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Post by dangfish9 on Sept 16, 2016 22:28:36 GMT
I'll second whoever mentioned more novel adaptations. I would love to see Big Finish delve into the EDAs or the PDAs. I've heard there is some issue with adapting the BBC books? If this is so then I would settle for more adaptations of the virgin books.
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Post by omega on Sept 17, 2016 2:43:46 GMT
I'll second whoever mentioned more novel adaptations. I would love to see Big Finish delve into the EDAs or the PDAs. I've heard there is some issue with adapting the BBC books? If this is so then I would settle for more adaptations of the virgin books. I know that it's been mentioned that Paul McGann's busy schedule means that he's limited to the box sets (they must be planning the next set after Doom Coalition at this point), so that sadly rules out the EDAs as well as any other Eighth Doctor material. I'd love to hear audios with Destrii, that take place after The Flood. If Big Finish can make a shapeshifting penguin work on audio, they can make Destrii's image translator work on audio. It'd also be a perfect opportunity to explore a distinctly non-human companion. We get something like that in Other Lives with C'rizz being put in a freak show, and that was one of the most interesting things done with the character. Marketability must also be a factor. The novels Big Finish have adapted so far all have a hook or history to them, such as the appearance of this character (Benny, Sherlock Holmes, Braxiatel) or it's written by this person (Garth Roberts, RTD) or it's a multi-Doctor story (Cold Fusion). Not many of the BBC Past Doctor Adventures have this, and some actors no longer being around (the Third Doctor era is especially hardest hit) doesn't help.
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Post by eric009 on Sept 17, 2016 16:42:07 GMT
I'd love any more 6 and Peri stories but I'd particularly like some around early Season 22. I think some comic adaptions could be a good idea to explore that particular area and replace the novel adaptions range. I wouldn't be surprised if they adapted the 4th Doctor TV/DWM Comic's at some point, there's alot of them, most of which are probably quite hard to get hold of Maybe they could do some of the 60's comics Early Adventures style? not John and Gillian please
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 12:05:13 GMT
Gaps I'd be interested in filling are: Daleks Among Us - The TV Movie Before the final moments of The End Of Time. Before the final moments of Planet Of The Spiders 9th Doctor Before Rose 5, Tegan and Turlough (Maybe not on Audio, but in books or comics) 4, Sarah and Harry.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 12:09:08 GMT
I'll second whoever mentioned more novel adaptations. I would love to see Big Finish delve into the EDAs or the PDAs. I've heard there is some issue with adapting the BBC books? If this is so then I would settle for more adaptations of the virgin books. I second this. They desperately need to adapt Lucifer Rising and Festival Of Death.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Sept 18, 2016 16:26:05 GMT
7th Doctor - Ace's departure 8th Doctor - Post-TV Movie and Pre-Prisoners of Time 9th Doctor - Post-Day of the Doctor and Pre-Rose, In-between the Doctor inviting Rose to travel with him and the Doctor telling her the TARDIS also travels in time, in-between Boom Town and Bad Wolf (for example, the off-screen adventure on Raxacoricofallapatorious) 10th Doctor - Post-The Family of Blood and Pre-Blink, Post-Forest of the Dead and Pre-Midnight, Post-Midnight and Pre-Turn Left, Post-Gabby Gonzalez (Titan Comics) and Pre-The Next Doctor 11th Doctor - Post The Pandorica Opens and Pre-A Christmas Carol, Post-Alice (Titan Comics) and Pre-The Impossible Astronaut, Post-The Time Machine and Pre-Closing Time, Post-Asylum of the Daleks and Pre-Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, Post-A Town Called Mercy and Pre- The Power of Three,possible many adventures during The Power of Three, post-Power of Three and Pre-Angels Take Manhattan, Post- The Bells of Saint John Prequel and Pre-The Bells of Saint John, Post-Name of the Doctor and Pre-Day of the Doctor
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 16:30:34 GMT
7th Doctor - Ace's departure I assume you mean the second one.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Sept 18, 2016 21:40:25 GMT
7th Doctor - Ace's departure I assume you mean the second one. I mean Ace's very last adventure with the Doctor, which hasn't been done on Big Finish yet.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 21:51:18 GMT
I assume you mean the second one. I mean Ace's very last adventure with the Doctor, which hasn't been done on Big Finish yet. Not sure about TV era stuff with Ace, but we most certainly could do with a story that explains how a statue of Ace naked (!) appears on a planet as a monument to her liberating the locals against foreign invaders. (Re: MR 177 Daleks Among Us.) I don't know what weird and perverted mind came up with that idea, but it surely needs to be expanded upon at some stage?!
