Remembrance watch party followed by Counter Measures club??? We’ve all admitted that I was right about Gallifrey, just concede to the inevitable and concede that I’m right about this too 
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Maybe we make a Counter Measures Club when we get to Rememberance in TV Club
… in like 5 years 
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Okay! I can wait I can’t imagine my obsession with Allison is going anywhere
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Just to support @sircarolyn, Countermeasures is absolutely superb and, I would hazard, even better than Gallifrey. It should certainly, for my money, get more plaudits than Jago and Litefoot.
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You know what. Possibly controversial from me. But I agree. CM is better than Gallifrey - that is, the consistency, the style, the plot; it’s all there from the start and it is Tight. It’s incredibly well written, even some of the less good bits. And I’d argue there are fewer not good bits than in Gallifrey. They’re not that comparable in way of tone or subgenre, except CM does also have politicing and schemes (and dare I say it, in CM it makes sense, mostly…)
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So I really like having a short story collection or just a bunch of short stories I’m working my way through alongside other things I’m reading, and having finished Time Lord Fairy Tales I’m not sure what to go for next
Up to three votes each because there’s quite a few options
- Doctor Who Annuals (2006-present)
- The Blogs of Doom
- 10 Days of Christmas
- Origin Stories
- Adventures in Lockdown
- The Wintertime Paradox
- Target Storybook
- Twelve Angels Weeping
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You can get through all of The Blogs of Doom in one afternoon but I do warn you that most of them are absolutely terrible and not even worth the two minutes it takes to read them.
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Having read Acting Captain Zachary Cross Flame for the Torchwood Timeline, I’m expecting it
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I have read none of these. If you can find copies, the Big Finish Short Trips collections are worth reading. Not every one is great, but there are a lot of hidden gems. The collection The Centenarian is an fun one because it basically linearly follows one man through his hundred-year life of meeting the first Eight incarnations of the Doctor.
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I’ve gone with the Christmassy ones because, well, it’s Christmas.
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I almost put those as an option on the poll, sure I’d be able to find them somewhere, but ultimately ended up not doing for now because I think I’d need another poll to decide which one to go for
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The Big Finish ones also have several Christmas collections.
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I’d also highly recommend the Big Finish Short Trips! They’re one of my favourite bits of Who.
Twelve Angels Weeping is really good. Love Dave Rudden’s writing. I haven’t read The Wintertime Paradox, but I really want to because I think he has a really interesting take on Who!
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Considering a story in The Wintertime Paradox is today’s advent calendar item, you might as well read the rest of the book. There’s a TLV tie-in there as well (Canaries).
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The Wintertime Paradox and The Target Storybook I have read, and would really recommend them.
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I dipped my toe into Counter Measures a while ago when one of the stories was reduced. It was something about one of the characters not being dead. I don’t know if picking it up a random story didn’t help, but it didn’t spur me on to buy any more. Perhaps, @sircarolyn, you should be my Yoda 
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Was it Who Killed Toby Kinsella? Because yes I would not recommend starting there, I would suggest one is best off starting with the original run of boxsets
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You definitely need to start with Threshold, the first story of the first box set. Who Killed Toby Kinsella will make no sense whatsoever as a first listen!
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That was the one!!!
Ahhh, okay. Thanks.
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You’re not wrong! 
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