I suppose one reason why this audio doesn’t resonate with me is because I’m not a Brigadier fan. I don’t dislike him, but I don’t find him and UNIT interesting, so his character did nothing in the way of enriching my listening experience. But I know the fandom loves him, so I’m sure that contributes to the rating.
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This is true, The Brig’s presence tends to make some of us forget some story ills, on the other hand there is no saving the BF version of Minuet In Hell*, so it’s not exactly a hard rule haha
*the Audio Visuals version is SO MUCH better
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Spectre is great.
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I just have hugely warm vibes towards the entire 6/Evelyn run, I adore The Marian Conspiracy, Spectre, the Projects, Jubilee, The Pirates, Arrangements For War, Thicker Than Water, and of course A Death In The Family, this is all great stuff!
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While I am enjoying At Childhood’s End so far, hearing Ace choose to go by her birthname is messing me up 
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Now you know how I feel 99% of the time. 
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Five Twenty Nine was superb!
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but not alone in your opinion 
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Just listened to Rictus, Torchwood’s tie in story to Zygon Century. The protagonist is quite annoying and I think that’s done on purpose and that’s part of the fun of it. Enjoyed so much of it, although it’s the weakest of the Zygon Century saga so far, it’s a good fun
Now I’m entering the Torchwood rabbit hole!!
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Not entirely
I really don’t vibe with Other Lives myself, I like a little more story in my stories personally
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Yeah, I read your review too, and we agreed on a few things, especially the fact that it doesn’t seem to know what kind of story it wants to be.
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I know we often agree Mr Coldstream but I’m sad to say I’m an Other Lives fan Though it’s no Memory Lane; that one I positively adore
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It wants to be a Dickensian melodrama. It’s pretty clear what it’s vibe is supposed to be.
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It has three or four plots running through it - although my review does acknowledge that little of consequence actually happens. I still think it’s got plenty of incident.
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Yesss!! Muahahhaha join us!!
Ahem sorry, I mean, hooray! Welcome on in 
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I’m here to say that I agree with Captain Coldstream on this! I say having no recollection of the story, but the whole 8 main range left no impression on me whatsoever.
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Finished Judoon in Chains. I think I’ll add an extra 0.5 to my rating (currently at three stars), but this is one of those audios I wish I would have liked as much as the loudest voices. I love the scenes with Kybo and Six (and Eliza), but the trial scenes couldn’t sustain my interest. If those parts were entirely removed, it would be a 4.
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Currently listening to The Emporium at the End.
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Doing The Beginning by Marc Platt, from The Companion Chronicles. This is actually a 50th Anniversary story, and I respect the brass balls on Marc Platt to go “I am going to do a definitive ‘Susan and Doctor leaving Gallifrey’” story despite knowing it would snarl canon so desperately. He even folds in the Clara cameo. The Chameleon Circuit works! He’s basically retooling bits of Lungbarrow and cramming them into the Revival canon and look, Marc Platt has big ideas about the canon. And sometimes, they’re big misses. I’ve been bored to death by as many Marc Platt stories as I have been enthralled. But Lungbarrow still stands as one of my faves, despite its myriad inconsistencies and confusions. Anything that gives me a bit more of that feeling is right by me, and I’ll welcome any chance to enjoy Carole-Ann Ford in audio, where people actually think to use her as the great actress and (let’s be honest) last and best link to the conception of the show that we have. Long may she reign, and for God’s sake, let her do something on the actual television.
Not that we need her to, really.
EDIT - nearly done, this is shaping up to be deeply weird and entirely unforgettable (thereby making it the form for Platt stories post-2000, sadly), save for the throwaway "Nobody’s had grandfathers for ages!" and the return of the Lungbarrow furniture. It’s an interesting concept, if one cribbed entirely from Douglas Adams, but the characterization of the First Doctor here is just far too informed by the future and the extensions to canon made in the Seventh’s era and the Wilderness Years to be bought at all as a chronological “first adventure” after leaving Gallifrey. It feels all at once too big and too underwhelming, but it’s peppered with enough non-wanky fanwank (of course that’s a total misnomer but still) and a nice enough texture that it isn’t bad. Quadrigger Stoyn is basically played at one harried note entirely by Terry Molloy, in a bit of a mis-step (at least I think it’s Terry Molloy - yes, it is, and he’s the silver blob progenitor monster too) but the rest is nicely delivered by lovely Carole-Ann Ford.
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I haven’t listened to that one yet, but I hope it’s as good as you lot say! Otherwise I have to begin questioning your tastes
And that might be my problem. I’m not very well versed in Dickens and his works outside of A Christmas Carol, so the influences were lost on me. Maybe I should read some Dickens and listen to it again…
Thank you, First Mate Jamie! Maybe we could steer this vessel to safer waters together. Look out for icebergs!
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