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DWM last year published a special edition about all the specials that had air during the fiftieth. The best bit of trivia was regarding John Hurt's knowledge of Doctor Who. Apparently, all he knew about Doctor Who was when in the 70s, he'd go out drinking with Tom.
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Davros1 posted:DWM last year published a special edition about all the specials that had air during the fiftieth. The best bit of trivia was regarding John Hurt's knowledge of Doctor Who. Apparently, all he knew about Doctor Who was when in the 70s, he'd go out drinking with Tom. "Oh, you knew Tom?" "Never met him before!"
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Jan 2, 2015 22:48
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Pesky Splinter posted:I've just started working my way through the Eighth Doctor's audiobooks - I'm at Minuet in Hell, having started from Storm Warning, continuing through Sword of Orion, and The Stones of Venice. I like how even in the trailer for MiH, they have this bit of Satanic chanting in the goofiest faux-US accents.
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Jan 3, 2015 00:49
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There's really no words to describe "Minuet". It's one of those things you have to listen to and/or allow to wash over you at least once if you want to understand it.
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Jan 3, 2015 01:56
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The Yosemite Sam senator, goofy demon voices, weird fake 20s flapper accent, the Doctor getting amnesia again, and the Manos Hands of Fate level attempt at lewdness are all funny, but it's the Brig slowly typing his report and narrating it to the listener that remains the comedy king of Minuet.
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Jan 3, 2015 02:13
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From some of the thread comments, I was worried at first, thinking it was just going to be 2 and 1/2 hours of dull nothing happening. I'm actually quite surprised it turned out to be an entertaining trainwreck. Nicholas Courtney has a pretty stellar radio voice too - it's Shere Khan-like in its buttery smoothness 
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Jan 3, 2015 02:28
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It's truly the Plan 9 From Outer Space of Big Finish. It's bad, but laughably so, as opposed to the truly bad stuff like The Rapture.
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Jan 3, 2015 02:29
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CobiWann posted:It's truly the Plan 9 From Outer Space of Big Finish. It's bad, but laughably so, as opposed to the truly bad stuff like The Rapture. That just "boring slog" bad then?
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Jan 3, 2015 02:33
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I've finally done it, after yonks talking about doing it. Using a couple of Amazon gift cards I got for Christmas, I went and got the DVD sets for the first four seasons of the revival plus the year of specials. So, I'll probably be rewatching that at long last. Might alternate it with Farscape, but I'm not sure yet. I'd like to watch Farscape the whole through.
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Jan 3, 2015 02:53
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CobiWann posted:It's truly the Plan 9 From Outer Space of Big Finish. It's bad, but laughably so, as opposed to the truly bad stuff like The Rapture. I will listen to Minuet twenty more times before I will ever listen to Nekromanteia again.
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Jan 3, 2015 03:10
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Metal Loaf posted:I've finally done it, after yonks talking about doing it. Using a couple of Amazon gift cards I got for Christmas, I went and got the DVD sets for the first four seasons of the revival plus the year of specials. So, I'll probably be rewatching that at long last. "What does an American want? Democracy? NO! CAPITALISM!"
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Jan 3, 2015 03:14
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docbeard posted:I will listen to Minuet twenty more times before I will ever listen to Nekromanteia again. One is bad enough it loops round and becomes enjoyable again. The other is the one where the Doctor is beheaded and a rapist gets the happiest ending. Gaz-L posted:"What does an American want? Democracy? NO! CAPITALISM!" Is that a reference to something? I assume it is, but I don't recognise it. 
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Jan 3, 2015 03:21
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My favorite new Tumblr is Doctorwhorama:  
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Jan 3, 2015 04:28
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Without knowing specifically that it is, I am close to positive the words are Zapp Brannigan.
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Jan 3, 2015 04:34
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Bicyclops posted:Without knowing specifically that it is, I am close to positive the words are Zapp Brannigan. Bicyclops, old friend - let's rap.
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Jan 3, 2015 04:36
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Ha, this is pretty fun:   It even fits the actual events of that episode too!
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Jan 3, 2015 04:44
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Jerusalem posted:Ha, this is pretty fun: Yeah it's a really good job. Doesn't update super-often but it's quality. 
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Jan 3, 2015 04:46
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Metal Loaf posted:
It's from one of the best scenes in Farscape. It's a little generic without the rest of the dialogue but I didn't know if this was your first viewing or not.
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Jan 3, 2015 04:47
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Ahahahaha, it's amazing how many of those Doctorwhorama are perfectly on point.
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Jan 3, 2015 04:49
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DoctorWhat posted:Yeah it's a really good job. Doesn't update super-often but it's quality. That's usually best. Helps not to overdo it. The Sabalom Glitz one got a good chuckle out of me.
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Jan 3, 2015 04:50
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MikeJF posted:Ahahahaha, it's amazing how many of those Doctorwhorama are perfectly on point. I've never made anyone's life easier and you know it.
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Jan 3, 2015 04:52
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Ahahahaha http://doctorwhorama.tumblr.com/post/103245918455 e: these are all really good, I can't stop laughing. Too many to link, excellent find, Doctor What 
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Jan 3, 2015 05:22
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CobiWann posted:And Happy New Year from the First Doctor! It is absolutely uncanny how much Bradley looks like Hartnell. I was watching clips of Dalek Masterplan to get myself in the proper mindset to start on some Steven/Sara Kingdom BF and there was a split second where I saw David Bradley. I just paused it and my jaw dropped.
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Jan 3, 2015 06:33
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This one is amazing in so many ways  
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Jan 3, 2015 06:53
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If the Doctor Who threads were just more of this for the next year I would be 100% absolutely okay with it.
