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Post by veryfactualdalek on Sept 19, 2018 20:13:30 GMT
I will probably buy this eventually, I just never pre-order BF stuff. Well with all the sales and if it does well it will always be at pre order price in a bundle
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Post by veryfactualdalek on Sept 19, 2018 20:16:07 GMT
According to SciFi Bulletin, the titles are: A Spoonful of Mayhem by Roy Gill Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated by John Dorney The Broken Clock by Nev Fountain The Belly of the Beast by Jonathan Morris The first story sounds very Mary Poppins to me. The children on the cover art matches that, as does the general appearance of Missy! I think it’s safe to say the Tudor looking Monk is the second story. Nev Fountain is the perfect choice to write for Missy. Well I’m sure Missy is “practically Evil in every way”
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 1:54:08 GMT
I'm glad BF leapt on this concept while it was still hot, I know I was dying for a sidestory with Gomez's incarnation through Series 10. Between the Comic Adaptations, the New Adventures revival, the Early Adventures, it really feels as though Christmas has come early this year.
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Post by TimPendragon on Sept 20, 2018 4:09:42 GMT
I'm very ready for this, even though I've yet to pull the trigger on really any of BF's new series work apart from Torchwood (and Class waiting in the wings for a bit). Michelle Gomez is fabulous, and I'll gladly take Missy over Simm's Master any day.
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Post by Whovitt on Sept 20, 2018 6:02:02 GMT
It's interesting they're not making such a big deal about releases like this any more. I remember we were teased for a week before the first War Master set was announced, and there were teases for other things like Tenth Doctor Adventures (although that's in an altogether different league) and First Doctor Adventures (which got a lot more coverage that I thought it might have warranted). When to compared to 1DA for example, I would have thought this Missy series would have been given a much bigger hype than a quiet announcement on a Wednesday. Is the New Series stuff not considered to be as big a deal any more now that they've been producing it for over three years?
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 20, 2018 6:16:25 GMT
Missy was one of the high points of the Moffat era, so having Gomez enter the Big Finish domain is a no-brainer. This is one of those cases where I'd like to have seen a female writer or two but it is hard to argue with the track record of all the writers that are involved with volume one. And here is hoping for many more. I'd thoroughly recommend Jacqueline Raynor's Girl Power from The Missy Chronicles book. It's fantastically imaginative and very much through the gender spectrum. ALL of the other stories are great too. James Goss' is tremendous. Like Missy doing Dr. Phibes. Lovely book, more should read it. Yes, Girl Power! The Book is worth it for this story alone.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 6:36:16 GMT
It's interesting they're not making such a big deal about releases like this any more. I remember we were teased for a week before the first War Master set was announced, and there were teases for other things like Tenth Doctor Adventures (although that's in an altogether different league) and First Doctor Adventures (which got a lot more coverage that I thought it might have warranted). When to compared to 1DA for example, I would have thought this Missy series would have been given a much bigger hype than a quiet announcement on a Wednesday. Is the New Series stuff not considered to be as big a deal any more now that they've been producing it for over three years? I’d say its more a case that it was sorta rumoured and leaked a while back but also because shes in the river set so its not like its her first return.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 7:00:27 GMT
It's interesting they're not making such a big deal about releases like this any more. I remember we were teased for a week before the first War Master set was announced, and there were teases for other things like Tenth Doctor Adventures (although that's in an altogether different league) and First Doctor Adventures (which got a lot more coverage that I thought it might have warranted). When to compared to 1DA for example, I would have thought this Missy series would have been given a much bigger hype than a quiet announcement on a Wednesday. Is the New Series stuff not considered to be as big a deal any more now that they've been producing it for over three years? The initial excitement of UNIT, River, War and 10 has worn off, yes. Also, making a big deal of many releases targetted to the same audience becomes noise/homogenous after a while. This is a problem if you have more than 1/3 (I'll say) of releases that won't become an ongoing range, or are not expected to at the time of the original announcement.* On top of that, Missy is another strong-female-lead range. River is already a thing. Jenny and Christina also have one special each, with more likely. At $30 each (non-preorder), Big Finish isn't cheap. *I'm qualifying range as more than two releases. So it's bigger than just "one-or-two specials".
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Post by shallacatop on Sept 20, 2018 7:47:38 GMT
I think had the Missy set not been so heavily rumoured and come out before River 5, then it might have had a little more teasing to it.
We know more are coming, thus the Volume One, but without having Michelle booked for more, or even having already recorded more, I guess it’s hard to make a bigger fuss.
Personally if I were making Big Finish announcements of an already recorded release, I’d always include the episode titles, writers, synopsis, cast and cover art (if available) rather than drawing it out or quietly adding them one day. I’d then make a news article about the trailer going live at a date closer to release.
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Post by omega on Sept 20, 2018 8:03:36 GMT
I think had the Missy set not been so heavily rumoured and come out before River 5, then it might have had a little more teasing to it. We know more are coming, thus the Volume One, but without having Michelle booked for more, or even having already recorded more, I guess it’s hard to make a bigger fuss. Personally if I were making Big Finish announcements of an already recorded release, I’d always include the episode titles, writers, synopsis, cast and cover art (if available) rather than drawing it out or quietly adding them one day. I’d then make a news article about the trailer going live at a date closer to release. Maybe not everything is recorded due to Michelle being in North America for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The various announcements for the Second Doctor Volume Two Companion Chronicles were drip fed because the stories were being recorded in different months due to the cast availability. In the news article for Missy it was noted they had to line up Michelle's available times with the studio sessions in the UK. She's playing the Big Bad, Madam Satan (there are never any good guys with that sort of name).
