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Post by constonks on Jun 12, 2020 22:36:47 GMT
Today, Titan Comics - The Eighth Doctor: A Matter of Life and Death! I feel like I just raced through those comics as quickly as possible - but I did like them! I think they'd be good for adapting on audio, half an hour per story, five episodes total (or six if you want to split the final part into two, which I think is the one that could benefit from expansion the most). There is one thing I thought would stand in the way of adapting it, but it turns out not to be a problem... Clara and the Twelfth Doctor appear in the last two comics - but they only have a few lines and they can be cut without issue. The Doctor never meets them, anyway, and Josie explains their involvement, saying the Doctor she met first was Scottish, eyebrows, Roman-looking, travelling with someone called Clara... They still could with that intact, if they get their actors eventually 😉 I mean I'd absolutely love that too!
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Post by timegirl on Jun 12, 2020 22:50:20 GMT
They still could with that intact, if they get their actors eventually 😉 I mean I'd absolutely love that too! Me too! 😃Fingers crossed they come to the big finish side!🤞😉
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Post by muddyviolet on Jun 15, 2020 23:20:30 GMT
Started reading Goth Opera last week, the first MDA, about to finish it. Seems like a great story for Nyssa but the reliance on Blood Harvest is quite bad for modern readers. An entire chapter became mostly irrelevant and confusing due to the fact it links them. Apart from that, loving it.
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Post by melkur on Jun 16, 2020 1:32:32 GMT
Last week I read 'The Eight Doctors' for the first time (fair, it was fair enough) and skim-read 'Vampire Science', which I enjoyed when I was younger, for the first time in over ten years.
At the moment I'm finishing off 'The Bodysnatchers'. I never could say no to spending some time with Litefoot...
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Post by newt5996 on Jun 24, 2020 4:56:20 GMT
Because I need some comfort reading, I’m rereading The Dying Days. Yeah it’s a VNA and yeah it’s the final VNa, but it’s Lance Parkin’s Big Pertwee Homage and Benny is in it. Also Brigadier Bambara plays a decent role early on and she’s such an underutilized character.
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Post by constonks on Jun 24, 2020 5:44:18 GMT
Because I need some comfort reading, I’m rereading The Dying Days. Yeah it’s a VNA and yeah it’s the final VNa, but it’s Lance Parkin’s Big Pertwee Homage and Benny is in it. Also Brigadier Bambara plays a decent role early on and she’s such an underutilized character. Weirdly underutilized, I'd say - given that she was "The New Brig" in Survival, it's a wonder she doesn't show up in more of the VNAs or any of the EDAs. And she only has one Big Finish story!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 6:03:27 GMT
Because I need some comfort reading, I’m rereading The Dying Days. Yeah it’s a VNA and yeah it’s the final VNa, but it’s Lance Parkin’s Big Pertwee Homage and Benny is in it. Also Brigadier Bambara plays a decent role early on and she’s such an underutilized character. Weirdly underutilized, I'd say - given that she was "The New Brig" in Survival, it's a wonder she doesn't show up in more of the VNAs or any of the EDAs. And she only has one Big Finish story! Fun fact: I found out recently that her catchphrase can be interepreted as South African slang. Ag shame is an expression of sympathy or pity ( ag functioning as an interjection like "um"). It's another one of those stories that has become an unintentional period piece in the best possible way. I really like " The Invasion for 1997" vibe it has, the Mars conspiracy is genuinely quite tense.
