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Post by inchmix on Oct 6, 2018 10:36:30 GMT
Finally got series 3 on CD. So Ive listened to series 1 & 2 again. Now halfway through series 3. What an excellent BF range.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 11:09:35 GMT
Finally got series 3 on CD. So Ive listened to series 1 & 2 again. Now halfway through series 3. What an excellent BF range. It is let us look forward to a possibility of another series once more people get to stretch their wings beyond the Who Ranges at least BF dont have to worry about the cast looking older 😂 |
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Post by inchmix on Oct 6, 2018 11:45:41 GMT
Finally got series 3 on CD. So Ive listened to series 1 & 2 again. Now halfway through series 3. What an excellent BF range. It is let us look forward to a possibility of another series once more people get to stretch their wings beyond the Who Ranges at least BF dont have to worry about the cast looking older 😂 Unfortunately we cant get 100,000 signatures, to prevent a BF range from getting axed, like fans do with axed tv shows |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 11:55:47 GMT
It is let us look forward to a possibility of another series once more people get to stretch their wings beyond the Who Ranges at least BF dont have to worry about the cast looking older 😂 Unfortunately we cant get 100,000 signatures, to prevent a BF range from getting axed, like fans do with axed tv shows I think as i have said and i get the same feeling on here people are branching out of the who range and experimenting in other areas and enjoying them too |
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Post by inchmix on Oct 6, 2018 12:02:18 GMT
Unfortunately we cant get 100,000 signatures, to prevent a BF range from getting axed, like fans do with axed tv shows I think as i have said and i get the same feeling on here people are branching out of the who range and experimenting in other areas and enjoying them too Yes true, audity. A similar thing has happened before. I remember someone at BF saying, Gallifrey was to end at series 3. But then time passed and sales took off. So Gallifrey made a comeback with series 4. So yes it could happen with omega factor too. Hope so. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 13:12:09 GMT
I think as i have said and i get the same feeling on here people are branching out of the who range and experimenting in other areas and enjoying them too Yes true, audity. A similar thing has happened before. I remember someone at BF saying, Gallifrey was to end at series 3. But then time passed and sales took off. So Gallifrey made a comeback with series 4. So yes it could happen with omega factor too. Hope so. Yes and hopeful New Countermeasures will return too at some point.I used to be such a pessimist |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 6:25:01 GMT
I was feeling kind of guilty not having got around to Spiders web yet.
But the Scottish Autumn Winter nights have arrived.
its ideal material for this kind of weather.
I enjoyed all three series and the audiobook by Louise.
Revisiting this series is a pleasure as i have very fond memories of the Tv show and seeing Louise in something post Leela.Even this audio series has legs beyond the three series its got but glad we got three and an ending that works as a finale.Though i can hope for more one offs,which really would be lovely.
This is psychological/supernatural story telling at its best .
Does it un nerve as the TV show did-it certainly does in heaps and spades.
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Dec 28, 2019 20:36:21 GMT
Just finished rewatching the television series - it's such a shame Hazledine and Carlisle are no longer with us. Both superb actors who would have brightened any range and would have been very well received had they recreated their roles for Omega on audio. I got more of the antagonism between Tom and Roy this time and Roy, in particular, intrigued me with his world view beyond both Department 7 and Omega; a second season could have so worked on this.
The episodes we have are wonderful and pre-date the similar X Files by over a decade. I think all the episodes work, give or take some strange production values and casting choices - Bruce Boa, cough, cough - and they all leave distinctive images in the mind afterwards. Looking forward to revisiting the audios next.
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Post by daver on Dec 28, 2019 22:12:06 GMT
Just finished rewatching the television series - it's such a shame Hazledine and Carlisle are no longer with us. Both superb actors who would have brightened any range and would have been very well received had they recreated their roles for Omega on audio. I got more of the antagonism between Tom and Roy this time and Roy, in particular, intrigued me with his world view beyond both Department 7 and Omega; a second season could have so worked on this. The episodes we have are wonderful and pre-date the similar X Files by over a decade. I think all the episodes work, give or take some strange production values and casting choices - Bruce Boa, cough, cough - and they all leave distinctive images in the mind afterwards. Looking forward to revisiting the audios next. I have always enjoyed re-watching the television series having re-watched it periodically since its DVD release in 2005. I would have liked to have seen more made of Drexel, as played so well by Cyril Luckham (The White Guardian). Less is more, but he seemed to be defeated too easily. A second series may have shown that what we saw of his demise may not have been what was... All told casting wise, Nicholas Coppin as Tom Crane's brother seemed the poorest choice for a returning character. He passed away in 2016 all due respect, but his delivery of the script was way off to say the least. As a standalone series, it creates a convincing sense of the dangers of the paranormal for what was a pre-watershed programme, no hammy or OTT scenarios, but only the suggestion of violence. I clearly enjoyed it at the time, but on watching the DVD's the opening titles were the strongest recollection. I do however remember being disappointed when 'The Krypton Factor' was advertised and it did not have any connection, so I was evidently keen on watching more of the same. I was not quite 8 years old when it was on after all... So far I have enjoyed Louise's reading of the Novelisation above listening to Series 1 of the BF 30 'years after' revival, whilst the 'Spiders Web' audio book has struck me as a bit gory in description to the spirit of the TV series (I have not completed it yet). All told, this was Jack Gerson's work and follow on dramas are speculative as to where he may have gone with the series. I would have preferred a recasting of James Hazeldine and for BF to have picked up a few years after the TV series for a proper follow on to the TV series (with Natasha Gerson on-board naturally). |
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Dec 31, 2019 10:41:56 GMT
So far I have enjoyed Louise's reading of the Novelisation above listening to Series 1 of the BF 30 'years after' revival, whilst the 'Spiders Web' audio book has struck me as a bit gory in description to the spirit of the TV series (I have not completed it yet). All told, this was Jack Gerson's work and follow on dramas are speculative as to where he may have gone with the series. I would have preferred a recasting of James Hazeldine and for BF to have picked up a few years after the TV series for a proper follow on to the TV series (with Natasha Gerson on-board naturally). It's always the same whenever a concept is revived. I read somewhere that for (the few) people who were disappointed in Doctor Who's revival in 2005 one of the reasons was seeing an infinite number of possibilities gradually worn down with each announcement. Whatever the vision of the show you had in your mind it was slowly compromised by the announcements of RTD, Eccleston, Piper, etc. A recasting of Tom might not have been a bad idea, especially if the revival was still set in the present. Anything could have happened to him to make him sound different, etc. Listening to Series One again I am struck by how different this is to the TV series funnily enough; they've gone down the 'Powers of Darkness,' 'Wicker Man' Old Gods route with it rather than general stand alone examinations of cases that can't be defined by the usual procedures. The series is largely about Adam, a character who never appeared in the original, and his attempts to deal with the changes in his life. Anne is definitely an older version of the character we had in the show; again we have to get to know her from scratch - Doctor Who writers take note, this is how you write an older version of an established character! It's a very intense revival relying on a lot of sound and fury - lots of roaring, arguing, big sound effects, and this is probably my biggest problem with it. As well acted, written and produced as it is, it could have done with the volume turning down a tad. Listening on head phones late at night I came away from the first three episodes in need of painkillers! Edited to add: I agree that Cyril Luckham's Drexel was criminally underused in the television series. |
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