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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:33:06 GMT
The Daft Dimension (DWM #482): Fun comic with Clara asking the Doctor about the significance of the blackboard and with what the latter does with it in the presence of familiar enemies around.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:35:06 GMT
The Companion Chronicles: Fear of the Daleks: Fear of the Daleks is the second story in the first season of Big Finish’s The Companion Chronicles. Featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. Narrated by Wendy Padbury from her perspective as Zoe. Written by Patrick Chapman in this his only published Doctor Who work and released in January 2007. The framing part of the story takes place for Zoe sometime after The War Games with no memory of her travels with the Doctor and Jamie. As she says here she has been having nightmares about but actually memories of an encounter with the Daleks sometime after viewing the events of Evil of the Daleks at the end of The Wheel In Space. Her nightmares/memories of her own personal encounter with the Daleks is absolutely fascinating. Good setting here of peace talks and a plot to assassinate a president with a certain familiar person used as a pawn in this assassination attempt. The fact there are Daleks in it as stated in the story title definitely adds weight to the story’s very good quality.
I looked up the story’s writer Patrick Chapman and he has written poetry, short stories, for television and a short film Burning the Bed but Fear of the Daleks is his only Doctor Who in any medium which was released back in 2007. It will be interesting to see Chapman ever writing another Doctor Who in whatever medium in future.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:35:35 GMT
Demon Quest Part 2 – The Demon of Paris: The Demon of Paris is the second part of the Demon Quest audio story arc. The Doctor takes Mrs Wibbsey to Paris c.1884 and here they meet Toulose-Lautrec who apparently looks like the Fourth Doctor something that already been implied due to a certain poster. The Demon of Paris was not bad but it was not on par with City of Death, the Fourth Doctor TV story that took place in Paris albeit in 1979.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:36:04 GMT
Keepsake: Keepsake is a one part audio story featuring the Seventh Doctor. Released on the same release with the three part Kingdom of Silver in September 2008 by Big Finish Productions. Like Kingdom of Silver, Keepsake is written by James Swallow. Taking place much later after his experience with the events of Kingdom of Silver, the Seventh Doctor visits an intergalactic junk yard where he finds and plays a data recording which tells him what became of his friends Temeter and Sara from Kingdom of Silver. This is a Doctor-lite story as this story is about Temeter and Sara through the flashbacks provided by the data recording. Tragic what became of Temeter and Sara but absolutely good story writing by Swallow. Just like Kingdom of Silver, Keepsake also featured Terry Molloy and Nicholas Briggs but playing different characters that of the examiners at Temeter and Sara’s competency hearing. Of course when it comes to Daleks, Molloy is Davros and Briggs is the Daleks. So kind of amusing that for Keepsake, Davros and his creations are basically judges in a trial!
As said by Swallow in the accompanying interviews, Keepsake was part of the account of the Orion War which Big Finish explored before in the Doctor Who season 27 story Sword of Orion & Big Finish’s first Cybermen series. However on this occasion the Orion War was brought up to foreshadow the then upcoming release of Cybermen 2 but checking on TARDIS Wiki no one from Keepsake turns up for the second Cybermen series.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:36:45 GMT
UNIT: Dominion: UNIT: Dominion is a special release from Big Finish Productions. Released in October 2012 and written by Nick Briggs and Jason Arnopp, it featured the Seventh Doctor. Also featuring Raine Creevey, Elizabeth Klein and a brief appearance by Ace. Also featuring The Other Doctor played by Alex Macqueen who I will come to later on with a certain spoiler. Dominion was also presented as the second of Big Finish’s UNIT series although no mention has been made of what went on back in that first series. Dominion is presented as four parts of 60 minute episodes and as pointed out by TARDIS wiki that taking into account both TV and audio stories, this is the longest story featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and no doubt Sylvester must have been thrilled in doing this story as it is absolutely epic. UNIT: Dominion had been brilliantly handled in returning Raine as a companion and combining it with the revived Elizabeth Klien story arc. To add to all this was The Other Doctor said to be one from another dimension. Macqueen was very good as this Other Doctor before the revelation at the episode 3 cliffhanger that he is instead the Master Other elements of this story included the Cube and coincidentally cubes appeared in the TV series a month earlier in The Power of Three.
