DoctorWhat posted:

...no.

Big Finish is not as good or as revolutionary as it once was, unfortunately. Hell, in the handful of years between Peri and the Piscon Paradox and The Widow's Assassin, BF took a considerable nosedive in terms of being radical or subversive, both of which Who should really be.

computer parts posted:

Is the Terry Nation Estate stuff actually true because if so then the Daleks are the last villains you should complain about revisiting.

Moff at the Radio Times Festival posted:

Moffat denied an ancient fan rumour that there was a contractual duty to include the Daleks in each series of Doctor Who. "My mother in law was Terry Nation's agent when he created the Daleks. Believe me there is no such clause in the contract".

Timby posted:

I haven't read The Writer's Tale in quite a while, but Doctor Who was printing money for the BBC in 2009-10. Moffat wasn't sure if he wanted to take over producing the show, but the BBC was going to find someone to do it.

Edit: I think Joe Lidster, who was running The Sarah Jane Adventures at the time, was next in line in the event that Moffat declined.

Cleretic posted:

The translation matrix always seemed to work by replacing the language in question with English (or whatever language they were speaking), I can see a physical language being outside of its ability.

The_Doctor posted:

Aww yiss.

Acne Rain posted:

yknow the doctor HAS met Satan, why hasn't there been an episode about the Doctor vs the Elder Things, lovecraftian unknowable things from beyond the veil would fit in with the current show so well. I mean flatline and some other monsters of the week have some lovecraft shades but straight up saying, "yeah we're doing lovecraft things this episode, Doctor is meeting the Yith" or something would be pretty cool.

twistedmentat posted:

I think between episodes of the show it's silly to say this, but I think between it and comics/books it isn't. I'll count audio drama's with the show episodes.

Amy is still my favorite Companion of the new series, and not just because i'm totally over Karen Gillian, but I'd say Donna is certainly second best. I think Clara and Martha tie for 3rd and Rose is 4th.

side_burned posted:

Edit: I don't know where else to ask this but how is non Doctor Who stuff Big Finish does? I saw that Adrian Paul has done some Highlander audios are those any good?

Tim Burns Effect posted:

The only completely DW-related release of theirs I've listened to was "Treasure Island" and it was a hoot (with Tom Baker as Long John Silver AND HIS PARROT, how could it be anything else?). That said, a lot of their Doctor Who spin-off series are excellent and are only barely related to DW. Jago & Litefoot in particular might just be my favorite thing BF puts out.

McDragon posted:

Sam Swift was Rufus Hound? That's why he looked familiar.

Fil5000 posted:

The worst thing about The Rani was Pip and Jane. As a character concept I think there's plenty of mileage in her as long as we don't have to put up with that horrendous writing.

CobiWann posted:

I like to believe Harry Sullivan came up with the Zygon weapon by accident and he and the Seventh Doctor worked together to steal it away from the MOD.

Ian Levine posted:

I AM ABSOLUTELY APPALLED, ANGRY, AND FURIOUS.

After making us wait four long years to get The Underwater Menace on DVD with the missing episode that was found in 2011, the miserable stingy BBC Restoration Team - or more accurately the loathsome Dan Hall - finally reward us with the two most pathetic, lovely, pitiful, abortions of the WORST EVER recons in history.
When I heard that parts one and four were to be telesnap recons, I though here's the chance to let Derek Handley shine as he is so talented. But I must admit there was a niggling doubt, PLEASE GOD don't let them allow that talentless hack John Kelly, anywhere near them, not after the pigs ear of a lovely job he vomited forth with his Web Of Fear Part Three.

BUT NO - in his infinite wisdom the dreadful Dan Hall handed it over to this talentless hack.

ABSOLUTELY f*****g DREADFUL !!!!!!

Can you believe the recons don't even have opening and closing credits !!!
And in one scene in part four, a shot of Zaroff drowning was stuck on screen for a whole minute while other unrelated characters were talking away.
HOW THE f*ck is anyone who doesn't know the story supposed to know what the f*ck is going on !!!!!

I have never seen such a talentless abortion in my whole f*****g life.
SLOPPY, LAZY, UNIMAGINATIVE, TURGID - NO f*****g EXCUSE.

Doctor Who fans are not fools you know.
They have all seen enough Loose Cannon reckons to know that this lovely sloppy botched job is simply not acceptable.

