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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 21, 2024 8:17:11 GMT
out now ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by Who Review on May 22, 2024 19:29:44 GMT
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Post by Kestrel on May 25, 2024 21:43:55 GMT
After the last couple sets, I'm not willing to take a gamble on this without hearing what other folks think, but it sure seems like most of us are stuck in the same boat with this one, huh?
Only one vote in the poll and it's a '2.' Ouch.
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Post by shallacatop on May 26, 2024 9:53:50 GMT
After the last couple sets, I'm not willing to take a gamble on this without hearing what other folks think, but it sure seems like most of us are stuck in the same boat with this one, huh? Only one vote in the poll and it's a '2.' Ouch. Haven’t got round to it myself yet, but the quiet response is less a sign of the set and more just how the spin-off ranges get little traction on here now, post-release. The War Master & River Song seem to be the exceptions, but only a couple of posts for the likes of Gallifrey, Paternoster & Rose, and even some of those are external review links.
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Post by timleschild on May 26, 2024 12:12:54 GMT
After the last couple sets, I'm not willing to take a gamble on this without hearing what other folks think, but it sure seems like most of us are stuck in the same boat with this one, huh? Only one vote in the poll and it's a '2.' Ouch. I wish I'd taken your approach. It was rubbish.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2024 13:46:57 GMT
First story was a waste of Patterson Joseph - and a bit of an insult to veterans, as one myself. Making a joke about why WW1 started, when we remember every 11/11? No.
But honestly the sets show Missy doesn't work as a lead. She's a character. She's not the protagonist. She just doesn't work that way. And sorry - BF do not have writers who deliver funny enough material for her. Steven Moffat gave her gold. BF give her QVC imitation costume jewellery.
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Post by number13 on May 26, 2024 21:20:41 GMT
First story was a waste of Patterson Joseph - and a bit of an insult to veterans, as one myself. Making a joke about why WW1 started, when we remember every 11/11? No. But honestly the sets show Missy doesn't work as a lead. She's a character. She's not the protagonist. She just doesn't work that way. And sorry - BF do not have writers who deliver funny enough material for her. Steven Moffat gave her gold. BF give her QVC imitation costume jewellery. I enjoyed the first 'Missy' volume very much - in fact I thought it was brilliant! But Vol 2 wasn't nearly as good and as yet I've not heard 3 or 4.
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Post by Kestrel on May 27, 2024 22:16:45 GMT
Haven’t got round to it myself yet, but the quiet response is less a sign of the set and more just how the spin-off ranges get little traction on here now, post-release. The War Master & River Song seem to be the exceptions, but only a couple of posts for the likes of Gallifrey, Paternoster & Rose, and even some of those are external review links. True enough. I feel kind of bad about it, since I kinda stalled out on the Gallifrey Relisten thing and still haven't gotten back to it, and have been completely off of the Benny audios ever since David Warner passed. Still, Master-y stuff is typically pretty popular, yeah? And pretty much everyone loved Missy on the TV show, so you'd think this range would be pretty popular -- goes to show how badly Big Finish fumbled the ball with it, I suppose. But honestly the sets show Missy doesn't work as a lead. She's a character. She's not the protagonist. She just doesn't work that way. And sorry - BF do not have writers who deliver funny enough material for her. Steven Moffat gave her gold. BF give her QVC imitation costume jewellery. I'm not sure I can really agree with that first point. I am very firmly of the opinion that anything can be a great story, if it's written well. Any plot, any setting, any character. And I'd say the first 'Missy' boxset Big Finish put out was pretty good. And, based on that set, I might say the "trick" is to tell the stories from other characters' perspectives, so Missy is used more as an antagonist than a villain-protagonist, like the War Master. But, yeah, when it comes to comedy -- as, I think, we've often observed -- Big Finish seldom seems to do well when they're deliberately trying to be funny. And, more broadly, I think that's true of Doctor Who as a whole. Ideally, I think, the humor ought to arise from the characters' various eccentricities when dealing with whatever strange, surreal, or supernatural shenanigans they're involved with. In other words, it should be a byproduct -- secondary, always, to the demands of plot, characterization, and development.
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Post by 20fridge on May 29, 2024 5:57:37 GMT
Well, that was... fine. Missy and the Time Assassin was quite good. The other two were there. Missy stories live or die based on how well she plays off her foil. I know Missy and the Monk was not universally beloved, but I thought that was the strongest set because the Monk was an entertaining foil for her. Much like the titular time assassin. The bad apples and the thieves in the later stories are just boring. The plant dude seemed like an interesting concept. It almost could have been a twisted River Song scenario. Unfortunately it doesn't go anywhere.
I hope the next set doesn't pick up where this one left off. I rolled my eyes at the Camelot reveal. I loved the first Lone Centurion box set, but was very lukewarm on the Camelot set. And I like Rory way more than I like Missy. I feel like a lot of the Camelot humor fell flat there, and if it would be anything like this one, I could imagine Missy in Camelot being much worse.
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