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Post by theillusiveman on Jul 10, 2020 9:01:35 GMT
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Post by theillusiveman on Jul 10, 2020 9:03:19 GMT
I'm enjoying reading this discussion, but was getting confused as to why The War Master and The Eighth Doctor etc were getting involved with Torchwood. Then I realised the initials TW also stand for Time War! Maybe not the former but the later....
{Spoiler} in Stranded it seems that Andy and Tania are Torchwood agents or connected to the organization
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 9:06:43 GMT
Lets hope this is a glimpse of of the re-launch!!Or one aspect of it anyway!! Fingers crossed! I'm there for an eight part Chase-style anthology through space and time across two releases, but it's got me thinking about how other ways to play with the format as well. If the restriction for physical content is that stories have to be modelled on 2 CDs for production costs and so on... I wonder if they could do things like a six-parter where we get The Story of Death, Part 1 (four parts) and The Story of Death, Part 2/The Doom Tale (2 parts/2 parts) following a similar multi-release structure? I'd be down for that as a listener.
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Post by Jeedai on Jul 10, 2020 9:51:33 GMT
Interesting wonder if that means any more classic doctors will find themselves in the time war The 7th Doctor would likely end the time war quickly if that was the case imo Imagine all the alternative-timeline versions of Ace that he could piss off at once...
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Post by mark687 on Jul 10, 2020 15:01:59 GMT
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Jul 11, 2020 14:47:41 GMT
They say everything is the first series. I mean there probably is gonna be another series at some point but I’d never read into them calling a set series 1. Umm.. no they don't. Granted a lot do state either 'Series 1' or 'Volume 1' on their front covers, but off the top of my head The War Master, UNIT, The Doctor Chronicles, Tales of New Earth and Jenny The Doctor's Daughter did not. And of those The War Master only got green lighted for three further Series because Sir Derek was having a ball recording the first, UNIT went to eight volumes on the strength of sales and good storytelling alone, my understanding is there is going to be a second series of The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles despite the impression it was a one Volume boxset for Nine, Ten, Eleven and late in the day Twelve, Tales of New Earth...well, we all know what happened there...and Jenny The Doctor's Daughter, despite being a very popular boxset went very quiet - the implication from social media being that as Georgia was now a mother a follow up was unlikely to happen anytime soon if at all. So I'll repeat what I said in my previous post - I could very well being reading way too much into the tweet - if Big Finish can badly word their newsletter to imply a discount on the Fourth Doctor Adventures range that turns out to be a discount on one story then a tweet could easily be badly worded too. I accept that. And granted Lady Christina is the only title I can think of with 'Series 1' on the cover that (so far) has not produced a 'Series 2', so I can also accept the essence of what you are saying. But (there always has to be a 'but')....there is always the possibility that there might be more than just a poor choice of words in that tweet. And possibilities have to be explored, even if ultimately they lead nowhere. sorry for my delayed response but I haven't been posting much in the last few months and forgot to comment on this last tine.
When people store physical copies, they tend to place them on shelves or in boxes sideways on.
Consequently Big Finish places series numbers on the side of sleeves even when they don't number the front.
All the War Master and New U.N.I.T. series have a series number on the side of the sleeve.
Jenny and Tales of New Earth both have a 1 on the side of the sleeves.
The new Doctor Chronicles have not been numbered on the sleeves but all 4 have a 1 on the spine of the cd case for the series number. Basically, Big Finish tend to put a series number on almost everything now after their "mistake" of not numbering the original Dark Eyes. Though there are still a few one-off releases with no series number such as the Eighth of March, Blakes Seven:The Way Ahead and Torchwood:Believe
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Post by antartiks on Jul 11, 2020 20:00:21 GMT
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Post by theillusiveman on Jul 12, 2020 1:07:31 GMT
"More multiplatform #DoctorWho: Time Lord Victorious announcements to come in July."
Wonder if that means more info on the secret unannounced 5th Audio?