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Sept 18, 2016 22:20:57 GMT
I mean Ace's very last adventure with the Doctor, which hasn't been done on Big Finish yet. Not sure about TV era stuff with Ace, but we most certainly could do with a story that explains how a statue of Ace naked (!) appears on a planet as a monument to her liberating the locals against foreign invaders. (Re: MR 177 Daleks Among Us.) I don't know what weird and perverted mind came up with that idea, but it surely needs to be expanded upon at some stage?! I'm not sure I'd want to hear that story. Sounds pretty disturbing.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Sept 18, 2016 23:56:41 GMT
I assume you mean the second one. I mean Ace's very last adventure with the Doctor, which hasn't been done on Big Finish yet. Which, if done by BF, will be done properly (like the Sixth Doctor's regen) as opposed to adapting the crap produced by DWM. It's a matter of reconciling all the Time Lord material with the aside in SJA.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 3:16:15 GMT
I mean Ace's very last adventure with the Doctor, which hasn't been done on Big Finish yet. Which, if done by BF, will be done properly (like the Sixth Doctor's regen) as opposed to adapting the crap produced by DWM. It's a matter of reconciling all the Time Lord material with the aside in SJA. Ace's future is interesting because the Target and Virgin novels have her guarding Earth on a timecycle in Paris, Death Comes to Time has her become what might be the first in a new generation of Time Lords and DWM has her die in the Seventh Doctor's arms as a result of the Threshold's actions. I have a sneaking suspicion that Ground Zero occupies an alternate timestream similar to the Third Doctor regenerating on Dust in Interference, so if you slam it all together you get... * TV!Ace - Everything from Dragonfire to at least Time's Crucible. * BF!Ace - She seems to exist in flux between TV!Ace ( The Rapture) and NA!Ace ( The Fearmonger, et al.), possibly plunking her down in the gap after the Timewyrm crisis. * E-NA!Ace - She's grown up a hell of a lot by this time, enough to lead a Kurdish strike force in Warhead and consider leaving the Doctor for Jan in Love and War. * Fleet!Ace - Ace who enlisted in Spacefleet prior to Deceit and made a lot of bad decisions that eventually reconciled in Set Piece. * Dorothee!Ace - The Paris-hopping timecycle girl we saw briefly as a portraiture in Silver Nemesis and in the epilogue to The Curse of Fenric novelisation that ended up on Gallifrey come Lungbarrow. * Gallifrey!Ace - The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield version who had joined the Academy as part of Romana's new initiative. The two that don't fit well anywhere are: * Death!Ace - The version of her seen in Death Comes to Time seems to belong to either another universe or the far future where the Gods of the Fourth exist. * Zero!Ace - There is no way to have her fit in anywhere unless its the side effect of the Threshold or (more likely) Faction Paradox mucking about with the Doctor's timeline post- Interference. In terms of where A Charitable Earth fits in, I'd say it might be during her Dorothee!Ace period.
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Post by omega on Sept 19, 2016 7:08:09 GMT
I'll second whoever mentioned more novel adaptations. I would love to see Big Finish delve into the EDAs or the PDAs. I've heard there is some issue with adapting the BBC books? If this is so then I would settle for more adaptations of the virgin books. I second this. They desperately need to adapt Lucifer Rising and Festival Of Death. Have you heard Cobwebs? That's pretty much Festival of Death in audio form. It'd be pretty difficult to adapt as intricate a novel as Festival without altering the plot substantially. It was also re-released in 2013 for the 50th anniversary, which eliminates it from audio adaptation potential since it's readily available, somewhat defeating the appeal of exclusivity of an audio version (the audios for Damaged Goods and Well-Mannered War are the only affordable way to experience those stories). Besides, what are the odds it'll get an audio reading through BBC Audio at some point like the other re-releases have? If they book Lalla Ward in to read Pirate Planet, then that's a perfect opportunity for her to read Festival of Death as well. With English Way of Death for the History Collection, it's likely that the decision to re-release that was made a while after began the process of adapting it. The article announcing the Gareth Roberts Fourth Doctor adaptations in DWM was around May 2014, and included photos taken during the recording (add in a few months for John Dorney to write the scripts and casting to be done), while The History Collection was released in 2015.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Sept 19, 2016 9:40:08 GMT
Which, if done by BF, will be done properly (like the Sixth Doctor's regen) as opposed to adapting the crap produced by DWM. It's a matter of reconciling all the Time Lord material with the aside in SJA. * Dorothee!Ace - The Paris-hopping timecycle girl we saw briefly as a portraiture in Silver Nemesis and in the epilogue to The Curse of Fenric novelisation that ended up on Gallifrey come Lungbarrow. That could work so well for an Iris Wildthyme release.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 10:47:18 GMT
