Listened to Sarah Jane Smith: Comeback - bloody lame
Now: Spare Parts - fabulous, great Cybermen voices, another reference to Adric - Whee!
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Listened to Sarah Jane Smith: Comeback - bloody lame
Now: Spare Parts - fabulous, great Cybermen voices, another reference to Adric - Whee!
...ish
Some very clever and witty dialogue but i just didn't understand what was going on.
An audio equivalent to Warrior's Gate :)
...ish was quite good, I seem to remember.
We've listened to Brotherhood of The Daleks and started DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS (inthesevenkeystodoomsday) this weekend.
What did you think of them?
Always listening to audios - currently listening to all the Companion Chronicles in order. Up to Here There Be Monsters which isn't one of the best, but then it followed The Catalyst, which is probably my favourite of the lot.
Just finished the Stables/Fisher/Bowerman Talks Back, and have paused Bang-Bang-a-Boom! at the end of episode 3 to hear that splendid chap Nicholas Courtney read out his list of women he's slept with. When he gets back on to the acting side he's more interesting.
Jubilee... and there's a mysterious prisoner being tortured in a cell. Something about this seems familiar!
Yes, we've all suffered from him at some time or another; just hit him hard enough and he'll go away.:p
I am currently listening to 45 and it is an excellent audio. I like the idea of 4 sererate stories with a linking theme. It is my first Dr, Ace and Hex audio and I loke the team dynamic.
the inexpressibly dull Nekromanteia
The Dark Flame wasn't much better, but now I'm listening to the excellent Doctor Who and the Pirates - perfect Sunday teatime fun!
So i didn't really get what was going on in Creatures of Beauty and gave up on it.
Putting the iPod on Shuffle the song that started playing was Christine Aguilera's "Beautiful" - what are the chances of that?
That's beautiful.
Katy Manning is reading me Malcolm Hulke's novelisation of The Green Death, via the power of my in-car CD player. Her Brigadier is a hoot! They didn't need so many effects on the soundtrack though.
Assassin(not hashashin) In The Limelight
after a boozy post Christmas lunch evening i had a long walk home from the train station to Cybertech's first album. JN-T chose wisely for the otherwise... difficult... Dimensions in Time.
Christmas Spirits!
Si xx
As well as the marevloous Christmas Spirits, we also listened to the best BF audio in years yesterday, Maters of War, the new Unbound adventure.
It was absolutely superb! Great simple, yet engaing story, a good Doctor/ companion team, good chacarecters and enough differences to normal Doctor Who to up the stakes and keep you guessing what was going to happen. It was just a great listen.
Si xx
Talking of Unbounds, i just relistened to the first one with Geoffrey Bayldon. Terrific stuff, with Carole Ann Ford giving the best performance she's ever given. Still dragged down by the crap of Lungbarrow, but otherwise entertaining.
I like the talking elephant and it's good to hear the not-late Derren Nesbitt whenever he reappears.
As for Bayldon i think he's perfect - if Hartnell were alive today i doubt his voice would be much different and even the speech patterns seem right.
Top entertainment.
The Death Eaters which is somewhat formulaic but still great fun;although I think the sense of claustrophobia would work better on telly...
Later on Spider's Shadow
Project: Lazarus
While it's much better than Project: Twilight it's still not very good. The interaction between the Sixth and Seevnth Doctors is rather lovely, but I couldn't care less about Nimrod, The Forge and yet another bunch of military experiments backed up by one-dimensional armed thugs.
Please make it stop! No more agressive military types who don't understand science and just want to kill. It's a horrendous cliche and I've seen it far far far far too many times in Sci-fi.
"You gave The master the keys to my pub. There's no telling the damage he could do!"
Unbound: Sympathy for the Devil
This is more like it. An alternative version of The Mind Robber with Mark Gatiss the newly regenerated Master and David Warner along with the embittered Brigadier.
A really evocative feel of the outreaches of Hong Kong. Big Finish really should do more overseas stuff as it's so cheap to do on audio. Some very clever dialogue (particularly the final gag about the 96 TVM) and an interesting story too.
There's an actor in there too playing the UNIT Colonel with a very good Scottish accent. Can't recall the guy's name though.
We thoroughly enjoyed Masters of War recently too. In fact I'd say it's the best thing BF have produced for a fair old while.
I liked Sympathy for the Devil a lot too. It might be my favourite Unboud, though I'm very fond of Auld Mortality.
Si xx
Does anyone know why it took so long for Masters Of War to come out? or whether there's plans for any more Unbounds?
I'm listening to The Sea Devils Audio Book again :)
The Boy That Time Forgot-which I'm enjoying immensely.Yay for Paul Magrs:clap
In complete contrast to 'Brotherhood of the Daleks', Doctor Who: Unbound - 'Masters of War', which i've just listened to whilst doing all manner of mundane things from dusting to sewing, was a really good, cohesive, Dalek based story that echoed a lot of precidents but without relying on previous storylines & mythology to the point of being unoriginal.
Much like occupied Europe under the nazis, The Thals are living under Dalek occupation several generations after the original war. Davros is a mythical, almost religious figure, who's existence is buried so far in the past that, like Jesus, many doubt his existence.
Being an Unbound story, this play is not contstricted by previous continuity, & tells the story of how the two factions of Daleks came into being in a completely new way, & here, the Doctor has never even met Davros before.
Davros himself doesn't really appear properly until more than half way through the story, & he brings a new surprise with him when he does.
The retired Brigadier gets a taste of what it's like to be a proper Tardis companion, & the character works well once again with David Warner's Doctor, who is a more thoughtful Doctor that may seem a somewhat stodgy opposite of the mad eyed, over-excitable, shouting Tenth Doctor that the new series brings, but perhaps unsurprisingly, is much more appealing a concenption of the Doctor for me.
I wasn't expecting much, but i thought this was an exciting listen, & quite clever without being incomprehensible. If more BF stuff was like this, then i'd be happy. 8/10 :)
As I said above, it really was far better than most of the toher stuff they've done in rcent memory. A great story and all the beeter for being straightforward rather than unnecessarily convoluted like certain stories by Marc Platt and Alan Barnes recently where coherancy has been shelved for the sake of obtruse storytelling.
Si xx
I liked David Warner's slightly grumpy Doctor; he's a good change after the tenth's smiles almost all round and the ninth's forced bonhomie. Perhaps this is more the direction Colin should have taken it, rather than being Mr. Shouty.
I'm currently listening to Stones of Venice from the Paul McGann audio boxset.
I think it is a very good story and it is well acted by all.
I've always quite liked that one, but it seems to come in fro some flak. I think people just don't like Paul Magrs' Doctor Who very much.
Si xx
I haven't really had much experience of Pauls Magrs' Who stuff but going by this story I can't see why. It is nice interesting listen. I wil be hunting out his other who stuff.
His style of Doctor Who really appeals to me. I'd certainly check out his stories for Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith and the rather batty The Wishing Beast which I really liked.
Si xx
His McGann stories are excellent, I really enjoyed them both which actually surprised me!!!
"Horror of Glam Rock" is really good.
Si.
I have just listened to Masters of War and it was fantastic. The story was great and the acting was brilliant, David Warner, Nicholas Courtney and Terry Malloy were great but special mention has to go to Nick Briggs for his Dalek voices they were marvolous and had a better quality to them.
I would urge anyone to listen to this story.
Hurrah! BF Adventures haven't been as good as 'Masters Of War' for years!!!
Forty-Five.Episode/Story 3-Casualties Of War is a thing of wonder:D