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Post by shallacatop on Sept 20, 2018 8:29:31 GMT
It’s a fair point, but I don’t think the Second Doctor Companion Chronicles example quite holds up. I’m pretty sure we were told that the unrecorded stories were TBA and the cover art was held off until it was all recorded and they were certain that the companions appearing on the cover would actually feature. The cast list was being updated after each recording. Similar applies to the First Doctor set next year.
We know Michelle is in all four of these sets; what’s stopping the cast being announced for the recordings have been completed?
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Post by omega on Sept 20, 2018 8:35:05 GMT
It’s a fair point, but I don’t think the Second Doctor Companion Chronicles example quite holds up. I’m pretty sure we were told that the unrecorded stories were TBA and the cover art was held off until it was all recorded and they were certain that the companions appearing on the cover would actually feature. The cast list was being updated after each recording. Similar applies to the First Doctor set next year. We know Michelle is in all four of these sets; what’s stopping the cast being announced for the recordings have been completed? They want to get pre-orders coming in presumably, get back some of the costs.
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Post by shallacatop on Sept 20, 2018 10:00:18 GMT
Just to clarify, I am playing devils advocate here! I’m not entirely convinced they get a spike in pre-orders with every announcement they make regarding a release. I think they’ll likely get the majority coming in as soon as an announcement is made, and then some more as the release date draws nearer, once the countdown has begun, etc.
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Post by bobod on Sept 20, 2018 10:01:03 GMT
It's interesting they're not making such a big deal about releases like this any more. I remember we were teased for a week before the first War Master set was announced, and there were teases for other things like Tenth Doctor Adventures (although that's in an altogether different league) and First Doctor Adventures (which got a lot more coverage that I thought it might have warranted). When to compared to 1DA for example, I would have thought this Missy series would have been given a much bigger hype than a quiet announcement on a Wednesday. Is the New Series stuff not considered to be as big a deal any more now that they've been producing it for over three years? It was a DWM exclusive. So it wasn't quietly announced on a Wednesday, it went up on the website once people started getting their DWMs a day early.
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 20, 2018 10:26:34 GMT
Just to clarify, I am playing devils advocate here! I’m not entirely convinced they get a spike in pre-orders with every announcement they make regarding a release. I think they’ll likely get the majority coming in as soon as an announcement is made, and then some more as the release date draws nearer, once the countdown has begun, etc. I think that's about right. I think the question of whether an announcement produces a spike in pre-orders probably depends on what is being announced. If BF announced something like a Capaldi cameo in the missy box set then there would likely be an instant spike, but if they simply showed the individual covers and story synopses I wouldn't expect too much of a spike.
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 20, 2018 10:58:18 GMT
Is this the first Master and Monk story or am I forgetting something obvious? Either way, this looks great. I can't help but wonder how well Magnus Magister is handling this announcement ....
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Post by omega on Sept 20, 2018 11:42:41 GMT
Is this the first Master and Monk story or am I forgetting something obvious? Either way, this looks great. I can't help but wonder how well Magnus Magister is handling this announcement .... Didn't he have the Taran Wood Beast icon on the old forum? I always thought the two characters were different, with the Master being evil for the lolz while the Monk either tried to pass his actions off as being charitable or being co-coerced into it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 12:04:10 GMT
Is this the first Master and Monk story or am I forgetting something obvious? Either way, this looks great. I can't help but wonder how well Magnus Magister is handling this announcement .... Not very well I'd imagine!
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Post by Whovitt on Sept 20, 2018 13:19:55 GMT
It's interesting they're not making such a big deal about releases like this any more. I remember we were teased for a week before the first War Master set was announced, and there were teases for other things like Tenth Doctor Adventures (although that's in an altogether different league) and First Doctor Adventures (which got a lot more coverage that I thought it might have warranted). When to compared to 1DA for example, I would have thought this Missy series would have been given a much bigger hype than a quiet announcement on a Wednesday. Is the New Series stuff not considered to be as big a deal any more now that they've been producing it for over three years? It was a DWM exclusive. So it wasn't quietly announced on a Wednesday, it went up on the website once people started getting their DWMs a day early. Most of these other releases were also announced in DWM around the same time as the BF announcement though. And even then, I'm referring to Big Finish drumming up excitement, which is something that they've done for previous New Series releases, not other sources releasing the information first.
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Post by x2magneto on Sept 20, 2018 15:18:37 GMT
Not shocking. We all knew she'd get a go I think.
This is a hard call for me. Have to very frank here. In my opinion, Michelle Gomez was overqualified to play the part as written. She made it seem there was more interesting things at play with the Master than there actually were.
Save for the brief (very brief) stint Sir Derek Jacobi partook in, I am not at all a fan of the New Who Master in either show-runner's tenure. I know this may not jive with everyone else, but I didn't like the Joker-ization of the Master: anarchist who does whenever whatever for no apparent reason and has no motivation other than pestering the Batman..
On the other hand, we're talking about Big Finish and Michelle Gomez together. Whenever Big Finish secure an performer like her, and you take into account their vested interest in the characters that enter their canon, it's like watching the Mega Powers collide. Can I really doubt that Big Finish aren't going to take full advantage when I know that the War Master set was more than just a set of excellent stories, it was test, and probably a bigger step than we might give it credit for right now. In a few years time we might find that the door was swung wide open and a whole new avenue for Who stories await, tackling subject matter that might otherwise not finds it way to our ears.
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