melkur
Chancellery Guard
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Post by melkur on Jun 12, 2019 13:53:03 GMT
To buy or to leave until I have some more money?: That is the question It was a very enjoyable set...
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mark687
'Good to hear. I'd like to get it, but at the minute I'm a little tight for money...
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Post by tuigirl on Jun 12, 2019 15:50:19 GMT
Downloading it now. Damn it. The day does not have enough hours when you also have to go to work and do chores at home. Oh well, maybe I can schedule it for the weekend? But I expect this to be quite good.
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Post by antartiks on Jun 12, 2019 21:36:10 GMT
Just finished listening to the first episode and I really enjoyed it. Colin Baker and John Barrowman have an excellent chemistry and it's really nice to have a fun and more laid back Jack here than in Torchwood where he needs to be more serious. {Spoiler} And, seriously, Colin's impression of what he thinks Jack sounds like had me laughing out loud for a few minutes at least.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jun 12, 2019 22:49:12 GMT
I’m always beginning is a great way to view regeneration.
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2019 10:43:08 GMT
Piece of Mind
That was so much fun, I loved the idea of Sixie inside Jack's head filling it with sesquipedalian vocabulary (darn right I used a dictionary! ) at all the most annoying moments and Jack doing his very best but needing the Doctor to pull off a piece of scientific wizardry at the end to put things right.
Highlights: "Yee Har!" I couldn't stop laughing at Colin Baker's 'how Sixie thinks Jack speaks' performance, brilliant! And the very best line of the lot was Jack's {Spoiler} 'You're not my Doctor - you're a rail replacement bus!' (Maybe only UK listeners will get the full underwhelmed-ness of that, but let me tell you that's a low grade to give a Time Lord!)
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Post by mark687 on Jun 13, 2019 12:13:58 GMT
Regards
mark687
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Post by number13 on Jun 13, 2019 12:26:55 GMT
{Spoiler}I thought he gave Sixie the coat back at the end? Apparently not... I now want Captain Jack Vol 3, 'The Coat of the Doctor', in which an enraged Sixie pursues Jack through Space and Time to get his favourite garment back, with Ten/Eleven/Twelve (they're all in the picture aren't they? ) trying to stop him before he does something drastic...
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Post by elkawho on Jun 16, 2019 3:53:45 GMT
I enjoyed that set tremendously. Every story was completely different from the others in the set, and they were all terrific.
I knew I would love Jack and Sixie, both over the top, attention grabbing, large personalities. They are a joy to listen to. I laughed a lot, and I will admit that I was kind of hoping for a Sixie who would bristle a bit more .I was thoroughly surprised at how much I enjoyed the last story. I was never really impressed with Trinity Wells as a newsreader on the TV, but Lachelle Carl was terrific on audio, and when given something more to do. And the second story was one of the best things I've ever heard John Bowerman do. A really great listen all around.
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Post by number13 on Jun 17, 2019 14:56:19 GMT
What Have I Done? Gripping WWI drama performed brilliantly by John Barrowman and Atilla Akinci. Very good ideas by Guy Adams to set this in the mud and trenches of Galipoli and to make the guest character a soldier of the Ottoman empire. An unfamiliar viewpoint for listeners more familiar with the stories of Allied soldiers in France and Flanders - but telling the same human story of fear, courage, death and survival (plus an alien monster!)
An instant classic imo and the sound design was the third 'star performer', making the battlefield a character in its own right. (The strong emphasis given at the end to telling us that Ata, while surviving and going home, will now walk with a limp, made me wonder if we were supposed to connect him with any real historical character? But if so, the interviews didn't mention it.)
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Post by number13 on Jun 20, 2019 11:30:45 GMT
Driving Miss Wells An unusual way to tell the story, putting Jack 'in the back seat' even though he was in the front seat, if you see what I mean! And it was effective, seeing Trinity's fear growing and everyone - even Jack - apparently dismissing her discoveries as paranoia.
I liked the gentle humour as well as the creeping 'horror' and Jack's kindness came through very well in this one in his conversations with Trinity, and the scenes with her mother in the hospital. {Spoiler}Very 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' but with flies not pods. And Jack helps Trinity just by being there! even though he doesn't believe her.
