Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures

Me: oh why does this music sound so Counter-Measures? (has it on the brain because Hugh Ross is in this episode)
Looks on Tardis Wiki: music by Nick Briggs

And so it all makes sense :joy: AND itā€™s a dalek episode. Why am I surprisedā€¦? (#193 Masters of Earth)

(sorry not sorry this thread is just becoming a stream of consciousness of all my thoughts :rofl:)

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So i ended the stories with 7th, Ace and Mel a while ago. That last trilogy was definitely the standout all their adeventures, very specially The Quantum Possibillity Engine which was a complete blast through and through. Iā€™m confused as to how this ends their adventures together. Mel doesnā€™t stop travelling nor they imply she will anytime soon. Iā€™ve looked in other places to see if the continue somehow (definitely not in MR) and i found nothing. Anyone has a clue?

My next thing in there will to get in the storyline with 5th, Tegan, Tourlough and older Nyssa. Already listened to Cobwebs and iā€™m very intrigued.

Also listened to Memories of a Tyrant and Emissary of the Daleks with Sixie and Peri, itā€™s great to hear there are in a great place together where the fully embrace each other.

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Just finished the Five goes back to E-Space trilogy and it was fine. The first two episodes, kind of dull, but I thought the third one picked up again, even if the resolution to the Older Nyssa arc was a little bit silly and the narration by each character was a little trite

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Iā€™ve been enjoying following along with the Audio Club on these. Did a quick glance and it appears that the earliest Iā€™ll get to one I havenā€™t heard at some point is when we hit #90 (Year of the Pig), and after that #109 (The Death Collectors). That said thereā€™s a lot before these that I havenā€™t rated because itā€™s been too long.

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Iā€™m so far behind in writing and uploading these, but here are some more reviews!

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Halfway through You Are the Doctor and other stories, and the title story was pretty fun. Must say though, I am waiting for another story thatā€™s going to knock my socks off - the last few have been middling to good on average (which letā€™s be real, for the MR is a big win), but yeah. The last one I really, really enjoyed was We Are the Daleks and Iā€™m not so far off The Peterloo Massacre which by all accounts is excellent, so looking forward to that.

Not looking forward to four Five stories on the bounce though :grimacing: unfortunately I tend not to get on super well with Five on audio, I find him a little tedious more often than not.

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I was disappointed in You Are the Doctor beyond the title story. Everything else was a bit meh.

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Agreed, the title story was an interesting concept that maybe didnā€™t 100% work, then the other ones were pretty much completely unmemorable

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Just finished Aquitane and Iā€™m startled to find that I seem to be going against the common consensus because everyone seemed to love it but I could not have been more bored if theyā€™d tried. It was one of those quintessential Five on audio stories, and I guess they just donā€™t do it for me. Also PLEASE can we stop giving Nyssa diseases already this is getting so incredibly dull as a plot point

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Oh man The Peterloo Massacre really is good. Very harrowing. Very good though. Not at all usual for Paul Magrs but very interesting - itā€™s not often I care for pure historicals and I wouldnā€™t want one like this every day, but it is one of those ones that sticks with you, I think

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I finished the Older Nyssa arc a couple days ago. As a whole i think it was delight. The main drive is to explore this TARDIS team as we didnā€™t get much on TV. They do fantastic things with them, exploring many dinamics and go in depth with each character. Not all their stories were great, i find that in their second trilogy they star to get a bit boring but that doesnā€™t last long. A couple of meh here and there but mostly satisfactory. ā€˜Prisoners of Fateā€™ was my favorite of them all for obvious reasons and i cried a bit listening to their final audio. Quite a sad ending.

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Agree, I found the Older Nyssa stuff to by and large be very compelling. Certainly one of the more interesting things theyā€™ve done with her character on audio.

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Listening to Quicksilverā€¦ ougrh Constance is breaking my heart :broken_heart: I have very much grown to love her over the last few episodes.

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Quicksilver is excellent!

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Itā€™s literally got me in tears :sob: Connie I love you so much <3 She and Flip together are absolutely wonderful, Iā€™m glad we get to have more of them

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Just finished The Star Men, and I donā€™t know if it was being delighted by my friend the Large Magellanic Cloud and the actually reasonably accurate use of astronomy words for a change, or if it was actually just a good episode, but I thoroughly enjoyed that. Didnā€™t particularly enjoy Matthew Waterhouse trying to sound like a younger man but, nothing can be perfect

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Finished Alien Heart/Dalek Soul last night - the best part about doing all this sewing is that Iā€™ve smashed my way through a load of audios while Iā€™ve been doing it. Anyway, AH was kind of whatever but DS I was very impressed by. Iā€™ve definitely got a case of Dalek fatigue, but this was a pretty interesting take on them, and more so on Nyssa. It was a good bit of character work for her, who often sorely needs it.

The worst bit about smashing through loads of audios is how behind I am on writing reviews :sob:

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YAY Iā€™m on Time in Office!!! Itā€™s my Leela <333333

And Iā€™m only 1 off getting my ā€˜rate 1000 audiosā€™ badge (:sweat_smile:) so after Time in Office Iā€™m considering blasting through a short trip just to hit that goal

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If you havenā€™t done A Full Life thatā€™s one of the best Short Trips!

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iā€™m not too far into this range
iā€™m up to the Genocide machine
The first few werenā€™t great - Phantasmagoria being my least favourite largely due to a young David Wallams doing his silly comedy show voices. Whilst the fearmonger and The Marian Conspiracy have been really good.

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