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A wonderful company that make audiobooks of some of my favourite stories, like Dr Who, Blake’s 7 and several others.
I have to say that this story is complete genius. I loved every minute of it. It was a joy to listen to as the writing is just awesome. It really does hark back to the best of the fourth doctor. Well worth a listen in my view. In fact, this whole series has been brilliant. I don’t think that there has been a poor episode in there at all.
I’m really looking forward to this. It’s been a long time coming. Well a year to be precise. I think I’ve listened to the first series a couple of times since it came out, but I’m hoping to get to listen to the whole of it again before series 2 emerges next week, just so I’ve got the story clear in my memory.
It maybe overkill a little, but I don’t mind that kind of thing really.
I listened to this audiobook the other day. I can’t even remember buying it, but I have it. The 7th Doctor wasn’t a favourite of mine, and I haven’t listened to many of the audio stories. I didn’t find this one too interesting, but it did make me realise just how little I know about the world of the 7th Doctor and companions.
My interests have always been around the 4th, 5th and 8th Doctors, but with a little of the 3rd as well. I’m also warming to the 6th. However, Sylvester’s Doctor passed me by in the main. I’m not sure that’s going to change particularly, but it is a strange feeling when you work out how much you don’t know about a subject you’re very interested in.
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I actually quite like the 6th Doctor stories these days, and this one is pretty good. It is sort of a sequel to The Keeper of Traken. I can see how it is sort of a sequel, but not entirely. That doesn’t make sense unless you know both stories though.
Anyway, irrespective of whether or not it is a sequel, it’s not a bad story entirely on its own merits. Actually it’s pretty good.
I suppose it shouldn’t be a big surprise. They’re producing excellent stories from just about everything else in the Doctor Who universe, so why not? I’m sure it’ll be brilliant and well worth a listen. However, I wasn’t always a massive Torchwood fan. It had its ups and downs. Some episodes were great, others I felt lost their way.
So I hope that Big Finish do a better and more consistent job of producing Torchwood.
After the previous couple of volumes of the Liberator Chronicles I wasn’t sure about this version. But actually it was very good and provides some interesting back story for both Blake and Jenna. So I quite enjoyed it.
Another good story from the lost stories series. Listening to these 5th doctor stories does make me realise that there’s a real difference in these stories from the 4th Doctor stories. It’s interesting to hear them and begin to draw a distinction. Or perhaps I’m just a little too close to this stuff?
I got some of these ‘lost stories’ as they were on sale from Big Finish, and they’re quite good fun. I haven’t heard any of Peter Davidson’s lost stories so far and so it’s interesting to get a few of those as well.
I suppose it was to be expected, but I’m glad to hear it. I really enjoyed the first series of “Survivors” from big finish and I’m looking forward to the next one coming in June of this year, so knowing that there’s another three seasons coming is good news.
I enjoyed this latest season of B7, but I’d have to say that it wasn’t the best of the lot. It was a good story arc but not the best that they’ve done in my opinion. Some of the individual stories were very good, that’s for sure but I felt the overall arc lacked something. In some ways it didn’t deliver for me.
Of course it’s very difficult to keep up a series like Blake’s 7. The quality has been pretty amazing at times. Not always, but overall the writing has been good and the performances are always to a really high standard. But the last season was just so good that it’s hard not to make comparisons.
But of course everything is apparently changing for Blake’s 7 at Big Finish, as they published this week. I don’t know what that really means, but I hope it’ll both maintain what they’ve done to date and improve it at the same time. Either way I hope there’ll be more Blake’s 7 to look forward to.
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