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Post by matsee on Mar 15, 2024 4:51:52 GMT
Untold Adventures: Alive In Time - Audio only: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1PdE0c3_2I With visuals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnOhjOTwMm8 This fan-made story retells elements of The End of Time Part 2 and leading to the first bit of The Eleventh Hour and the Tenth Doctor not having to go and leading to the alternate version of The Eleventh Hour, The Tenth Hour also made by this same fan team. For Alive In Time it presents an enjoyable way of how the Tenth Doctor survive completely intact and how he comes across someone who has a connection to a past adventure of the Doctor's. One thing that completely baffles me is why my wife Karen's name is in the title sequence as she has nothing to do with this in anyway.
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Post by matsee on Mar 19, 2024 6:41:24 GMT
Lunar Lagoon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_rpC319zMULunar Lagoon is a comic strip story from Doctor Who Monthly in issues 76-77 in April-May 1983. Featuring the Fifth Doctor. Written by Steve Parkhouse with art by Mick Austin. This is a fan-made presentation of the story as noted by TARDIS Wiki: The story is set in 1963. As noted in TARDIS Wiki: "Despite the title, Lunar Lagoon has nothing to do with the moon and does not feature a lagoon. It is possible, although highly figurative, that the titular "lunar lagoon" refers to a singular scene in the story. Fuji gazes out at a moonlit river and rekindles memories of "the boats, nets and coral reefs" found not far from his home in Okinawa." The Doctor is fishing on of a beach of an island in Pacific Ocean when he meets the said Fuji, a Japanese soldier and the Doctor realises he is on a parallel universe in which World War II hasn't ended. What develops is a moving and not an easy story to absorb made all the more so by a resolution that was made in spite of the Doctor's good intentions. It is a fascinating but as I have said not an easy story to absorb.
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Post by matsee on Mar 28, 2024 5:06:17 GMT
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Post by matsee on Mar 30, 2024 15:45:04 GMT
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Post by matsee on Apr 8, 2024 16:21:22 GMT
Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UkWlR2OYfYDoctor Who and the Fangs of Time is a comic strip story in DWM #243 in August 1996. Written by Sean Longcroft. This is a fan-made presentation of the story. Longcroft stars as himself in this story as it details his childhood growing up with Doctor Who starting with the Fourth Doctor. I got this explanation from TARDIS Wiki: "The story serves as a transition between the two comics which fell directly before and after its printing — Ground Zero (the final continuous Seventh Doctor story) and Endgame (the first continuous Eighth Doctor story)." The story has Sean struggling to write a Doctot Who story for the BBC when he gets a visit from his old friend the Fourth Doctor. A pretty fun look on what Doctor Who means to Longcroft with what this story presents and all without worrying about canon as this is definitely non-canon.
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Post by matsee on Apr 10, 2024 17:11:37 GMT
John Savident has passed away. Born on January 21 1938, Savident had appeared in Doctor Who in The Visitation playing the Squire and in the Big Finish story Order of the Daleks playing Pendle. He had also been in two episodes of Blake's 7 in Trial playing Fleet Warden-General Samor and in Orbit playing Egrorian. Among his other work included the Doomwatch episodes Burial at Sea & The Web of Fear playing the Minister and in Coronation Street playing Fred Elliott. Other work included Man in a Suitcase , The Avengers, The Saint, Callan, Department S, The Battle of Britain, A Clockwork Orange, The Adventurer, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The Professionals, Juliet Bravo, Gandhi, Blackadder, T-Bag and the Revenge of the T-Set, Hudson Hawk, Mr Bean Takes an Exam, Take Off with T-Bag & Loch Ness. He only had one scene in Hudson Hawk and coincidentally I saw his scene not long before his death on February 21 2024, exactly a month after his 86th birthday.
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Post by matsee on Apr 15, 2024 14:50:57 GMT
The Memory Bank and Other Stories: The Memory Bank: The Memory Bank and Other Stories is an anthology release from Big Finish and released in October 2016. Featuring the Fifth Doctor and Turlough. As indicated in the overall title, this starts off with The Memory Bank written by Chris Chapman. The Doctor and Turlough arrives on a planet and meets a person known as the Archivist. The Archivist is known as such because he has the responsibility of remembering everything so that a legacy of this society is established. Harrowing the theme that this presents in particular the fear of being forgotten and how it presents itself for this story. Hence the significance of the title The Memory Bank in which the one valuable that everyone has in common is that of memories.
