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Post by mark687 on Jul 4, 2024 16:46:09 GMT
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Post by coreywt on Jul 8, 2024 15:56:02 GMT
Got an email that my CD of this has shipped but the digital is not in my app or downloads. Can't recall that happening before.
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Post by eldersensorite on Jul 8, 2024 19:17:38 GMT
Got an email that my CD of this has shipped but the digital is not in my app or downloads. Can't recall that happening before. Yeah they have recently started sending some of them out before release, I've seen other people have that for recent releases but this is the first one I've had it myself
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 9, 2024 8:16:52 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jul 9, 2024 11:01:46 GMT
Oh that's cheeky Nice to have a new old team back together and this Range style continues surprisingly to be the most of its period while ease of access for 21st century fans. See you next year Season 6A 4/5 Regards mark687
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Post by antartiks on Jul 13, 2024 18:04:00 GMT
Just finished listening to the box set yesterday and I'm really skeptical about releasing one box set a year. Really hoping we get two next year. Or one in July 2025, then the following one in February 2026 or something like that. I don't think you can properly write effective cliffhangers when people have to wait a full year to get a resolution or at least some answers. We'll see how it goes next July.
I liked the box set overall though.
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Post by relativetime on Jul 17, 2024 2:26:50 GMT
Just finished listening to the box set yesterday and I'm really skeptical about releasing one box set a year. Really hoping we get two next year. Or one in July 2025, then the following one in February 2026 or something like that. I don't think you can properly write effective cliffhangers when people have to wait a full year to get a resolution or at least some answers. We'll see how it goes next July. I liked the box set overall though. Yeah, this is something I've been wanting for a while now too. Even if it's just one boxset for Season 6A and one boxset for Season 6B, I think it'd make a big difference, at least for me. Maybe then they wouldn't have felt the need to bring back both Jamie and Zoe for Season 6B if this was how the range was approached in the first place.
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Post by callin321 on Jul 17, 2024 9:42:07 GMT
This from Vortex should be welcome news! [Vortex can exclusively reveal that rather than one Second Doctor set a year, there will now be two. Nick adds: “Because it’s been so well received we’ll be increasing the frequency of The Second Doctor Adventures box sets to two a year in the not too distant future. But more news on that later!”] Hope it's not too much later after that cliff hanger....
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Post by antartiks on Jul 17, 2024 22:25:34 GMT
Just finished listening to the box set yesterday and I'm really skeptical about releasing one box set a year. Really hoping we get two next year. Or one in July 2025, then the following one in February 2026 or something like that. I don't think you can properly write effective cliffhangers when people have to wait a full year to get a resolution or at least some answers. We'll see how it goes next July. I liked the box set overall though. Yeah, this is something I've been wanting for a while now too. Even if it's just one boxset for Season 6A and one boxset for Season 6B, I think it'd make a big difference, at least for me. Maybe then they wouldn't have felt the need to bring back both Jamie and Zoe for Season 6B if this was how the range was approached in the first place. Well I don't mind the way Jamie and Zoe are being used in the 2DA box set but yeah, I think having box sets for seasons 6A and 6B would probably have helped. I'm enjoying the box sets for season 6B so far though, it's just a shame that we're getting them only once a year for now. I seem to remember the same thing happened with the 3DAs a few years ago though. I think we got one box set every year before the massive revamp in 2022 ? Hoping that after 2025 we'll be getting two every year, like with the other classic Doctors.
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Post by callin321 on Jul 18, 2024 9:04:40 GMT
Yeah, this is something I've been wanting for a while now too. Even if it's just one boxset for Season 6A and one boxset for Season 6B, I think it'd make a big difference, at least for me. Maybe then they wouldn't have felt the need to bring back both Jamie and Zoe for Season 6B if this was how the range was approached in the first place. Well I don't mind the way Jamie and Zoe are being used in the 2DA box set but yeah, I think having box sets for seasons 6A and 6B would probably have helped. I'm enjoying the box sets for season 6B so far though, it's just a shame that we're getting them only once a year for now. I seem to remember the same thing happened with the 3DAs a few years ago though. I think we got one box set every year before the massive revamp in 2022 ? Hoping that after 2025 we'll be getting two every year, like with the other classic Doctors. I agree wholeheartedly and it seems Nick agrees given what he said in the latest version of Vortex [ Vortex can exclusively reveal that rather than one Second Doctor set a year, there will now be two. Nick adds: “Because it’s been so well received we’ll be increasing the frequency of The Second Doctor Adventures box sets to two a year in the not too distant future. But more news on that later!”]... roll on 2025!
