MrL_JaKiri posted:

Oh, so they are basing it closely on Aliens

DoctorWhat posted:

No one but this thread seems to realize how rubbish Lidster is.

Stuporstar posted:

Hmm, that was one of the few I liked.


Oh ... so this could go either way then.


No, it's not just his utter garbage in Torchwood. He was also responsible for Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and that bullshit with the little black boxes that really showed how Chibnall just doesn't get how to put together a loving story. The Silurian two-parter and 42 weren't his worst, but they were also loving dull for the most part. Rory's death scene was undoubtedly written in by Moffat to fill out the story arc, so he probably doesn't deserve credit for that either.

Also, at least one of his episodes of Life in Mars was the only one I wanted to spin through because it was so loving dreary, and I didn't even realize he wrote it until afterwards where I said to myself, "Who the gently caress wrote that boring shite," took a look at the credits, and went. "Oh."

When he's at his best, he's merely deadly dull. When he's at his worst, he's offensively bad. He is a Bad. Writer.

CobiWann posted:

Astroman posted:

Rat Trap sucks. Seriously. A rare low point in a string of great 5/Tegan/Nyssa/Turlough audios.

DoctorWhat posted:

Oh my god, thank goodness! Thank USPIS!

Box of Bunnies posted:

I don't think they played Dalek serials in that run because they didn't want to go through the extra hoops of dealing with the Nation estate. I remember that being the case because stumbling upon that marathon early in Colin's run was my introduction to the series and I didn't see Revelation of the Daleks until I got it on DVD for Christmas that year since it wasn't played on telly.

It's a wonder I stuck around when the first thing I ever saw of the show was the back end of Attack of the Cybermen.

docbeard posted:

She did at least write some of Torchwood's better episodes (which is to say, the ones that haven't since been banned by the Geneva Convention.)

CobiWann posted:

I'd recommend it, but only if it's on sale. Then again, I'd recommend anything I rank a "2" or above if it's on sale. Even Timelash.

Edit - By the way, this might be of interest to the thread...

http://www.bbcshop.com/preorders/good-omens-audio-cd/invt/9781910281918

CobiWann posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emh75AYxnzk

Apparently he's too busy doing the shipping forecast.

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.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

I liked The Beast Below more than The Eleventh Hour, except (or perhaps because of) the Star Wars style wipes all the way through.

Bicyclops posted:

It's a coincidence that everyone was just talking about Valhalla because I just finished it last week. I agree that it wasn't particularly good. It felt a bit drawn out. I think Frozen Time is the better of the two "Sylvester McCoy without a companion, purely because he asked Nick Briggs for it while Nick was interviewing him that one time" stories. Not that it's fantastic, but Valhalla is either boring or unpleasant, depending on which part of it you're hearing.

DoctorWhat posted:

Robophobia is part of a trilogy of non-companion audios released about 4 years after Valhalla and Frozen Time.

Also Liv Chenka's a weird case.

Bicyclops posted:

I haven't gotten nearly as far as Robophobia, yet but with both Frozen Time and Valhalla, it's just kind of funny. Nicholas Briggs was asking Sylvester McCoy perfectly normal interview questions about working in the medium, and McCoy had this hilarious tangent answer about he had never really been in one in which he was alone, and that the writers should work on that. He suggested that the writers should do one based around a silent movie in which he meets Buster Keaton. It was like right after the interview that they gave McCoy two stories without a companion (except for the traditional, one-off sorts that come with those kinds of stories).

Bicyclops posted:

His other idea involved ventriloquism He's a wily one, is McCoy.

Bicyclops posted:

House of Leaves is an interesting thing that I hesitate to call a novel. It's a horror art book thing. I enjoyed it a lot.

I have also been enjoying 100. I've heard the first two stories so far (100 BC and My Own Private Wolfgang), and your mileage is going to vary, because they are both complete and utter farces, which, as we know, tend to be very love or hate it in Doctor Who and in Big Finish in particular. But I laughed out loud while I was walking to my friend's place yesterday listening to 100 BC and the ending of the Wolfgang story is so screwball, I want to see an elaborate staged version with a bunch of brothers playing the roles.

