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Post by timleschild on Jul 17, 2024 14:50:46 GMT
I think this will be good Cornell & Myles are friends, they do a Hammer horror movie podcast together. She won't want to mess this up.
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Post by enofa on Jul 17, 2024 18:05:38 GMT
so Big Finish might be looking into more adaptations if this sells The Dying Days gets my vote If they do more, I actually hope they do some BBC books. Not sure if it would even fit, but Featival of Death would be great!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jul 17, 2024 20:29:05 GMT
Sorceror’s Apprentice would be fun, but it’d have to be from the “Unbound” cast now that there’s only Ford left from that crew.
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Post by antartiks on Jul 17, 2024 22:19:05 GMT
Really enjoyed the cliffhanger of the first episode with the music slowly building up until the credits kick in.
I have not read the novel but am thoroughly enjoying it so far. 2024 seems to be a really great year for Davison.
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Post by Star Platinum on Jul 18, 2024 14:50:46 GMT
so Big Finish might be looking into more adaptations if this sells The Dying Days gets my vote If they do more, I actually hope they do some BBC books. Not sure if it would even fit, but Featival of Death would be great! I would absolutely adore an adaptation of Festival of Death, I would be absolutely over the moon if they ever chose that one for adaptation. I really hope that there are more on the horizon. I’ve always loved the Wilderness era of Doctor Who. The adaptations offer a more digestible, easy to access version of many of these great stories and its interesting to see how fans who grew with the classic series handled it when they were first given the keys to the kingdom. I don’t know how to explain it, but the stories feel denser than comparable two/three disc releases. Perhaps it’s the scope of the novels, but I love how each one really feels like an event and has a nice, polished production.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2024 15:13:37 GMT
We seem to be getting contradictory messages, either from Big Finish, or word of mouth - some saying there are no plans for more novel adaptions, others asking which novel to adapt next! Perhaps it's a way of keeping the interest alive.
I'm all for them. I still think the adaptions of Gareth Roberts' books are among the best 4DAs BF have released. They really tap into the 'ordered silliness' of Season 17. I would like them to have a go at a few BBC books. Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum wrote some amazing stories, so any of those would do. The Banquo Legacy, The Burning, The Bodysnatchers, The Witch Hunters, The Hollow Men, Salvation, the list goes on. So I'm all for more. Reading those books in 'the wilderness years' is as far back in history as An Unearthly Child was when Remembrance of the Daleks was transmitted - that's a sobering thought.
To keep on topic, I'm two thirds of the way through Goth Opera, and while it doesn't yet quite live upto to its glorious title, events are getting desperate in an enjoyably chilling kind of way.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 18, 2024 15:38:27 GMT
I'm always amused by suggestions for novels to adapt. Why are they always ones I hate?
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Post by cwm on Jul 19, 2024 16:27:00 GMT
When Goth Opera was first announced it was suggested the prospect of more might depend on how GO sells.
Since then they've taken a firmer line that this is a one-off being done because it was a passion project of Scott Handcock / to mark the 30th anniversary of the Missing Adventures, and there are no plans to do more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2024 17:18:43 GMT
The ‘not suitable for younger listeners’ warning at the beginning of this, if I’m honest, made me even more excited for this story. I’d not read the Virgin New Adventures, so this is new to me, but heard they could be a little, shall we say, on the nose. Not sure, having listened to this, which elements are unsuitable, but hey ho.
Richard Armitage makes a good, gravelly Rassilon, introducing events with a few quotes from television’s State of Decay. Shame we don’t get much from him.
The first vampires we meet don’t inspire confidence. Joking with each other about being vampires and feasting; just as if dentists joke constantly about teeth. “I became a vampire to get out of manual labour,” is not the kind of dialogue to give to a character supposed to instil fear. It’s all a bit ‘knowing’ and sadly the vampire performers are thinly played, except for the main two Ruath and Yarvin, who at least give some larger performances befitting creatures of such rank. The lesser vampires seem instead to fulfil BF’s apparent obligation to feature Northern accents in their modern-day stories.
Not a huge amount happens in the first episode and yet the opening and closing theme have been cut back; strangely, episode three and four’s cliffhanger is followed by the opening version of the theme tune. Odd decision.
Tonally it often seems uneven, as if this adaption, or original story, can’t decide whether to make the characters frightening or comedic (an approach which lessens as the tale goes on, I’m happy to say). Ultimately, the plot seems quite thin. You see the image of Nyssa with a pair of vampire fangs on the cover? That’s basically the story, which provides a certain element of desperation stretched over the three discs. That, and the Doctor’s obsession with tea.
I don’t want to give the impression I didn’t enjoy this, but I’m sorry I didn’t enjoy it more. Tim Steemson’s chilling, violin-infused music is excellent and provides some pomp and consistency.