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Post by matsee on Apr 17, 2024 5:50:40 GMT
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Post by matsee on Apr 19, 2024 11:29:29 GMT
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Post by matsee on Apr 21, 2024 9:41:14 GMT
Squid Squad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hdHnqc5kS4This is a fan-made presentation of a DWM comic story that is set between The Star Beast & Wild Blue Yonder. Although presented here with the title Squid Squad, I read from TARDIS Wiki that this story did not have an overall title at all as it was made of four parts each with its own title. This was released on December 7 2023 in DWM # 598, five days after the broadcast of the said Wild Blue Yonder on December 2. Written by Alan Barnes with art by Lee Sullivan. This story starts with where The Star Beast left off with Donna accidentally spilling coffee onto the new TARDIS interior setting the TARDIS off with the Doctor and Donna in it. This has the Doctor going through various adventures including a couple of events in history and the filming of a real-life TV show and the menace of the piece, the said squid played its part in proceedings. Game of Thrones curiously gets referenced here and this is due to a historical event the Doctor and Donna stumbled upon. The filming of a real-life TV show included a reference to Glenda Jackson. This is undoubtedly meant as a tribute to Jackson as she had died six months earlier in June 2023. The said squid is ultimately dealt with in this intriguing tale of what the Doctor and Donna were doing in between The Star Beast & Wild Blue Yonder. The last sequence of this tale involving a heart-warming event in a certain someone's life.
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Post by matsee on Apr 27, 2024 7:53:22 GMT
Adrian Schiller has passed away. Born on February 21 1964, Schiller appeared in Doctor Who in The Doctor's Wife playing Uncle. He also did a couple of Big Finishes in Time Works playing Zanith and in Fright Motif playing Maurice Le Bon. Outside of Doctor Who his work included Bugs, RKO 281, Ashes to Ashes, Being Human, Wild Target, Going Postal, Brighton Rock, The Bible, The Musketeers, Victor Frankenstein, Beauty and the Beast, Victoria, Tolkien, Death In Paradise & Father Brown. He died on April 3 2024 just several weeks after his 60th birthday.
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Post by matsee on Apr 28, 2024 1:54:05 GMT
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Post by matsee on May 6, 2024 18:32:50 GMT
Defender of the Daleks: Episode 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=stU7Ch5q5CoEpisode 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9fRuYYhRkEpisode 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qFWuHcPS58Episode 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTe1XMvfUADefender of the Daleks is comic strip story from Titan Comics released in September-October 2020 as part of Time Lord Victorious. This is a fan-made presentation of the story. Featuring the Tenth Doctor. Written by Jody Houser and she is someone who had usually written for the Thirteenth Doctor in Titan Comics and let's say that very fact isn't overlooked here. Art by Roberta Ingranata. The Tenth Doctor meets up with the Daleks here but notwithstanding the Daleks themselves, something is not right as time is not right. This plus meeting a dangerous creature known as Hond, a creature that is even dangerous to the Daleks themselves. The Doctor spends much of the time with one Dalek, the Dalek Prime Strategist and quite thrilling when the mutant creature inside it was revealed out in the open in an intriguing moment. The Doctor ultimately gets away from the Daleks especially when he gets an unexpected help and it certainly took me by surprise.
