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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Mar 23, 2024 2:25:21 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 5, 2024 7:25:24 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 21, 2024 9:49:18 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 17, 2024 4:12:01 GMT
Doctor Who and the Star Beast: Doctor Who and the Star Beast is the second of two stories from Big Finish's The Comic Strip Adaptations: Volume One from Big Finish. Adapted by Alan Barnes based on the comic strip story of the same name. The comic strip story is credited to Pat Mills and John Wagner but Dave Gibbons who provided art for the comic strip story later said in an interview that only Mills wrote the story. The story later became the basis of The Star Beast, the first of the 60th anniversary TV Specials which marked the full debut of Fourteenth Doctor David Tennant with Mills and Gibbons being credited for the original story. Notwithstanding different Doctors, the comic strip story is kind of the same and different from the TV adaptation and is a Fourth Doctor story and appropriately Tom Baker plays him in the adaptation. The comic strip story introduced original comic strip companion Sharon and she is played in the Big Finish adaptation by Rhianne Starbuck for what would be so far the character's only appearance on Big Finish with this adaptation being released back in 2019. As in the later TV adaptation, the Star Beast refers to Beep the Meep which this being the Meep's debut. This is set in 1980 when an UFO crash lands to a place called Blackcastle. It is at this time that two teenagers Sharon and her friend Fudge what is inside the UFO that of the Meep. The Doctor soon comes along and he Sharon and Fudge soon encounter the Wrath Warriors who are after the Meep. Putting aside for one moment what the general public had seen of the TV adaptation, things don't appear what they seem to be initially and quite a reveal of just what was really going on with the situation at hand culminating in the story's climax. Pretty enjoyable and just as the story comes to an end comes an unexpected development for Sharon The development being that Sharon got aged by Black Sun radiation (a key plot element) and became one of the reasons she joins the Doctor on his travels. This element of Sharon being aged along with the Doctor's comment about being a spotty teenager for 57 years had originated from another comic strip story The Time Witch although in The Time Witch, the Doctor said that he was a spotty teenager for 50 years. This fact about The Time Witch was something I came across by chance as I saw the fan made presentation of that story at the same time with listening to The Star Beast. Unfortunately there is one niggle I had about the Star Beast Big Finish adaptation is when the Doctor got introduced to an organisation known by its initials GLEB. The niggle being that acronyms are initials that can be pronounced as words but GLEB gets said as letters and not as a word.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 17, 2024 4:12:52 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 17, 2024 15:01:41 GMT
May 16 2024 marked ten years since the release of The Elixir of Doom, the penultimate story of The Companion Chronicles season 8 from Big Finish. Starring my wife Katy as both Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme. Written by Paul Magrs. This is the sequel to Find and Replace when Jo and Iris met for the first time. In The Elixir of Doom, Jo and Iris are in 1930s L.A. Obviously deriving from the Doctor's psychic paper, this story has Iris producing her psychic money. I wrote at the time that psychic money is quite handy but if everybody had psychic money the economy would definitely be in trouble. I had thought this as a fascinating story involving a movie that was left unfinished plus the Eighth Doctor also being present throughout this story but without the involvement of Paul McGann.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 18, 2024 3:30:40 GMT
Defender of the Daleks: Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=stU7Ch5q5CoEpisode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9fRuYYhRkEpisode 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFWuHcPS58Episode 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTe1XMvfUADefender of the Daleks is comic strip story from Titan Comics released in September-October 2020 as part of Time Lord Victorious. This is a fan-made presentation of the story. Featuring the Tenth Doctor. Written by Jody Houser and she is someone who had usually written for the Thirteenth Doctor in Titan Comics and let's say that very fact isn't overlooked here. Art by Roberta Ingranata. The Tenth Doctor meets up with the Daleks here but notwithstanding the Daleks themselves, something is not right as time is not right. This plus meeting a dangerous creature known as Hond, a creature that is even dangerous to the Daleks themselves. The Doctor spends much of the time with one Dalek, the Dalek Prime Strategist and quite thrilling when the mutant creature inside it was revealed out in the open in an intriguing moment. The Doctor ultimately gets away from the Daleks especially when he gets an unexpected help and it certainly took me by surprise.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 18, 2024 14:54:15 GMT
