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Post by newt5996 on Mar 11, 2018 6:10:08 GMT
I finished this set yesterday and loved every bit of it. Lisa Bowerman and David Warner are so good together and the stories were so much fun. I know right and that ending just gives me joy. |
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jul 15, 2018 22:35:08 GMT
I’m still hoping the next episode opens with ...
Benny: uhh Doctor...
Doctor: yes Summerfield?
Benny: Doctor, where I come from the suns aren’t doughnut shaped.
Dcotor: OHH that’s interesting!
Benny: bloody Doctors needing to learn to bloody drive!
Doctor: I wonder what physics produces torus suns?
Benny: BAH!!!!
Doctor: you’d need both a monoplanar graviton pull AND push effect.... ohh don’t wander off Summerfield. This is fascinating!
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Dcotor: yuo know on thr planet Pravalor that would be considered a very rude gesture.
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Doctor: And so would that.
Benny: DOCTOR! Come and look at this.
Doctor: I’m busy.
Benny:Doctor!!
Doctor: ohh now you’re talking to me with words again. Ohh look. A dead body.
Benny: doesn’t he look familiar?
Doctor: Handsome chap. Looks a bit like Isaac Newton.
Benny: it’s you.
Doctor: Like I said, handsome chap.
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Post by mbt66 on Jul 18, 2018 18:44:15 GMT
I’m still hoping the next episode opens with ... Benny: uhh Doctor... Doctor: yes Summerfield? Benny: Doctor, where I come from the suns aren’t doughnut shaped. Dcotor: OHH that’s interesting! Benny: bloody Doctors needing to learn to bloody drive! Doctor: I wonder what physics produces torus suns? Benny: BAH!!!! Doctor: you’d need both a monoplanar graviton pull AND push effect.... ohh don’t wander off Summerfield. This is fascinating! .... Dcotor: yuo know on thr planet Pravalor that would be considered a very rude gesture. ... Doctor: And so would that. Benny: DOCTOR! Come and look at this. Doctor: I’m busy. Benny:Doctor!! Doctor: ohh now you’re talking to me with words again. Ohh look. A dead body. Benny: doesn’t he look familiar? Doctor: Handsome chap. Looks a bit like Isaac Newton. Benny: it’s you. Doctor: Like I said, handsome chap. I haven’t heard any if the David Warner Unbound Doctor stories, but that opening would get me intrigued and wanting to hear what happens. (As a matter of interest do you have an explanation?) |
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jul 19, 2018 10:19:21 GMT
I’m still hoping the next episode opens with ... Benny: uhh Doctor... Doctor: yes Summerfield? Benny: Doctor, where I come from the suns aren’t doughnut shaped. Dcotor: OHH that’s interesting! Benny: bloody Doctors needing to learn to bloody drive! Doctor: I wonder what physics produces torus suns? Benny: BAH!!!! Doctor: you’d need both a monoplanar graviton pull AND push effect.... ohh don’t wander off Summerfield. This is fascinating! .... Dcotor: yuo know on thr planet Pravalor that would be considered a very rude gesture. ... Doctor: And so would that. Benny: DOCTOR! Come and look at this. Doctor: I’m busy. Benny:Doctor!! Doctor: ohh now you’re talking to me with words again. Ohh look. A dead body. Benny: doesn’t he look familiar? Doctor: Handsome chap. Looks a bit like Isaac Newton. Benny: it’s you. Doctor: Like I said, handsome chap. I haven’t heard any if the David Warner Unbound Doctor stories, but that opening would get me intrigued and wanting to hear what happens. (As a matter of interest do you have an explanation?) For the dead “looks like the Dcotor”? its a gag based on the fact David Warner plays so many different characters in BF stories (hence the “looks like Isaac Newton”, Who was also played by Warner). It’s a murder mystery, where the Dcotor pretends to be the victim. |
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Post by inchmix on Aug 3, 2018 20:10:58 GMT
It's time to have a relisten of this... And all the New Adventures CD boxsets I think
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Post by inchmix on Aug 3, 2018 20:24:51 GMT
Enjoy it’s a blooming good series lol Ive liked all of the Benny range. Relistened to the Benny Main Range recently. It took awhile!  I |
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Post by Ela on Aug 3, 2018 20:42:15 GMT
I'm planning a big Benny re-listen at some point. Still trying to get through a backlog of BF Benny books I haven't read yet. I've long since read all the Benny New Adventures, of course. Benny is one of my favorites, and Lisa Bowerman is fantastic. |
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Post by tuigirl on Aug 28, 2018 17:41:02 GMT
I was just listening to this recently and I thought it was amazing. Seriously, this is one of my favorite Big Finish releases. Who would have thought? This really surprised me. It is fun, but it also has a real deep and near philosophical aspect to it and the story just keeps you engaged.
Plus, Benny, the Warner Doctor and even the Gatiss Master are just really great characters. Loved it.
