And Patrick Troughton and Nicholas Courtney steal the show in *both* stories!
Yes, it's amazing how well they get on seeing as they only worked like 2 months together back in the 60's. Though if there's one problem with the Five Doctors it's that they have the Brig add on... "all of them" twice when it'd have been much better just once.
Spoilers - it's not as good as the first episode. At all.
Wasn't actually intending to do this on an individual episode basis - I was just going to do the first episode, then the other three. But for reasons that are apparent in said review, I decided not to for this one.
With people already up in arms about the eighth Doctor saying he was half human, I'd hate to see the comments if one of the official regenerations was completely human.
I hate to think how it'll go down on certain other right-on internet forums (which will remain nameless..... although I'm sure you know which one I'm thinking of), where the people would rather die (or at least condemn their favourite television show) than agree with the Daily Mail....
Because it's a Bank Holiday, Big Finish have put up a one-part Colin Baker story to download from Soundcloud, having achieved 750 like to the idea on Facebook
The metaphysical change which takes place every 500 or so years is a horrifying experience — an experience in which he re-lives some of the most unendurable moments of his long life, including the galactic war [which was believed, at this time, to have been the cause of the Doctor and Susan's departure from their home planet]. It is as if he has had the LSD drug and instead of experiencing the kicks, he has the hell and dank horror which can be its effect. The Second Doctor Handbook
the 14th incarnation because of John Hurt and The Watcher.
No, because
at least so far as the Watcher is concerned, he wasn't a fully-fledged incarnation. Rather, he was a projection from the Doctor himself given independent life as a result of the fourth Doctor's impending death. Cho-Je in "Planet of the Spiders" was K'Anpo's Watcher; K'Anpo then regenerated into a form resembling Cho-Je.
These aren't Big Finish releases. These are AudioGo releases, so they include the most recent Doctors for which Big Finish have no licence. It just so happens that AudioGo hired Big Finish to make them, under a separate licence.
So far, they are all pretty much standalone, except there's a recurring element that suggests somehow they'll tie together at the end. Heaven knows how, but nevertheless the implication is that the last one will have some reference back to every previous installment. The Hartnell and TBaker episodes weren't up to much (dull story and appalling narration, respectively) but the others have been middling-to-good.
I'm going to suggest that you hold off until they;ve all come out and you can read a full set of reviews. Also, a box set with extras has been promised
The non-Dr Who stuff in this sounds quite good (although anybody who's read the blurb will query how "recent" the K9 series was and what odds that he's working on a second season that will actually happen).
However.... we've had a "myth" moment in the television series this month, with John Hurt entering on teh scene, but the new DWM has something happen in the comic strip that 'explains' a major factor of the series from all the way back in 1963....
I'm going to suggest that you hold off until they;ve all come out and you can read a full set of reviews. Also, a box set with extras has been promised
"in 2013 she (Carol Ann Ford) revealed that the producers had initially insisted that Susan not refer to the Doctor as her grandfather in The Five Doctors special. Ford recalled, "They said, 'We don't really want people to perceive him as having had sex with someone, to father a child.' I just screamed with hysterical laughter and said, 'In that case, I'm not doing it.'" The script was changed to include mentions of the characters' relationship.[14]"
Ha I always hated the idea of the Doctor being celibate. Four clearly fancied Romona XP.
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Replace Three with Five and you'd be closer on the mark.
*lasers try and kill The Master as he tries to run along a field*
The Master: Not the most hospitable of environments...
And Patrick Troughton and Nicholas Courtney steal the show in *both* stories!
Yes, it's amazing how well they get on seeing as they only worked like 2 months together back in the 60's. Though if there's one problem with the Five Doctors it's that they have the Brig add on... "all of them" twice when it'd have been much better just once.
Spoilers - it's not as good as the first episode. At all.
Wasn't actually intending to do this on an individual episode basis - I was just going to do the first episode, then the other three. But for reasons that are apparent in said review, I decided not to for this one.
Also I like Three Doctor's best cos Omega is an awesome villian he is just so damn hammy!
Another obssessive imposes his view as to who John Hurt is onto the internet -
http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/strax-field-report-the-doctors-greatest-secret-49838.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DoctorWhoTv+%28Doctor+Who+TV%29
WAY better than the last one.
(In before coolsome, nya nya)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330872/Discriminate-Discriminate-Doctor-Who-branded-thunderingly-racist-academics--conquers-Daleks-slavery--likes-cricket.html
I hate to think how it'll go down on certain other right-on internet forums (which will remain nameless..... although I'm sure you know which one I'm thinking of), where the people would rather die (or at least condemn their favourite television show) than agree with the Daily Mail....
I liked it, despite the dodgy moments.
http://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-urgent-calls
Wait.
The Second Doctor Handbook
No, because
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWLD_dZUKvk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6_7cUsr6c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuAAEXeuNkU
Now, *this* is storytelling!
There's a Christmas special in there, somewhere, too!
So is it worth subscribing or buying them all?
Also Mind of Evil in COLOUR!
I'm going to suggest that you hold off until they;ve all come out and you can read a full set of reviews. Also, a box set with extras has been promised
The non-Dr Who stuff in this sounds quite good (although anybody who's read the blurb will query how "recent" the K9 series was and what odds that he's working on a second season that will actually happen).
However.... we've had a "myth" moment in the television series this month, with John Hurt entering on teh scene, but the new DWM has something happen in the comic strip that 'explains' a major factor of the series from all the way back in 1963....
Ah I'll hold off then.
Ha I always hated the idea of the Doctor being celibate. Four clearly fancied Romona XP.
I wonder why River and him never had kids..
Nah. Knowing moffat, they had a son and he grew up to be Rory Williams. Which is why he's remarkably good at surviving death.
This is what most fan theory devolve into when a mysterious female jons the cast.
http://www.tonecartoons.co.uk/blog/archives/5336