Doctor Who: The Big Finish audios...

[Quatermass]

Just listened to Spare Parts. Barring a slightly dodgy characterisation of the Fifth Doctor and a sometimes hard-to-discern Cybercommittee voice, virtually perfect. Horror and tragedy woven wonderfully together.

[Jack Remillard]

Glad you enjoyed it. Must listen to it again at some point.

[Quatermass]

And now, I have listened to Omega. Good story, sometimes the humour detracted from it, didn't quite work as well as Spare Parts, but a damned good story with a very good twist, and some of the funniest dialogue.

[Jack Remillard]

I haven't heard Omega. I remember Master being quite interesting. A very different take on the Doctor/Master origin story to the one we usually imagine (and some of it ties into the Virgin New Adventures series of novels). I usually think of those books as having happened in a related but slightly messed up alternative universe.

[Quatermass]

I haven't heard Omega. I remember Master being quite interesting. A very different take on the Doctor/Master origin story to the one we usually imaging (and some of it ties into the Virgin New Adventures series of novels). I usually think of those books as having happened in a related but slightly messed up alternative universe.

Sorting out the relative continuities of Doctor Who is a nigh-impossible task. If I had to choose any set of spin-offs that were canonical to the TV series, I would choose, off-hand, the Big Finish audios for the most part. But it's not clear cut at all.

[Jack Remillard]

Yeah, same here. I think it's mostly down to individual preference. I know some fans love coming up with convoluted ways of making everything fit together. I generally think the 'New Adventures-ized' Big Finish stories happened in that continuity but the rest probably happened in the TV series universe. Unless they didn't.

[Jack Remillard]

One thing I remember finding funny in Spare Parts was somebody describing a Cyberman as having a 'horrible cloth face'.

[Quatermass]

One thing I remember finding funny in Spare Parts was somebody describing a Cybermen as having a 'horrible cloth face'.

Well, that's what they had in their first appearance, in the story called The Tenth Planet:



Seriously, did you think that cloth faces and those sing-song voices came out of nowhere? It's both funny and [EFF!]ed up that the first Cybermen looked like this. They were meant to be creepy, and, well, they kinda do.

[Jack Remillard]

I just found it kind of funny that they directly referred to that element of the original cybermen.

You're right, they definitely were creepy!

[Quatermass]

BTW, listened to one of the free audios Big Finish made available on SoundCloud, The Veiled Leopard. Okay, but far from great.

[Jack Remillard]

OK is better than bad. Ace/Hex and Peri/Erimem in one story sounds like fun. I'll have to listen to it later.

[Quatermass]

Well, much better was Cuddlesome. Not perfect, but certainly enjoyable and darkly humorous. That's definitely one to download if you're a Big Finish virgin or veteran.

[Quatermass]

Anyway, just listened to Davros and The Nightmare Fair. The first story was an interesting look at the twisted mind of Davros, and an effective story of him managing to do so much without any Daleks, and the second was a pretty good never-made story.

[The Mad Collector]

Special for the 50th anniversary this year

http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-light-at-the-end-limited-collector-s-edition-860

The cast list sounds interesting

Cast
Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Sophie Aldred (Ace), India Fisher (Charley Pollard), Geoffrey Beevers (The Master) with special guest stars!

[Quatermass]

Special for the 50th anniversary this year

http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-light-at-the-end-limited-collector-s-edition-860

The cast list sounds interesting

Cast
Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Sophie Aldred (Ace), India Fisher (Charley Pollard), Geoffrey Beevers (The Master) with special guest stars!

I've listened to the trailer. According to Big Finish, all eight classic series Doctors will be in there, and if the trailer's any judge, they may have gotten in voice artists to emulate the deceased Doctors.

Anyway, listened to Bloodtide. Charles Darwin plus the Silurians wasn't the perfect winning combo I had hoped for, but it was still a pretty damn good story.

On a different note, they must use cheap bloody CD cases. I had a lot of trouble getting Bloodtide out of the case, and I was worried that I was going to break one or both of the discs.