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Post by slithe on Mar 28, 2021 11:35:15 GMT
Just finished Episode I. Great fun and a brilliant script. Satirical and well placed for Season 17. Doctor Who meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Laughed out loud several times at this. Why JNT ever cut Baker's humour in the role is beyond me - he is so well served in this.
Really been impressed with these lost stories. I think BF is going to end up persuading me to invest in the 4DA now! I've really enjoyed Tom Baker's portrayal again.
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Post by mbt66 on Mar 28, 2021 12:37:17 GMT
Well that was a lot of fun and just what I needed.
And Lalla Ward was once again the Romana I fell in love with. Being in Hong Kong is evidently doing her good!
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Post by elkawho on Mar 28, 2021 14:27:40 GMT
Just finished Episode I. Great fun and a brilliant script. Satirical and well placed for Season 17. Doctor Who meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Laughed out loud several times at this. Why JNT ever cut Baker's humour in the role is beyond me - he is so well served in this. Really been impressed with these lost stories. I think BF is going to end up persuading me to invest in the 4DA now! I've really enjoyed Tom Baker's portrayal again. Why JNT cut humor out of everything is beyond me.
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Post by shallacatop on Mar 29, 2021 9:15:26 GMT
So far I would say...this is the best release of the year so far... Certainly a strong contender along with 'Return of the Cybermen'. Two more Tom classics, and again not part of his own 4DAs range. I think Chase the Night is the only 4DA I’d seriously consider being a classic from Tom’s tenure at Big Finish. Everything else is outside of his own range. It’s a bit of a shame really, but you also know you’re in for a treat when something special is announced with him.
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Post by Chakoteya on Mar 29, 2021 14:38:15 GMT
Finished, and yes that was solid Adams-ian stuff. Skorpios has tentacles? Who'd have known but for the throwaway line.
Maybe a little too much Adams, which kept sending my brain of on tangents - who does this or that remind me of?
This would be a perfect candidate for someone with imagination to make into a video version with this audio track - except I wouldn't buy it because their idea of what the characters should look like won't be the same as mine! (Rather like the issue I have with HHGTTG movie versus TV versus radio. TV okay, movie Awful, radio best.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2021 6:03:37 GMT
Just finished Episode I. Great fun and a brilliant script. Satirical and well placed for Season 17. Doctor Who meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Laughed out loud several times at this. Why JNT ever cut Baker's humour in the role is beyond me - he is so well served in this. Really been impressed with these lost stories. I think BF is going to end up persuading me to invest in the 4DA now! I've really enjoyed Tom Baker's portrayal again. Why JNT cut humor out of everything is beyond me. Oh, I think it came from a number of things in the end. The Graham Williams era adopted a lighter tone in response to complaints, right? Well, as it did, there were complaints from higher-up (again) that the show was getting a little too joke-heavy. It was both too dark and too light at the same time, so it ended up struggling between the two. The first two-thirds of the series largely hit the right balance for me. Leela with the fire axe in The Horror of Fang Rock, for instance, is a great moment. But, recent memories prevailing, JNT had been working as a production assistant during that last, most jokey year when the humour was undercutting the drama. Something Adams himself cited as a problem after production concluded. The desire for something much more serious feels like a reaction against that. Another part is... I think he was very cautious about taking the mickey out of his new Doctor. Tom had been in the role for seven years and it would've been too easy to rip away whatever authority and authenticity the Fifth Doctor had. Public perception was also that stories like The Visitation, Earthshock, Resurrection of the Daleks, they were onto something. A grittier, grimmer tone for the show in the early 80s. The Sawardian era has a lot of tragedy and tragical elements to it. I think that became a stumbling block in the end. Five/Tegan or Six/Peri both were ended up being combatative friendships that weren't really allowed to breathe or have fun. Ironically, I think all that pent-up humour eventually exploded in Season 24 when JNT had wanted to move onto panto, settling down to that nice balance with Seven and Ace. A little bit of humour is good for the soul. You probably couldn't do The Doomsday Contract every month, but just goes to show how nice it is when everything clicks into place. This'll be a release that lasts I think.
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Post by Timelord007 on Mar 30, 2021 17:37:00 GMT
Bonkers bizarre story, tonally all over the place, over the top humour, i shouldn't enjoy this but.....
Tom Baker performance alone as The Fourth Doctor is one of sheer enjoyment, you can tell he was having a ball with this script, this was magnificent babblegab of storytelling at it's most entertaining & i loved it.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 1, 2021 10:57:42 GMT
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Post by slithe on Apr 2, 2021 11:43:07 GMT
Three quarters of the way through this and loving every minute of it.
Yep, it is over the top and does not take itself too seriously. It sends up a lot of things - advertising, the conservation industry, the legal system, high handed ideas on morality and does so in such a wonderfully entertaining way.
You couldn't do this every week, I agree. But with all that is going on at the moment, this is a much needed tonic! Well done BF! Baker is superb here
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Post by Ian McArdell on Apr 5, 2021 21:59:56 GMT
My take on 'The Doomsday Contract' is now up at CultBox - in short, lots of fun - might need a few listens to catch all the gags!
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Post by Digi on May 5, 2021 19:02:53 GMT
Tom was a delight and Lalla was on top form, but this didn't quite land for me. I was looking forward to it, but ended up spending large spans of the story wondering how it wasn't over yet.
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Post by fitzoliverj on May 5, 2021 19:50:21 GMT
this didn't quite land for me No, I wasn't keen, either. It wasn't terribly funny - didn't *try* to be, much of the time (the whole lost jury thing would have been better if it wasn't clear that everybody's from long-lived species in any case) and the denoument relying on Romana essentially committing a murder (and the Doctor perhaps arranging a second) was jsust plain inappropriate.
GREAT video trailer, though.
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Post by nottenst on Jun 17, 2021 15:55:40 GMT
this didn't quite land for me No, I wasn't keen, either. It wasn't terribly funny - didn't *try* to be, much of the time (the whole lost jury thing would have been better if it wasn't clear that everybody's from long-lived species in any case) and the denoument relying on Romana essentially committing a murder (and the Doctor perhaps arranging a second) was jsust plain inappropriate.
GREAT video trailer, though.
I thought it was loads of fun and quite enjoyable. Now, about Romana "essentially committing a murder" - that is a bit timey-wimey. The Judge killed a "future self" that was witness to the intelligent life on Earth. But the Judge who performed the act did not go into the TARDIS. So, was anyone really killed?
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Post by Tim Bradley on Apr 25, 2022 7:16:08 GMT
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