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Post by timleschild on Jul 19, 2024 18:04:28 GMT
The lesser vampires seem instead to fulfil BF’s apparent obligation to feature Northern accents in their modern-day stories. It is set in Manchester. Don't you like the north?
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 19, 2024 19:53:58 GMT
The lesser vampires seem instead to fulfil BF’s apparent obligation to feature Northern accents in their modern-day stories. It is set in Manchester. Don't you like the north?
Not only are the vampires from up north, there was criticism of the novel for not being authentically Manchester enough. So BF may have to double-down on flat caps, whippets, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2024 22:21:13 GMT
It is set in Manchester. Don't you like the north?
Not only are the vampires from up north, there was criticism of the novel for not being authentically Manchester enough. So BF may have to double-down on flat caps, whippets, etc.
Thinking about it, my point about the accents was a redundant observation - or a bit of a bloody silly one, whichever you prefer. It does just seem to me that if regional accents in modern stories are included, BF often tend to be from the same place. Or maybe it's just the ones I listen to!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2024 5:40:17 GMT
Not only are the vampires from up north, there was criticism of the novel for not being authentically Manchester enough. So BF may have to double-down on flat caps, whippets, etc.
Thinking about it, my point about the accents was a redundant observation - or a bit of a bloody silly one, whichever you prefer. It does just seem to me that if regional accents in modern stories are included, BF often tend to be from the same place. Or maybe it's just the ones I listen to! I think it's true there does tend to be a lot of Northern accents in Who, just as there has been a disproportionately high number of stories in Scotland. I'd say that's partially down to the actors available for the Northerners, and the writers available for the Scots. On the flip side, very few Scousers, Northern Irish, Brum...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2024 7:35:54 GMT
Thinking about it, my point about the accents was a redundant observation - or a bit of a bloody silly one, whichever you prefer. It does just seem to me that if regional accents in modern stories are included, BF often tend to be from the same place. Or maybe it's just the ones I listen to! I think it's true there does tend to be a lot of Northern accents in Who, just as there has been a disproportionately high number of stories in Scotland. I'd say that's partially down to the actors available for the Northerners, and the writers available for the Scots. On the flip side, very few Scousers, Northern Irish, Brum... I had noticed this too. Also, a lot of trips into history tend to end up somewhere Cornish-sounding. Just an observation having listened to far too much BF, rather than a criticism!
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Post by mbt66 on Jul 21, 2024 6:39:21 GMT
If they do more, I actually hope they do some BBC books. Not sure if it would even fit, but Featival of Death would be great! I would absolutely adore an adaptation of Festival of Death, I would be absolutely over the moon if they ever chose that one for adaptation. I fear that opportunity may have passed. I would love an adaptation and it has been asked for previously, but I seem to recall that Jonny Morris wasn’t keen. Currently I would simply take an audiobook narration of the novel.
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Post by timleschild on Jul 22, 2024 12:57:18 GMT
Tegan was a fan of cricket in Black Orchid but now she isn't?
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 22, 2024 20:15:57 GMT
So I haven't heard this story yet.. Supposedly the opening theme tune is the same as the closing, and that was a mistake- BF will be remixing and reissuing the cd's for this?
I don't fully know this stories plot- does this sound correct? It's on a BF FB page.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 22, 2024 20:36:17 GMT
So I haven't heard this story yet.. Supposedly the opening theme tune is the same as the closing, and that was a mistake- BF will be remixing and reissuing the cd's for this? I don't fully know this stories plot- does this sound correct? It's on a BF FB page. Well now my ear's been drawn to it Yes it is and BF being mindful of DW Fans need for "Exactness" pulled CD delivery, will issue a corrected DL in a few days hopefully and corrected CDs will be sent out by September. Regards mark687
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 22, 2024 21:52:55 GMT
So I haven't heard this story yet.. Supposedly the opening theme tune is the same as the closing, and that was a mistake- BF will be remixing and reissuing the cd's for this? I don't fully know this stories plot- does this sound correct? It's on a BF FB page. Well now my ear's been drawn to it Yes it is and BF being mindful of DW Fans need for "Exactness" pulled CD delivery, will issue a corrected DL in a few days hopefully and corrected CDs will be sent out by September. Regards mark687 According to the poster on the BF FB page that's what's going to happen ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by bohnny on Jul 22, 2024 22:16:07 GMT
Well now my ear's been drawn to it Yes it is and BF being mindful of DW Fans need for "Exactness" pulled CD delivery, will issue a corrected DL in a few days hopefully and corrected CDs will be sent out by September. Regards mark687 According to the poster on the BF FB page that's what's going to happen ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif) Wait until you hear how they pronounce Kasterberous then (it’s Metebelis all over again)
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