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Post by omega on Mar 31, 2016 2:22:18 GMT
I really hope they're going to do Festival of Death eventually. Cobwebs is the closest we'll get to Festival of Death on audio. There's precious little that can be cut from an intricate novel like Festival of Death and still let it stand up (Love and War excised a military sub-plot while Highest Science cut out Benny getting high with some displaced indie music lovers), which is essential for adapting a 300-odd page book with a tight plot for a two hour audio. There's no Third episode syndrome with padding, exposition and escaping then getting recaptured. Audio doesn't always let you know whether the Doctor that Romana arrived with is the same one she's interacting with. That comes up a few times. Jonathan Morris (who wrote Festival of Death and Cobwebs) has expressed little interest in revisiting his old novels. Additionally a policy Big Finish have regarding the audio adaptions in that they won't adapt novels that have been reissued by the BBC, which Festival of Death falls squarely into. The fact that some of these reissues have audio readings further reinforces this. English Way of Death appears to be a strange case, in that Justin Richards opted to reissue that under the History Collection after Big Finish began adapting it for audio. The announcement for Romance of Crime and English Way of Death on audio was early 2014 while it wouldn't take too long to get Gareth Robert's permission to reprint and write a forward, and the History Collection was released about this time last year. I'd love to hear Tom Baker with the line "Good bye, nincompoop!", or a full cast audio of the novel Human Nature, but for now I'll have to settle for Lisa Bowerman's rather excellent reading.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 31, 2016 12:22:13 GMT
If it ever happened and they finally did adapts of the BBC EDA's, i'd love for them to do Vampire Science, Bodysnatchers and War of the Daleks. Those three would still work well with various subplots and moments cut. Then also a completely new first story for Sam, with only the drug elements from the start and end of The Eight Doctors kept. (As i mentioned when talking about my Doctor Who Animated idea)
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