Orbis: Eighth Doctor Audio 3.1
One thing about being stuck in a car for 7+ hours is that you get to catch up on Audios. Since Big Finish finally let me subscribe to Season 3 of the Eight Doctor Audio's I jumped right in with Orbius. Dude...
( Cut for giant, horny clams and jellyfish in love )
( Cut for giant, horny clams and jellyfish in love )
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But I think they do an excellent job of hinting at what's to come in some of their stories while not being explicit -- though I really would like to see what they could do with a license to tell stories for Nine and Ten. At Gally, when asked what they would steal from the new series if they could, their number two answer was "the audience." Their number one answer was, "Ten -- we'd like David back, please." After that, they said the folks in Cardiff had been very good about letting them explore some of the themes, only telling them no if they were about to do the same thing or would directly contradict something in their plans.
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Interesting about how BF interacts with Cardiff. I'd heard they weren't allowed to touch anything from the new series but they've been quite clever in alluding and foreshadowing. And sweet Jesus, what I wouldn't give for a run of pre-series Nine audios. Just think of the pathos the audios could go into! I do like the more adult nature of the audios and Eccleston would be brilliant. Although there are a lot of really great things they could do - a "Pete's World series - either pre-Doomsday or post. I'd love a Harriet Jones spin-off or even a series of one-off "new who" companions. I guess it all comes down to a) actor willingness/availability and license which, given the recent short trip announcement seems unlikely. It' a shame since the books and audios kept the flame alive, so to speak, during the dark years.
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I find this hilarious.
Although technically, I suppose he's free to do random voices for them again, as long as he doesn't play the Doctor.
I'm a bit waffly on Orbis. The fact that the entire planet was destroyed is... well, just flat depressing.
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Depressing is a mild word for Orbis, I thought it was horrifying. Okay, not the actual destruction since that was all off screen...err..audio. But the beach scene with the screaming and dying was horrifying. Everyone died. Again. Eight does seem to have a habit of blowing up planets, doesn't he?
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Bwah, loved the names of the Moluscari and the Celtans. The fact that the Doctor lived and bonded with jellyfish people (and fought off giant clams) for six hundred years is so... well, I couldn't decide if it was crack with a heavy dose of pathos or pathos heavily tinged with crack. His life with the Celtans reminded me a little of Human Nature of course, especially how he resisted being torn away from his domestic, non-Doctory life, but more of the Star Trek TNG episode where Picard lives another lifetime in another society. That episode really affected me.
Her reunion with the Doctor broke my heart. Ack, me too. All he was interested in was the fact that her tights could be used to repair a motor and he couldn't understand her "Cockney" accent. And keeps calling her Lizzie. On the other hand, I love the way they veer off from sentimentality - it's in line with the theme of Lucie and the Doctor just being "mates" but developing a close and complicated relationship just ( ... )
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