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Post by newt5996 on Aug 3, 2019 5:57:11 GMT
So I enjoyed Briggs and Earl as Holmes and Watson in All-Consuming Fire and as I know Big Finish kind of do their own take on Holmes mixing in classic Conan Doyle stories with originals and adaptations of other works I was wondering how best to listen to them? And where to the first two releases fit in?
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Post by muckypup on Aug 3, 2019 9:24:01 GMT
Start with perfidious mariner to get flavour of how they do the non cannon stories.......
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Post by eightelements on Aug 3, 2019 12:55:41 GMT
The Nick Briggs' stories before Perfidious Mariner are standalone.
Speckled Band is (if I remember correctly) a straight reading of the original.
Hound of the Baskervilles I found too compressed, being two hours.
Reification of Hans Gerber I loved as a new but traditional Sherlock Holmes story.
Holmes and the Ripper less so, but still good.
Tangled Skein is an adaptation of a book. If you want Sherlock Holmes vs vampires, there you go.
Perfidious Mariner through Sacrifice must be listened to in order. I really enjoyed them, putting Sherlock Holmes into a trilogy of Big Finish four-episode box sets. Some elements become slightly fantastical, though.
While Fleet Street Transparency and Master of Blackstone Grange I think are meant to be set in the same universe as the trilogy, they are standalone.
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Post by mbt66 on Aug 3, 2019 13:45:54 GMT
I am assuming that the next release that has been confirmed will be a follow on from the Master of Blackstone Grange.
I really like the Big Finish Sherlock Holmes range, but have to agree with eightelements that they did get too fantastical for my liking towards the end.
And now when I am reading Sherlock Holmes novels, such as the Mrs Hudson trilogy, I hear the Nick Briggs & Richard Earl versions of Holmes and Watson in my head.
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Post by nucleusofswarmv2 on Aug 27, 2019 11:44:44 GMT
Personally, I did't mind the fantastical elements that much. Helped give it a different flavour, and I'm a fan of the Titan ranges which do similar things. Funnily though, I thought Skein felt much more compressed than BF's Hound adaptation.
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Post by causality on Aug 27, 2019 14:43:11 GMT
I have enjoyed them all but Hound is now a very personal favourite...it was so well done I had to buy into the range I have only disliked one story I won’t say which that took it out of my perception of what a Holmes story should be.
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Post by paz on Aug 27, 2019 15:06:39 GMT
I have enjoyed them all but Hound is now a very personal favourite...it was so well done I had to buy into the range I have only disliked one story I won’t say which that took it out of my perception of what a Holmes story should be. Oh go on - say which one! Was it ...
{Spoiler}
... The Adventure of the Fleet Street Transparency?
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Post by causality on Aug 27, 2019 15:23:46 GMT
I have enjoyed them all but Hound is now a very personal favourite...it was so well done I had to buy into the range I have only disliked one story I won’t say which that took it out of my perception of what a Holmes story should be. Oh go on - say which one! Was it ...
{Spoiler}
... The Adventure of the Fleet Street Transparency?
Spot on lol....you know I could accept Skein but this one I really did wish for a clever explanation but alas |
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Post by paz on Aug 27, 2019 19:00:12 GMT
Oh go on - say which one! Was it ...
{Spoiler}
... The Adventure of the Fleet Street Transparency?
Spot on lol....you know I could accept Skein but this one I really did wish for a clever explanation but alas I quite enjoyed the story if I'm honest. It is a strange meeting of two larger-than-life characters but it's very well written, I think. I am really looking forward to the promised new stuff next year! |
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Post by causality on Aug 27, 2019 19:06:51 GMT
Spot on lol....you know I could accept Skein but this one I really did wish for a clever explanation but alas I quite enjoyed the story if I'm honest. It is a strange meeting of two larger-than-life characters but it's very well written, I think. I am really looking forward to the promised new stuff next year! Oh it’s not that I didn’t enjoy it I just did not like that particular pay off but even the Doctor Who tale with them in it isn’t a favourite of mine am anal I know lol i can take Doctor Who meeting Conan Doyle But meeting fictional characters. No unless of course they are in the land of fiction.it was like a previous thread with Dark tower series where the author does something that I found just throws me out of the story .Jago and Litefoot meet Conan Doyle that I can take meeting Sherlock no it’s just. Preference that’s all it’s lol fiction in the end isn’t it lol. It works as a story but I tend when I listen to Fleet Street to treat it as. Fictional story told by Watson at a Christmas gathering lol |
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Post by paz on Aug 27, 2019 19:56:40 GMT
It works as a story but I tend when I listen to Fleet Street to treat it as. Fictional story told by Watson at a Christmas gathering lol That works for me  |
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