Tag: Science fiction

What’s not to like right? It is my favourite genre of fiction by a long way indeed.

Trying out some new things from Big Finish

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I can’t help but enjoy listening to Big Finish’s releases. I’ve been listening to and enjoying the 8th Doctor releases, and more recently I’ve been listening to the 4th Doctor stories too. So I thought it would be interesting to have a try at listening to some of the other series that they publish.

So I decided to buy the first episode of a number of the spin off series. Here’s what I bought:

  • Gallifrey
  • Cyberman
  • I, Davros
  • Dalek Empire

I’m going to give them a go and see if any of them are worth going further with.

8th Doctor: Time Works

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Having resumed my listening to the 8th Doctor stories I’ve now nearly finished this one, ‘Time Works’. It’s an interesting story, quite intriguing in many ways although I’m starting to suspect that the outcome of the story is going to be a little more mundane than I’d hoped. Anyway, it’s been a good journey with this story, and that’s what’s it’s about really I suppose.

Star Trek: City on the edge of forever

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A completely classic episode, and an excellent story too. This has to be one of my favourite episodes of all time, this and of course the excellent “Piece of the action”, but this one is famous for Joan Collins being the guest star, and she did a very good job of it too.

Even now it stands up well, or at least I think so anyway.

The Master Returns!

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Awesome! The latest Tom Baker audio story has arrived, and with it, the Master returns! How amazing is that? I’m looking forward to listening to this one, maybe at the weekend.

4th Doctor: The Valley of Death

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This is part of the Lost Stories and stars Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. It’s another good old fashioned Doctor Who story, and in some ways it reminds me Indiana Jones films, and that film Congo with Laura Linney.

Anyway. It was a great all round story, well worth the listen.

Doctor Who: Other Lives

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I’ve had a bit of a break from the 8th Doctor series, but I’ve decided that it is time to go back and pick up where I left off. So the next in the list of stories to listen to was ‘Other Lives’, which was an interesting story and at times quite touching too. It wasn’t part of a big story arc, and in some ways I quite like that. Sometimes when a story is part of a bigger arc it can end up not having enough of it’s own story and rely too heavily on the arc. Whereas stories that just have to stand on their own can sometimes be more adventurous as they don’t have to time down to closely with some big arc that constrains them.

You could argue that as it’s part of a series anyway it is tied to an arc, and that’s true to an extent as well, but even so I think the idea stands.

Anyway, it was a good story with a few nice twists. I enjoyed it, and it was a good one to get back into the 8th Doctor with.

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

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I watched this the other day. Certainly not one of the best Tom Baker stories, but it is ok. Interesting to see the documentary about the making of the story, and especially the t-shirts they had designed at the end of the filming.

Good to watch, not the greatest execution, but a good story nonethless.

Survivors

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I never watched the whole of this series on the BBC so I’m giving it another go on Netflix to see what it’s like. I can just about remember the original series back in the 70’s although it’s a faint memory now.

I’m not sure how long I watched it for when it first came out, but I don’t think I even got half way through, so it’s interesting to see it again now.