Something that even the Daleks couldn’t do with billions upon billions of soldiers. How did the Master do it!
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I preferred this as well, because in my time zone it was released at 7 pm on a Friday.
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Maybe he just waited til they were all asleep.
The Daleks must be kicking themselves they didn’t think of it.
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After listening to Master a few days ago, I completely agree. I adore the first three parts to the story, but everything to do with Death soured me enough to turn what could have been a 9/10 story into a 3 or 4.
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I genuinely don’t get how people can just skip around a series instead of going in order. Having different starting points is fine and makes sense. Following a guide that says certain stories are skippable is fine and makes sense. Skipping around randomly in the EDAs, or the classic series, or the modern series, is wild to me and I don’t understand how/why people do it (especially in ranges with ongoing story arcs)
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It’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me.
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Same here lol. I’m mostly new to Big Finish and have been going just through the ‘favorite’ stories as well as what seems most interesting to me.
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I couldn’t be that person either. I’m a start at the start and ride it all out kinda person forever
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I’m guilty of both these things! Personally I just find it really hard to stay focused on a series if there isn’t variation, so I’ve had a lot more fun watching classic who by jumping around between different doctors’ eras than watching it in the right order. And as for the EDAs, I’ve been skipping around because I find it difficult to read books digitally so I just read whichever novel I happen to obtain a copy of.
But I have a lot of respect to people who do complete things in the right order, and it’s something I wish I enjoyed doing more. It must enhance the experience to actually complete stories in the order they were intended to be completed.
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That is why I find it hard to get in to Benny. I want to start from the beginning, but I am having a hard time with the VNA books…
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Fortunately you can go straight to the audios with Benny, but I do want to read all the VNAs some day so I can get her whole story
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I haven’t listened those audio stories yet or watched that Classic Who episode so I can’t form an opinion right now but I absolutely agree with you on David Tennant part. I like him but it feels like people see him as the “default” which is completely opposite of the one of the main elements of this show. I never understood why this was the case.
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I’ve talked about this before but I think for those of us whose fandom was fostered in the Wilderness Years, this was how we consumed Doctor Who. The stories were released on VHS out of order - and then the same for the DVDs. You couldn’t watch from beginning to end in order until everything was released. Big Finish sort of followed this model with their monthlies by skipping from Doctor to Doctor back and forth through their eras - 5/Turlough; 6/Peri; 5/Nyssa; 7/Ace etc. The exception, initially, was the 8th Doctor who would get four then six releases in a row.
The Past Doctor Adventures and the Missing Adventures before them also skipped back and forth between Doctors and there was only the odd arc within them.
Again, the 8th Doctor stuff was released ‘in order’ because a bit like the audios, they were the ‘current Doctor’. So those are the ones I tend to do ‘in order’ whereas everything else is fair game. I much prefer watching the TV series randomly depending on what mood I’m in or what the TARDIS Guide randomiser gives me. Arcs are all well and good, but Doctor Who’s strength is in its ‘brand new story’ every episode.
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That makes sense, given the time, but doing it now, by choice, when it’s all fairly easily available, still feels weird to me
But there’s still a proper release order
Sometimes I think we look for different things in media. Then I remember your username is deltaandthebannermen, and I realise we definitely look for different things in media
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Makes sense
Interesting… Is the normal variation between stories not enough? How do you process things like story arcs and finales, stuff that needs context, or spoils previous stories?
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I can see that but there’s also something to be said for skipping around and enjoying stories in isolation. One of Doctor Who’s strengths is that the majority of stories work by themselves.
But that’s just because we exist in a linear timeline. There’s literally no reason to listen or read these in order.
There’s nothing wrong with order but with Doctor Who you can pick and choose. For example you could read the PDAs in ‘canonical’ order starting with the 1st Doctor ones and working your way through.
Or you could be mad as a box of frogs like me and do all the stories ever in order of Earth’s history (currently in the early 1950s..)
You will succumb to the correct way of thinking eventually…
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Personally, I skip between listening to different series, but I’ll listen to each series in their correct order (at least for the first time).
For example, I’m doing the Main Range in order, but I’m also trying to listen to all of BF Torchwood in release order, and the War Master, and more.
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It’s also far more in the spirit of the Doctor himself to skip back and forth along the timelines.
The Doctor doesn’t live his life in the right order so why should we…
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