Post by mbt66 on Jun 25, 2023 11:19:32 GMT
With Big Finish saying that the River Song range was coming to an end, and how we have to wait ages for follow up box sets, I was wondering if Big Finish would be better to release anthologies with different lead characters in each story.
I bit like with the old main range, even if it was only one particular Doctor we were interested in, being a subscriber you often got a pleasant surprises with stories with the other Doctors.
Just like with the spin-offs there are some I will certainly pre-order where as others I am not sufficiently interested in to order a full set with them, but that isn’t to say I am not interested at all.
The Eighth of March releases are already doing this on a small scale, but perhaps Big Finish could offer an annual subscription of box sets containing 12 discs. So either 3x4CDs or 4x3CDs with a variety of stories from the Whoniverse.
Then we probably wouldn’t have to wait years before we heard a new story with (say) Lady Christina.
Big Finish could still record several stories with the relevant star(s) but just release them individually over a few years. There could still be a through story with them, just not something that would warrant a box set release. If there is such a connected story then they could release those sets much closer together (like they did with Dalek Universe).
Personally I am only ordering Missy and The Paternoster Gang, but I would probably be tempted to subscribe to a series if I knew they were going to be included.
Example:
Set 1
Jenny
Missy
The Robots
Set 2
Beyond Bannerman Road
Counter Measures
Lady Christina
Set 3
The Paternoster Gang
River Song
Rose Tyler
Set 4
Charlotte Pollard
Brigadier Bambera
New UNIT (perhaps a connected story with the previous)
They could even add new ideas or one off releases like:
Mr Jago Investigates
Master and Apprentice
The Monk
Individual downloads of each story should be available for anyone who doesn’t want to subscribe, but the subscription should be suitably attractive to entice all to try everything. If they listen and like a range they may well be tempted to try existing sets with that character.
Would such a range be of interest to you or would you prefer that everything was kept separate?
I bit like with the old main range, even if it was only one particular Doctor we were interested in, being a subscriber you often got a pleasant surprises with stories with the other Doctors.
Just like with the spin-offs there are some I will certainly pre-order where as others I am not sufficiently interested in to order a full set with them, but that isn’t to say I am not interested at all.
The Eighth of March releases are already doing this on a small scale, but perhaps Big Finish could offer an annual subscription of box sets containing 12 discs. So either 3x4CDs or 4x3CDs with a variety of stories from the Whoniverse.
Then we probably wouldn’t have to wait years before we heard a new story with (say) Lady Christina.
Big Finish could still record several stories with the relevant star(s) but just release them individually over a few years. There could still be a through story with them, just not something that would warrant a box set release. If there is such a connected story then they could release those sets much closer together (like they did with Dalek Universe).
Personally I am only ordering Missy and The Paternoster Gang, but I would probably be tempted to subscribe to a series if I knew they were going to be included.
Example:
Set 1
Jenny
Missy
The Robots
Set 2
Beyond Bannerman Road
Counter Measures
Lady Christina
Set 3
The Paternoster Gang
River Song
Rose Tyler
Set 4
Charlotte Pollard
Brigadier Bambera
New UNIT (perhaps a connected story with the previous)
They could even add new ideas or one off releases like:
Mr Jago Investigates
Master and Apprentice
The Monk
Individual downloads of each story should be available for anyone who doesn’t want to subscribe, but the subscription should be suitably attractive to entice all to try everything. If they listen and like a range they may well be tempted to try existing sets with that character.
Would such a range be of interest to you or would you prefer that everything was kept separate?