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Post by elgranto on Jun 9, 2016 2:54:43 GMT
Is it the lost television season that would have aired in 1990 had Doctor Who not been put on hiatus in 1989? Is it the first season of audio adventures with Paul McGann released by Big Finish in 2001? Could it be the first season of the revived television series starring Christopher Eccleston? Or perhaps you regard something else as being the lost season?
You choose.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 3:49:09 GMT
I'd honestly say it's the Timewyrm stories from the NAs. The Virgin range was considered a legitimate continuation of the television series for a very long time through the nineties. Long enough for DWM comics to throw in their lot and have Benny appear without introduction or explanation at least. Using the old Star Wars tier canon system (which I just discovered a couple hours ago), I think they're closer to Continuity Canon (or C-Canon) than Secondary Canon (S-Canon). The Lost Stories' Season 27 is interesting, but ultimately one that feels rather insulated against its peers. It doesn't help that Raine vanishes shortly after Earth Aid only to reappear in UNIT: Dominion with a handwave.
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Post by constonks on Jun 9, 2016 4:08:21 GMT
I'd say either Timewyrm or the Seventh Doctor Lost Stories. I voted for the VNAs (or in fact, Other) in the poll, cause if pressed I'd say those take place first so that would make the Lost Stories Season 28 or 29.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 4:30:25 GMT
I agree with the above with the first bit of the VNA's being Season 27.
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Post by icecreamdf on Jun 9, 2016 5:42:18 GMT
I'd say the first season of the new series, given that it actually is the twenty seventh season made of the show.
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Post by elgranto on Jun 9, 2016 6:41:55 GMT
Interesting. When making this poll I was thinking more along the lines of performed fiction (TV and audio) and how the moniker of "Season 27" had sometimes been bestowed to the series of productions listed above. In light of this I didn't include the Timewyrm arc as I thought it wasn't a season in the general sense, what with it it being comprised of prose novels. It would seem I underestimated their standing though, so it's a good thing I put in the "other" option. Personally, I regard Paul McGann's first season of adventures from Storm Warning to Minuet in Hell as being Season 27. They were full cast productions while he was still the current Doctor, and if you regard the later seasons leading up to The Next Life in the same fashion, you can wrap up the Classic era with an even thirty seasons before the debut of Series 1 on television in 2005, which would technically make it Season 31.  EDIT: He he. Looks like I'm alone so far in that regard. |
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Post by CookieMaster on Jun 9, 2016 7:43:27 GMT
Realistically for me, it's series 1 (2005) but part of me feels that the Timewyrm saga is the unofficial season 27.
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Post by bobod on Jun 9, 2016 8:24:36 GMT
To me Season 27 is "Something that didn't happen".
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jun 9, 2016 9:59:41 GMT
To me Season 27 is "Something that didn't happen". LOL. Me to, and that's why I plumped for the BF Lost stories. And Beth Chalmers as Raine. I'd listen to her recite numbers. |
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Post by bobod on Jun 9, 2016 10:33:22 GMT
To me Season 27 is "Something that didn't happen". LOL. Me to, and that's why I plumped for the BF Lost stories. And Beth Chalmers as Raine. I'd listen to her recite numbers. Beth is lovely, and an amazing actress.
There's lots of *great* things - Big Finishes, the NAs, the McGann film, the Eccleston season (what a terrific year of Doctor Who that was)... but I don't think of any of them *as season 27*, if I think of that phrase, I think of an absence.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 20:04:14 GMT
For me, the 7th Doctor Lost Stories.
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Post by redsharkJason on Jun 10, 2016 6:50:23 GMT
To me Season 27 is "Something that didn't happen". I mostly agree with this sentiment. I automatically interpret "Season 27" to be the continuation of the original Doctor Who TV series that wasn't made. I still consider "Season 27" to be primarily a TV representation of Doctor Who. The Seventh Doctor "Lost Stories" and Night Thoughts audios are unmade TV stories that were only consideration possibilities. The notion of those lost story audios being the 27th season is a glass half full outlook.  If we are going to include lost story audios and VNAs as additional seasons then I think it only fair to add Colin Baker's first batch of Lost Stories as the originally planned Season 23, which would then bump everything else back. Good luck with this!  If there is no intention of meaning the unmade classic 27th season and you're doing an entire count of Doctor Who TV seasons, then I will agree. |
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