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Post by Whovitt on Nov 16, 2020 23:27:12 GMT
I got an e-mail from Forbidden Planet on Tuesday saying that the release date for the magazine has been pushed back to this Wednesday, if that helps. Scratch that! I just got another e-mail saying they won't have stock until the 16th of December. Hope no one was in a hurry to read it
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Post by mark687 on Nov 17, 2020 0:01:55 GMT
Regards
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Post by melkur on Nov 18, 2020 1:54:42 GMT
Well, my place of work has got this month's DWM before I have. Thanks Royal Mail, thanks... After it (finally) arrived yesterday morning, last night I read 'Defender Of The Daleks'. Whilst I will say that it could have been trimmed down slightly, I did enjoy it enough... {Spoiler} The cameo from Thirteen was nice enough, though it did kind-of feel as if she was there for the 'sake' of being there, rather than her actually adding anything to the ongoing story-arc...
The link-in to last week's 'The Enemy Of My Enemy' release I did appreciate though, as it was nice to see some of the interconnectedness of the story as a whole.
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Post by shallacatop on Nov 18, 2020 11:21:34 GMT
The collected Defender of the Daleks is out today.
I’ve had an email to see the Minds of Magnox vinyl has been delayed until mid-December. Doesn’t look like it’s affected the CD release, though. And the download is out a day or two earlier anyway.
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Post by constonks on Nov 18, 2020 15:56:12 GMT
Looks like The Knight, the Fool and the Dead has been pushed back to Dec 29th in Canada. I had a hold on a library copy and listened to all the BF stuff this week to get hyped... Oh well. Maybe I'll relisten to the McGann stuff anyway whenever I end up getting a hold of it.
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Post by shallacatop on Nov 18, 2020 18:16:36 GMT
Latest Doctor Who newsletter has early access to episode two of Daleks! and Secrets of Time Lord Victorious #7.
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Post by sherlock on Nov 18, 2020 18:52:06 GMT
Daleks! episode 2 is a step up I think. There’s much more focus on the Strategist and a quite interesting moment for the Emperor. The animation is more or less the same, but the smaller scale of most of the episode makes a better fit for the style.
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Post by shallacatop on Nov 19, 2020 18:49:19 GMT
Daleks! episode 2 is a step up I think. There’s much more focus on the Strategist and a quite interesting moment for the Emperor. The animation is more or less the same, but the smaller scale of most of the episode makes a better fit for the style. Only just managed to watch it, but I agree. The quibbles I have are mostly addressed due to the small scale of the episode. I think the battles are a little simplistic, yet over the top, but a lot of that is the style they’ve gone with, I think. Would look great as a panel in a comic. The camerawork and shots are very good, there’s some great stuff here that the main show doesn’t do.
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Post by sherlock on Nov 20, 2020 15:46:51 GMT
So it turns out Daleks! Episode 2 contained a really, really deep Dalek lore reference -
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Post by sherlock on Nov 20, 2020 15:49:38 GMT
On another note, has anyone’s sub copy of DWM turned up yet? Mine’s still yet to appear.
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Post by mark687 on Nov 20, 2020 15:53:14 GMT
On another note, has anyone’s sub copy of DWM turned up yet? Mine’s still yet to appear. Same Regards mark687
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Post by constonks on Nov 20, 2020 18:40:21 GMT
So it turns out Daleks! Episode 2 contained a really, really deep Dalek lore reference - Oh wow. I really liked that moment, but didn't realize it was A) a reference and B) an acrostic, haha!
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Post by melkur on Nov 20, 2020 19:24:24 GMT
On another note, has anyone’s sub copy of DWM turned up yet? Mine’s still yet to appear. Mine hasn't arrived yet either... Much longer and I'm considering 'giving up' and just getting a copy from work.
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Post by shallacatop on Nov 20, 2020 20:44:33 GMT
On another note, has anyone’s sub copy of DWM turned up yet? Mine’s still yet to appear. Mine hasn't arrived yet either... Much longer and I'm considering 'giving up' and just getting a copy from work. I’ve noticed a couple of people receive their subscriber copies today, so hopefully they’ll be with us in the next few days.
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Post by melkur on Nov 20, 2020 21:49:59 GMT
Mine hasn't arrived yet either... Much longer and I'm considering 'giving up' and just getting a copy from work. I’ve noticed a couple of people receive their subscriber copies today, so hopefully they’ll be with us in the next few days. Good to know, thank you
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Post by shallacatop on Nov 22, 2020 17:10:57 GMT
Just played The Hollow Planet. I got what they were going for, and I like the idea of a remote escape room, but I think they really slipped up in the execution.
The materials you print off and the website you’re given don’t really link together. The website is essentially a troubleshooting guide, when in reality it should link each stage together and make it feel more interactive. Without giving anything away, there’s a nice piece where you have to do some translations, send that off in an email and you get a response. That’s one example of how to do the interactivity, but unfortunately it sort of starts and ends there; your last two puzzles are irrelevant as the gist of what happens is written in the response!
We admittedly struggled on one of the puzzles, but as I had a bit of Who knowledge it ultimately didn’t impact us as I could translate the rest of the message without it. The puzzles aren’t bad; it just needs better linking material.
Really this is only very loosely linked to Time Lord Victorious, as it’s a prequel to the actual escape room, but I thought this was the most appropriate place to post my thoughts. My disappointment isn’t going to have a bearing on my thoughts of TLV.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Nov 22, 2020 18:08:58 GMT
Finally got a chance to read the comic from Titan. It would have made Robin Bland proud. I've tried, but this has to be the most overhyped and under-delivered storyline in the history of Doctor Who. I hate that my comments on this have all been negative as the people involved are extremely talented and I normally love their work - I am hoping that the issues are due to the BBC micro-managing so much that they turned this into the hot mess that it is.
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Post by sherlock on Nov 24, 2020 12:10:42 GMT
Royal Mail has finally delivered my DWM. So final verdict on Monstrous Beauty.There’s some good stuff on the Vampires, with some exploration on them not just being two dimensional suck blood fanatics. There’s some bits of Gallifreyan lore, which don’t quite chime with some other stories. I’d say Monstrous Beauty is an about average DWM strip. Some nice art, a bit of meat to the story and mainly jumping from action to action. But there’s one thing lacking...absence of links to TLV as a whole. Spoilers shall follow. {Spoiler} It ends with Rose passing out to recover from Vampirism, whilst the Doctor liberates this Vampire ship from their overlords to strike out alone. There’s no indication of anything amiss with time or consequences of what Ten did in the novel.
We then cut to Rose waking up. Some time has passed, the Doctor is bruised and the Vampires have settled somewhere. Implication being whilst she was asleep he went off and did the other TLV stuff he’s in, I guess.
So we get no indication of how Nine learns what’s up with time or that he needs to go and stop Ten. Which is weird, given Big Finish have been filling in that precise gap for Eight.
As a result, Monstrous Beauty feels the most disconnected bit of TLV media so far, depending on how Daleks! ends I guess.
All Flesh is Grass has a lot to cover when it comes to Nine.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Nov 25, 2020 13:23:35 GMT
"Monstrous Beauty" just sort of... stopped. I wonder whether the fact that DWM dropped the strip for a few months due to Covid-era costs meant that the 9th Doctor story was truncated?
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Post by melkur on Nov 25, 2020 13:37:23 GMT
My copy of DWM (FINALLY) arrived this morning, so am planning on giving 'Monstrous Beauty' a read in full later this evening.
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