The interviews are very enjoyable to listen including an overview of Klein’s past adventures and Macqueen in stating how he performed the Master without knowing much about him.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 18, 2015 2:21:47 GMT
Doctors: The Doctor: This episode of Doctors is very Doctor Who in its theme (the episode title is what it alluded to). Written by Colin Brake who had been in contention to become Doctor Who script editor if the “classic” series hadn’t ended in 1989. Brake has however written Doctor Who books and audios but not for the TV series. For this episode of Doctors, a teenage Doctor Who fan with the Doctor as his inspiration investigate on his own on a criminal activity in what he thought was an alien base. What this episode of Doctors does is to present Doctor Who from the perspective of a fan and to the uninitiated. Among the initiated is Dr Jimmi Clay who I did not take very well to. Brake demonstrates his love of Doctor Who by showing the fan owning Doctor Who products. As a fan myself I well appreciated the love of Doctor Who being shown here but also felt uncomfortable in seeing the perspective of Doctor Who from the uninitiated.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jun 18, 2015 2:22:06 GMT
Lost In The Dark Dimension Part 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDe_iDKVO5YInteresting conversation between the Third and Fourth Doctors. I wonder how this dialogue would have been delivered by Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker had this officially been made. The Sixth Doctor is on trial again and gets to meet the Brigadier. If this had been officially made it would have marked the first meeting between Sixie and the Brig instead of Dimensions In Time. A key moment when Ace meets the Seventh Doctor even though the former does not remember the latter. Thrilling cliffhanger with glowing eyes.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Oct 6, 2015 22:42:45 GMT
The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage is the tenth Puffin eshort story celebrating Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013 and featuring the Tenth Doctor.
Written by Derek Landy.
This story featured Martha as the companion. At least to me, the choice of Martha as the companion was quite unexpected as I would have expected the companion to be either Rose or Donna.
To be quite frank, Martha tends to gets overlooked when it comes to Tenth Doctor companions.
It is somewhat curious that Landy in his video interview about writing this story did not explain why he chose Martha but I can only imagine Freema Agyeman if she got told about this feeling very chuffed that Martha got chosen for this honour of this Tenth Doctor story for the said 50th anniversary.
This story has the Doctor and Martha arriving in a world in which fictional characters from Martha's childhood have come into life.
The premise of this story sounded very much like The Mind Robber.
In fact in the video interview Landy said he was told about The Mind Robber after he first submitted the proposal of his story.
So accordingly Landy had the Doctor mentioning his The Mind Robber experience to reflect on his present situation with Martha.
Quite surprisingly Landy incorporated references to a couple of Big Finish stories.
Very funny when the Doctor told Martha that he had once met Enid Blyton as he described her an odd woman with unusual ears.
Blyton incidentally got mentioned in the Tenth Doctor TV episode The Unicorn and the Wasp.
The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage is a very enjoyable story and despite similarities with The Mind Robber it is a very good story in its own right.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Oct 7, 2015 1:29:05 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Dec 6, 2015 22:32:01 GMT
Recently saw The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) after I read from the Talons of Weng-Chiang DVD info text that the former movie was an influence on the latter Doctor Who story. The info text stated that the movie had a pathologist named Dr Petrie and Professor Litefoot in the Doctor Who story is also a pathologist. The funny thing about this is that Dr Petrie was played by Howard Marion-Crawford and a decade earlier he had played Dr Watson in the 1950s Sherlock Holmes TV series. It looks like there were more similarities between Dr Petrie and Professor Litefoot than was expected as the latter character had been like Watson to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes in the said Doctor Who story.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Dec 6, 2015 22:35:48 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Dec 6, 2015 22:36:56 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jan 7, 2016 21:47:26 GMT
Recently saw the movie Happy Accidents (2000) and it had an unlikely Doctor Who reference when a man (Vincent D'Onofrio) who claims to be a time traveller mention the rules of time travel by a scientist called Blinovitch. This is undoubtedly a reference to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect which originated in Doctor Who. For a movie that got released in 2000, the unlikely Doctor Who reference was made at a time when Doctor Who was not on most people's radar.
The main female cast member of Happy Accidents is Marisa Tomei and while I would not describe her character as something like a Doctor Who companion due to the film's premise, it is coincidental that having seen Happy Accidents quite recently that Marisa Tomei's latest movie is The Big Short which also featured someone who had been a Doctor Who companion that of Karen Gillan.
The coincidence in my viewing of Happy Accidents is further emphasised by the fact that I first found out the reference to Blinovitch in this movie several years ago but did not get the chance to see this movie until quite recently not long before The Big Short featuring Marisa Tomei and Karen Gillan gets released here in Australia on January 14 2016.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jan 7, 2016 21:55:03 GMT
Strangeness In Space: Featherheads: Strangeness In Space is an audio space comedy series starring Doctor Who luminary Sophie Aldred.
It begins here with Featherheads.
Featherheads provided a very funny beginning to this space comedy.
It was especially funny with the narrator what is on the script but isn't stated in the presentation itself like "Interior", "Exterior" and other such script direction and settings.
It was also the meaning behind the episode title.
A very amusing take on a space comedy and a very good beginning to it.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jan 8, 2016 5:06:20 GMT
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