Monstrous Beauty Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuF7uQSEyzMEpisode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz_rSo0q_ewEpisode 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwMnMb2mmL8Episode 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAcsWhYQwIMonstrous Beauty is comic strip story from DWM in issues 556 to 558 released in September-November 2020 as part of Time Lord Victorious. This is a fan-made presentation of the story. Featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose. Written by Scott Gray with art by John Ross. The Doctor and Rose walked on a rocky planetoid surface when they got captured by a woman commander. The Doctor is surprised by the weapon that the commander and later shocked by her name. Due to the weapon that the commander is carrying, the Doctor chose to refer to himself as a traveller and not as the Doctor. What ensues is battle with vampires and Rose getting separated from the Doctor and what happens to her during this separation. Monstrous Beauty is a fascinating, haunting and thrilling entry into Time Lord Victorious with the Dark Times, vampires and the woman commander due to her identity being put into the mix of this. The commander gets the feeling as the story comes to its end that she would see the Doctor again. I thought the woman commander looked kind of like Michelle Gomez but it is not Missy at all. Nice little coda that wraps up the story and having seen vampires Rose wonder whether werewolves are next. Of course Rose and the Tenth Doctor would meet a werewolf in Tooth and Claw.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 2, 2024 18:46:57 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jul 16, 2024 5:00:03 GMT
The Lodger (comic strip story): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBAizLUqqA The Lodger is a comic strip story in DWM in issue 368 released d in March 2006. Written by Gareth Roberts with art by Mike Collins. Of course Roberts would later adapt The Lodger as a TV episode with Matt Smith in 2010. This is a fan-made presentation. The Tenth Doctor is the said lodger as he stays with Mickey for a little while, roles that would later be occupied by the Eleventh Doctor and Craig in the TV episode. Rose is stuck in TARDIS as it goes off without the Doctor just as Amy would be stuck in the TARDIS without the Doctor in the TV episode. Certain other elements of the comic strip story also made their way to the TV episode such as the Doctor playing football and the character of Gina is most certainly the prototype for Sophie. Incidentally when I wrote about the comic strip story at a message board in 2006 and no one having any idea at the time that it would be adapted for television someone responded by saying: "Yeah this was a nice little story. Why couldn't have this been the offbeat episode of Series 2 instead of Love & Monsters."
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jul 20, 2024 8:17:01 GMT
Space Vikings!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHK_Yqemnz8&t=302sSpace Vikings! is a comic strip story in Doctor Who Storybook 2010. Featuring the Tenth Doctor. Written by Jonathan Morris with art by Rob Davis and I.N.J. Culbard. This is a fan-made presentation of the story. As it says in the story title the Doctor encounters Space Vikings and it is on the colony world of Lindis and these Vikings appears to be based on legends of them on Earth. At one point seeing these Vikings wearing horned helmets, the Tenth Doctor said that the real Vikings never worn horned helmets. Yet the Twelfth Doctor met Vikings with ones in The Girl Who Died. In fact both stories featured Odin. A pretty enjoyable adventure about the Space Vikings and interesting the explanation. Funny that this ends with the Doctor saying about the show not being over until the fat lady sings and what he says to someone after that. PM ^
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jul 26, 2024 3:09:12 GMT
I saw Wonka: The Scandal that Rocked Britain.
As I discovered here as I was not aware of what this documentary was covering beforehand it was about Willy's Chocolate Experience that took place in Glasgow, Scotland in February 2024.
This event supposedly based on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory turned out to be a scam but I got taken aback when Karen was brought up here with the narrator Kevin Eldon referring to her as Scottish actress (given where this scam event took place) and that she is of Doctor Who and Marvel fame with the programme showing her saying on X that she would like to be cast in the movie about this..
Incidentally like Karen, Eldon is himself a Doctor Who companion having played Seventh Doctor companion Antimony.
