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Post by nitronine on Feb 11, 2021 16:40:02 GMT
I haven’t heard this yet, but good to know that Richard Armitage makes a good Rassilon. I really hope there is a meeting planned with him and Paul MGann’s Doctor. It is comforting to know that I am not the only one in an “abusive relationship” with Gallifrey. I just keep coming back for more disappointment and listening punishment. I'm sorry to dash your hopes, but Romana mentions to Brax that she's aware the Doctor has "changed", which would imply Night of the Doctor has already occurred by this point. While the Armitage Rassilon and McGann Doctor meeting isn't impossible (maybe set during the Gallifrey: Time War 3 period?), it'd be a pretty tight fit continuity-wise I think Big Finish could get away with it, it's a show about time travel so 8 could just go later into the war. Even if they want to stick to the time lords can't time travel on Gallifrey theory, althoguh they've contradicted that a few times in other series already, they could just hand wave it as the Time War letting 8 through. {War Master Series and 8th Dr Time War 1 Spoilers} In the War Master series he mentions events that happen after his "death" in the timeline of the war so there's already a precedent for Time Lords moving about the war in a different order to Gallifrey. Plus, in The Starship of Theseus, 8 appears to have entered the Time War for the first time (deliberately ambiguous but for the sake of argument) but he arrives mid war, already after the events of at least Gallifrey Time War vol 1.
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Post by mbt66 on Feb 20, 2021 10:54:21 GMT
After Suicide Squad was mentioned on the podcast and commented on in the podcast thread, I decided last week to watch the film for the first time and listen to this final Time War set.
The reason I did that was I had told myself (not for the first time) after the previous GTW set that I wouldn’t buy any further Gallifrey releases. But the notion of a Gallifrey : Suicide Squad was just the sort of hook I thought Big Finish could bait me with.
Having now listened to this final instalment, my feeling of disappointment with Gallifrey hasn’t changed and I am not sure a Time War Suicide Squad would be needed as Rassilon treats all his subjects as cannon fodder!
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Post by number13 on Feb 28, 2021 23:51:33 GMT
OK So I ask the obvious question Who's Dead and Who's in position for supporting Roles in future Doctor led Time War Sets? Regards mark687
{Spoiler} Narvin and Livia both escape - there's a brief communication from Eris saying he's 'found a way to -'. Then BOOM! But not before they've been transmatted off, somehow, I'm certain. All three main players+Livia are still available, if required. And I'm not one little bit surprised.
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Post by Ian McArdell on Mar 3, 2021 0:22:19 GMT
My take on Gallifrey: Time War 4 is lurking on CultBox - I found the whole thing a little disjoined (a fault of the pandemic and pre-records?), with Armitage rather underused. Are we headed for a coming-together of various Time War threads, I wonder...? NB. Loved Anna Carteret.
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Post by barnabaslives on Mar 14, 2021 2:50:10 GMT
I must be the odd one out on this, I liked it quite a bit and even thought it exemplary of the things I like about the range. Might just be me then but I though it did a superb job keeping up the sense of suspense throughout. I didn't plan on finishing the set for months and I've been doing quite well at pacing myself with sets but the second story really drew me in and I had to keep going. It also gave me the sense of balancing out earlier releases in the series and making for something I like even better as a whole.
Maybe the end was a little anticlimactic or maybe it just crept on up me - I don't really have a preference for different events at the end but somehow I don't seem sure which way it was pointed when it ended if that makes any sense?
I was asking in the What Are You Listening To Today thread for news about the range but in this thread I seem to be reading the f word ("final") and I couldn't quite tell from the discussion but I hope that only means the final release of the Gallifrey: Time War series and not of the range. We can't have that kind of final, this is Big Finish, Anti-finality Incarnate we're talking about here. BBC cancels things. BF makes more, yay Big Finish! :-)
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Post by mbt66 on Mar 14, 2021 7:37:11 GMT
I must be the odd one out on this, I liked it quite a bit and even thought it exemplary of the things I like about the range. Might just be me then but I though it did a superb job keeping up the sense of suspense throughout. I didn't plan on finishing the set for months and I've been doing quite well at pacing myself with sets but the second story really drew me in and I had to keep going. It also gave me the sense of balancing out earlier releases in the series and making for something I like even better as a whole. Maybe the end was a little anticlimactic or maybe it just crept on up me - I don't really have a preference for different events at the end but somehow I don't seem sure which way it was pointed when it ended if that makes any sense? I was asking in the What Are You Listening To Today thread for news about the range but in this thread I seem to be reading the f word ("final") and I couldn't quite tell from the discussion but I hope that only means the final release of the Gallifrey: Time War series and not of the range. We can't have that kind of final, this is Big Finish, Anti-finality Incarnate we're talking about here. BBC cancels things. BF makes more, yay Big Finish! :-) I am sure Big Finish have said there will be more Gallifrey. It might have even been David Richardson in the BTS or Nick either on the podcast or in Vortex. Perhaps they will show up in the Young War Doctor series.
