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Listening to the trailer for a new BF Ninth Doctor box set?season?Whatever they are.
Where do these stories fit?
I know the first box set was pre-Rose but by series 4 you can't still be doing that.
The trailers sound great, and it's great to have Eccelston back, but my greek brain can't let go of trying to figure out where these fit!
Still pre-Rose. From the show he was all over history before he met Rose, so it still works.
But he has a moment where he passes a mirror and checks out his new face in’Rose’So, for 3 box sets he never saw a mirror or wondered what he looked like?
The 3rd Doctor never had a Cyberman story,Has BF fixed that yet?
Godzilla x Kong is insane, but also wildly entertaining.
I’ll be waiting for disc for that one. 😼
Tali wrote: "Still pre-Rose. From the show he was all over history before he met Rose, so it still works."Apparently River Song is involved as well, to go from the excited chatter in the Whovian FB groups I'm in.
Yep, River Song is all over the place at Big Finish. She’s even got a new series starting up
The Death and Life of River Song: Last Words
The Death and Life of River Song Series 02
The Death and Life of River Song Series 03
Love it! The only pairing more epic than Nine and River Song would be Nine and Donna Noble!
Elaine wrote: "Love it! The only pairing more epic than Nine and River Song would be Nine and Donna Noble!"🙀 OMG I can’t even IMAGINE Nine and Donna Noble!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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That would be quite the clash of personalities.
They want my attention then pair Donna with six
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Oof. You really want fireworks don't you? LOL
Lori S. wrote: "Travis wrote: "They want my attention then pair Donna with six"Oof. You really want fireworks don't you? LOL"
Donna seems tough, but that's only because she's only been paired with the soft, cuddly Doctor.
They can trade and Peri can go hang out with any of the Tennant Doctors out there.
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Oof. You really want fireworks don't you? LOL"
Donna seems tough, but that's only because she's only been paired wi..."
An interesting idea.
Lori S. wrote: "Travis wrote: "Lori S. wrote: "Travis wrote: "They want my attention then pair Donna with six"Oof. You really want fireworks don't you? LOL"
Donna seems tough, but that's only because she's only..."
I love switching Doctor's and companions.
Tubi finally got 'Land of the Lost'.What an insane and entertaining show.
Still convinced Sleezaks are an off shoot of the Silurians.
Listening to BF trailers it amazes me that you can hear that actors have gotten older, except Tom.I know he's pushing 90.
How does he still sound 40?
Finally broke down and pre-ordered 'Celestial Toymaker'.
Tales of the Tardis is very sweet.Bit sad to be reminded of who we've lost and that everyone is getting older, but so nice to see them all again and get little hints of what happened to companions after they left the Tardis.
Travis wrote: "Listening to BF trailers it amazes me that you can hear that actors have gotten older, except Tom. I know he's pushing 90. How does he still sound 40?"The most recent audio that I’ve heard of him does sound aged Doctor Who: Once and Future: Past Lives. But most of them, yes, it’s amazing how his voice has hardly changed at all.
Travis wrote: "Tales of the Tardis is very sweet. ..."I still need to try and track this down on YouTube or somewhere.
https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/time... Big Finish New Writer Competition is up and running again. The theme this year is The Time War.
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "Tales of the Tardis is very sweet. ..."I still need to try and track this down on YouTube or somewhere."
Worth watching.
Rick wrote: "https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/time... Big Finish New Writer Competition is up and running again. The theme this year is The Time War."
Interesting
Rick wrote: "https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/time... Big Finish New Writer Competition is up and running again. The theme this year is The Time War."
If I ever win, I will have to send you a free copy, as I forget all about the competition and you've reminded me for at least three years running.
Travis wrote: "If I ever win, I will have to send you a free copy, as I forget all about the competition and you've reminded me for at least three years running."😺 I appreciate the sentiment, but it’s a free annual download giveaway.
