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Post by omega on May 19, 2018 23:04:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 11:04:40 GMT
Have to admit that The Lure of the Nomad is so far my favourite 2018 Main Range release. The plotting was decent and full of twists, well-written humour, and also the entire characterisation of Mathew Sharpe. Wish I could hear more of him, perhaps in a Sixie trilogy and also a Short Trip (narrated by George Sear). Always nice to expand upon a backstory!
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Post by slithe on May 24, 2018 19:05:18 GMT
Not a bad release. As has been said before by others, not quite in the same league as previous Colin Baker trilogies but still a good effort. The idea of the story is quite an interesting one and the premise seems to veer between the whimsical-Douglas Adams kind of story and a more darker effort. Certainly, there is a real shift in tone between the first three episodes and the final piece. In some ways it reminds me a bit of The Myth Makers with the first three episodes very light hearted and played for laughs, with the final one bringing together a more sombre tone. {Spoiler} Mathew Sharpe is an interesting character. I'd worked out quite early on that there was things about him that didn't fit and I think several clues are given to show that he isn't as totally naive and innocent as he is made out. The dramatic irony isn't quite well served on audio, but visually there would have been more clues as to his true identity. Sear plays a good role as 'Mathew' but as the Myriad he comes across as less convincing, it is more like teenager trying to be tough than anything else. Clearly manipulative but not that fearsome. The cast are good here. As always, Colin Baker is a delight to listen to and although he is more akin to the brash Doctor seen on the TV, he is still likeable enough. The scenes with Willoway are a joy to listen to - especially with the drinking of tea (how English can you get) and are very reminiscent of the new-style series (very Russell T Davies here). The 'March of the Myriad' theme is quite interesting and the piano solo is nice to listen to. I do wonder if there is another link here to a wider theme - Davison's Doctor was looking for crystals in Serpent in the Silver Mask, Baker's Doctor encounters crystals in this adventure. {Spoiler} Also, Mathew mentions that he is deliberately searching for a specific incarnation of the Doctor when trying to blackmail him. Was he trying to avoid a specific one - e.g. would the Seventh have fallen to his charms so easily? Would the Fifth have been even more naive - especially if post-Adric?
The ending with Baker leaving Mathew to his fate is well done and comes across very powerfully. A solid adventure but not quite 5*.
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Post by slithe on May 24, 2018 19:05:30 GMT
I do wonder if the format of the releases is less of a Trilogy now and more of a smattering of stories. Iron Bright doesn't seem to directly link to this (from the trailer). It will be interesting to see how the release change in the coming months.
Bravo for trying out a new companion and approach. The story does add variety and prevents the range from getting stale. As much as I like Flip and Constance, this is a different direction. Change can be as good as a rest.
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Post by chrischapman1981 on May 24, 2018 20:07:26 GMT
I do wonder if the format of the releases is less of a Trilogy now and more of a smattering of stories. Iron Bright doesn't seem to directly link to this (from the trailer). It will be interesting to see how the release change in the coming months.
Bravo for trying out a new companion and approach. The story does add variety and prevents the range from getting stale. As much as I like Flip and Constance, this is a different direction. Change can be as good as a rest.
It's true, Iron Bright is entirely separate from Nomad.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 26, 2018 18:58:19 GMT
I rather enjoyed The Lure of the Nomad. Of all the audio Doctors I continue to believe that Colin sounds the most ageless. This is just a fun story very well told.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 0:40:42 GMT
Loved this. Big Finish playing on our speculation about Matthew was perfectly handled, with a very even deck - we're always going to be suprised, aren't we? Looking forward to the rest of the triolgey immensly, and despite my love of Six/Flip/Constance, Six's dark nights is more then enough to tide me over in the meantime. And Colin Baker was fantastic here - the sad, melachonic resolve when 'Matthew' revealed that he didn't care to remember anything about his host is just so very Six, as was his sad lament at the end.
I wonder if we'll see The Myriad in the Eighth Doctor Time War box sets?
Darker nights await.....
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 0:42:13 GMT
Also loved the less then subtle (but still very affectionate) nod to the audience about Peri as well
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Post by slithe on May 29, 2018 9:32:01 GMT
Loved this. Big Finish playing on our speculation about Matthew was perfectly handled, with a very even deck - we're always going to be suprised, aren't we? Looking forward to the rest of the triolgey immensly, and despite my love of Six/Flip/Constance, Six's dark nights is more then enough to tide me over in the meantime. And Colin Baker was fantastic here - the sad, melachonic resolve when 'Matthew' revealed that he didn't care to remember anything about his host is just so very Six, as was his sad lament at the end.