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Post by pawntake on Mar 14, 2021 16:30:12 GMT
I must be the odd one out on this, I liked it quite a bit and even thought it exemplary of the things I like about the range. Might just be me then but I though it did a superb job keeping up the sense of suspense throughout. I didn't plan on finishing the set for months and I've been doing quite well at pacing myself with sets but the second story really drew me in and I had to keep going. It also gave me the sense of balancing out earlier releases in the series and making for something I like even better as a whole. Maybe the end was a little anticlimactic or maybe it just crept on up me - I don't really have a preference for different events at the end but somehow I don't seem sure which way it was pointed when it ended if that makes any sense? I was asking in the What Are You Listening To Today thread for news about the range but in this thread I seem to be reading the f word ("final") and I couldn't quite tell from the discussion but I hope that only means the final release of the Gallifrey: Time War series and not of the range. We can't have that kind of final, this is Big Finish, Anti-finality Incarnate we're talking about here. BBC cancels things. BF makes more, yay Big Finish! :-) I am with you on this one,i liked it a lot'!! What a great ending!Although? It can't end there,can it? (BF love to keep us in suspense)
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Post by mrperson on Mar 25, 2021 17:22:50 GMT
Given all the talk about "ascension" in the last ep, I was expecting it to end with something coming over the comms.... "the Doctor is in the Omega vault!"
Instead, it sounds like yet again the stage is set for all the major players to survive. (Except maybe not Livia. She did seem pretty sure that being exposed to "Dalek radiation" was a death sentence).
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Post by Digi on May 2, 2021 19:46:23 GMT
Got through this one today. A bit disappointed in the anticlimactic conclusion toward the end of part 4, but on the whole I thought it was a very solid, entertaining set of stories. And while I'm a little sad that the set's build-build-build first 90% of its runtime ultimately just evaporated into an unsatisfactory ending, I can still appreciate how much I enjoyed that first 90%.
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Post by Ela on May 5, 2021 5:36:01 GMT
Listened to Gallifrey Time War 4 this evening, and I have to say I really enjoyed it, contrary to many of the comments here. But then, I really love the whole Gallifrey series.
I thought the idea in Deception was an interesting one, and enjoyed the peek into Narvin's past in Dissolution.
Of course Brax would turn up in the most unexpected way possible in Beyond. I liked the interactions between the characters, especially old Brax and young Brax, but wasn't sure what the point of it all was. But I like Brax, Miles Richardson has the best voice and I love how he plays the character.
Homecoming made me sad, and also made me wonder if this is the absolute end for these characters, or if we might see them turn up in a new way some time in the future.
After all, the original Gallifrey series ended on a cliff hanger that was never meant to have an answer...
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Post by Chakoteya on Dec 7, 2021 16:36:01 GMT
Just started - halfway through Deception. Ooo, Richard Armitage chewing scenery. More, more, more!
(*swoons*)
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Post by Chakoteya on Dec 12, 2021 14:38:14 GMT
Beyond.... One of the things I like about BF doing the Time War is their ability to explore other consequences of messing about with past/present/future, because let's face it, it makes everything non-linear and weird.
And Braxiatel - a great non-TV character - and the Doctor's sibling!
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Post by Chakoteya on Dec 15, 2021 17:21:16 GMT
That was all... excellent. Why did I wait so long to get this?
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Post by tuigirl on Dec 18, 2021 9:33:18 GMT
That was all... excellent. Why did I wait so long to get this? Hmm.... maybe I should also move it back out of my backlog pile?
The points you make are also what interests me.
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