Plus it was nice to hear Evelyn again after such a long absence and Colin really seems to enjoy working with her.

Bicyclops posted:

Shearman followed by Lidster? Jesus Christ. That's like going to a broadway production in which the encore is a high school play.

Bicyclops posted:

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Joe Lidster? The one he wrote for 100 was an okay if run-of-the-mill story until the very end, when the frame story was revealed to have been the villain, who was back to put an entire family in sensory deprivation hell, revealing that the Doctor's efforts had been for nothing and he had tricked him. I'd chalk it up to an attempt at a cheesy, italicized Lovecraft ending if it weren't for the fact that Lidster is needlessly depressing in seven other different ways in prior stories.

Jerusalem posted:

Jesus Christ, THAT bad?

Pesky Splinter posted:

You're forgetting, [x] Doctor regenerating, Hurt Doctor, the Doctors kissing anyone, Peter Capaldi being old (no more sexy Eccleston/Tennant/Smith delete as applicable ), too many Daleks, not enough Daleks, too many gays, the Master being a woman!, the reboot not being like the old series, the old series not being like the reboot, being too silly, too serious oh god my brain's just melted...

The_Doctor posted:

Don't worry, it's still David Oleyowo.

DoctorWhat posted:

Grover Cleaveland was the Doctor for two non-consecutive terms.

josh04 posted:

@DoctorWhat - In place of 'suspension of disbelief', I think there's an observable phenomenon where once a person has decided something is not-good, they keep enjoying things by getting angry and funny about them. Think Red Letter Media reviews, but partly subconscious. Really hating something can be loads of fun, as I know because ITV showed 'The Man with the Golden Gun' earlier and holy poo poo.

Burkion posted:

Basically DoctorWhat, imagine if we had a tense Doctor Who episode where the Doctor could do a number of things supported by the story, but instead, to save the day, he just starts flying around without any build up and then turns all of the bad guys into puppies with the power of SCIENCE LOVE.

That's the kind of writing you invite when you go down this path, utter and completely nonsensical trite.

Pesky Splinter posted:

drat, the finale of the Eighth Doctor Adventures is depressing.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Huh, you're right. Put it down to not reading the cast list.

After The War posted:

Good God, The Wishing Beast is awful, even for a Paul Magrs story. Isn't it a crime in the UK to waste Jean Marsh? And if not, why not?

Barry Foster posted:

Awesome. The Big Finish Sixth Doctor is practically a different character to the one on telly, and he deserves the opportunity to not go out like a chump.

It'll no doubt require ultra convoluted twonkery to somehow fit this in with his on-screen regeneration, but I don't really care about that. I just wanna hear C-Bakes, the best audio doctor, do his thing.

Emerson Cod posted:

I hope 6 regenerates to 7 partway through the story but has to disguise himself as 6.

Davros1 posted:

With a Lego Who game, based on my experience with other Lego games, I could see them doing something like giving each Doctor and companions abilities that are unique to certain characters. For instance:

The Second Doctor would use his recorder to play notes to break glass.
The Fourth Doctor could use his scarf as a rope
The Seventh Doctor could use his umbrella to hang glide.

And for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Nine, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve, each one's sonic screwdriver could only perform certain tasks (kind of like the spells used in the Harry Potter games)

Companions:

Victoria's scream could shatter glass
Ace would have Nitro-9 to blow up silver objects
Zoe, Romana One and Two, and Nyssa would be able to solve certain puzzles that the others couldn't
K9 could use his snout laser to destroy gold objects
Leela could throw her knife at targets
The Brig would have his pistol
Amelia Pond (not technically a companion, but she was in enough episodes to be in the game) would be able to crawl through small access tunnels.
Kamelion would do gently caress all

You could have vehicle stages like driving Bessie, flying the TARDIS through the Time Vortex, or flying a Dalek through space.

There's a lot of potential.