Listened to the second half of “Food Fight” on Into the TARDIS yesterday. I think that first Ninth Doctor season is solid - love that the Ninth Doctor gets a bit of time shenanigans stories. Hearing “Ravagers” (with a bit of commentary from Colin Baker) has made me interested in more Ninth Doctor stories by Big Finish
And then I listened to “The Ratings War” which is a really good continuation to the various comics about Beep the Meep. Which made me realise I was only one story from a of the Meep.
So today I’ve listened to the Comics Adaptation version of “The Star Beast”, which quite frankly is the best version of that story by a bunch.
And all the kudos for the folks responsible for the soundtrack of this one for using a variation of the “Beep and Friends” music from “The Ratings War” throughout. That was brilliant
Ratings and rankings of Beep the Meep stories:
Doctor Who and the Star Beast (BF) 4/5
TV Action! (8th Doctor Comic) 4/5
Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Original comic) 3,5/5
Finally finished off The Sandman. I actually started listening to it several months ago and got distracted and… yeah I barely remembered what was happening. The idea of the Doctor being a boogeyman to some aliens is cool (i could see 11 in a story like this easy) but there were so many modulated voices and so much weird jargon that I couldn’t get into it. Oh well, at least I can get onto Jubilee now!
Today, my lazy day is starting late after having adult things like housework to do. Now I’m settling down with some BF. I’m just starting Series 2 of Dalek Empire. I enjoyed the first series a lot, and hopefully Series 2 can meet my expectations.
Not much to say about it really, it adheres a bit too much to the script for that. The parts where we are “hearing Ruby’s thoughts” don’t really add anything and is nothing Millie Gibson didn’t already emote with her acting.
The whole sequence while the pub full of jerks pulling a downright malicious prank on Ruby is somehow even worse than it was on screen. If the landlady had been nice to her in the following days I could understand the scene, but as it stands it’s just a pub full of jerks being jerks to our lovely companion. Made me a bit angry listening to it if I’m perfectly honest
Oh, Same boat! I enjoyed the recommendation in the other thread for the world tree (listened yesterday) so I decided to binge the Paul Spragg Memorial short trips, from the order tardis guide showed them to me from there. So this evening I did Best Laid Plans & Free Speech while doing some cross stitch. Enjoyed them well! Gonna have a break for late dinner and then get back at it.
One thing about these kind of short trips is they truly make me jealous of people who can do voice impressions… What do you mean you just have Discount David Tennant locked and loaded out of your mouth to say anything.
I decided to give the Target audiobook version of The Savages a go. I love the original serial so I want to find out whether this novelisation read by Peter Purves is as good as the TV story.
Nearly finished Free Speech this morning but it was slightly longer than my walk to work. But it’s very very good. Really enjoyed the conceit at it’s heart.
Wasn’t as keen on 1935: The Miracle of Pendour Cove. It wasn’t terrible but it was unremarkable and I found the approach to a mature subject to be actually quite immature.
Onto the next one later and I hope it’s solid otherwise I may be left a little underwhelmed by this set.
I do think it’s great how impersonators take on the roles though…and in alotta cases I’d rather have a lesser known voice actor play The Doctor. But Ig it does suck a bit more for female voice actors atm
of the Meep.
