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Post by grinch on Aug 9, 2021 7:00:26 GMT
Valhalla (Marc Platt)
As I mentioned before when I first listened to this, the soundtrack in this reminded me a great deal of Mega-City One and 2000AD. Which is always a plus. And I honestly really like when Big Finish explore this stage of the Seventh Doctor’s life. The clown turned master manipulator turned tired old man who constantly grapples with his conscience.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2021 7:21:58 GMT
The Moonbase: part 3 (tv soundtrack)
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Aug 9, 2021 20:07:58 GMT
Dalek Universe - the Lost
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Aug 9, 2021 21:21:26 GMT
Sapphire & Steel 1.1 The Passenger. This really captures the feel of the TV show. Treguard himself in the cast!
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Post by Ela on Aug 10, 2021 0:53:06 GMT
I listened to Interstitial/Feast of Fear in June, before I went off for a couple of months. I had to look it up to remember what it was about. But once I looked it up I remembered that I thought the stories were quite an interesting set. After two months of no Big Finish (except for the podcast), today I listened to Warzone/Conversion. Which was totally not what I expected it to be and was a very good set of stories.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 2:04:33 GMT
One for the road. In response to a number of quite lovely personal messages:Define childhood for me. Just off the top of your head. A bunch of nouns and adjectives will jostle to the surface and define one of the most impactful areas of our lives. We are shaped by what we perceive in childhood and we are forever trying to recapture some element of it. Some part that we feel growing up may have dwindled or, in some cases, may have become lost or mislaid. For me, the most important aspect of childhood nostalgia is that sense of wonder. Wonder is such a difficult emotion to evoke. It conjures up the sensation of being able to fall into the sky, the wind whipping around your head, and not be frightened. It lets the mind fly. It's exhilarating, glorious and it's almost impossible by conventional wisdom to return to it. And yet, Big Finish have this unerring ability to beat the odds every time. Especially, where it counts. Thunderbirds: Terror from the StarsA release that began as a yellowed paperback, published only once in 1966. The heyday of the Space Race, spies and Thunderbirds itself. As part of a short-lived range of novels (in paperback and blue-leather hardcover), it arrived on bookshelves in the same year as International Rescue's first explosive adventure on the big screen. In the midst of Zero-X's encounter with Martian rock snakes and more terrestrial saboteurs from Earth. The story from John Theydon (a pseudonym for author John W. Jennison) fits slap-bang in the midst of that zeitgeist. Space as an unknown frontier being co-opted by powers unknown and sometimes quite dangerous. It arrived about a year before Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, four years before UFO, and ended up strangely predictive. In what manner? Well... I'll leave that to the audio itself. I tried guessing who was playing what as part of the main cast -- without cheating and looking at the list -- and found myself gleefully surprised. A large portion of the performers were playing roles I thought had been given to other voice artists (or were from other actors altogether). There's something genuinely thrilling about being able to hear Scott, Alan, Virgil, Gordon, Jeff, and John Tracy virtually as they were back in the day. Some impressions are closer than others, but the spirit of the characters, the reason why we listen to these stories, are still very much intact. In this, we get Scott's excursion to the singing sands of the desert, Lady Penelope's brutal struggle to stop a power no one quite understands, and Brains's efforts to rescue one of International Rescue's own -- and the world -- from irretrievable disaster. It's all there. A return to childhood wonder. The first of hopefully what will be many adaptations in the future. Something to get excited about and something to enjoy, as it all should be. I cannot recommend it enough. It is exhilarating, it is glorious and it should have been almost impossible. And yet, when done with love, care and wonder...
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Post by grinch on Aug 10, 2021 9:56:10 GMT
Harry Houdini's War (Steve Lyons)
Houdini really has to be among the best historical celebrity guest stars, the franchise has produced, isn't he? And considering the Master has apparently met him before (as mentioned in another story) I'd definitely be up for a story where he has to match wits with him. Or perhaps even the War Master enlists his help to break someone out of a Dalek prison camp?
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Post by theillusiveman on Aug 10, 2021 10:58:54 GMT
Harry Houdini's War (Steve Lyons) Houdini really has to be among the best historical celebrity guest stars, the franchise has produced, isn't he? And considering the Master has apparently met him before (as mentioned in another story) I'd definitely be up for a story where he has to match wits with him. Or perhaps even the War Master enlists his help to break someone out of a Dalek prison camp? Well if they ever got Drefyus back and did The First Master Adventures that would be a cool story The War master idea sounds great though
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 15:56:22 GMT
On the eve of dipping into the mammoth Dalek Universe, I'm revisiting one of my favourite BF Dalek stories - Enemy of the Daleks.
