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Post by mark687 on Jan 12, 2016 9:42:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2016 11:58:57 GMT
Haha! This is brilliant!
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 12, 2016 12:51:46 GMT
Can't wait to hear this, i love my Fourth Doctor stories.
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Post by Digi on Jan 12, 2016 13:14:08 GMT
Listened on my snowy slow commute. A fun story, if a little by-the-numbers.
Two observations: 1) John Leeson's K9 sounded just a little bit off, somehow. And 2) Do my ears deceive me, or was that very first music we heard on the radio Dorian Gray's band playing the song from 'The Lord of Misrule'?
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Jan 12, 2016 13:24:14 GMT
Lovely story Great fun.
It's good to have Romana 2 and tom back!
K9 sounded fine to my ears.
Anyone else hear...
Magpie electronic!
Oh how I love the new licence
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Post by kimalysong on Jan 12, 2016 18:32:09 GMT
And 2) Do my ears deceive me, or was that very first music we heard on the radio Dorian Gray's band playing the song from 'The Lord of Misrule'? I tried to find it in there but couldn't hear it. However both stories take place in 1964 so that would be a little Easter Egg that made sense. I might have just missed it. Anyways I felt this story was fine. Didn't dislike it nor did I love it. Not much to say about it really I'm afraid.
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Post by acousticwolf on Jan 12, 2016 19:17:28 GMT
I enjoyed it. A good start to the series, I thought.
Cheers
Tony
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Post by Tony Jones on Jan 12, 2016 20:19:21 GMT
That was fun, and yes I heard the Magpie reference.
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Post by omega on Jan 13, 2016 4:53:05 GMT
A fun story, Romana seems a bit grumpy though and the set-up of the Fourth Doctor and Romana at a house waiting for K9 to return from setting a false trail for the Black Guardian before getting a whiff of the alien plot is exactly how The Auntie Matter began (the same house according to the extras).
As an earworm, the Radio Frantic jingle works superbly, and Romana's attempts at the script are hilarious ("Oh, just listen to some music!"). The twist that it's the Vardans is superb, and I'm glad it wasn't spoiled in the marketing as it gives you something to discover in the story itself. Out of the guest cast, only Miller was really memorable, but then he must have been the only one to fill out that form!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 6:14:10 GMT
What a great opening to the season! Nicely played reveal and oh, how times, will change for you Doctor and a nice nudge to the reveal ranges and to next year's Season 18 stories. The super TARDIS team before they fell off their perch.....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 6:18:59 GMT
A fun story, Romana seems a bit grumpy though and the set-up of the Fourth Doctor and Romana at a house waiting for K9 to return from setting a false trail for the Black Guardian before getting a whiff of the alien plot is exactly how The Auntie Matter began (the same house according to the extras). As an earworm, the Radio Frantic jingle works superbly, and Romana's attempts at the script are hilarious ("Oh, just listen to some music!"). The twist that it's the Vardans is superb, and I'm glad it wasn't spoiled in the marketing as it gives you something to discover in the story itself. Out of the guest cast, only Miller was really memorable, but then he must have been the only one to fill out that form! Edit: post deleted
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 13, 2016 13:30:49 GMT
I'm still hoping we get a story that links post Well Mannered War & Leisure Hive, i want desperately to know why the Fourth Doctor becomes more sombre.
