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Post by mark687 on Nov 22, 2021 19:52:22 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Nov 23, 2021 13:47:39 GMT
Another one where The Bard took Liberties with the History!
Great take on Lady Macbeth, wonderful interplay between Neve and Christopher and the twist on the King himself when he arrives Excellent.
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ljwilson
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It's tangerine....not orange
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Post by ljwilson on Nov 23, 2021 21:30:37 GMT
Call me biased 😂 don't start a big long debate on who should play what roles cause am not really arsed 😂 That David Rintoul is hopeless at it though 😂😂😜 No wiser words spoke all year, I too am so not arsed. |
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Post by shallacatop on Nov 24, 2021 10:00:00 GMT
Neve McIntosh steals this story, she’s absolutely brilliant in it. So are all the guest cast actually, they’re well realised and well performed. In fact I think it’s Eccleston that is the weak link in The Curse of Lady Macbeth, or rather the Doctor is. That jovial pre-Rose characterisation of Nine that Big Finish are going for doesn’t quite land in this one. Everyone else is playing it seriously and the story itself is taking itself seriously, so the Doctor is jarring in the first two thirds. Fortunately the last act changes and the Doctor gets his time to shine. I loved the comments about violence and Eccleston plays it beautifully.
It’s good, but could’ve been stronger with a less flippant portrayal of the Doctor.
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Post by sherlock on Nov 25, 2021 13:18:43 GMT
That was alright, with well performed supporting characters.
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Post by bonehead on Nov 25, 2021 20:15:22 GMT
Well, I'm loving this new set so far.
Lizzie Hopley is a great writer; she penned a couple of my favourite Dark Shadows (remember that?) stories, A Collinwood Christmas and The Carrion Queen, the latter of which is hugely recommended. Here we have a richly atmospheric tale, performed by a brilliant cast (I'll join the chorus praising Neve McIntosh). Again, The Ninth Doctor is given some killer lines, and Chris Ecleston performs them wonderfully. He's been vocal about how he found some of the humour awkward on television, but there's none of that here at all as far as I'm concerned. Consequently, his Doctor is warm-hearted and great fun (not that he wasn't on television, of course). Pitch perfect, as others have said, in a way that fits in very well with the story; the Doctor has always been apart from the company he keeps! I really can't fault these two first stories. I know I'll be listening to them again soon.
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Post by grinch on Nov 25, 2021 23:57:56 GMT
Well, I'm loving this new set so far.
Lizzie Hopley is a great writer; she penned a couple of my favourite Dark Shadows (remember that?) stories, A Collinwood Christmas and The Carrion Queen, the latter of which is hugely recommended. Here we have a richly atmospheric tale, performed by a brilliant cast (I'll join the chorus praising Neve McIntosh). Again, The Ninth Doctor is given some killer lines, and Chris Ecleston performs them wonderfully. He's been vocal about how he found some of the humour awkward on television, but there's none of that here at all as far as I'm concerned. Consequently, his Doctor is warm-hearted and great fun (not that he wasn't on television, of course). Pitch perfect, as others have said, in a way that fits in very well with the story; the Doctor has always been apart from the company he keeps! I really can't fault these two first stories. I know I'll be listening to them again soon.
Her stories for Dark Shadows really were quite excellent. Possibly one of Big Finish’s more underrated writers. |
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Post by dasmaniac on Nov 28, 2021 1:35:20 GMT
Now this was a good story. Neve McIntosh was incredible as Lady Macbeth and I hope she makes future appearances. I thought Lizzie Hopley really did a great job bringing this small kingdom in the Scottish highlands.
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ljwilson
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It's tangerine....not orange
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Post by ljwilson on Nov 28, 2021 10:25:39 GMT
Well, I'm loving this new set so far.
Lizzie Hopley is a great writer; she penned a couple of my favourite Dark Shadows (remember that?) stories, A Collinwood Christmas and The Carrion Queen, the latter of which is hugely recommended. Here we have a richly atmospheric tale, performed by a brilliant cast (I'll join the chorus praising Neve McIntosh). Again, The Ninth Doctor is given some killer lines, and Chris Ecleston performs them wonderfully. He's been vocal about how he found some of the humour awkward on television, but there's none of that here at all as far as I'm concerned. Consequently, his Doctor is warm-hearted and great fun (not that he wasn't on television, of course). Pitch perfect, as others have said, in a way that fits in very well with the story; the Doctor has always been apart from the company he keeps! I really can't fault these two first stories. I know I'll be listening to them again soon.
Her stories for Dark Shadows really were quite excellent. Possibly one of Big Finish’s more underrated writers. When I first heard Torchwood: The Dying Room by Lizzie it blew me away...didn't see the twist coming at all. |
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Post by Chakoteya on Dec 2, 2021 10:11:07 GMT
Well-placed in history - what little we know of that time - and location. My Scots Gaelic isn't quite up to speed on some of the things Gruach said, but I did enjoy it. Especially after Neve's recent role reprisal in 'Shetland' and still using her 'proper' accent and no big makeup!  |
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Post by kennysmith on Dec 3, 2021 20:11:29 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Dec 30, 2021 13:06:31 GMT
Underwhelming.
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Post by Kestrel on Jan 5, 2022 17:45:16 GMT
Will post more detailed thoughts a bit later, but for now I'll say that I think this was the strongest story of the set (though I a, waffling a bit so who knows if I'll agree tomorrow), but that (in what has become a pathetic refrain) I think it could've been a lot more interesting as a pure historical. Neve McIntosh steals this story, she’s absolutely brilliant in it. She's really been making a habit of this. |
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 8, 2022 22:19:03 GMT
I love the bait and switch at the start, we have Neve McIntosh, we have a child shocked by something into silence and drawing on the walls and the Doctor speculating about something millions of years old under the ground.
What do Who fans assume?
SILURIANS! Secret, surprise Silurian story.
Nope, something far more interesting.
I liked the Doctor at the start, he’s still reacting to everything by comparing it the The War. So the situation, fraught though it is, terrible though it is, isn’t as fraught or as terrible as The War, so he gets jokey. He allows himself to get star struck by Lady MacBeth.
But the moment he realises children are threatened, that there are literally pitchforks and flaming torches, he acts.
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