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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 2:07:23 GMT
Hey everyone, How do you feel about another multi-Doctor main range triolgey? I understand why Big Finish do them - it's a nice jumping on point and showcases nicely what Big Finish do within the range - but on the otherhand, it's a format we've become quite acquianted with for the last three years. I'm sure Big Finish will find an intresting story to tell within the format this year, however
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Post by Digi on Dec 31, 2015 2:11:47 GMT
As long as it's better than the "Locum" Doctors trilogy...
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Post by omega on Dec 31, 2015 2:11:59 GMT
Do you mean trilogy? I've maid plent-e of typos before, it's ownly human.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 2:22:23 GMT
I'd love a couple more, frankly. We've had painfully few considering BF have been going for - crikey - nearly 2 decades. I know Nick is on record as not liking them (yet having written two now!) so it may not be something we get for a while but surely the chance to do do something multi-Doc with classic and new Docs is something that would just be massive fun.
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Post by omega on Dec 31, 2015 2:43:05 GMT
I'd love a couple more, frankly. We've had painfully few considering BF have been going for - crikey - nearly 2 decades. I know Nick is on record as not liking them (yet having written two now!) so it may not be something we get for a while but surely the chance to do do something multi-Doc with classic and new Docs is something that would just be massive fun. The OP means trilogies with a story for the Fifth Doctor, a story for the Sixth Doctor and a story for the Seventh Doctor. Nick Briggs doesn't like writing single stories with more than one Doctor in them. I can see his point, how often can you justify a plot putting the multiple Doctors together, and how long until it becomes commonplace? Can the narrative support two Doctors and still stand up? Can companion(s) contribute to the story and get character moments that aren't at the expense of the plot? The standard anniversary practice now is multi-Doctor stories.
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Post by agentten on Dec 31, 2015 2:51:27 GMT
I prefer multi-Doctor stories remain special occasion stories. They should remain special. However, connecting individual Doctor stories with plot threads or characters that carry over is an idea with plenty of merit and I'd be all for more of it.
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Post by Hieronymus on Dec 31, 2015 3:53:34 GMT
One thing they haven't done is a trilogy with a single Doctor, but different Companion(s) in each story.*
That might be interesting as it would develop the story with a single central protagonist over an extended period, while allowing the actor to remain the same and participate in that development.
* That is, except for The Final Adventure.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Dec 31, 2015 5:53:25 GMT
Depends on which three Doctors. Five six and seven is predictable. Eight, War and four could be interesting to hear, given the darkness of the former two and the sheer vivacity of the last.
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Post by icecreamdf on Dec 31, 2015 6:42:52 GMT
A trilogy that connects Classic with New Doctors could be interesting. Something like 8, War, and 10.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Dec 31, 2015 8:51:53 GMT
A trilogy that connects Classic with New Doctors could be interesting. Something like 8, War, and 10. Maybe something dealing with a specific decision War makes, with his predecessor dealing with some of the fallout and his successor the set up and emotional fallout.
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Post by omega on Dec 31, 2015 9:21:12 GMT
A trilogy that connects Classic with New Doctors could be interesting. Something like 8, War, and 10. Maybe something dealing with a specific decision War makes, with his predecessor dealing with some of the fallout and his successor the set up and emotional fallout. That sounds similar to some of the novels in the first half of the Eighth Doctor novels, where he got caught up in events in a conflict from his personal future (the Second War in Heaven, not the Time War). In at least one case, his actions in his present wound up shaping key points of the War, specifically how his companion became the sentient TARDIS that later TARDII (and indeed one seen in a previous novel) developed from, and which the Time Lords were searching for (their pursuit of Compassion driving several novels).
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Dec 31, 2015 9:52:56 GMT
Actually, Compassion turning up would be pretty cool.
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Post by omega on Dec 31, 2015 9:58:48 GMT
Actually, Compassion turning up would be pretty cool. She was definitively last seen going off into a Gallifrey and Time Lord free universe with the technician Nivet. How did she handle the return of Gallifrey after The Gallifrey Chronicles, and the coming of the Time War. Did Compassion sense it coming, and what did she do when it arrived (in the sense that conflict fought across time and space can begin within convention temporal measures)?
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Dec 31, 2015 10:44:06 GMT
Given she was monstrously powerful, she'd be Target #2 right behind the Doctor for the Daleks. Mind you, in the Faction Paradox stories she survives and thrives, and along the way separates herself totally from the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey I think she could have run and hid.
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Post by constonks on Dec 31, 2015 16:51:15 GMT
I rather enjoy the multi-Doctor trilogies, although definitely more when the Doc experiences it in the same order as the audience. Locum Doctors baffled me in terms of the order (no-one except the audience and the villain retain knowledge of the previous story), even if I did like the finished product, whereas Excelis and the Drashani Empire made good use of the Doctor reliving past adventures.
Perhaps something fun might be the Doctor alongside the same companion in all three adventures. My first thought was Peri as that just requires the Seventh Doctor to meet her, but Turlough might be an interesting choice to see alongside Colin and Sylvester as well.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Dec 31, 2015 23:18:19 GMT
I'd like to see one with at least new series Doctors but preferably classic series ones too. A Post-Genesis Pre-Revenge 4th Doctor meeting War would be interesting.
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Post by Ela on Jan 1, 2016 18:56:26 GMT
Actually, Compassion turning up would be pretty cool. I wasn't a big fan of Compassion. I wouldn't mind if I never saw her again.
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Post by mbt66 on Jan 1, 2016 21:48:55 GMT
I would like to keep multi-doctor stories as anniversary specials. I consider these are when three or more Doctors are together.
However I would quite like to hear some Doctor pairings. Two Doctors working together, or even against each other could be fun. Or where a later Doctor has to go back and amend something his previous self did or even having to visit the same place and time he has previously been, but for a completely different purpose.
Personally I would love to have a main range trilogy where Five, Six and Seven either meet up with or share time with the Fourth Doctor. It is so great to have Tom Baker back doing adventures and I am very grateful for The Light at the End, but he didn't interact very much with his immediate successors in that.
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Post by omega on Jan 1, 2016 22:24:41 GMT
Actually, Compassion turning up would be pretty cool. I wasn't a big fan of Compassion. I wouldn't mind if I never saw her again. She'd be very cool to hear realised. Of course, her powers would need to be lessened so she can't solve the story within five minutes (at least she'd avoid any separated from the TARDIS story-lines.
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Post by Zagreus on Jan 1, 2016 23:00:03 GMT
I wasn't a big fan of Compassion. I wouldn't mind if I never saw her again. She'd be very cool to hear realised. Of course, her powers would need to be lessened so she can't solve the story within five minutes (at least she'd avoid any separated from the TARDIS story-lines. She's over in the Faction Paradox audios, sort of.
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