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Post by 20fridge on Jul 20, 2024 2:54:49 GMT
I quite enjoyed this set, minus that final reveal. All three stories were atmospheric and successfully evoked the Second Doctor's era. Jamie and Zoe were well used. The latter two stories really do take advantage of the fact they are older to stress their dynamic with the Second Doctor in new and interesting ways. I did find Jamie's random appearances and disappearances throughout a little annoying. Raven has become a solid frenemy. I find her far more interesting than the Master as a frenemy because while she's done some shady stuff, she hasn't done a ton of murders.
That ending though... Why does it have to be Daleks? I get that they are one of the Doctor's greatest antagonists, but I feel they are often overused. The one angle that I could see as interesting is if this is somehow related to the Time War. I may be in the minority, but I love most of what Big Finish has done with the Time War. In part because so many Time War stories don't directly feature the Daleks, and many of the ones that do find a new or interestign spin to put on them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2024 5:43:34 GMT
I quite enjoyed this set, minus that final reveal. All three stories were atmospheric and successfully evoked the Second Doctor's era. Jamie and Zoe were well used. The latter two stories really do take advantage of the fact they are older to stress their dynamic with the Second Doctor in new and interesting ways. I did find Jamie's random appearances and disappearances throughout a little annoying. Raven has become a solid frenemy. I find her far more interesting than the Master as a frenemy because while she's done some shady stuff, she hasn't done a ton of murders. That ending though... Why does it have to be Daleks? I get that they are one of the Doctor's greatest antagonists, but I feel they are often overused. The one angle that I could see as interesting is if this is somehow related to the Time War. I may be in the minority, but I love most of what Big Finish has done with the Time War. In part because so many Time War stories don't directly feature the Daleks, and many of the ones that do find a new or interestign spin to put on them.Yes, especially when The Doctor is being kept tabs on by the Timelords, this cannot surely just be another generic Dalek meeting. I hated that line. Evil Of The Daleks was their final end - because of the Nation issue - and it worked wonderfully. To have more after that for the Second Doctor doesn't sit right. One reason I love his era is how it really built up the Cybermen, they are his real mortal enemies.
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Post by Kestrel on Jul 22, 2024 5:52:25 GMT
It might be interesting if the Time Lords ordering the Doctor around in 6B are from far in the future from the Doctor's perspective. Maybe not necessarily from during the Time War itself, but of that general era -- think whatever Narvin was doing up to and around the time between Anti-Genesis and the invasion that marked the "beginning" of the war.
I think going further, and involving the time war itself, would be going just a bit too far. I don't think we need a Second Doctor: Time War range. And I say that, too, as someone generally pretty happy with how Big Finish has handled the time war (and I definitely agree with liking how sparing they've been with the Daleks, and how they've generally tried to do different types of stories with the daleks in the time war stories than the more conventional fare we're accustomed to).
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Post by 20fridge on Jul 22, 2024 6:50:00 GMT
It might be interesting if the Time Lords ordering the Doctor around in 6B are from far in the future from the Doctor's perspective. Maybe not necessarily from during the Time War itself, but of that general era -- think whatever Narvin was doing up to and around the time between Anti-Genesis and the invasion that marked the "beginning" of the war. I think going further, and involving the time war itself, would be going just a bit too far. I don't think we need a Second Doctor: Time War range. And I say that, too, as someone generally pretty happy with how Big Finish has handled the time war (and I definitely agree with liking how sparing they've been with the Daleks, and how they've generally tried to do different types of stories with the daleks in the time war stories than the more conventional fare we're accustomed to). That's fair. Thinking about it further, my real issue is that I really don't want this whole conspiracy story to boil down to a simple Dalek showdown. While the Time War ranges have avoided that, there are other non-Time War arcs which also do that. I do like the idea of just barely pre-Time War Time Lords being behind all this. Heck, I wouldn't mind something creative like how Dark Eyes didn't end up just being a simple Dalek plot or the whole Dalek Time Controller and viruses plotline from the Main Range.