* Dorothee!Ace - The Paris-hopping timecycle girl we saw briefly as a portraiture in Silver Nemesis and in the epilogue to The Curse of Fenric novelisation that ended up on Gallifrey come Lungbarrow. That could work so well for an Iris Wildthyme release. Hey, yeah. Now that I think about it, it seems really strange that Iris has never found herself in Paris. At least, as far as I'm aware of.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 19, 2016 12:02:21 GMT
Which, if done by BF, will be done properly (like the Sixth Doctor's regen) as opposed to adapting the crap produced by DWM. It's a matter of reconciling all the Time Lord material with the aside in SJA. Ace's future is interesting because the Target and Virgin novels have her guarding Earth on a timecycle in Paris, Death Comes to Time has her become what might be the first in a new generation of Time Lords and DWM has her die in the Seventh Doctor's arms as a result of the Threshold's actions. I have a sneaking suspicion that Ground Zero occupies an alternate timestream similar to the Third Doctor regenerating on Dust in Interference, so if you slam it all together you get... I remember reading somewhere, (cant think where for the life of me at the moment that her death in Ground Zero is still canon in a sense that we dont know what happens after the Doctor takes her into the Tardis at the end of the story/beginning of the next one. It could be something happens in the Tardis and thats how she reappears later one
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 13:02:44 GMT
Ace's future is interesting because the Target and Virgin novels have her guarding Earth on a timecycle in Paris, Death Comes to Time has her become what might be the first in a new generation of Time Lords and DWM has her die in the Seventh Doctor's arms as a result of the Threshold's actions. I have a sneaking suspicion that Ground Zero occupies an alternate timestream similar to the Third Doctor regenerating on Dust in Interference, so if you slam it all together you get... I remember reading somewhere, (cant think where for the life of me at the moment that her death in Ground Zero is still canon in a sense that we dont know what happens after the Doctor takes her into the Tardis at the end of the story/beginning of the next one. It could be something happens in the Tardis and thats how she reappears later one What clinches it though is that she's referred to by the Eighth Doctor himself as having died in Fire and Brimstone (who, as an aside, has also visited Discworld by this time). Mind you, there have been a wide selection of groups like Faction Paradox, the Council of Eight or individuals like the Master in The Glorious Dead who have been deliberately rewriting history for their own purposes. Oh, hang on... Yeah, I think The Complete Adventures had a working theory that the Doctor took her body into the TARDIS and returned to Gallifrey where he found a way to restore her to life. They also have a pretty decent workaround for having The Black Hole fit into continuity without invalidating Season 6b which is neat.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 19, 2016 13:35:58 GMT
I remember reading somewhere, (cant think where for the life of me at the moment that her death in Ground Zero is still canon in a sense that we dont know what happens after the Doctor takes her into the Tardis at the end of the story/beginning of the next one. It could be something happens in the Tardis and thats how she reappears later one What clinches it though is that she's referred to by the Eighth Doctor himself as having died in Fire and Brimstone (who, as an aside, has also visited Discworld by this time). Mind you, there have been a wide selection of groups like Faction Paradox, the Council of Eight or individuals like the Master in The Glorious Dead who have been deliberately rewriting history for their own purposes. Oh, hang on... Yeah, I think The Complete Adventures had a working theory that the Doctor took her body into the TARDIS and returned to Gallifrey where he found a way to restore her to life. They also have a pretty decent workaround for having The Black Hole fit into continuity without invalidating Season 6b which is neat. So maybe thats why Ace later on was taken into the Timelord Academy, whatever happened during that is what allowed it to. There we have it lol
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Post by dangfish9 on Sept 19, 2016 15:48:35 GMT
Do invented eras from the books count? I'm thinking of the century that the 8th doctor spent on earth with no memory. A hundred years is a lot to play with.
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Post by aztec on Sept 19, 2016 16:14:37 GMT
Do invented eras from the books count? I'm thinking of the century that the 8th doctor spent on earth with no memory. A hundred years is a lot to play with. Maybe 8 bumped into S6b 2nd Dr during his exile explaining the quick scene with them both in The Name Of The Doctor... Anything with the EDA companions whether new stories, adaptions or stories set during his exile on Earth would be an instant purchase for me (then again, any BF with McGann's Doctor in it is an instant purchase...) especially new stories with Fitz.
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