I wonder if we'll see The Myriad in the Eighth Doctor Time War box sets?
Darker nights await.....
Totally agree about the melancholic lament of Colin Baker at the end of the story when he claimed not to know 'Matthew' and left him to his 'fate'. For some reason, I always find that Baker plays the 'lonely' Doctor far better than McCoy does (even though that was the angle the production team wanted to take with the Seventh Doctor). Would have been interesting to see whether his Doctor would have taken this direction had Baker fulfilled his wish and played the role for far longer (a 1991/1992 TV series could have developed this). One interesting point that isn't addressed here concerns the 'fate' of Mathew. Has he really gone? We presume so, but it isn't actually confirmed. Would be interesting to see if Mr Sharpe crosses paths with the Sixth Doctor (or any incarnation) again...
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Post by theotherjosh on May 31, 2018 13:12:35 GMT
I enjoyed it. I quite like the use of original companions, because there is a tension there that that's lacking with established characters. For the very first time, I really felt like the companion might actually die when threatened in an episode cliffhanger and I find that really exciting.
I thought Elliott's work on Zaltys was some of the finest ever Fifth Doctor storytelling, and Nomad comes very close to those heights. I continue to be impressed with how Big Finish tells fresh and original stories every month. The cast was very solid. Drazen could have been a cardboard cut-out baddie, but he's got some real depth. The characterization of Willoway shows some real thoughtfulness and she comes across as a truly alien creature whose mindset is shaped by her physiology.
Very fun story!
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Post by nottenst on May 31, 2018 19:09:15 GMT
Enjoyed this a lot. One thing I had a suspicion about was a similarity with the Second Doctor Tale The Wreck of the World Here we had Juniper Hartigan and in The Wreck of the World we had Professor Blavatsky in not dissimilar roles, though we could have been fooled longer with Blavatsky than Hartigan.
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Post by number13 on Jun 1, 2018 17:31:08 GMT
That was an excellent mystery story, loads of fun and "something completely different" - a base under siege from jokes and comedy continuity laid on with a deft trowel. The tone is set from the reference to 'the dead parrot sketch' and the moment that Sixie and Mathew (one 't') Sharpe (with an 'e') very nearly reprise the Second Doctor/Jamie 'look at the size of that thing Doctor' gag and I loved it, the name-dropping, the references to adventures we've never seen and the jokes at the expense of modern life and other incarnations. 5*
Matthew J. Elliott created an excellent set of characters (as he did in 'Zaltys' last year) and I was sorry to lose them all in a story which scores 11 on the "Fang Rock Wipeout" scale. Misty 'gheist' Willoway who loves the solid world she can never touch (and provides tea and ginger biscuits for her guests, a truly civilised being!), brilliantly horrible Eric Drazen who could obviously do stand-up comedy if his property empire ever collapsed - great comic timing - and Esther Brak, over-promoted and out of her depth TV presenter. And not forgetting those delightfully apologetic ambidextrous assassins the Makara. For this Pertwee-era fan it was rather special to find Anna Barry on another mission to change history as Prof. Hartigan (if you don't already know, she played time-hopping guerrilla leader Anat in 'Day of the Daleks') and her character also provided a clever distraction which helped to fool me completely. I guessed that she had been taken over in some way by the mysterious 'artefact' and was now the villain - but that meant I took my ear off everyone else... Oh Mathew Sharpe! I'd guessed he was temporary in some way or other, but George Sear was excellent and Mathew seemed such a typically decent and likable Companion - gets into trouble, rescues the Doctor, throws a timely 'haymaker', twists his ankle, everything. And then my goodness he pulls a 'Roger Ackroyd' on us! (Agatha Christie fans will get that one ) The worst of it is, now we'll presumably never hear the adventure of Sixie, Mathew and Samuel Pepys (and his diary) with the Chronosaurus (tiny arms, big trouble.) Or the one with the Quarks. (Though on balance, I can live without the Quarks...)
And then, to close a fun adventure, a moment of sadness for the Doctor (and so well played by Colin Baker, as always - my favourite audio Doctor as I may have mentioned) showing the hurt caused by being so badly taken in and let down. And he shows his inner steel too as Mathew calls for help and gets the reply: 'I don't know anyone of that name.'
