Tony Jones
Chancellery Guard
Professor Chronotis
Still rockin' along!
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Post by Tony Jones on Jan 27, 2016 9:25:46 GMT
Just started this, listened to 5.1 Nightmare on the commute. Really impressed with this one and Dan Starkey's adaptation has plenty of grit with enough else going on to make the story work well (obviously the original has a lot to do with it). The villains were suitable nasty without quite dropping into panto mode. Roll on the journey home!
Also nice to have a story where Dr Keel's medical knowledge was centre stage in a natural fashion, and Steed was far more of a secondary part
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 27, 2016 9:32:04 GMT
I get the impression from "Girl on the Trapeze" that Inspector Lewis was meant to be one of the Keel Ensemble before it became the Steed and his friends show.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 23:33:53 GMT
I have loved this latest set. But then, I've loved them all. When BF first announced they had acquired the licence, I wasn't too sure what to expect. To be honest, I got the first set as a curiosity. But it's wonderful, gritty, witty stuff - a series of great standalone capers, finely produced. Although you can hear Steed slowly becoming more like the caddish fellow I remember from the Emma Peel days, he is so much more real in these earlier stories.
My favourite story might be 'Diamond Cut Diamond'. Quite apart from being a cracking story, it features a momentarily more vulnerable Steed - it is interesting and very different to hear him not 'on top of things'.
All in all, another wonderful set.
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Tony Jones
Chancellery Guard
Professor Chronotis
Still rockin' along!
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Post by Tony Jones on Jan 28, 2016 8:27:40 GMT
I've now listened to Girl on the Trapeze, an intriguing Steed-free story showing how the programme could have evolved, then Crescent Moon with Steed firmly back in centre stage. Two very contrasting tales, both very well done. One more to go!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 28, 2016 8:43:27 GMT
Also, it's full of Miranda Raison, which is never a bad thing!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 29, 2016 3:09:48 GMT
Ohh dear lord, Steed's Australian accent. He has the intonation right, the riding pitch at the end of sentences, he just over did it.
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Post by bohnny on Jan 29, 2016 4:37:42 GMT
Ohh dear lord, Steed's Australian accent. He has the intonation right, the riding pitch at the end of sentences, he just over did it. I assumed it was meant to be OTT. A 60s British 'version' of what a stereotypical Aussie would sound (surprised they stopped short of calling him Bruce). Terrible mispronunciation of Wagga Wagga - not sure whether to make an equivalent assumption on this or whether it was a genuine error. but that aside a fantastic set. Agree with comments up thread that this may well be the best set yet.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 29, 2016 8:42:09 GMT
Just for the record - it's pronounced "Wogga Wogga".
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Big Finish Creative Team
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Post by dorney on Jan 29, 2016 10:18:37 GMT
Just for the record - it's pronounced "Wogga Wogga". My fault really - I should have put a note specifying that in the script - my Aunt lives there!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 30, 2016 6:10:08 GMT
It does make a sort of sense, it's an Upper-Class Englishman pretending to be a lower-class Australian and making an educate, recieved pronoun cuatro mess of it. But then, some folks here in Australia think Tegan's accent is OTT, while to me (who basically lives and works in the area Tegan is supposed to have grown up in, and where Janet did go to school) sounds perfectly ordinary (in fact, if she was supposed to have lived in Caloundra, like she said she did in King of Terror, she'd have been born in Nambour Hospital, just like me and my brother!)
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Post by grazey on Feb 8, 2016 2:19:13 GMT
what a quality set. Loved all 4 stories equally. The standard was so top notch that I found it hard to pick a favourite. It honestly reminded me why I fell in love with the avengers range in the first place. Looking forward to getting round to buy volume 3and 4 when my money situation is a bit easier (or better still a sale). Shame that the missing range is winding down after this with only 6 episodes left.
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Post by Ela on Dec 22, 2021 3:15:37 GMT
I actually just finished listening to this set for the first time. I am really enjoying The Avengers audio stories.
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