UNIT took a look just because he was involved and presumably Osgood had the tech to detect the flies' hive-mind telepathic linkups even though Jack didn't. The ending made me think... {Spoiler}there's Trinity, loaded with intelligence-gathering ability, weapons and money, ready as she says to 'defend the truth and be there if ever TW and UNIT went down'. Are we being set up for a spin-off box set? Are they trying to take over my wallet? Or am I being paranoid...
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Post by nottenst on Jul 10, 2019 15:44:03 GMT
What Have I Done? Gripping WWI drama performed brilliantly by John Barrowman and Atilla Akinci. Very good ideas by Guy Adams to set this in the mud and trenches of Galipoli and to make the guest character a soldier of the Ottoman empire. An unfamiliar viewpoint for listeners more familiar with the stories of Allied soldiers in France and Flanders - but telling the same human story of fear, courage, death and survival (plus an alien monster!)
An instant classic imo and the sound design was the third 'star performer', making the battlefield a character in its own right. (The strong emphasis given at the end to telling us that Ata, while surviving and going home, will now walk with a limp, made me wonder if we were supposed to connect him with any real historical character? But if so, the interviews didn't mention it.)
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It was very well done, but to me it felt very much like a Confession of Dorian Gray episode. There would be very little rewriting needed. I think "Angel of War" is the episode that I was reminded of (France, 1915).
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Post by mark687 on Jul 10, 2019 19:29:54 GMT
What Have I Done? Gripping WWI drama performed brilliantly by John Barrowman and Atilla Akinci. Very good ideas by Guy Adams to set this in the mud and trenches of Galipoli and to make the guest character a soldier of the Ottoman empire. An unfamiliar viewpoint for listeners more familiar with the stories of Allied soldiers in France and Flanders - but telling the same human story of fear, courage, death and survival (plus an alien monster!)
An instant classic imo and the sound design was the third 'star performer', making the battlefield a character in its own right. (The strong emphasis given at the end to telling us that Ata, while surviving and going home, will now walk with a limp, made me wonder if we were supposed to connect him with any real historical character? But if so, the interviews didn't mention it.)
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It was very well done, but to me it felt very much like a Confession of Dorian Gray episode. There would be very little rewriting needed. I think "Angel of War" is the episode that I was reminded of (France, 1915). Snap
Regards
mark687
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lidar2
Castellan
You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jul 11, 2019 11:26:57 GMT
What Have I Done? Gripping WWI drama performed brilliantly by John Barrowman and Atilla Akinci. Very good ideas by Guy Adams to set this in the mud and trenches of Galipoli and to make the guest character a soldier of the Ottoman empire. An unfamiliar viewpoint for listeners more familiar with the stories of Allied soldiers in France and Flanders - but telling the same human story of fear, courage, death and survival (plus an alien monster!)
An instant classic imo and the sound design was the third 'star performer', making the battlefield a character in its own right. (The strong emphasis given at the end to telling us that Ata, while surviving and going home, will now walk with a limp, made me wonder if we were supposed to connect him with any real historical character? But if so, the interviews didn't mention it.)
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It was very well done, but to me it felt very much like a Confession of Dorian Gray episode. There would be very little rewriting needed. I think "Angel of War" is the episode that I was reminded of (France, 1915). you're definitely right on that
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Post by drj on Jul 18, 2019 20:47:43 GMT
Rather good set, this!
I must admit, I was finally seduced by the Jack/Sixie pairing in episode 1 (which was excellent fun by the way), but have found the whole set to be very enjoyable. Nice variety across the stories. Lovely behind the scenes interviews too.
Roll on volume 3!
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Post by Ian McArdell on Jul 20, 2019 19:05:13 GMT
My take on these latest three 'lives' has just landed at CultBox: "John Barrowman is at his exuberant best here, but is also pushed, especially in the Gallipoli story, to a darker place too."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2019 7:44:52 GMT
Unlike Volume 1, how come does this boxset has 3 audio stories instead of 4?
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