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subscribers get more with big finish
Feb. 7th, 2011 03:06 pmBig Finish are having a Stuff for a Fiver sale, or a fiver for the CDs but £8.99 for the download on some of them. Is it okay to find that bizarre? I find it bizarre.
Anyway, a sale! Thus I take the opportunity to rec stuff at you. There's much of the spin-off lines in there. I've no idea what the Dalek or Cybermen series are like, but the Benny stuff I find none too shabby and Gallifrey's smashing. Or, at least, consistently entertaining if tending to vary wildly in quality and often be rubbish, but entertaining rubbish, and that's the most important thing. For there is Romana and Leela and Narvin and they are amazing. Sometimes there is Braxiatel, and some people like him, but they are wrong. And you could just go and buy it all and then be all ready of the fourth series in March where they are undoubtedly going to RUIN IT for spoilery reasons. And then you can join in with the bitching, hurrah! (I assume ruinination so if it's at least half-decent, I'll be all pleased, yes.)
And then there's the best spin-off series of them all, the Unbounds, all of which are worth listening to and are the things that got me into BF in the first place. Many, many recs at Deadline and Sympathy of the Devil in particular for they are awesome. Deadline is a bit twisted and awfully witty and a shiny, shiny love letter to the series and Derek Jacobi is the Doctor, sort of. Sympathy is a story of what could've happened if the Doctor had been dumped on Earth in 1997 by the Time Lords, instead of the seventies, and is pretty much a remix of The Mind of Evil. There is Gatiss!Master and Lethbridge-Stewart and Brimmecombe-Woode who I used to love but then he got slightly ruined because some years after this story was made the guy playing Brimmecombe-Woode got cast as the Doctor so now I don't hear Brimmecombe-Woode, I hear bloody David Tennant swearing a lot very Scottishly. Alas.
I was going to say that the stuff from the regular line was a whole lot of banal mediocrities, at best, but then I spotted that there's one smashing one in there: The Council of Nicea. That has the very best of the BF companion teams, Peri and Erimem, and tis a beautifully written historical with a particularly wonderful portrait of the Emperor Constantine, played by the excellent David Bamber.
In conclusion, subscribers get more with Big Finish. So I've been told.
Anyway, a sale! Thus I take the opportunity to rec stuff at you. There's much of the spin-off lines in there. I've no idea what the Dalek or Cybermen series are like, but the Benny stuff I find none too shabby and Gallifrey's smashing. Or, at least, consistently entertaining if tending to vary wildly in quality and often be rubbish, but entertaining rubbish, and that's the most important thing. For there is Romana and Leela and Narvin and they are amazing. Sometimes there is Braxiatel, and some people like him, but they are wrong. And you could just go and buy it all and then be all ready of the fourth series in March where they are undoubtedly going to RUIN IT for spoilery reasons. And then you can join in with the bitching, hurrah! (I assume ruinination so if it's at least half-decent, I'll be all pleased, yes.)
And then there's the best spin-off series of them all, the Unbounds, all of which are worth listening to and are the things that got me into BF in the first place. Many, many recs at Deadline and Sympathy of the Devil in particular for they are awesome. Deadline is a bit twisted and awfully witty and a shiny, shiny love letter to the series and Derek Jacobi is the Doctor, sort of. Sympathy is a story of what could've happened if the Doctor had been dumped on Earth in 1997 by the Time Lords, instead of the seventies, and is pretty much a remix of The Mind of Evil. There is Gatiss!Master and Lethbridge-Stewart and Brimmecombe-Woode who I used to love but then he got slightly ruined because some years after this story was made the guy playing Brimmecombe-Woode got cast as the Doctor so now I don't hear Brimmecombe-Woode, I hear bloody David Tennant swearing a lot very Scottishly. Alas.
I was going to say that the stuff from the regular line was a whole lot of banal mediocrities, at best, but then I spotted that there's one smashing one in there: The Council of Nicea. That has the very best of the BF companion teams, Peri and Erimem, and tis a beautifully written historical with a particularly wonderful portrait of the Emperor Constantine, played by the excellent David Bamber.
In conclusion, subscribers get more with Big Finish. So I've been told.