Surely there's a season or a trilogy there of stories to be told.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 14:34:02 GMT
I'm still hoping we get a story that links post Well Mannered War & Leisure Hive, i want desperately to know why the Fourth Doctor becomes more sombre. Surely there's a season or a trilogy there of stories to be told. We'll probably get an announcement about it sometime this year, although it doesn't seem to be happening within The Fourth Doctor Adventures itself. Maybe in a box set as a jumping on point for new listeners? The journey to Season 18 Four seems to beginning this series, however
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Post by bobod on Jan 13, 2016 14:51:22 GMT
I'm still hoping we get a story that links post Well Mannered War & Leisure Hive, i want desperately to know why the Fourth Doctor becomes more sombre. Surely there's a season or a trilogy there of stories to be told. We'll probably get an announcement about it sometime this year, although it doesn't seem to be happening within The Fourth Doctor Adventures itself. What makes you think it's happening *at all*?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 15:13:56 GMT
We'll probably get an announcement about it sometime this year, although it doesn't seem to be happening within The Fourth Doctor Adventures itself. What makes you think it's happening *at all*? Because, it has to, doesn't it? You don't produce a cliffhanger like that and tantalise an audience for more then a year and do nothing about it, regardless of the context of the source material which many customers would be unfarmaliar with, particularly given this year's finale for The Fourth Doctor Adventures and next year's stories. The Well-Mannered War doesn't simply exist as an adapation of a well-regarded novel, but as a shakeup to Fourth Doctor material at Big Finish. True, Big Finish could always have it as part of the Who, but from this month's release alone with Four's regret over the fate of the invading Vardan and the cockiness and arrogance of both Four and Romana firmly on display, it seems to me we're heading down the path to such a release.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 15:36:01 GMT
On a side note, I wonder if we'll see a release in which Four relays an adventure he had with Sarah as a tribute to Sarah Jane Smith. It would be a nice way to look back on an era now otherwise closed to us, with Four's blindness to the frustrations of his idiosyncratic self shining through and his fondness of his best friend firmly on display.
I'd understand why it could never be, however for all involved.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 13, 2016 17:01:31 GMT
A boxset set between Well Mannered War & Leisure Hive gives Big Finish a blank canvas to do something completely original or unique with the Fourth Doctor & Romana.
Yeah the novels been out ages but i think this would be a great follow-up & answer the question of how the Doctor survived, I'm a Fourth Doctor fan & wanted to know for year's how he escaped this dilemma.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 17:09:30 GMT
What makes you think it's happening *at all*? Because, it has to, doesn't it? You don't produce a cliffhanger like that and tantalise an audience for more then a year and do nothing about it, regardless of the context of the source material which many customers would be unfarmaliar with, particularly given this year's finale for The Fourth Doctor Adventures and next year's stories. The Well-Mannered War doesn't simply exist as an adapation of a well-regarded novel, but as a shakeup to Fourth Doctor material at Big Finish. True, Big Finish could always have it as part of the Who, but from this month's release alone with Four's regret over the fate of the invading Vardan and the cockiness and arrogance of both Four and Romana firmly on display, it seems to me we're heading down the path to such a release. Sorry, having read the novel years ago, but not listened to the audio, a cliffhanger like what? In spoilers if necessary.
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Post by mrperson on Jan 13, 2016 19:33:52 GMT
Quite enjoyable indeed. One thing I can't quite put my finger on, but for some reason (and obviously in my opinion) Paul McGann seems equally good in the 1h format as he does in the 1.5-2.2h format. But these Tom Baker stories generally feel a bit rushed to me. I think that for whatever reason (more ambling about and poking things with sticks?), his Doctor needs the longer format. Well-Mannered War audio cliffhanger:
He couldn't materialize or else it would release "the Hive" and that would be a very bad thing for reality. That was the work of the universally powerful being who likes to wear dead birds as hats (Black Guardian)
So he uses the "emergency unit" - the runaway button he had to press at the beginning of The Mind Robber - to escape. It "removes us from reality as we know it."
If this is before the more sombre 4 (and the sombre nature was intended rather than a result of things going on in Tom's personal life during that season), then presumably some rather nasty things happen while he's in unreality.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 13, 2016 21:30:49 GMT
Quite enjoyable indeed. One thing I can't quite put my finger on, but for some reason (and obviously in my opinion) Paul McGann seems equally good in the 1h format as he does in the 1.5-2.2h format. But these Tom Baker stories generally feel a bit rushed to me. I think that for whatever reason (more ambling about and poking things with sticks?), his Doctor needs the longer format. Well-Mannered War audio cliffhanger:
He couldn't materialize or else it would release "the Hive" and that would be a very bad thing for reality. That was the work of the universally powerful being who likes to wear dead birds as hats (Black Guardian)
So he uses the "emergency unit" - the runaway button he had to press at the beginning of The Mind Robber - to escape. It "removes us from reality as we know it."
If this is before the more sombre 4 (and the sombre nature was intended rather than a result of things going on in Tom's personal life during that season), then presumably some rather nasty things happen while he's in unreality.
You hit the nail on the head there my friend, why cant the storys be 75 minutes & have CD extras on the last release covering all the storys of that season?
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