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Post by timleschild on Jul 22, 2024 9:05:21 GMT
Well 6B certainly sounds like a new era for 2nd Doctor!
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Post by Who Review on Jul 28, 2024 21:05:36 GMT
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Post by mrperson on Aug 5, 2024 16:46:02 GMT
Still not sold on this “new” era yet, especially as they continue to bring back companions and don’t differentiate the Doctor’s characterisation or the stories being told. This article doesn’t do much to change that; I hope the actual stories do.
Agreed.
I was fine with leaving things just as TV did and writing within it. I don't really see the point in setting things post-War Games and having aging companions. It opens up....what, exactly? Jamie complaining about creaks and pains, and playing a once-capable warrior?
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Post by Kestrel on Aug 6, 2024 13:14:56 GMT
I can't help but wonder if the decision to reframe the XDAs as "more of the same as the TV eras" happened mid-production, and they had to hurriedly re-orient their plans for the 2DAs. It's really hard to square up some of their creative choices here, otherwise.
Though it may also be worth noting that, in general, Big Finish seems very averse to solo Doctor stories. --So they could've just been caught between feeling like they couldn't sustain the 2DA range without companions, while lacking confidence in either their ability to create new companions and/or their audience' willingness to buy 2DA audios without any of the OG cast.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2024 15:17:10 GMT
I can't help but wonder if the decision to reframe the XDAs as "more of the same as the TV eras" happened mid-production, and they had to hurriedly re-orient their plans for the 2DAs. It's really hard to square up some of their creative choices here, otherwise. Though it may also be worth noting that, in general, Big Finish seems very averse to solo Doctor stories. --So they could've just been caught between feeling like they couldn't sustain the 2DA range without companions, while lacking confidence in either their ability to create new companions and/or their audience' willingness to buy 2DA audios without any of the OG cast. It's nott even narratively interesting. His sad goodbyes in The War Games...then from his PoV he sees them shortly after? No. The wonderful comics of the era managed it just fine - The Doctor becoming a celebrity on Earth, appearing on chat shows. Then when he DOES face his end? He's pursued by sinister scarecrows. Clearly Paul Cornell loved them too! Big Finish used to be exciting with the new eras. Legit fresh starts. Now? This kinda stuff, or giving Audacity one story before bringing in Charley to overshadow her. I honestly thought each Doctor getting their own producer would help usher a new golden age, all sorts of new ideas. Instead so much has become what non-fans think BF has always been - messy fan-fic with dumb crossovers.
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Post by theillusiveman on Aug 6, 2024 15:32:38 GMT
I can't help but wonder if the decision to reframe the XDAs as "more of the same as the TV eras" happened mid-production, and they had to hurriedly re-orient their plans for the 2DAs. It's really hard to square up some of their creative choices here, otherwise. Though it may also be worth noting that, in general, Big Finish seems very averse to solo Doctor stories. --So they could've just been caught between feeling like they couldn't sustain the 2DA range without companions, while lacking confidence in either their ability to create new companions and/or their audience' willingness to buy 2DA audios without any of the OG cast. Honestly the way I see it is big finish wanting to do as much as they can with the original tardis teams while they still have Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury alive and narratively bringing older versions of the characters they can do more emotional character development stories that they couldn’t do back in the 60s and also not have to make the cast try to pretend to be in their 20-30s They should do a balancing act of having legacy companions and new companions and thankfully with 2026 they are going to get 2 bidders a year for the 2DAs
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