Prior to Karen's X post turning up, Eldon mentioned another scam event that took place on November 28 2008 which coincidentally was Karen's birthday.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jul 27, 2024 12:07:25 GMT
Dot and Bubble: Season 44, Episode 5. Written by showrunner Russell T. Davies. In introducing this episode in the Official Doctor Who Podcast on the previous episode 73 Yards he said that he came up with the idea of the story that would eventually become Dot and Bubble when he handed over the reins to Steven Moffat, which was in 2009, and discussed with him in making it with the Eleventh Doctor and Amy. However Moffat deemed it impossible to make due to the effects needed to make this story being unavailable at the time. Somewhat curiously had this story been made for the Eleventh Doctor and Amy, Karen Gillan would have been in it as the latter and Karen later was in a movie called The Bubble in 2022. Ironically however had this story been an Amy episode it is improbable that it would have been called Dot and Bubble with Davies saying that the story went through many names before becoming its said eventual title. Reading from TARDIS Wiki, Davies admitted he took inspiration for Dot and Bubble from the Black Mirror season 3 opener Nosedive. Even though Davies came up with the idea that became Dot and Bubble in 2009, the said Black Mirror episode came about seven years later in 2016. The Black Mirror episode, which anyone who has it is available on Netflix, stars Bryce Dallas Howard who coincidentally is a redhead like Karen Gillan and also featured Daisy Haggard (Sophie in The Lodger & Closing Time). After 73 Yards, I was surprised to find Dot and Bubble as a Doctor-lite episode the first time that a season has a second Doctor-lite episode. However TARDIS Wiki does it consider Dot and Bubble as a Doctor-lite episode instead stating that it featured less of the Doctor and Ruby and more on Lindy Pepper-Bean played by guest star Callie Cook. We meet Lindy on a world that it is dominated by social media when all of a sudden her friends have been disappearing. It is on social media that Lindy meets the Doctor and Ruby. It is also on social media that the Doctor and Ruby discovered that Lindy's mother looks exactly like Susan Twist, a resemblance that did not go unnoticed by them. Lindy's friends have been disappearing because they have been eaten by giant slugs and soon comes the conclusion that they are coming for Lindy. As a viewer I should be expecting to root for Lindy's survival but I became very disappointed on Lindy when she sacrificed Ricky September to the slugs for the sake of her own survival. Lindy ultimately is saved from being by the slugs thanks to help from the Doctor but the last scene is truly a down moment when Lindy and her fellow survivors turned down the Doctor's offer to take them on a trip by the TARDIS to a new home apparently because a certain way the Doctor looks. A truly enthralling episode with an unfortunate last scene of blatant ingratitude from Lindy and her fellow survivors.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jul 29, 2024 6:15:08 GMT
Once and Future: A Genius for War: A Genius for War is the third episode of Once and Future, Big Finish's 60th Anniversary series. Released in July 2023 and written by Jonathan Morris Once and Future has the Doctor experiencing degeneration and A Genius for War mainly features Seventh Doctor. A Genius for War has two other people who had first played their characters here in TV Doctor Who that of Terry Molloy as Davros and Ken Bones as the General. Other cast members include Beth Chalmers as Veklin, a character she has played before on Big Finish. Curiously enough Chalmers had played a Seventh Doctor companion that of Raine Creevy on Big Finish and in fact in A Genius for War, Veklin at one time got mistaken as being the Doctor's companion by Davros. Whilst still in the midst of figuring out his degeneration, the Seventh Doctor found himself dragged into the Time War by the Time Lords. The Time Lords gets the Doctor involved to seek his aid when Davros made an unexpected offer to them in the said war between the Time Lords and Davros' creation the Daleks as Davros, feeling no loyalty to his creations as they had betrayed him, offer to help the Time Lords in the offer. The Doctor however does not trust Davros genuinely wants to help the Time Lords in the Time War. Overall I did not find this to be a bad story at all and also felt that it was slight improvement over the previous episode The Artist at the End of Time.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Aug 5, 2024 5:23:10 GMT
The Heralds of Destruction Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfFaMsEfYmo&t=603s Episode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F-P02evxXA&t=3s Episode 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4dvkMNJbU&t=19s Episode 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVAF7tOutM Episode 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNJA7_uDEA The Heralds of Destruction is the sole story of Doctor Who: The Third Doctor comic book mini-series published in 2016 by Titan Comics Featuring Jo, UNIT and the Delgado Master. Written by Paul Cornell with art by Christopher Jones. This is a fan-made presentation of the story. For this story set during the Third Doctor-UNIT era it looks like a normal day in the office of UNIT chasing and attempting to apprehend the Master. However things takes a surprising turn when the Second Doctor all of a sudden turns up and the previous time the Second Doctor has been in this era of Doctor Who was in The Three Doctors. This eventually leads to another surprise of the story when the Master revealed that this isn't the Second Doctor at all. It is instead someone who shares the Second Doctor's face and it is Salamander the titular The Enemy of the World and of course Patrick Troughton played both characters in that story. So what initially was believed to be a quasi-sequel to The Three Doctors, instead turns out to be an unexpected sequel to The Enemy of the World. Fascinating the explanation of how Salamander survived from being lost in the vortex at the end of The Enemy of the World and how he carried out his current plans. This culminates the Doctor, Jo, UNIT and unlikely ally the Master facing off Salamander in the British House of Commons in 1868. In the end Salamander as well the Master got exactly what was coming to them in this neat story. I would describe this as a near perfect as there was a sequence of the Third Doctor and Jo literally in Jo's mind which I did not feel add anything to the story. Incidentally I am pretty sure that was a cameo by John Steed early on when the Third Doctor attended a meeting of drinks! In Memory of Richard Franklin (Mike Yates) 1936-2023
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