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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 15:07:55 GMT
Stemming from a conversation in CDNM, Big Finish are superb at recreating eras, but I confess I am more excited when they take the Doctors into all new modern territory.
This isn't just with Classic Doctors New Monsters and the upcoming River boxset (As much as I love him I tend not to count the Eighth Doctor in this because he is quite modern anyway), before Briggs & Richardson took over Big Finish didn't hesitate to give the Doctors modern-style adventures, without trying to recreate the sound of the era - this was in stories like The Condemned and The Harvest. Even we've had mentions of more modern technology like mobile phones and iPads.
Storywise we got the Dalek Invasion of Gallifrey in The Apocalypse Element, and Spare Parts was a very different tale for the Fifth Doctor.
Even the more recent 'Locum Doctors' trilogy would never have been done on screen at any time, and the Early Adventures is about to give us a First Doctor/Sontaran story.
Can people think of any more?
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Post by relativetime on Aug 21, 2016 15:32:22 GMT
The Holy Terror strikes me as a story that wouldn't or even couldn't be done on television. Not only for having a talking, crime-solving penguin as the companion, but also because the actual story is far more adult than I think the television show would feel comfortable producing.
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Post by icecreamdf on Aug 21, 2016 16:04:09 GMT
Scherzo is another one that wouldn't work at all on television.
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Post by aztec on Aug 21, 2016 16:09:46 GMT
You try getting a BBC executive to support To the Death as a suitably epic/cheerful series ending to a family Tea Time show, I can't imagine New Who ever being allowed to do something that shocking...
The Natural History Of Fear.
A proper multi Doctor story with the Classic Doctors wouldn't work on TV i.m.o, and I much prefer Big Finish tackling such crossovers for the fans away from the BBC's interference rather than the BBC attempting to cram a large amount of cameos by very visibly different actors into stories that don't really feel like they belong in them, moreover multi doctor stories which wouldn't mean much to the vast majority of New Who casual viewers who weren't big fans or aware of the Classic Series.
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Post by mark687 on Aug 22, 2016 10:56:40 GMT
Minuet in Hell
Nekromantia
(Content Wise)
Divergent Universe
(Some of the most visual audios but still to complex to show on TV)
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Post by omega on Aug 22, 2016 11:02:13 GMT
Minute in Hell Nekromantia (Content Wise) Dirvengant Universe (Some of the most visual audios but still to complex to show on TV) Regards mark687 Minuet in Hell and Divergent Universe. |
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Post by omega on Aug 22, 2016 11:04:57 GMT
Omega. Both that and Natural History of Fear each have a big twist that would be spoiled immediately in a visual format.
Night Thoughts has some grisly imagery. Ironic that it started out as a script for the McCoy era then.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 11:30:30 GMT
LIVE 34 for a variety of reasons, mainly its radio show format and Hex's rather grotesque discovery in a basement.
The Emerald Tiger would have been impossible to accomplish on a normal television budget.
I was going to put The Reaping here but after rewatching the Edge of Darkness miniseries, I think that it could have been right at home in late eighties Who.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 21:57:10 GMT
I don't think that LIVE 34 would ever be able to be done on TV or on book form. Unless on TV the BBC decide to make Ghostwatch 2: Doctor Who edition.
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Post by icecreamdf on Aug 23, 2016 0:04:26 GMT
Live 34 might be able to work as a TV news show instead of a radio news show.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 2:26:07 GMT
Babylon 5 and to a lesser extent Battlestar Galactica proved that it could be done with little issue.
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Post by theotherjosh on Aug 23, 2016 15:46:04 GMT
My first thought on the subject was that I don’t think anything is impossible to adapt. Some stories are more suited to straight adaptations than others, but the medium is the message. A 45 minute television show isn’t the same as a two hour audio play, and consequently, you won’t tell the same story in the same way.
I happen to think that Big Finish is superb at understanding the strengths and limits of the medium. I felt the novel adaptations were excellent, and they involved a certain amount of distilling a given story down to essentials, then rebuilding it for audio. I don’t see any reason why the same process couldn’t be applied for the screen. Emphasize the elements that work for television and downplay those that don’t.
Then I got thinking along the lines of specific performers, and while this might be outside the scope of what you were asking with your original question, but for me, the biggest barrier to adaptation is that the actors can’t reprise their roles on television in the same way they can on audio. There is no disguising the fact that Ace is no longer a teenager.
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