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Post by shallacatop on Apr 24, 2019 13:26:31 GMT
I'm not really sure what possessed me to get this in the recent sale, but I was drawn to the set. I've just given The Bleeding Heart a listen.
Nicholas Briggs is bloody awful! He sounds like a bizarre combination of someone from Manchester and Sheffield and sounds uncannily like the Tetley Tea Man on a couple of occasions. And yet, I couldn't stop listening; he's strangely compelling.
The story itself I did really like. I think it displays why I'm not too fond of the idea of pre-Rose stories, due to them tending to reveal too much about the Time War. I understand that such a placement would do that, but it also disrupts the steady flow of information that the 2005 series brought. The Doctor's almost instant trust and affection for Adriana in particular seems to undermine the story between the Doctor and Rose. I think what I'm trying to say is that for a pre-Rose story, it does a lot of stuff that goes against what a story in that era should do.
Some of the minor continuity bits work very well, such as the more bitter moments from the Doctor and having the War Doctor's sonic screwdriver. Presumably he's still wearing his jacket (or the whole costume) too, due to the battered description, which doesn't particularly suit the leather jacket the Ninth Doctor wore.
A few quibbles aside, it's pretty good and not quite as disastrous as a pre-Rose story could have been.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2019 8:31:38 GMT
Yeah, there are good stories here, but I really did not get on at all with his version of the Ninth Doctor. Not even remotely. As such, that performance was the major detractor in this release for me, and something that I had to kind of just put up with in order to try and enjoy the rest, which was quite good.
If they do another Ninth Doctor Chronicles with Nick Briggs fronting it I shan't be buying, personally. His performance in these is just too much of an obstacle for me to knowingly buy into again, I'm afraid.
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