Doctor Who: The Hoxteth Time Capsule
Doctor Who: The World Tree
Doctor Who: Free Speech
Doctor Who: Forever Fallen
Doctor Who: The Best-Laid Plans
Doctor Who: The Last Day at Work
Doctor Who: Landbound
Doctor Who: The Lichyrwick Abomination
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "If I ever win, I will have to send you a free copy, as I forget all about the competition and you've reminded me for at least three years running."😺 I appreciate the sentiment, but..."
well, I'll autograph one for you.
FCBD Doctor Who: decent story and intro to this new Tardis crew.Touches on a couple bits of Who history and sets up what is to come in the new comic series.
Fun read.
Can we stop referring to current Doctor Who as a new era, when it's being made by 90% people from the previous era...?Everyone talks about it like it's Abrams Star Trek.
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Everyone talks about it like it's Abrams Star Trek."
Yes, let's not call it a new era.
I’m totally calling it Series Three. And to be honest, it feels organically and completely different than what has come before. The first two series, as different as they were, both felt solidly like sci-fi that bordered on fantasy quite often. This new series three feels like flat out fantasy, they’re not even trying to maintain anything resembling sci-fi. I’m fully expecting a plethora of magical and mythological beasties and baddies. The Maestro is clearly a magical being, and I’m expecting more of the same as more of the Legion appears, and “He Who waits.” This started with 14 and the salt stunt at the edge of the universe and it brought magic into the Doctor’s reality. So all bets are off. Anything goes!
Rick wrote: "I’m totally calling it Series Three. And to be honest, it feels organically and completely different than what has come before. The first two series, as different as they were, both felt solidly ..."
I'll take your word for it.
It feels like RTD Who to me.
I like the Maestro and the Toymaker, but they are as magical as Q from Star Trek.
I hate the salt thing.
Breaking reality (on three separate occasions) didn't let them in, no, it was David Tennant and some seasoning...is the food really bland beyond the universe?
And, at least for me, Q was one of the worst things in Star Trek. Not to say I didn’t like John Delancie, he was brilliant, I just not fond of omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful beings. Didn’t like The Beyonder from Secret Wars for the same reasons. But they can be useful narrative tools, but that’s all they are … tools (double meaning intended). But I’m always a mass of contradictions. It’s how I see the universe. Yin/Yang. Positive/Negative. You can’t have one without the other. One literally creates the other. And it wasn’t the salt exactly that caused the problem, it was the Doctor playing the game, the trick, the lie of superstition that caused the imbalance. Faith is a double edged sword with no hilt. Magic causes the very problems it is used to ameliorate.
While we wait for the next episode, my wife and I are watching Bridgerton.Bit of actor overlap between the two shows, and like Doctor Who, there are some great coats.
Just saw Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes this afternoon. Loved it. But I’m a big fan of the PotA films. Except that atrocity by Tim Burton.
Rick wrote: "Just saw Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes this afternoon. Loved it. But I’m a big fan of the PotA films. Except that atrocity by Tim Burton."Good to hear.
Haven't seen the new ones, but Kingdom looks good, so I may need to catch up and watch the others.
Kingdom might become my new favorite. I really like both Rise and Dawn, War is solidly entertaining, but it didn’t grab me the same as the other two. And, as I said, the one by Tim Burton with Mark Wahlberg was atrocious.
Seen the Burton one.It's the reason I was so reluctant to try the others.
The Tim Burton film is by far the worst thing in the PotA franchise. Even the live-action TV series and the cartoon series are both far more entertaining and far less cringe-worthy. Even the make-up awful and the music was one of the worst things from Danny Elfman. The newer stuff (Rise, Dawn, War and Kingdom) are all quite good. In almost all ways better than the original films. Better performances, better special effects, better production values. There’s some lovely musical nods to the original Jerry Goldsmith score in Kingdom as well.
Reading the Target novelization of 'The crimson horror', I'm reminded how annoying it is that Madam Vastra and company have not gotten books or their own or a comic.I know about their BF stuff, but I want books.
They have a short audio called The Devil in the Smoke by Justin Richards, I got it through Audible.
Lori S. wrote: "Ooohhh look Who's on the cover of Time: https://time.com/magazine/south-pacif......"very cool
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One of those shows that keeps getting recommended to me, that I could never get into.