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Jan 3, 2015 07:37
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Rhyno posted:If the Doctor Who threads were just more of this for the next year I would be 100% absolutely okay with it. Well, its quite something to fill the void in-between seasons (and audios). Speaking of seasons, I heard a rumor that the last couple of Moffat Series were over-budget, but the big gap (waiting 'till August) we recently experienced fixed that. Any clues as to how this Series went financially? I'd hate to have another long delay until the start of the next Series, or whatever they do to fix budget shortfalls.
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Jan 3, 2015 07:47
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I've been listening to the audios picked up from the Humble Bundle deal and I've got to say, Mission to Magnus was god-loving-awful. I know all about the context, a half done story for the season that was canceled that they were trying to do in a way to make it play like a story from 1984, but that doesn't make it good. The first Lost Episodes one with the return of the Toymaker was okay. Not terrific and I would have definitely preferred that the character was shelved forever but there's plenty worse out there. So it's not like I'm opposed to the entire line, it's just that Mission to Magnus was a complete disaster of a story. I've got one nice thing to say about it and that's Nabil Shaban did a good job with the role of Sil again. Well, that and it feels like a really lovely Colin Baker episode from around that time so if that's what they were going for...
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Jan 3, 2015 08:01
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Random Stranger posted:I've been listening to the audios picked up from the Humble Bundle deal and I've got to say, Mission to Magnus was god-loving-awful. I know all about the context, a half done story for the season that was canceled that they were trying to do in a way to make it play like a story from 1984, but that doesn't make it good. I've been going through the Lost Stories as well, and Mission to Magnus is easily one of the worst BFAs I've ever heard. I mean, Planet of Women was already a dumb, tired cliché in the 1980s, especially when given to a writer like Philip Martin who's got the subtlety and social sensitivity of a chauvinistic sledgehammer, and it doesn't fare any better 30 years later. Poor Nicola Bryant sounds really embarrassed about the whole thing in the making of.
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Jan 3, 2015 10:56
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The good news is that one of the lost stories has Alex MacQueen in it. The bad news is it's not as who you might want him to be playing.
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Jan 3, 2015 11:41
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He's not Julius Nicholson? 
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Jan 3, 2015 11:54
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Or Neil's Dad.
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Jan 3, 2015 12:10
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The UK ambassador to the U.N?
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Jan 3, 2015 12:42
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I liked this one myself .   edit: Holy poo poo, this one.  
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Jan 3, 2015 13:36
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Forktoss posted:I've been going through the Lost Stories as well, and Mission to Magnus is easily one of the worst BFAs I've ever heard. I mean, Planet of Women was already a dumb, tired cliché in the 1980s, especially when given to a writer like Philip Martin who's got the subtlety and social sensitivity of a chauvinistic sledgehammer, and it doesn't fare any better 30 years later. Poor Nicola Bryant sounds really embarrassed about the whole thing in the making of. There's just so much wrong with Mission to Magnus you can't cover all of it. The bully character. The unfortunate child actor. Walking from temperate climates to the ice caps and back again as needed. One of the more boring uses of Ice Warriors. Pushing planets around like it was nothing. And then that ending.  My god, that ending.Getting back to the thread's current favorite target, I was constantly thinking that the woman playing the leader of the planet of women was doing an impression of Bea Arthur as the Femputer from that Futurama episode that spoofs this exact cliche...
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Random Stranger posted:I've been listening to the audios picked up from the Humble Bundle deal and I've got to say, Mission to Magnus was god-loving-awful. I know all about the context, a half done story for the season that was canceled that they were trying to do in a way to make it play like a story from 1984, but that doesn't make it good. The first series of The Lost Stories (the first 8 with Colin), are crap, except for Leviathan and maybe The Song of Megaptera. After that they get better. The Fourth Doctor Box and the three Fifth Doctor ones are probably the best, along with the First's Farewell, Great Macedon.
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Jan 3, 2015 15:42
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Davros1 posted:The first series of The Lost Stories (the first 8 with Colin), are crap, except for Leviathan and maybe The Song of Megaptera. After that they get better. The Fourth Doctor Box and the three Fifth Doctor ones are probably the best, along with the First's Farewell, Great Macedon. It's sort of funny that the scrapped serials were nearly all as bad or worse than the dross that made up Trial of a Timelord.
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Jan 3, 2015 16:18
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Fil5000 posted:It's sort of funny that the scrapped serials were nearly all as bad or worse than the dross that made up Trial of a Timelord. What's worse is I've been on forums with people who hated Colin's Doctor, and would refuse to listen to any of his Big Finish stories, but would finally relent for the Lost Stories. Also, the readers of DWM voted The Nightmare Fair the best Who audio of 2009, a year that had The Angel of Scutari, Patient Zero, Blue Forgotten Planet, The Eternal Summer, Wirrn Dawn, The Cannibalists, The Eight Truths, and Worldwide Web.
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I was just reading the Wikipedia list of unmade Doctor Who stories and came across this:Wikipedia posted:"Untitled storyline (Abbott)" That would have been much more interesting than what we got in it's place. And far creepier.
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Fil5000 posted:It's sort of funny that the scrapped serials were nearly all as bad or worse than the dross that made up Trial of a Timelord. I am shocked that right after they produced such fine stories as The Mark of the Rani, Timelash, and Revelation of the Daleks, what they had planned as a follow up could be bad. Davros1 posted:Also, the readers of DWM voted The Nightmare Fair the best Who audio of 2009, a year that had The Angel of Scutari, Patient Zero, Blue Forgotten Planet, The Eternal Summer, Wirrn Dawn, The Cannibalists, The Eight Truths, and Worldwide Web. Seriously? The best thing I could come up to say about that bit of fluff is "it's okay, I guess" and it's their favorite? I've only listened to about a dozen audios (the Humble Bundle more than doubled what I've got), and that still seems insane to me.
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