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Post by tuigirl on Aug 29, 2018 14:02:24 GMT
I was just listening to this recently and I thought it was amazing. Seriously, this is one of my favorite Big Finish releases. Who would have thought? This really surprised me. It is fun, but it also has a real deep and near philosophical aspect to it and the story just keeps you engaged. Plus, Benny, the Warner Doctor and even the Gatiss Master are just really great characters. Loved it. It was the series with Bernice and Warner that persuaded me to go back and listen to her own range.Plus I have a great love of Warner as The Doctor. Me too!!! And I cannot wait for the next one...  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 14:08:47 GMT
It was the series with Bernice and Warner that persuaded me to go back and listen to her own range.Plus I have a great love of Warner as The Doctor. Me too!!! And I cannot wait for the next one... David is in a lot of BF dramas but he really does shine as the grumpy auld man opposite Bernice...and a top class actor. I do not usually preorder anything but on the strength of the Unbound Bernice stories I had to get the new ones |
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Post by Stevo on Aug 29, 2018 17:51:21 GMT
Plus, Benny, the Warner Doctor and even the Gatiss Master are just really great characters. Loved it. Plus I have a great love of Warner as The Doctor. I love David Warner's 'Unbound' Doctor, although I thought his best Big Finish role was in the Sapphire & Steel audios, as Steel. He could sound quite menacing in some of those. David Warner is a great actor and it was a coup for BF to get him - and keep him - I hope we hear plenty more from him. |
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Post by tuigirl on Oct 31, 2018 17:31:02 GMT
Anyone else cracked up laughing in the interviews when Mark Gatiss pretends to have only seen one episode of Doctor Who featuring Doctor "Spock"? You could nearly believe it (if you did not know who he was).  |
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Post by antartiks on Sept 8, 2019 18:02:04 GMT
With the new box set coming out later this month, I started relistening to the third and fourth volumes of this range. The third one is great, but the fourth is even better! Asking for a Friend is, I think, one of the best Big Finish scripts in recent years along with Absent Friends and The Sky Man for me. David Warner may not be an "official" Doctor but he's just so loveable and touching. I cannot wait for the fifth volume now, let's hope it comes out sooner than later.
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Post by Kestrel on Sept 17, 2020 1:03:00 GMT
So I've been binging Benny this week. Suffice it to say: I am a fan. So far I'm all the way up to the halfway point in Buried Memories, and loving every minute of it. I did only start with Triumph of Sutekh, though, so I'll probably try and go back to listen to NABS 1 before finally jumping ahead to NABS 6 where I can join the rest of y'all in the "present." It looks like Big Finish releases one NABS boxset per year, so it'll be an agonizing wait for NABS7... maybe I should try to pace myself? Nah. Anyway, I have some thoughts on the Unbound Universe sets, so I'm gonna try and post 'em all here. I'm gonna assume it's okay to spoil some things from NABS 3, because I can't imagine anyone would listen to Ruler of the Universe without first having listened to The Unbound Universe. - As excited as I was to finally dive into more David Warner, and as high as my expectations got... I had to laugh aloud at just how minimalist/anticlimactic the Unbound stories begin: the Doctor just pops in, grabs Benny, and takes her away to a new universe. Way to hit the ground running!
- The Emporium at the End sure was... something. Sadly I found myself pretty underwhelmed by the Gatiss Master this time around, despite loving him in Anti-Genesis and Sympathy for the Devil. So,ething about the performance just feels off to me, but I can't really articulate why or how. This Master just doesn't feel as menacing or clever as he did in those other stories... I dunno, maybe it's just me.
- So these sets do what I'm hoping the Gallifrey range does once GTW ends: explore the aftermath. Postwar periods are very interesting settings for stories! In many ways what happens after a war provides more fodder for compelling storytelling than what happens during.
- But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't curious about the nature of this apocalyptic war. It's basically an alternate version of the Time War, right? And the Doctor implies that the Time Lords in this universe were just as bad, or nearly so, as the Time War Time Lords. But the resolution of the war is vague. Perhaps in this universe, the Time Lords lost their war, and that's why the universe is collapsing? But who were they fighting against? Or perhaps they Ar was primarily between two other factions, and the Time Lords we're merely bit players? Either way, I think it's super interesting to have a 3rd Doctor fight in a Time War arm-in-arm with the Final Master, even if it's neither Pertwee or Delgado playing the characters. The Doctor leaving the universe in the Master's hands is also a nice throwback to their friendship. I think these stories do a better job of painting these two immortals as old friends than any other, and I love it.
- So NABS4.1: The Apocalypse Clock was pretty forgettable... but everything else? Pure gold. Ruler of the Universe might just be my single favorite boxset. Especially the dialog. Part of it is down to the delivery, certainly--David Warner and Lisa Bowerman can make any line sound incredible--but the actual writing was pretty damned perfect. Good God are these stories quotable. So many lines just left me sitting here, grinning like a fool. So much fun.
