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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 22:54:42 GMT
Nah, not the case. He has memories of it from his youth (who doesn't? ). But not a 'fan', no. That's Tennant and Capaldi. I think I recall watching a clip from a convention, where McCoy said he started regularly watching it well before taking on the role. Could be wrong. Colin casually watched it too, n the early years and Davison liked Hartnell a lot but as Bobod says everyone and their granny of that age will have some experience with it. Eccleston too has spoken of seeing it in the 70s an enjoying it though not necessarily following it. Until the Davison era there were only the 3 channels to watch and Who was on most Saturdays for decades so I guess you'd have to be quite skilled to actually avoid it, even if by osmosis Matt is - barring Hartnell of course - the first actor who seems to have had zero exposure to the show before taking over. I'm a similar age to Matt but he obviously didn't follow the sci-fi section at his local library as a kid or watch UK Gold repeats every weekend!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 14, 2016 1:45:09 GMT
Can Big Finish produce an audio interview of that exact trivia contest? Tennant vs. Capaldi vs. Moffat vs. Briggs. Also, does anyone else think this is Cold Fusion? Cold Fusion is the popular opinion on what the unannounced Novel Adaptation is. The fact that it's three discs is a heavy indication it's a denser story being adapted. At this point I'd rather get cover, synopsis, cast details and trailer for Nightshade. I know at least one guest actor, not sure if they'll be credited or uncredited. {Spoiler}The Sentience manifests to the Doctor as Susan for a chapter or two (a big theme of the book is nostalgia). I will admit I am curious about how they'll manage a big role in Original Sin, {Spoiler}the recasting of Tobias Vaughn, since Kevin Stoney is no longer with us. Nick Briggs perhaps as Vaughn is effectively fully Cyberised, albeit in a non-Cyberman body
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 14, 2016 11:46:21 GMT
Cold Fusion is the popular opinion on what the unannounced Novel Adaptation is. The fact that it's three discs is a heavy indication it's a denser story being adapted. At this point I'd rather get cover, synopsis, cast details and trailer for Nightshade. I know at least one guest actor, not sure if they'll be credited or uncredited. {Spoiler}The Sentience manifests to the Doctor as Susan for a chapter or two (a big theme of the book is nostalgia). I will admit I am curious about how they'll manage a big role in Original Sin, {Spoiler}the recasting of Tobias Vaughn, since Kevin Stoney is no longer with us. Nick Briggs perhaps as Vaughn is effectively fully Cyberised, albeit in a non-Cyberman body So is Tobias Vaughn a 'hybrid' of two warrior races in it - human and Cyberman? Is his body a decaying mess like the Master's in the Deadly Assassin?
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Post by relativetime on Jan 14, 2016 17:02:33 GMT
Cold Fusion seems like the increasingly likely option, but I would definitely also like to see something along the lines of another Fifth Doctor Box Set sometime in the future. It was a breath of fresh air for the Fifth Doctor, I felt.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 14, 2016 21:39:33 GMT
Nick Briggs perhaps as Vaughn is effectively fully Cyberised, albeit in a non-Cyberman body So is Tobias Vaughn a 'hybrid' of two warrior races in it - human and Cyberman? Is his body a decaying mess like the Master's in the Deadly Assassin? I haven't read the book in years but he's effectively a robot with Vaughn's brain, he used the Cybernetwork to upload his brain into another body (based on his human one, IIRC he's even wearing a Nahru jacket) and over the years did it again and again (I recall something about him being every board of a company, even the secretary) until he ended up as the man running the Earth Empire. Vocally, the Doctor recognises his voice, but for an adaptation that could just as easily be dropped (like Holmes' fight with Sherringford or the fact both Moriarty and Mycroft are in the book version of All Consuming Fire).
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 14, 2016 21:49:25 GMT
So is Tobias Vaughn a 'hybrid' of two warrior races in it - human and Cyberman? Is his body a decaying mess like the Master's in the Deadly Assassin? I haven't read the book in years but he's effectively a robot with Vaughn's brain, he used the Cybernetwork to upload his brain into another body (based on his human one, IIRC he's even wearing a Nahru jacket) and over the years did it again and again (I recall something about him being every board of a company, even the secretary) until he ended up as the man running the Earth Empire. Vocally, the Doctor recognises his voice, but for an adaptation that could just as easily be dropped (like Holmes' fight with Sherringford or the fact both Moriarty and Mycroft are in the book version of All Consuming Fire). I think it would be more interesting if he had become so robotic that he'd lost his identity and basically become a robot taking on a dead man's life.
