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Can anyone explain to me the first episode of the new season? It makes no sense to me. Why would the doctor bring a tank back to the middle ages? Wouldn’t that affect history? If Unit and Clara could somehow find the Doctor after meeting with the Master, why could they find him before the meeting? They knew the Master had stopped all the plane in midair, isn’t that enough reason to try to contact the Doctor?

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The Chimes of Midnight (8th Doctor, February 2002)

Easily the best Eighth Doctor tale yet! Had a wonderful sense of dread and mystery. Though you’d have to at least be familiar with his first audio story to fully appreciate this one.

Best Eighth Doctor tale, period IMO.

You might be pleased to see that they’re going to be releasing a set of BF 8th Doctor Time War stories (they are also releasing a couple sets of John Hurt Doctor Time War stories).

Now that their restriction against the new series is over, Big Finish is doing a 10th Doctor and Donna series as well.

warbler: shrug. It seems to be a last hurrah of his, where he stops giving a damn about his effect on time. His looser following of the rules is a small theme this season. The first two parter certainly had some flaws. But it was a great use of Davros, and Michele Gomez was again fantastic. The season in general has been one of the better ones, in my opinion. I’m ready to say goodbye to the damned guitar and glasses, though.

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One of the better ones?!?!?! I think it is one of the worst. Sonic sunglasses?!?!?! SONIC SUNGLASSES!?!?!? SONIC SUNGLASSES!!?!?!!

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Sonic sunglasses are nothing. Sonic sunglasses are nobody.

Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…

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Still making my way through the Eighth Doctor’s audio stories but once I reached the point where the show was relaunched I started on that as well.

Currently in the middle of season two. I already miss Eccelston.

It’s amazing to me how much RTD borrowed from Big Finish during his run.

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One of the better ones?!?!?! I think it is one of the worst. Sonic sunglasses?!?!?! SONIC SUNGLASSES!?!?!? SONIC SUNGLASSES!!?!?!!

The sunglasses suck. But yeah, easily one of the better ones. The second half of the Lake Ghost story was a let down, but the series has otherwise been great. There are better stories in the first few series, but each one also had several that were just tremendously bad. Series 9 is closer to 5 in quality. So far, only one real stinker (but I prefer Capaldi to Smith by quite a long shot).

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Invaders From Mars (8th Doctor, January 2002)

This was a fun one. They’re absolutely terrible at American accents but the homage to both the radio plays of old and hardboiled detective stories was great.

Oh god, yeah, they’re terrible! I cannot stand when British people do American accents (and this is coming from a Brit), there’s always one or two exceptions but most of the time they just sound awful, same with Americans pretending to be Brits.

It was a pretty fun story though, and if you listen carefully there’s all sorts of purposeful little bits and intentional anachronisms that lead into Chimes of Midnight.

I’ve watched all of two episodes of this series so far, what with my interest in Doctor Who decreasing more and more recently. The past few series have really not been up to snuff and I’ve just got fed up with it.

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Alrighty. It’s been a while since I last checked in but I’m now well into the revival series. I have to say, overall, I’m glad RTD’s reign wasn’t that long. He gets points for continuing the series and not remaking it. But, he doesn’t seem to have that great of a grasp on the Doctor. A LOT of the stuff going on in the series during his tenure is ripped off from the audio dramas, books and comics. He also never seemed to get a good grasp on the character of the Doctor. Tennant was great for the part but was failed by bad writing a lot of the time. Eccelston was brilliant in the part. It’s a shame that RTD and others in the production drove him to leave.

Moffat has his own problems of course. What he did to the Silurians was awful. As well as introducing idiotic concepts like the TARDIS exterior needing maintenance and River’s origins. However, he does get a lot right. The Sontarans and Ice Warriors are fantastic. The writing in general is pretty solid with the occasional gaff. I’m still pretty early in. Clara was just introduced for me a couple episodes back. So we’ll see how he continues on with the show…

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I think the series it’s self may be in trouble since they just seem to be passing it to a random writer who isn’t that popular with the fans and they are not even bothering to air any new episodes this year. My guess is the BBC is sick of the show and how much it costs to make so they are setting it up to fail so by the time series 11 finishes airing the ratings will be in the toilet and they will have an excuse to cancel it.

On the lighter side of things I was given a humble bumble package of Big Finish audios by a friend for Christmas and some of these I had never heard before. I mean I used to have to import the CDs from the UK back in the day so I didn’t always have the money to keep up.

I just finished listening to the Marian Conspiracy and not only is it a return to the historicals with a new companion and great job done by one of my all time favorite doctors but it is a fair and balanced look at the reformation that doesn’t have any aliens in it that goes beyond the stereotypes and seems to be written by someone who has done their research. Why can’t we have stories like this on the TV series? This was amazing and easily in my top ten Doctor Who stories of all time, if you only ever listen to one Colin Baker audio adventure please make it this one.

I am going to get back into collecting the audio adventure which I had kind of stopped doing in recent years because of a lack of cash but I really want to hear more of them now so I will be spending my limited cash on them. That is just how insanely good this adventure was. I mean there are big budget films that don’t do as good a job of looking at both sides as this adventure did, this was just good writing all around.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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I don’t really think Chris Chibnall of all people is a good choice. 42, Cold Blood and Dinosaur on a Spaceship are okay at best and everything else is total garbage.

