the Gods of Ragnarok and have to compete for their lives in an Olympic like series of trials OR have pressing the button free the TARDIS but the Black Guardian is still on their tail and they have to defeat him. It wasn't written as a cliff-hanger, it was written as a comment on the JNT era. Authorial intent or no, we still don't know what happened to the Darkness's Hive. I wonder if they ended up feeding on themselves until there were none left?
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Post by Ela on Feb 11, 2019 1:58:46 GMT
So the Well-Mannered War ends with the Doctor and Romana pressing the button which in The Mind Robber sent the TARDIS into the Land of Fiction. To this day, this cliffhanger has not been solved so my question is how would you solve it? My personal thought would be that instead of going into the Land of Fiction, the Doctor and Romana end up in another realm of the Gods of Ragnarok and have to compete for their lives in an Olympic like series of trials OR have pressing the button free the TARDIS but the Black Guardian is still on their tail and they have to defeat him. It wasn't written as a cliff-hanger, it was written as a comment on the JNT era. How so? |
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 11, 2019 9:41:40 GMT
Personally I don't really see it as a cliffhanger as such, I see it as more akin to the "cliffhanger" ending to Revelation of the Daleks, where there is a freeze frame so we never know where Six is going to take Peri. Presumably they went somewhere but by the time we rejoin them in the Mysterious Planet the holiday is over and it is back to normal. [Yes, I know he was going to say Blackpool and we now have The Nightmare Fair in print and on audio, but the point still stands with regard to the position viewers and fans were left in back in 1985/6].
I'm happy to see The Well Mannered War's ending in the same vein, we know the Doctor and Romana went off somewhere, but we don't know where, and by the time we rejoin them it is back to business as usual.
There is IMO a follow-on from the cliffhanger, not a resolution, in Wave of Destruction. The Auntie Matter, which presumably follows directly from the encounter with the Black Guardian in The Armageddon Factor, opens with K9 taking the TARDIS to multiple destinations to confuse the Black Guardian. So the principle that K9 undertakes this extensive travelling following an encounter with the Black Guardian is established. In Wave of Destruction K9 is doing the same again, thereby implying the Wave follows directly on from an encounter with the Black Guardian, which is presumably the Well Mannered War. Now admittedly it's not the resolution of the cliffhanger that some people want, but it's enough for me.
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