POOR BBC - Couldn't they afford the bloody opening sequences.
They didn't even bother to include the censor clips from parts one and four in the recon.

Everyone now cynically believes that they are so sick of fans asking for recons of the missing episodes to be released that they have done this intentionally on purpose - put out recons so dire that nobody will ever ask for them again.

WELL I am sorry but this just won't do - it's beyond appalling. John Kelly should be eviscerated for this inexcusable disgrace - and so should Dan Hall.
JOBS FOR THE BOYS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN 2015.
A child of three could have done better.

It's Shada all over again.

I FEEL SICK AFTER A FOUR YEAR WAIT.

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Okay I apologise for what I said about John Kelly, but he DID do a really lovely lazy sloppy job on Web Of Fear part three. And Adam’s animation is SOOO much better. It brought up all my inner rage about Shada all over again, after I spent forty one thousand pounds making a wonderful professional and COMPLETE version.

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I want to know the name of the cretin at BBC Worldwide who insisted that the recons have no opening and closing credits, no composites, no zooms, no shots from the other episodes and no censor clips. In other words the person who basically said MAKE IT sh*t. One way or another I will find out and make it my business to publicly demand this lazy sloppy selfish dipshit gets fired.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

He's a complete turd but lovely recons with no opening or closing credits are a gamebreaker for me when it comes to buying the DVD. If they're worse than the LC ones then what's the point?

Wheat Loaf posted:

I would quite like to have his record collection, though.

Wheat Loaf posted:

Actually, come to think of it, I read this pretty good book about Northern soul a while back (granted, it's from 2010, so it might not be entirely up to date) and I have a bit of a notion that Levine might have had to sell most of his records when that enterprise he was running in the late 1980s where he got old Motown singers into the studio fell apart and bankrupted his production company.

Pretty sure he does still have his collection of every single DC comic ever published, though.

Wheat Loaf posted:

I understand he's not doing so well at the moment - had a pretty bad stroke last year that he's still recovering from, which is a nasty thing to happen to anybody.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

In Warriors of the Deep every single individual (silurian or human) that appears dies, except the TARDIS crew.

Jerusalem posted:

In Caves of Androzani, I believe every single character except for Peri and one secretary (who just walks off screen and is never seen again) die. Including the Doctor!

The_Doctor posted:

Interestingly the Big Finish UNIT Extinction boxset comes out on Monday. I'd hazard a guess they were waiting for this story to get out of the way before the release..?

CobiWann posted:

To me, it’s Black Christmas, The Ref, and this scratched up episode of Doctor Who I found in an old film can in my grandfather’s garage. The Feast of Seven or something?

Mr Beens posted:

I can't remember the specifics but there have been a few times where the doctor has given some weird wistful looks at Clara when she has talked about being around forever and the future and he has acted oddly when it comes to her safety. Similar to the "felt like a month" thing. Nothing concrete, just some vibes.


I did the same

adhuin posted:

I agree with Jerusalems recommendations. If you're more budget conscious, the first 50 monthly releases are 2.99 £/$/€ each so try one of them.

edit:
On other Big Finish news:
http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-big-200-choose-your-number-one-doctor-who-main-range-release
You can vote for the Spare Parts as the best Monthly release. There might be 19 other candidates.

Rochallor posted:

I irrationally despise the VWORP VWORP. It's the least accurate onomatopoeia since SNAP-HISS for lightsaber.

Jerusalem posted:

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After The War posted:

But for Lidster, being a companion has to be the worst thing imaginable - it's one of his recurring themes.

Angela Christine posted:

This makes it clear that while 8 was not the one who fought in the time war, he was the one who got rid of the round things and is therefore history's greatest monster.

CobiWann posted:

Hey, guys, look what I found an in print copy of!



It came with this stack of free books...

Jerusalem posted:

I used to have money, you know

Edit: Oh my God, the Sixth Doctor is doing companion stories with Jamie and Zoe now?

FreezingInferno posted:

Seven with Jo? Oh man, I think I need to hear that. Was it any good?

jivjov posted:

It's just one clip, so I don't want to draw any sweeping conclusions, but he sounds really off in that one clip. Not nearly.....gravely enough.

Jerusalem posted:

Short Synopsis: A nasty, squalid little story to be avoided.

TL posted:

They've used footage of McGann and Eric Roberts on the show, if they want to go there they absolutely can.