Excellent, DU1 is a great set
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The youth are the problem. Respect your elders, we are wise & always right.
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Of course, the irony of the ‘you should have bought it when it came out’ I’m suggesting is that I haven’t bought a huge amount of stuff in recent years because of, you know, mortgage, children, boring life stuff, so there’s loads of more recent stuff I’ll probably be looking at paying a fortune for in the future when I finally get around to it…
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Most of the recent things also have digital versions, right? I guess the price wouldn’t go sky high as with the 90s books when they went out of print
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I dread the day when the NSAs that cost £2 second hand now, will be selling for £40+ 
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Yes luckily as there are ebooks now, newer books should never go “out of print” and become completely unavailable, unless for legal reasons.
I really wish we had official ebooks of all the old books!
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I’d love audiobooks of all the 90s books 
If I had more time and the setup for it, I’d probably think about doing it myself
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The sad thing is, this is something AI can do really well, but that’s such a minefield and so many people are against it…
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Well, it’s not just age—it’s actually buying the stuff, too. Regrets, I say, regrets.
To add insult to injury, a seller on AbeBooks has a picture of the title page in their 300-euro offer. Clearly visible in pencil: “14.99” struck through, new price “6.99.” Guess that’s what they paid for it. What a troll. 
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I’ve finished it. It was a “Meh” story, and thankfully the musical part was limited to episode three.
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Completely agree. Much better than I expected. Very much what i’d hoped for.
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Planning on finishing Redacted 2 tonight and then starting At Childhood’s End audiobook next
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Starting Son of the Dragon!
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Listened to Gallifrey: Mindbomb
What a great story!
Braxietal’s return was a great twist, and the death of Darkel was great and very satisfying.
It could honestly serve as the series finale in its own right - which to be fair most of the series’ epsiodes could. Series 3 so far is probably the strongest one yet.
Excited to see what happens next in Panacea!
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PLANET KRYNOID: Part 3: Darkness
Corks! What a fantastic conclusion to an extremely fine set. I have loved every moment of Planet Krynoid and am so delighted that the finale episode did not disappoint. The absence of the Doctor actually bears rich narrative fruit here, as we see something that so rarely happens in Doctor Who - the complete collapse of a society. Just this once, the monsters win! The final instalment doesn’t pull its punches and really relishes unleashing a veritable army of Krynoids on the colony of Sunlight which rapidly spirals into an apocalyptic verdant hellscape. Characterisation continues to be rich and we get some beautifully executed payoffs in this final episode, with a real sense of character development. It seems to me that Big Finish is really managing to maintain a strong vein of form right now, with several really high quality and very different releases of late. The advent of a new era for BF awaits, with imminent Thirteenth Doctor audios along with a new lease of life for Nine and Rose. Planet Krynoid bodes well for this new era. It is deeply classic, yet fresh and epic. Above all (and something I think is so important to the best storytelling), it sticks to a simple concept and explores that concept deeply, rather than throwing everything at the storyline and hoping something sticks.
Yes. Loved this. More please! 
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I hope we get a S2 announcement before long, this was truly phenomenal!
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Had a listen to the Short Trip: Home Away From Home.
It wasn’t for me, it just felt unintresting and didnt really explore the idea of an alien holiday/refugee camp that well. It felt too short for what it was trying to do.
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Finished The Mirror Effect! Oh boy…Braxiatel what a sneaky manipulative bastard you are (affectionate)
I was pretty confused at points, but overall this was great!
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Dark Eyes 1 is very good. The reason people say Dark Eyes wasn’t very good is most likely because they’re speaking of the Dark Eyes saga as whole. Dark Eyes was never intended to be a four-boxset arc the way Doom Coalition and Ravenous were. Dark Eyes 1 was standalone and it’s success sparked the rest. There are good stories within the Dark Eyes saga, but it the least cohesive of the 16-episode boxset sagas.
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Reconnecting with newer Big Finish after a few years off, starting with the 9th Doctor Adventures! Before my break, I had bought the first four of the Eccleston box sets, but I couldn’t remember which I’d listened to, so I started, as you would, with the first one, Ravagers. Pretty quickly I recognized that yes, I had attempted to listen to this one before, and had become so bored and frustrated with it that I think this might be why I stopped listening for a few years lol. This time I persevered. It is not very good, I am sorry to say!
I am more amenable to the Nicholas Briggs non-linear timey-wimey vibe than some people (I like Creatures Of Beauty a lot, the first Dark Eyes is stunning), but this story is simply too flimsy to have any extra dimensions added to it by telling it out of order, and indeed telling it that way means most twists have already been revealed or telegraphed by the time they are called upon to be twists or cliffhangers. You have to wait hours for any clarity, or to meet the underwhelming and confusing villains, the companion is kind of cool and I’m into her and then we rewrite everything that has happened so far in the blink of an eye and her character development is gone and with it any sense of why we bothered going on this trip. Eccleston is great, he has to be or I would never have made it to the end of the third part, Food Fight, which contains a truly terrible and weakly written scene as its parting gift.
This is a really bad way to start this range, bearing in mind it would have been TONS of people’s first ever Big Finish because of the Eccleston draw. They went out of their way to force this into a format that is wholly unlike the 9th Doctor’s TV era, and they seem to have expanded out a very sketchy story into a three hour epic, banking on acting and sound design to sell it all, which it just about does. Not exactly awful, but totally underwhelming, a bit frustrating, very forgettable. Other reviews seem to say that the second box set, Respond To All Calls, is really great, so I’ll head there next and we’ll call this one a noble failure. 2/5
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