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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2022 14:23:00 GMT
I'm not a huge fan of his stories, although I think he picked some good ones when he was script editor for Season 18. In terms of his personality, I have heard different viewpoints from various people. I do sometimes wonder if Tom's sour relationship with him and JNT may have been exaggerated.
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Post by bonehead on Jul 14, 2022 15:45:49 GMT
He script-edited my favourite series of Doctor Who, and went on to produce two of the worst Big Finish audios I've heard! As a person, he always seems willing to talk about his time on the show and isn't afraid to say exactly what he thinks - his constant ribbing of Leisure Hive director Lovett Bickford on that story's DVD commentary needed Lalla Ward to wade in and separate the two of them. An interesting man, very intelligent - I'd still like to hear a Bidmead Big Finish Boxset, despite the shortcomings of his previous audios. Let him have a free hand and darn the consequences  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2022 21:26:31 GMT
I'd still like to hear a Bidmead Big Finish Boxset, despite the shortcomings of his previous audios.  |
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jul 15, 2022 1:36:33 GMT
I think he did a fantastic job as a script editor on Season 18. The whole idea of a season linked by a theme rather than an ongoing storyline - although we sort of got that as well - is just brilliant and the whole ‘Order vs Entropy’ thing was carried out superbly across the entirety of the 7 stories (with State Of Decay not really exploring it too much, but it’s State Of Decay, so who really cares). Logopolis and Castrovalva are literary high-water marks for me, combining some wonderful, genuinely sf-nal ideas with a couple of great stories: they were the first cases, I think, of me watching a story on television where there was little-to-no action and still being totally gripped by it - I mean, one of the cliffhangers for Logopolis is a handshake and it totally works! And the use of Tom’s scarf being unravelled as a metaphor for what was happening to the Doctor during his regeneration as well as what was happening to the universe is brilliant!
Frontios was a continuation of hard sf ideas within the Who-niverse (I witnessed a discussion on Twitter earlier this morning where someone said that complaining about bad science in Kill The Moon is a ridiculous idea because Who has really only paid lip service to science since about Hartell’s second season). However, I don’t feel it’s as successful as his earlier efforts because it is glacial in its pacing.
I haven’t enjoyed his work for Big Finish. I think he has big ideas and a grand vision for what he wants to achieve but needs a canvas big enough to express them adequately.
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