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Post by IndieMacUser on Sept 22, 2018 9:41:09 GMT
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Post by Ian McArdell on Oct 1, 2018 15:04:29 GMT
My tale on River Song series 4 is now up at CultBox - hot take: I could have listened to four hours of Kingston and Baker, but the Discordia were great too - perhaps the perfect Moffat-like villain for her? |
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Oct 1, 2018 15:23:05 GMT
The first two volumes were released on Christmas Day...the coda to the last story kinda makes me wish this was too. Lovely stuff. Yes, I wondered when I was listening if a Christmas Day release was the assumption in Mr Dorney's mind at the time he was writing it. |
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Post by selimpensfiction on Oct 3, 2018 12:47:51 GMT
Really enjoyed this set, especially John Dorney's "Someone I Once Knew". Not only is this one my favourite River Song story to date, it's also an excellent fourth Doctor story.
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Post by Ela on Oct 12, 2018 4:32:49 GMT
Just finished listening to this and I loved it, especially John Dorney's "Someone I Once Knew." The way it ended got me feeling really emotional. I found "Time In A Bottle" a little hard to follow, in part because I couldn't always understand what the Discordia with the voice effects. (I guess that was Melak, in that story.) At first, I also had trouble distinguishing between the two other female voices, until one of them started sounding more like an ant.  I was more in sync with what was going on by the time I got to "Kings of Infinite Space". I liked the character of Spod. "Whodunnit?" was loads of fun - a mishmash of famous detectives from literature combined with a game of Clue, it seemed to me. "Someone I Once Knew" was my favorite, as I said initially. Loved so much how the story developed and the interactions between River and the Fourth Doctor were just lovely. I didn't find the ending implausible at all. It brought tears to my eyes. Great set of stories, kudos to all involved. |
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Post by drj on Oct 19, 2018 22:20:50 GMT
This was a fun set with a lot to love. But oh my word, part 4 with Tom and Alex was an absolute treat!
The Behind The Scenes was a good listen as always, particularly Tom’s heartfelt words.
Roll on the next volume.
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Post by Ela on Oct 21, 2018 2:57:27 GMT
I have to say I re-listened to this a second time with headphones and found it much easier to hear what was being said through the voice effects when listening that way.
Really loved this set.
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Post by Bazoolium on Dec 12, 2018 9:45:22 GMT
The Dischordia were an excellent villain. Relentlessly pursuing River as her and Spod get weaker and weaker whilst they casually walk through time and space.
We got to see why Vortex Manipulators are such a terrible way to travel through time. I'm surprised Big Finish haven't done more with the Time Agents.
Was sad to see what happened to River's supporting cast, they worked well together. I suppose keeping River a loner makes it easier to distinguish her from Benny.
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Post by Chakoteya on Mar 24, 2022 17:23:39 GMT
Question - there's this character 'Dante' on the cast list from ep 1 onwards.
Who the Feldergarb is it?
Otherwise, enjoying these.
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Post by Chakoteya on Apr 3, 2022 14:00:52 GMT
Okay, so now I know who Dante is (but couldn't tell him from any other voice effect in part one, so annoying). My favourite story is Whodunnit? The 12th Earl of Portland, Viscount Woodstock, Baron Cirencester (Hi, Tim! ) gives a great performance, and I really enjoyed playing name that detective as well as spot the Kafka reference. Excellent final line too.  Although it's always lovely to hear Tom's mellifluous tones, I did feel the resolution was a bit... meh. Very Flower Power, man. As for the villains - really? Okay, interesting idea to have a bunch of anarchists zipping back and forth messing with their evolution whenever they came up against someone they couldn't beat without a few upgrades, or just because they fancied trying out something different, thanks to the Time War messing about with Space-Time, but then to give them a rigid heirarchy and sod-all personal consequences for the alterations? And then just end it like that? Not convinced. |
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I was more in sync with what was going on by the time I got to "Kings of Infinite Space". I liked the character of Spod.