- How has "The Doctor in therapy" never been done before? That was sooooo good! And that ending. Hng!
- And once again, Mark Gatiss doing the BTS in-character As Sam Kisgart is an absolute delight.
And now David Warner is off to our universe--which is all kinds of awesome. I really hope to see him interact with some other characters from the greater Whoverse--obviously other Doctors would be fun, and eventually the Gatiss Master is gonna have to show up again, if only to flirt some more with Benny, but I'd also love to see him meet with Pertwee-era characters, like Jo Grant or the Brigadier. Nevermind Gallifrey. Oh, Gallifrey! Gimme some Narvin and Romana guest-stars, please!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2020 8:38:37 GMT
So I've been binging Benny this week. Suffice it to say: I am a fan. So far I'm all the way up to the halfway point in Buried Memories, and loving every minute of it. I did only start with Triumph of Sutekh, though, so I'll probably try and go back to listen to NABS 1 before finally jumping ahead to NABS 6 where I can join the rest of y'all in the "present." It looks like Big Finish releases one NABS boxset per year, so it'll be an agonizing wait for NABS7... maybe I should try to pace myself? Nah. Anyway, I have some thoughts on the Unbound Universe sets, so I'm gonna try and post 'em all here. I'm gonna assume it's okay to spoil some things from NABS 3, because I can't imagine anyone would listen to Ruler of the Universe without first having listened to The Unbound Universe. - As excited as I was to finally dive into more David Warner, and as high as my expectations got... I had to laugh aloud at just how minimalist/anticlimactic the Unbound stories begin: the Doctor just pops in, grabs Benny, and takes her away to a new universe. Way to hit the ground running!
- The Emporium at the End sure was... something. Sadly I found myself pretty underwhelmed by the Gatiss Master this time around, despite loving him in Anti-Genesis and Sympathy for the Devil. So,ething about the performance just feels off to me, but I can't really articulate why or how. This Master just doesn't feel as menacing or clever as he did in those other stories... I dunno, maybe it's just me.
- So these sets do what I'm hoping the Gallifrey range does once GTW ends: explore the aftermath. Postwar periods are very interesting settings for stories! In many ways what happens after a war provides more fodder for compelling storytelling than what happens during.
- But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't curious about the nature of this apocalyptic war. It's basically an alternate version of the Time War, right? And the Doctor implies that the Time Lords in this universe were just as bad, or nearly so, as the Time War Time Lords. But the resolution of the war is vague. Perhaps in this universe, the Time Lords lost their war, and that's why the universe is collapsing? But who were they fighting against? Or perhaps they Ar was primarily between two other factions, and the Time Lords we're merely bit players? Either way, I think it's super interesting to have a 3rd Doctor fight in a Time War arm-in-arm with the Final Master, even if it's neither Pertwee or Delgado playing the characters. The Doctor leaving the universe in the Master's hands is also a nice throwback to their friendship. I think these stories do a better job of painting these two immortals as old friends than any other, and I love it.
- So NABS4.1: The Apocalypse Clock was pretty forgettable... but everything else? Pure gold. Ruler of the Universe might just be my single favorite boxset. Especially the dialog. Part of it is down to the delivery, certainly--David Warner and Lisa Bowerman can make any line sound incredible--but the actual writing was pretty damned perfect. Good God are these stories quotable. So many lines just left me sitting here, grinning like a fool. So much fun.
- How has "The Doctor in therapy" never been done before? That was sooooo good! And that ending. Hng!
- And once again, Mark Gatiss doing the BTS in-character As Sam Kisgart is an absolute delight.
And now David Warner is off to our universe--which is all kinds of awesome. I really hope to see him interact with some other characters from the greater Whoverse--obviously other Doctors would be fun, and eventually the Gatiss Master is gonna have to show up again, if only to flirt some more with Benny, but I'd also love to see him meet with Pertwee-era characters, like Jo Grant or the Brigadier. Nevermind Gallifrey. Oh, Gallifrey! Gimme some Narvin and Romana guest-stars, please!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2021 23:55:43 GMT
Surprised how much more i loved this than boxset 3. This was fantastic. Not a diff story, absent friends was stunning and truant was just as good i say, two superb stories. I just loved the arc, i loved how this felt very unbound after the pretty traditional set of stories of the last set. This feels like Bernice Series again as well which i really liked and felt was missing from the third set. The climax was also really solid and more satisfying with a much better Master portrayal here although still not quite as good as Sympathy but ah well. Honestly if i had listened to it in the year it would have been my boxset of that year but anyways, this was fab. Interesting to get into the story so far/volume 5&6. It seems it goes back to singular standalone stories that aren’t related which is a bit of a shame as i have really loved this boxset but ah well. Will have to see if it matches this. Regardless, very happy with this boxset
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