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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 4:56:20 GMT
I wonder if we might see Season 22 tackled in Short Trips form? Colin Baker has expressed that he doesn't want to return to his TV era and it's a period I've love to see expanded, especially for Peri. (Not withstanding the great stuff Big Finish did with Six and Peri moving them further and the intresting setup for a future adventures)
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Post by selimpensfiction on Jan 31, 2018 15:31:42 GMT
What I appreciated most is how visceral each era and each persona felt, as if you were there experiencing it yourself. Looks like the Short Trips range is off to a great start for 2018.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 19:32:47 GMT
I wonder if we might see Season 22 tackled in Short Trips form? Colin Baker has expressed that he doesn't want to return to his TV era and it's a period I've love to see expanded, especially for Peri. (Not withstanding the great stuff Big Finish did with Six and Peri moving them further and the intresting setup for a future adventures) Sorry, I meant the gap between Season 22 and Season 23.
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Post by Max Kashevsky on Feb 1, 2018 21:21:47 GMT
Finally managed to listen to this. What is there to say? Bryant gave a magnificent performance. Starkey provided her with a script perfectly suited to this format and to Nicola's strengths. And the music was gorgeous in its simplicity.
Of course, I could change the names and post that every month, and it'd always be true! The Short Trips keep on going from strength to strength.
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Post by sherlock on Feb 3, 2018 23:50:12 GMT
A solid tale. Good concept and every segment came across well. {Spoiler} Certainly contains the most poetic description of sabotaging of stocks ever.
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Post by theotherjosh on Feb 6, 2018 15:44:06 GMT
Obviously, everyone associated with Big Finish is a "fan" of Doctor Who on some level, but as multi-talented as he is, I always think of Dan Starkey as one of us. I see him primarily as a fan who just so happens to write and act in Doctor Who productions.
He's just got that love and enthusiasm for it and that seems to be the primary influence on his writing. Nicola Bryant is a superb reader. I'm never going to like Peri, but Big Finish has absolutely sold me on the talents of Nicola Bryant.
Great story, well executed.The changes in era and perspective within the story keep it fresh.
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Post by number13 on Feb 11, 2018 1:04:09 GMT
Dan Starkey gets the 2018 Short Trips off to a great start with a quick-moving and very well written adventure where I could imagine and almost feel every scene; crunching snow underfoot, a trapeze bar in the hands, a freezing stasis chamber on some distant world, all making for an engaging, intriguing and sometimes humorous ride. And the opening is a real attention-grabber: Peri is a worn, campaigning soldier - and male?! Eh??! It's the first multi-voice/narrated story I've heard Nicola Bryant perform and she is excellent, with many quick changes of scene, tone and character to play. The Doctor sweeping in and grandly taking charge of of someone else's setup was very TV Sixie and the enjoyably OTT sales lady character gave him a fine foil while Peri was 'elsewhere', caught in the machinery and in Time but far from helpless. I really liked the way that the Doctor and Peri work as a full team in this story. He couldn't have asked her to do something so obviously dangerous as leaping randomly around in the past of her own world -the builders of the device did accidentally erase their own timeline after all! But once she is there, the Doctor trusts Peri to gain control of her avatars' environments (with a few pointers from him on the 'outside') and to help the other 'tourists' return to their bodies in the stasis chamber. It took both of them to save everyone - and the Doctor to save her - and Peri returns the favour, coming to his rescue (with energy!) at the end... A highly entertaining Short Trip and definitely recommended. 5* (And with many little 'bonus' moments like the Latin plant names 'leaking through' from Peri's botanically-educated mind into that of her avatar - at that stage a grizzled soldier in the Swedish(?) army.)
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Post by Ian McArdell on Feb 15, 2018 16:02:39 GMT
My take on The Authentic Experience is up at CultBox. Did anyone else feel this was a Quantum Leap homage... or was it just me?
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Post by elkawho on Feb 15, 2018 18:25:54 GMT
My take on The Authentic Experience is up at CultBox. Did anyone else feel this was a Quantum Leap homage... or was it just me? Not just you.
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Post by fantasticalice on Feb 21, 2018 19:53:58 GMT
Second short trip in a row pushing 45 minutes. I am very open to this new longer short trip format. Even longer ones still fit the basic remit as they are still more one off adventures than even something like "45" or the weird split adventures we had in the main range.
And admittedly if we see this as a short story it's still 1/8th the average novel and 1/15th longer fare like Dracula.
3 pounds for 45 minutes is amazing.
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Post by Ela on Aug 8, 2019 15:00:38 GMT
I noticed that series 8 short trips seem to be longer. My take on The Authentic Experience is up at CultBox. Did anyone else feel this was a Quantum Leap homage... or was it just me? I never watched Quantum Leap, but it did feel like something I've seen or heard before. Enjoyable story.
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