Well done Professor - A Jago & Litefoot Thread

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So this site is nearly a year old now and you want to tell me there were NO Jago & Litefoot discussion threat?! Well there is now. You are welcome, but I kinda want to convince people to start listening to this spin-off about these two brilliant people.

I still haven’t seen the original TV episode where they appeared (The Talons of Weng-Chiang), but have listened to their pilot episode called The Mahogany Murderers recently and today I actually started their real Big-Finish audio spin-off with The Bloodless Soldier.

I would like to also dedicate this thread for the memory of Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter.

So I have no idea how a thread like this works but I would recommend for everyone to go and watch The Talons of Weng-Chiang if you haven’t already and tell me about your favourite and not so favourite bits of the tale.

EDIT: I thought I did say some words about the poll but guess not- anywho just a vote for The Talons of Weng-Chiang on a scale of 10.

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I am slowly working my way through the Jago & Litefoot audios, but stuff, shenanigans and more likely other audios get in the way :wink:
I am up to season 7, but it has been sitting ready on my phone for a couple of months now.

Could you perhaps say a couple of words on what we are supposed to be voting for? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Never experienced any of their stories, but I want to get Jago & Litefoot & Strax because…

Strax

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I am a bit trepidatious about getting to that season because…

Strax

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Thanks for pointing it out- edited the post! But kinda was thinking of doing a thing like TV Club or any of the clubs do and open a vote for an episode for every week.

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I’m really curious about their range in Big Finish (listened to none of their stories yet) so some months ago I searched for some posts about it here in the forum.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s very well liked by this community overall, which surprised given I only heard good things prior to engaging in the forum.

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The audios, I think, are good. However, they are not for me. I find Talons deadly deadly boring and I have listened to the J&L audios with Leela in (guess why lmao) and they just didn’t do it for me. I’m not much one for Victoriana in general an the J&L team never caught my interest tbh

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I really don’t like Talons but their spinoff is one of my favorite BF ranges. They’re such a great double act and I also really like Ellie, they have a really good dynamic with the 6th doctor which is better than their dynamic with 4 imo. More stories with them and Leela are also great, I wish we could have seen how they’d have reacted to Narvin.

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We will probably do an Audio Club Extra proper for at least a couple of series in the new future so maybe keep this is as a general discussion thread for the illustrious intrepid investigators of the inexplicable and incongruous,

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I might do a relisten of the s4 boxset, but considering Jago and Litefoot were given the distinct honor of being Six’s companions, they (BF) should’ve either gone all-in for giving the three actual Doctor-companion stories or just not made them meet at all.

They have seven-ish audios together and only two of them consisted of the “companion accompanies Doctor on trip” standard. The rest are just Six popping into one part of a boxset for essentially a cameo role, and then disappearing. Unpopular Opinion Alert: Yet again, I don’t get why Six needed to be involved with them and not the Doctor whose era they are derived from. I really don’t like when they give Doctors companions who don’t “belong” to them.

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Listening to Voyage to Venus again jogged a lot of my memory regarding J and L. I really do like Jago, but it’s difficult to judge the three of them together because they only have two actual adventures. It was interesting, though, that in VoV, J and L thought they’d killed Six by destroying the building he was in, and they didn’t even care. They didn’t go run after him, didn’t express any kind of grief. It was just another day for them. Likewise, Six sounds pretty fed up (or unenthused) with them in his own way. I don’t know if they would have become friends had they more audios together. Their journey might have been interesting to listen to, but eh. They’re definitely a trio I wish I liked more.