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Post by polly on Sept 21, 2020 19:25:24 GMT
Oddly, my brain has come up with a few different "formats" depending on the audio in question.
Full cast (or close to) stories I picture as true movies in the theater of the mind. First and Second Doctor stories remain black and white, anything else gets full color. In either case, neither one of them has any limit on the "budget" - I don't try and imagine era-appropriate production values. The sets, effects, costumes, all as modern as a I want them to be. Things can also get far more gory than the BBC would allow, on those occasions where the story warrants it.
Narrated stories like Companion Chronicles and Short Trips I tend to imagine as basically a motion comic - hand drawn images with small amounts of depth or movement. I don't know why that should be, it's not at all deliberate. Framing devices or things like Solitaire get the full "movie" treatment.
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Post by elkawho on Sept 22, 2020 3:03:48 GMT
How I see them changes from story to story, range to range. Most Eighth Doctor stories get the big screen treatment, although the EDAs feel more like TV episodes.
What's interesting to me is my visualization of 6th Doctor stories. When I started listening to Big Finish back at the beginning of 2014 the only 6th Doctor story I had seen was Vengeance on Varos, but I had seen numerous interviews and specials around 50th which included interviews with Colin, as well as seeing Colin in the Five(ish) Doctors, dressed in his coat. So I used to see Sixie as the older, heavier, white haired Colin. At some point, after I had caught up with the TV series, he began to morph into the younger Colin. Now I find that in some stories he's young, in some he's older and I have no idea why he's one or the other in whatever story I'm listening to. But they are all Sixie.
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