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Post by newt5996 on Nov 14, 2022 20:47:51 GMT
I also wonder who it was who gave this release a 1 out of 5. Really, I would like to hear from you. Was it the cruel brutality that turned you off? The dark and miserable setting? The use of the same old cybermen? "Boring Nazis, AGAIN?" Because it cannot be the writing. Or the characters. Or the research that went into this. Nor can it be the absolutely stunning performances. I think there’s someone that just goes around giving any new Big Finish poll a 1. I know Big Finish’s output this year has been a bit mixed for me but nothing that bad.
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Post by grinch on Nov 14, 2022 20:49:14 GMT
I also wonder who it was who gave this release a 1 out of 5. Really, I would like to hear from you. Was it the cruel brutality that turned you off? The dark and miserable setting? The use of the same old cybermen? "Boring Nazis, AGAIN?" Because it cannot be the writing. Or the characters. Or the research that went into this. Nor can it be the absolutely stunning performances. I think there’s someone that just goes around giving any new Big Finish poll a 1. I know Big Finish’s output this year has been a bit mixed for me but nothing that bad. Always nice to have a hobby I suppose? 🤷♂️
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 14, 2022 21:56:58 GMT
I also wonder who it was who gave this release a 1 out of 5. Really, I would like to hear from you. Was it the cruel brutality that turned you off? The dark and miserable setting? The use of the same old cybermen? "Boring Nazis, AGAIN?" Because it cannot be the writing. Or the characters. Or the research that went into this. Nor can it be the absolutely stunning performances. I think there’s someone that just goes around giving any new Big Finish poll a 1. I know Big Finish’s output this year has been a bit mixed for me but nothing that bad. Ah, that's what I feared. One of those people who are in severe need of a) a new hobby and b) some serious growing up
Or maybe it is a Nazi. Or Cyberman. Also possible.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Nov 17, 2022 10:49:49 GMT
This release is a tour de force.
What she said
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 1, 2023 10:32:03 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 15, 2023 9:23:22 GMT
Congrats !
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Post by tuigirl on May 28, 2023 19:41:44 GMT
Deserves any prize it wins. Fantastic release. Absolutely stunning and mind- blowing performances.
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Post by martinw8686 on Oct 18, 2023 11:49:04 GMT
Can I listen to Blood and Steel without having heard any previous Bernice Summerfield stories?
I'm familiar with the character and unbound Doctor. The reviews for this are so good, I'm keen to get it while on sale.
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Post by sherlock on Oct 18, 2023 12:09:05 GMT
Can I listen to Blood and Steel without having heard any previous Bernice Summerfield stories? I'm familiar with the character and unbound Doctor. The reviews for this are so good, I'm keen to get it while on sale. Yes you can. There’s no links to previous stories, it’s a standalone.
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Post by mark687 on Oct 18, 2023 13:10:48 GMT
Can I listen to Blood and Steel without having heard any previous Bernice Summerfield stories? I'm familiar with the character and unbound Doctor. The reviews for this are so good, I'm keen to get it while on sale. Yes you can its a self contained story Regards mark687
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Post by Alastair on Oct 26, 2023 16:11:56 GMT
Adding just one more voice to the praise. This is truly one of the greats; an absolute privilege to listen to.
Like Friend of the Family, this feels more like a prestige miniseries than a string of Doctor Who episodes.
It’s not light listening for so many reasons: - It’s set in 1930s Berlin, where nobody knows what’s around the corner. (Doctor: “There are some points in history where it hurts just to breathe the air.”) - It leans into the full horror of cyberconversion in a way Cybermen stories rarely do (and to an extent the TV series could never touch). - David Warner is audibly unwell (not that he’s anything less than outstanding, or brings anything less than his A-game).
…All of which make it so much more powerful and poignant in the hands of such outstanding writers, cast and crew. I’m so sad to see this wonderful series end, but so grateful it got to go out on an all-time high. Thank you David. Thank you everyone.
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Post by tuigirl on Oct 26, 2023 23:37:50 GMT
Adding just one more voice to the praise. This is truly one of the greats; an absolute privilege to listen to. Like Friend of the Family, this feels more like a prestige miniseries than a string of Doctor Who episodes. It’s not light listening for so many reasons: - It’s set in 1930s Berlin, where nobody knows what’s around the corner. (Doctor: “There are some points in history where it hurts just to breathe the air.”) - It leans into the full horror of cyberconversion in a way Cybermen stories rarely do (and to an extent the TV series could never touch). - David Warner is audibly unwell (not that he’s anything less than outstanding, or brings anything less than his A-game). …All of which make it so much more powerful and poignant in the hands of such outstanding writers, cast and crew. I’m so sad to see this wonderful series end, but so grateful it got to go out on an all-time high. Thank you David. Thank you everyone. Totally agreed. This release truly is something special. I am just a bit sad it did not get the attention it deserved, probably because it is not a fun, lighthearted release. It is not several known characters thrown together to do a happy run around with cybermen. No. This one is deadly serious and is not fooling around. Simply breathtaking and heartbreaking.
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Post by nottenst on Dec 27, 2023 16:12:34 GMT
Just finished this final release. That was a brutal most powerful set. Great performances all around.
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Post by number13 on Dec 28, 2023 1:17:50 GMT
As this thread has just popped up and I was away in the Vortex last year, I hope it's not too late to pay a richly deserved tribute.
This was a magnificent, extremely dark, gripping and visceral boxset where the setting was far more than merely an incidental backdrop to the stories. tuigirl has said it all perfectly in a great series of posts, thanks.
The Cybermen are in part the 'Doctor Who' communists in mirror to the Daleks' infamous Nazi parallel.
Cybermen don't hate you, they don't rage at the Universe or feel anger. They won't kill you, they will use you for the good of the Cyber-race which you will join; so it's for your own good.
They will convert you, upgrade you and all the time you're screaming they will tell you it's an improvement, that it's for your own good. You will have no choice, no free will, no right to refuse because to refuse is not logical. Their way is the planned way, the logical way, the better way, the only way; it's for your own good.
You will become like them.
Until the Doctor says - no. People have the right to choose, to be different, to think their own thoughts, to choose not to belong, to choose not to conform. People have the right to be free.
What a fabulous Doctor this was, my Third Doctor as he might have been if his exile to Earth had not mellowed him.
A Doctor who loves life and freedom and people but can and will give monsters the nightmares they deserve. Brilliant from the beginning to, most sadly, the end.
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