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Post by newt5996 on Jun 24, 2020 14:30:25 GMT
Because I need some comfort reading, I’m rereading The Dying Days. Yeah it’s a VNA and yeah it’s the final VNa, but it’s Lance Parkin’s Big Pertwee Homage and Benny is in it. Also Brigadier Bambara plays a decent role early on and she’s such an underutilized character. Weirdly underutilized, I'd say - given that she was "The New Brig" in Survival, it's a wonder she doesn't show up in more of the VNAs or any of the EDAs. And she only has one Big Finish story! And it’s not like Angela Bruce doesn’t do big finish. Like I get it, people don’t always like Battlefield because it got low ratings, but that story’s brilliant and she’s such a great character
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Post by newt5996 on Jun 24, 2020 14:32:30 GMT
Yeah, I've basically written several notes of this character only gets this one scene so they're not important. Like Christopher Bulis is like here's a new character every few pages and I hate it. You know what type of story you're getting into when you start with Chapter 2 and then jump to Chapter 5. As a result, compared to other stories you've done, has the adaptation process for Shadowmind been easier or harder? It’s been harder. Because there’s no motivation to actually sit down and do it. Like last night I took 100 pages and cut it down to like 25.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2020 0:24:47 GMT
As a result, compared to other stories you've done, has the adaptation process for Shadowmind been easier or harder? It’s been harder. Because there’s no motivation to actually sit down and do it. Like last night I took 100 pages and cut it down to like 25. Oof, I can see that. Shadowmind is one of those stories that feels just sort of... there. Christopher Bulis's writing feels a lot more at home in the mentality of the Missing Adventures than the NAs. State of Change was an enjoyable read and I think The Sorcerer's Apprentice with the original TARDIS team (One/Ian/Barbara/Susan) is one of his best, but they tend towards invoking that Saturday afternoon time slot. Not bad by any means, but it's a very particular style. A lot from those MAs could have easily been done on television in the era with very few changes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 18:34:47 GMT
Today I'm reading Vanderdeken's Children.
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Post by newt5996 on Jul 1, 2020 1:19:00 GMT
Rereading Birthright, which after listening to and liking the adaptation a lot, going back makes me realize just how much was lost by cutting the Doctor. Sure he isn't in the original novel much, only like 20 pages in total, but his presence is so intertwined with Benny and Ace's plots that it really brings the adaptation down.
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Post by Ela on Jul 5, 2020 6:39:59 GMT
Finished reading The Infinity Doctors today. Odd story.
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Post by melkur on Aug 30, 2020 0:27:29 GMT
Over the past couple of days I've been reading 'The Face Of The Enemy'. See, UNIT aren't *completely* useless!... All of the time.
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Post by newt5996 on Oct 18, 2020 16:38:10 GMT
Time to revive this thread: A few nights ago I powered through Blood Heat in like three hours because of the projects I'm a part of on Security Kitchen Productions. It's such a dark book, but I love how much hell it puts all of our favorite UNIT characters through. I think when I first read it while I loved it, I was too young to entirely get what Mortimore was going for as it really is all about humanity.
I've started Frontier Worlds which after The Taking of Planet 5 (by an author who I don't particularly like) and The Blue Angel is a nice change of pace for the EDAs.
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Post by sherlock on Oct 18, 2020 18:39:16 GMT
I’ve started re-reading Touched by an Angel. It tackles surprisingly adult subject matter for a New Series novel (it starts with a fatal car accident), which is fitting for the Weeping Angels as one of the darkest aspects of the new series.
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Post by tuigirl on Oct 18, 2020 19:42:34 GMT
I’ve started re-reading Touched by an Angel. It tackles surprisingly adult subject matter for a New Series novel (it starts with a fatal car accident), which is fitting for the Weeping Angels as one of the darkest aspects of the new series. It is among my favorite Who books. It really is quite well written.
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Post by constonks on Oct 18, 2020 20:07:36 GMT
I’ve started re-reading Touched by an Angel. It tackles surprisingly adult subject matter for a New Series novel (it starts with a fatal car accident), which is fitting for the Weeping Angels as one of the darkest aspects of the new series. It is among my favorite Who books. It really is quite well written.
Definitely up there when it comes to the new series stuff. Also a very quick read. Lots of energy!
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Post by constonks on Nov 1, 2020 2:32:14 GMT
Finished reading Forever Autumn today, which I'm happy with because I scooped it up on eBay specifically as a Halloween-time read (because of its spoopy pumpkin cover).
It's nothing groundbreaking as a novel, but it's a fun little romp that uses as many Halloween things as it can to create some cool visuals. Basically, it feels like a Target Novelisation of the 2007 Halloween Special that never existed!
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Nov 5, 2020 14:24:01 GMT
Finally going to finish Nightshade after a year
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