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 12, 2020 1:57:44 GMT
"More multiplatform #DoctorWho: Time Lord Victorious announcements to come in July." Wonder if that means more info on the secret unannounced 5th Audio? Probably but it also means details about non-BF events will be unveiled.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 12, 2020 11:09:56 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jul 12, 2020 11:14:24 GMT
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Post by theillusiveman on Jul 12, 2020 13:10:43 GMT
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Post by Digi on Jul 12, 2020 14:13:34 GMT
...do individual artworks for stories really cost them so much that it increases the prices?
And if so, why is it that box sets that now *don’t* have individual art aren’t any cheaper? Particularly ones that only have three stories instead of four?
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Post by cwm on Jul 12, 2020 14:21:57 GMT
...do individual artworks for stories really cost them so much that it increases the prices? And if so, why is it that box sets that now *don’t* have individual art aren’t any cheaper? Particularly ones that only have three stories instead of four? Yes. They have to pay the artist and get approval by the BBC. If there's three or four individual covers per set that all adds up. We're not talking a *massive* price increase but the sets that don't have individual art any more would have a higher price if they did have individual covers for each story.
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Post by Digi on Jul 12, 2020 15:21:35 GMT
...do individual artworks for stories really cost them so much that it increases the prices? And if so, why is it that box sets that now *don’t* have individual art aren’t any cheaper? Particularly ones that only have three stories instead of four? Yes. They have to pay the artist and get approval by the BBC. If there's three or four individual covers per set that all adds up. We're not talking a *massive* price increase but the sets that don't have individual art any more would have a higher price if they did have individual covers for each story. That's what I'm saying, though. Now that boxsets don't have individual art for each story, by the logic of the tweet, they should be cheaper. But they're not.
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Post by theillusiveman on Jul 12, 2020 15:23:19 GMT
...do individual artworks for stories really cost them so much that it increases the prices? And if so, why is it that box sets that now *don’t* have individual art aren’t any cheaper? Particularly ones that only have three stories instead of four? Yes. They have to pay the artist and get approval by the BBC. If there's three or four individual covers per set that all adds up. We're not talking a *massive* price increase but the sets that don't have individual art any more would have a higher price if they did have individual covers for each story. Honestly if i recall correctly The War Master CD Box sets cost the same as Ravenous 4 so there wasn't much difference at all
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Post by theillusiveman on Jul 12, 2020 15:24:20 GMT
Yes. They have to pay the artist and get approval by the BBC. If there's three or four individual covers per set that all adds up. We're not talking a *massive* price increase but the sets that don't have individual art any more would have a higher price if they did have individual covers for each story. That's what I'm saying, though. Now that boxsets don't have individual art for each story, by the logic of the tweet, they should be cheaper. But they're not. Exactly
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 12, 2020 15:25:05 GMT
Now that boxsets don't have individual art for each story, by the logic of the tweet, they should be cheaper. But they're not. Unless the price was going to go up anyway, in whcih case the current prices are the 'lower prices' against which the multi-cover prices will be compared.
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Post by cwm on Jul 12, 2020 15:34:24 GMT
Yes. They have to pay the artist and get approval by the BBC. If there's three or four individual covers per set that all adds up. We're not talking a *massive* price increase but the sets that don't have individual art any more would have a higher price if they did have individual covers for each story. That's what I'm saying, though. Now that boxsets don't have individual art for each story, by the logic of the tweet, they should be cheaper. But they're not. Ranges were changed to only having one cover and a jewel case for the whole set in order to keep costs down. If they had continued having individual art and cases for each story prices would have had to rise.
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Jul 12, 2020 17:31:14 GMT
That's what I'm saying, though. Now that boxsets don't have individual art for each story, by the logic of the tweet, they should be cheaper. But they're not. Ranges were changed to only having one cover and a jewel case for the whole set in order to keep costs down. If they had continued having individual art and cases for each story prices would have had to rise. This. They are trying not to raise prices, and are cost-cutting in other ways to conserve the prices as they are.
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