'Mathew' is still alive at that point, just, but to the Doctor, this is a late Companion.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 10:23:27 GMT
That was an excellent mystery story, loads of fun and "something completely different" - a base under siege from jokes and comedy continuity laid on with a deft trowel. The tone is set from the reference to 'the dead parrot sketch' and the moment that Sixie and Mathew (one 't') Sharpe (with an 'e') very nearly reprise the Second Doctor/Jamie 'look at the size of that thing Doctor' gag and I loved it, the name-dropping, the references to adventures we've never seen and the jokes at the expense of modern life and other incarnations. 5*
Matthew J. Elliott created an excellent set of characters (as he did in 'Zaltys' last year) and I was sorry to lose them all in a story which scores 11 on the "Fang Rock Wipeout" scale. Misty 'gheist' Willoway who loves the solid world she can never touch (and provides tea and ginger biscuits for her guests, a truly civilised being!), brilliantly horrible Eric Drazen who could obviously do stand-up comedy if his property empire ever collapsed - great comic timing - and Esther Brak, over-promoted and out of her depth TV presenter. And not forgetting those delightfully apologetic ambidextrous assassins the Makara. For this Pertwee-era fan it was rather special to find Anna Barry on another mission to change history as Prof. Hartigan (if you don't already know, she played time-hopping guerrilla leader Anat in 'Day of the Daleks') and her character also provided a clever distraction which helped to fool me completely. I guessed that she had been taken over in some way by the mysterious 'artefact' and was now the villain - but that meant I took my ear off everyone else... Oh Mathew Sharpe! I'd guessed he was temporary in some way or other, but George Sear was excellent and Mathew seemed such a typically decent and likable Companion - gets into trouble, rescues the Doctor, throws a timely 'haymaker', twists his ankle, everything. And then my goodness he pulls a 'Roger Ackroyd' on us! (Agatha Christie fans will get that one ) The worst of it is, now we'll presumably never hear the adventure of Sixie, Mathew and Samuel Pepys (and his diary) with the Chronosaurus (tiny arms, big trouble.) Or the one with the Quarks. (Though on balance, I can live without the Quarks...)
And then, to close a fun adventure, a moment of sadness for the Doctor (and so well played by Colin Baker, as always - my favourite audio Doctor as I may have mentioned) showing the hurt caused by being so badly taken in and let down. And he shows his inner steel too as Mathew calls for help and gets the reply: 'I don't know anyone of that name.'
'Mathew' is still alive at that point, just, but to the Doctor, this is a late Companion.
Eh, I can see the potential for a one-off Short Trip somewhere down the line taking us into 'Matthew's' head and the faint glimmer of light in the overwhelming darkness...
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Post by Digi on Jun 11, 2018 11:19:21 GMT
I’ll admit: I’m a little surprised to see all the positivity in this thread. I spent most of the first three parts of this release bored stiff. I didn’t find it interesting or engaging at all until the twist at the end of part 3–at which point it became very, very good. But, to me, an excellent fourth part doesn’t make up for the preceding hour and a half of struggling to even continue with it.
To me, the only thing that was able to keep this one afloat was the (as usual) terrific performance from Colin. Even if I don’t like what he’s in, he’s consistently excellent in it.
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Post by mark687 on Jun 11, 2018 11:53:28 GMT
I’ll admit: I’m a little surprised to see all the positivity in this thread. I spent most of the first three parts of this release bored stiff. I didn’t find it interesting or engaging at all until the twist at the end of part 3–at which point it became very, very good. But, to me, an excellent fourth part doesn’t make up for the preceding hour and a half of struggling to even continue with it. To me, the only thing that was able to keep this one afloat was the (as usual) terrific performance from Colin. Even if I don’t like what he’s in, he’s consistently excellent in it. But...but Willoway!
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Post by IndieMacUser on Jun 13, 2018 18:18:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 21:50:30 GMT
Does this improve after episode 1? I haven't been able to get beyond that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 23:32:30 GMT
Glad to hear Anna Barry as the Prof - is this her first Who since Anat in Day of The Daleks?
I liked Matthew's dynamic with The Doctor. Though we've probably seen the last of him even though it seems like there were a few adventures he had with Sixie priot to this, I do like hearing Colin bouncing off a male companion for a change. Gives it a different dynamic.
Its a solid enough story, though I agree with those that say the twist isn't so hidden, but nowhere near the "as good as they get" that Blogtor Who hyped it as.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 7:20:59 GMT
Really strange that the Extended Extras still haven't been added.
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Post by omega on Jul 12, 2018 10:30:31 GMT
Extended extras in download accounts
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