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Post by matsee on May 13, 2024 9:17:59 GMT
44.1 Space Babies: Season 44 opener. Written by showrunner Russell T. Davies. Series directorial debut Julie Ann Robinson and her past work included the Selfie pilot starring Karen Gillan. The Doctor takes Ruby in her first trip as a companion in the TARDIS. The first place the Doctor takes Ruby to she steps on a butterfly and literally becomes one, emphasising the butterfly effect before the Doctor fix things back to normal. They then go to a space station. Ruby mentions Star Trek and the Doctor said that they should visit them one day. Does that mean they are in the same universe. This episode presents elements from The End of the World also written by Davies with the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby looked out into space from a big window just like the Ninth Doctor and Rose did in that earlier episode and the respective companions calling their respective mums despite being in different time periods and each remarking that their mums are long dead from the time they were calling from. In fact both episodes are the second (full) episodes of the respective Doctors and companions. Eventually the episode delivers on the episode title as we see the Space Babies the Doctor referring them as such and they are literally talking. Mention is made of a baby boom and Boom is the episode that comes two episodes after this which is also directed by Robinson. The babies are taken care by a computer called NAN-E which is of course purposefully pronounced as nanny. However when NAN-E spoke very emotionally to the Doctor was the moment I knew it was a human operating NAN-E. That human is Jocelyn, an accountant, but who has been left to take care of the babies after the crew left the station. Jocelyn is played by Golda Rosheuvel and she has been in the Whoniverse before when she played Dr Angela Connolly in the Torchwood episodes Dead Man Walking & Exit Wounds. Space Babies has her reuniting with director Robinson as Robinson directed Rosheuvel in an episode of Bridgerton where Rosheuvel played her regular role as Queen Charlotte. In fact watching Space Babies came before a planned rewatch I had with Dead Man Walking and seeing Rosheuvel in the first episode of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story as the older titular queen having no idea I would be seeing her in Space Babies. In the midst of all this there is a monster known as the Bogeyman. Interesting on the situation at hand and that the Bogeyman is literally that with the nose blowing of the babies earlier being an early clue to all this. Good on how the resolution is achieved. With this adventure over the Doctor tells Ruby that he will never take her back to her arrival at Ruby Road to find out about her birth mother. This is no doubt unsurprisingly with the Doctor instead taking Ruby back to her adoptive mother Carla. The episode ends with the Doctor turning on the DNA scan on Ruby and what would this revealed? Overall a fun start to the season and the Doctor and Ruby's travels together.
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Post by matsee on May 13, 2024 10:11:46 GMT
Doctor Who and the Star Beast: Doctor Who and the Star Beast is the second of two stories from Big Finish's The Comic Strip Adaptations: Volume One from Big Finish. Adapted by Alan Barnes based on the comic strip story of the same name. The comic strip story is credited to Pat Mills and John Wagner but Dave Gibbons who provided art for the comic strip story later said in an interview that only Mills wrote the story. The story later became the basis of The Star Beast, the first of the 60th anniversary TV Specials which marked the full debut of Fourteenth Doctor David Tennant with Mills and Gibbons being credited for the original story. Notwithstanding different Doctors, the comic strip story is kind of the same and different from the TV adaptation and is a Fourth Doctor story and appropriately Tom Baker plays him in the adaptation. The comic strip story introduced original comic strip companion Sharon and she is played in the Big Finish adaptation by Rhianne Starbuck for what would be so far the character's only appearance on Big Finish with this adaptation being released back in 2019. As in the later TV adaptation, the Star Beast refers to Beep the Meep which this being the Meep's debut. This is set in 1980 when an UFO crash lands to a place called Blackcastle. It is at this time that two teenagers Sharon and her friend Fudge what is inside the UFO that of the Meep. The Doctor soon comes along and he Sharon and Fudge soon encounter the Wrath Warriors who are after the Meep. Putting aside for one moment what the general public had seen of the TV adaptation, things don't appear what they seem to be initially and quite a reveal of just what was really going on with the situation at hand culminating in the story's climax. Pretty enjoyable and just as the story comes to an end comes an unexpected development for Sharon The development being that Sharon got aged by Black Sun radiation (a key plot element) and became one of the reasons she joins the Doctor on his travels. This element of Sharon being aged along with the Doctor's comment about being a spotty teenager for 57 years had originated from another comic strip story The Time Witch although in The Time Witch, the Doctor said that he was a spotty teenager for 50 years. This fact about The Time Witch was something I came across by chance as I saw the fan made presentation of that story at the same time with listening to The Star Beast. Unfortunately there is one niggle I had about the Star Beast Big Finish adaptation is when the Doctor got introduced to an organisation known by its initials GLEB. The niggle being that acronyms are initials that can be pronounced as words but GLEB gets said as letters and not as a word.
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