Why is it a favourite? Because it gives the message that just another day for the Daleks means much pain and death for everyone else. Except this time, there is another manufactured race that could give them a few headaches - the truly unstable and frightening Kasabia (?). This is simply a really well constructed tale of carnage and horror, to the strains of suitably heavy, bombastic music. A down and dirty Dalek tale with mass exterminations, lots of noise, and the appealing team of the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex trying to keep things in order.
Interestingly, only other story David Bishop wrote for BF under the Doctor Who banner is Deep Fathom Five, another favourite which has a pretty brutal premise.
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Post by Ela on Aug 10, 2021 17:19:21 GMT
Just finished Blood on Santa's Claws and Other Stories. Good set of stories and I liked the way the set ended. It was a nice surprise.
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Post by grinch on Aug 10, 2021 17:21:13 GMT
Harry Houdini's War (Steve Lyons) Houdini really has to be among the best historical celebrity guest stars, the franchise has produced, isn't he? And considering the Master has apparently met him before (as mentioned in another story) I'd definitely be up for a story where he has to match wits with him. Or perhaps even the War Master enlists his help to break someone out of a Dalek prison camp? Well if they ever got Drefyus back and did The First Master Adventures that would be a cool story The War master idea sounds great though
I’d imagine such a story would begin in media res with Houdini waking up on another planet in a Dalek prison camp. Then as he sets about obtaining answers and trying to escape, we flash back to him meeting the War Master previously.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Aug 10, 2021 20:00:32 GMT
Countermeasures - the changing of the Guard
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 21:15:16 GMT
Eye of the Scorpion: part 2
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Post by relativetime on Aug 10, 2021 22:58:01 GMT
The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravagers
You know, the more I come back to this set, the more I enjoy it. I feel that way about other Briggs scripts, particularly Only the Monstrous, come to think.
I just appreciate that they hit the ground running for the Ninth Doctor. This set feels like it has a vision. It feels new and fresh. Eccleston feels like he’s getting to do what he would have done had he stayed on for another series. The story we’re given here isn’t like anything the Ninth Doctor got to do on TV. No returning monsters, either. New, new, new. It has Big Finish’s brand all over it. That’s everything I could have wanted.
I’m not saying a set with Rose where we get a few fun “monster of the week” stories where maybe the Ninth Doctor gets to fight the Weeping Angels or something wouldn’t have been fun - and I for one would certainly be down for it later on! -, but it might have felt kind of safe too. The first Tenth Doctor releases with Donna were kind of that way too. While I don’t think any of these stories are absolute must-listens - and I’d also hesitate before I recommended them as anyone’s first audio drama experience - I still really respect the direction they took things here.
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Chancellery Guard
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Post by melkur on Aug 11, 2021 0:26:37 GMT
Tangentally Big Finish, but wandering around town yesterday I listened to 'The Scarifyers; For King & Country' for the first time in quite a few years
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Post by Digi on Aug 11, 2021 2:09:34 GMT
Jago & Litefoot 2.3: The Theatre of DreamsJago & Litefoot 2.4: The Ruthven InheritanceI started this particular relisten with the intent of it being a refresher before I dive into Series 14 but....it's been a while since I've listened to any J&L at all, and this has turned into a really nice little treat that I'm trying to savour for a while. Just one today, unless I squeeze in another before bed: Jago & Litefoot 3.1: Dead Men's TalesBack to it the last few days with Jago & Litefoot 3.2: The Man at the End of the Garden Jago & Litefoot 3.3: Swan Song Jago & Litefoot 3.4: Chronoclasm
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Post by grinch on Aug 11, 2021 8:27:22 GMT
Nightmare Country (Stephen Gallagher)
Simply excellent. Although, taking into account the budgetary limitations of the era I doubt it would be as good had it been televised.
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Post by mark687 on Aug 11, 2021 11:44:18 GMT
9DA Vol 2
(3 Fantastic stories)
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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 Aug 11, 2021 11:54:04 GMT
Seamstress of Peckham Rye
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Post by theillusiveman on Aug 11, 2021 12:01:57 GMT
Ninth Doctor Adventures Vol 2 Currently Episode 2
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