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Post by omega on Jan 14, 2016 22:29:31 GMT
Back to the spoiler tags folks! Some people might actually want to be surprised by developments, since their first exposure to the story will be the audio. {Spoiler} The main motivation of Vaughn in the book is that between all his consciousness transfers he's been losing bits of his memory. He wants the TARDIS so he can go back to when he was still a man and retain all his memories.
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Post by mark687 on Jan 20, 2016 12:18:39 GMT
From Twitter
@minettalane I've been very pleased with the quality of the material @bigfinish have given me. These new 'short trips' are up to the same high standard.
AND One of the @bigfinish short trips is a witty, clever and entertaining story featuring both the fourth and fifth doctors
So now we know
Regards
mark687
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Post by mbt66 on Jan 20, 2016 15:50:01 GMT
From Twitter
@minettalane I've been very pleased with the quality of the material @bigfinish have given me. These new 'short trips' are up to the same high standard.
AND One of the @bigfinish short trips is a witty, clever and entertaining story featuring both the fourth and fifth doctors
So now we know
Regards
mark687 That sounds exciting - I have hoped that Big Finish could bring those two together.
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Post by constonks on Jan 21, 2016 1:00:04 GMT
Suppose that makes sense, given that Black Dog was initially advertised as a Fourth Doctor and Adric story (I was half-convinced this was a weird dream until I found someone talking about it in the old forum) - I wonder if they had Matthew ready to come in but it fell through and they gave it to Louise.
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Post by omega on Jan 21, 2016 1:31:49 GMT
Suppose that makes sense, given that Black Dog was initially advertised as a Fourth Doctor and Adric story (I was half-convinced this was a weird dream until I found someone talking about it in the old forum) - I wonder if they had Matthew ready to come in but it fell through and they gave it to Louise. I remember being disappointed that it was going to be a Leela story instead of an Adric story.
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Post by landryan on Jan 22, 2016 22:10:28 GMT
Hell could have frozen over and it is Adric & 4. I'd love it. According to Blue Box Boy I think MW and TB got on a lot better after Lalla left and Tom had resigned (or was it the other way round?). Tom settled down a bit after his love life and work were put in separate boxes and he'd taken the final jump (so to speak!). I'd imagine that period of time would have covered the production of Keeper of Traken and Logopolis - long enough to repair a working relationship.
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Post by omega on Jan 23, 2016 0:42:57 GMT
According to Blue Box Boy I think MW and TB got on a lot better after Lalla left and Tom had resigned (or was it the other way round?). Tom settled down a bit after his love life and work were put in separate boxes and he'd taken the final jump (so to speak!). I'd imagine that period of time would have covered the production of Keeper of Traken and Logopolis - long enough to repair a working relationship. It shows in their interactions in Keeper of Traken. Adric shows an interest in learning about the universe and isn't above making jokes, but the Doctor keeps him from going to far. That kind of relationship has loads of potential and more mileage than Leela's education (which the audios dropped after several stories and went back to her and the Doctor having adventures).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2016 5:19:25 GMT
According to Blue Box Boy I think MW and TB got on a lot better after Lalla left and Tom had resigned (or was it the other way round?). Tom settled down a bit after his love life and work were put in separate boxes and he'd taken the final jump (so to speak!). I'd imagine that period of time would have covered the production of Keeper of Traken and Logopolis - long enough to repair a working relationship. It shows in their interactions in Keeper of Traken. Adric shows an interest in learning about the universe and isn't above making jokes, but the Doctor keeps him from going to far. That kind of relationship has loads of potential and more mileage than Leela's education (which the audios dropped after several stories and went back to her and the Doctor having adventures). I really do like the image of a grizzled wizard teaching his steward how to follow after him. That relationship has a great potential to be really interesting with a wise and brooding Fourth and a mischievous, trouble-starting Adric. It'd be interesting to see him as a confident enough figure when he's travelling with Four, only for him to loose most of that as well as his sense of place in this new universe once the Fifth Doctor comes along.