Let’s just hope he will be better than Moffat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZArS34j7OA

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Jury is out on Chibnall for me. His Who episodes weren’t amazing nor were they offensive. He apparently set the tone for Torchwood and seeing as I actively despise that series, that’s a definite knock. BUT, he also wrote this scene. So it’s a real toss up for me.

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Jury is out on Chibnall for me. His Who episodes weren’t amazing nor were they offensive. He apparently set the tone for Torchwood and seeing as I actively despise that series, that’s a definite knock. BUT, he also wrote this scene. So it’s a real toss up for me.

Yeah I could never get into Torchwood. The sole reason anyone has ever given me that they like it is that it has lots of sex in it, okay but does that really make it a good show on it’s own??? It’ just a cross between Doctor who and the X-Files, and that is really it. It’s not as good as either show on it’s own, so I really have no interest in it. i tried watching it but couldn’t get through the first season.

It seems like the show just keeps getting passed down through the same writers who started under RTD and each one is just getting their turn as producer so we are not having any of the big shake ups or changes that the classic series had. I mean in the classic series I think by this point the show had had five producers and seven script editors and each of them changed things a bit, the new series has started to feel the same. I mean it is always the same, we have a plot arc throughout the season and then the season ends with a big epic battle with a classic monster. Now the stories are starting to all feel the same too so I have quite frankly given up on the new series ever doing anything new. That is why I think the BBC is trying to kill the show, this should have been used as a chance to bring in a fresh producer who had nothing to do with the past of the show and would have brought in new writers so things would get shaken up a bit. Instead we seem to be waiting an extra year just to get the same old same old when the show does come back.

Unless they announce something along the lines of not relying on classic monsters any more and not going back to earth for a while this news leaves me unimpressed. I don’t think this choice of producer is going to help the show much at all. Unless he is a much better producer then he is a writer that is.

Sorry to be so negative. At least I have plenty of Big Finish audios to listen to while the show it’s self is in a slump.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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Doctor Who is leaving Netflix on Feb. 1

This includes all classic episodes and modern.

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To put it simply, no. Paul McGann is wonderful as the Doctor but the absolute butchering of the character of the Master is just awful.

It’s worth checking out for completionist’s sake but go in with very low expectations.

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Ah, okay. I haven’t really gotten the chance to get into the classic show much (it was all taken off Netflix as soon as I started watching), and I wondered if that would be a good place to start collecting, and work my way backwards and/or jump around at will. Guess not, then.

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Tobar said:

To put it simply, no. Paul McGann is wonderful as the Doctor but the absolute butchering of the character of the Master is just awful.

It’s worth checking out for completionist’s sake but go in with very low expectations.

Worse than turning him into a woman? 😉

At least it gave Sylvester McCoy a chance to bookend his tenure as the 7th Doctor. Wish he had been in more of the movie though.

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I’m rather annoyed a lot of classic Who DVD releases, (some only a few years old) are out of print and expensive Ebay fodder in the U.S. The UK versions are plentiful and cheap of course.

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Rumors have been flying for while since an animated sequence reconstructing a scene from the lost Troughton story The Power Of The Daleks appeared on Youtube, and was yanked by the BBC. And yanked again as people reuploaded it. The cat is out of the bag now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ib3IEIT0Yw
A totally animated reconstruction beats the pants off the slideshows the recent DVD of The Underwater Menace patched it’s missing episodes with. It would be really funny if the actual episodes turned up right after this comes out, but I’m not holding my breath.

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If what I read online is true and Hartnell broke the 4th wall to wish the audience a happy Christmas, then I really wish Dalek’s Master Plan would show up someday. It’s nigh impossible for hardly any lost episodes to ever be found though, yes?

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Depends on whom you ask. Those officially searching for them have to play things very close to the vest now. They found all of The Web Of Fear in 2011 in the archive of a Nigerian tv station, and then Episode 3 vanished before they could be returned. It’s thought someone sold it to a private collector. All because news leaked out about it.

There have long been rumors about film collectors sitting on other missing shows, just for the twisted satisfaction of having them so nobody else can.

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SilverWook said:

Tobar said:

To put it simply, no. Paul McGann is wonderful as the Doctor but the absolute butchering of the character of the Master is just awful.

It’s worth checking out for completionist’s sake but go in with very low expectations.

Worse than turning him into a woman? 😉

Some of us can afford the upgrade.
I was miffed at the Eric Roberts interpretation back in the day but like Paul he does well with what he has. Which is a poor screenplay but as good as many RTD scripts and better than many JNT era ones. If I were to introduce the show to someone I’d go with something like The Eleventh Hour which is fun has many if the main concepts explained and is modern telly friendly. Then I’d encourage people to go back and forwards as the character does. It’s a mixed bag whenever you go but what the show has, it has an ethos… a life… It has…A spirit all of its own. Like a wine, it has a bouquet. Yeah. Like a good wine. You have to chose one of the vintage years, of course. 1996 was more of a generic house red. 2010 That’s a most good-humoured wine. A touch sardonic, perhaps, but not cynical. A most civilised wine, one after my own hearts.