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Post by constonks on Jan 24, 2016 15:27:39 GMT
It shows in their interactions in Keeper of Traken. Adric shows an interest in learning about the universe and isn't above making jokes, but the Doctor keeps him from going to far. That kind of relationship has loads of potential and more mileage than Leela's education (which the audios dropped after several stories and went back to her and the Doctor having adventures). I really do like the image of a grizzled wizard teaching his steward how to follow after him. That relationship has a great potential to be really interesting with a wise and brooding Fourth and a mischievous, trouble-starting Adric. It'd be interesting to see him as a confident enough figure when he's travelling with Four, only for him to loose most of that as well as his sense of place in this new universe once the Fifth Doctor comes along. There is always the idea (put forth by some stories in one the Eighties annuals) that Adric and the Doctor had a K9 for some time. People since then have suggested that this must be K9 Mk III who ends up with Sarah Jane. Whether you include the Annuals in your personal canon or not, it's still an interesting concept for a "final" chronological FDA season - it begins with the intro to K9 Mk III and ends with a story with the watcher in the background and the Doctor going to drop off K9 to Lavinia at the end.
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Post by omega on Jan 24, 2016 20:14:02 GMT
There is always the idea (put forth by some stories in one the Eighties annuals) that Adric and the Doctor had a K9 for some time. People since then have suggested that this must be K9 Mk III who ends up with Sarah Jane. Whether you include the Annuals in your personal canon or not, it's still an interesting concept for a "final" chronological FDA season - it begins with the intro to K9 Mk III and ends with a story with the watcher in the background and the Doctor going to drop off K9 to Lavinia at the end. Do we ever actually get any visuals of Lavinia? I know she's mentioned in Time Warrior (Sarah is initially impersonating her to get onto the UNIT safehouse) and her disappearance was meant to be a story arc for K9 and Company.
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Post by constonks on Jan 24, 2016 20:53:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 4:07:14 GMT
More John Leeson can never be a bad thing and it feels out-of-character for the Fourth Doctor to just hand over the unit without field testing him. Additionally, it'd also give us continuity buffs the ability to stick the latter day DWM comics where he's in his red suit into the gap. The Neutron Knights ends with the Doctor contemplating his future and the possibility he'll meet Merlin again (little knowing that he will become Merlin himself) after all, so the opportunity for such a placement seems too good to pass up. Perhaps he leaves Adric where they last left off (say for the sake of argument, something Bidmeadian like an exophysics research laboratory on Vadis-5) having seen the Watcher and feeling that he must know himself before the final calamity he's begun to ponder takes place? His refusal to let Adric help him (as in Logopolis) could also inadvertently begin the rapid erosion of the young boy's confidence.
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Post by seeley on Jan 25, 2016 4:21:59 GMT
More John Leeson can never be a bad thing and it feels out-of-character for the Fourth Doctor to just hand over the unit without field testing him Amusingly, K9 MK III was originally planned to be an agent of the Master. That would have been interesting... It's also weird to think that, the K9 and Company pilot, despite not being terribly well-regarded, was not the reason for the show not proceeding to series: Another of the pilot's chief supporters, BBC1 Controller Bill Cotton, had recently left his position, to be replaced by Alan Hart. Hart was underwhelmed by the idea of a K-9 And Company series, and the project was formally abandoned around April 1982.
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Post by constonks on Jan 25, 2016 4:58:16 GMT
More John Leeson can never be a bad thing and it feels out-of-character for the Fourth Doctor to just hand over the unit without field testing him. Additionally, it'd also give us continuity buffs the ability to stick the latter day DWM comics where he's in his red suit into the gap. The Neutron Knights ends with the Doctor contemplating his future and the possibility he'll meet Merlin again (little knowing that he will become Merlin himself) after all, so the opportunity for such a placement seems too good to pass up. Perhaps he leaves Adric where they last left off (say for the sake of argument, something Bidmeadian like an exophysics research laboratory on Vadis-5) having seen the Watcher and feeling that he must know himself before the final calamity he's begun to ponder takes place? His refusal to let Adric help him (as in Logopolis) could also inadvertently begin the rapid erosion of the young boy's confidence. I always just placed all the comics together while Romana was away, as one of them outright stated. He leaves Romana, then comes back for her, resplendent in red. Saves having to create an Adricless gap in the first place. After all, in Fourth Doc's long long life, a placement just before The Leisure Hive still gives The Neutron Knights a chance to be a "final season" type of story.
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