The Newly Regenerated Doctor Who Thread

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Friar

Hmm... I'm faced with a dilemma. I have the first series of Torchwood on DVD (as individual DVDs), but none of the others. I want to buy them, but I'm not sure if I should get the blu-ray set of them all(£37), or just the two remaining sets on bluray for around £20. Is it worth the extra £17 to have them all in HD and in a neat box? That £17 could buy me another doctor who boxset (or two if I'm careful).

Get the cheep one. If you really wanted to spend extra on the cool box you would have the second you seen it.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by coolsome

Get the cheep one. If you really wanted to spend extra on the cool box you would have the second you seen it.

Or you could do the sane thing and not buy them at all! Huzzah!

Neverland was really great, by the way. Onto Part One of Zagreus tonight. I'm excited, because it's apparently better if you listen to it like I do as a multi-parter with Neverland. I'm also probably going to nab a few of the Divergents Arc ones (Scherzo, History of Fear, Twilight Kingdom) just so I can say I'm further into the arc then Friar, although I will be skipping all the non-important arc wise and mediocre to terrible releases. I'm debating whether to get the final Divergent episode or the one right before it, as it's okay to good according to most people, but there's a part of me that's decided it hates the Divergent arc already and wants to leave instantly.

[Friar]

Originally Posted by coolsome

Get the cheep one. If you really wanted to spend extra on the cool box you would have the second you seen it.

Yeah, I think I'll just pick up series 2/3 on blu-ray. And then spend the money I save on getting the first series of the Sarah-Jane adventures.

*edit*
Video thing.

[RetroVortex]

Man I went to a Waterstones today and saw some Doctor Who audiobooks.

Man they were expensive.
They averaged at around £15 each, and one set was £50!

I almost fainted.

Then again, Waterstones is a gigantic ripoff merchant, and its actually much cheaper than that....

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by RetroVortex

Man I went to a Waterstones today and saw some Doctor Who audiobooks.

Man they were expensive.
They averaged at around £15 each, and one set was £50!

I almost fainted.

Then again, Waterstones is a gigantic ripoff merchant, and its actually much cheaper than that....

If you mean the Big Finish stuff, yes, they are expensive. £13 a pop for stuff from the last 5 years. However, they are of the highest quality and do occasionally go on sale (earlier this month the first 50 of their main range of Doctor Who was on sale for five quid each).
If you mean the missing episodes collections, they're actually not very expensive. Downloads are available on audiogo with the average audiobook being around £6, which is perfectly reasonable.

[dumpling321]

Hey guys! I just made it to the first regeneration episode... now I'm preparing to start the 2nd doctors episodes, i'd like to know though, how is the 2nd doctor, I loved the first doctor and even though I know that regeneration is a regular part of the show I'm seriously going to miss him ='( I've read about how almost every 2nd doctor episode is incomplete, or missing... will I have any trouble watching through all the 2nd doctor episodes?? I never had any trouble with 1st doctors missing episodes, since I LOVE radio dramas.

Side question, I read that "The daleks master plan" was the final appearance of the meddling monk, does anyone else think this kind of sucks? I liked the character, and don't know why the heck they wouldn't continue using him as a comical villian =)

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by dumpling321

Hey guys! I just made it to the first regeneration episode... now I'm preparing to start the 2nd doctors episodes, i'd like to know though, how is the 2nd doctor, I loved the first doctor and even though I know that regeneration is a regular part of the show I'm seriously going to miss him ='( I've read about how almost every 2nd doctor episode is incomplete, or missing... will I have any trouble watching through all the 2nd doctor episodes?? I never had any trouble with 1st doctors missing episodes, since I LOVE radio dramas.

Side question, I read that "The daleks master plan" was the final appearance of the meddling monk, does anyone else think this kind of sucks? I liked the character, and don't know why the heck they wouldn't continue using him as a comical villian =)

Well, as for Troughton, he's wonderful, but the problem is he's the kind of Doctor greatly helped by seeing him in motion. He's much more frantic then his audio implies. However, his last season is full of classics and they are mostly complete, including the 10-part epic The War Games. Although be sure to dismiss half the stuff he says about Regeneration in Power of the Daleks, as it's all a bunch of lies and gets retconned (I believe he says he's actually just the First Doctor but aged backwards or something like that, complete poppycock).

As for the Monk, yes, he's gone. Another character gone forever that you may be surprised to discover is The Celestial Toymaker, although his return was planned numerous times but never surfaced other then in the audios recently. However, there are certainly some comedic villains, and there are definitely more nemesises of the Doctor coming, with one particularly memorable one coming during the Third Doctor era and staying with the show to the point he's met every Doctor but one on television (not counting Eleven, of course).

On another note; I actually quite liked the first part of Zagreus. Don't understand why it's quite so confusing to some people. I do like how the interim companion for the Doctor is a giant Cat, it reminds me a tad of Red Dwarf.

I'm going to watch the Poirot with Paul McGann within a few days, I have moderately high hopes.

[dumpling321]

Originally Posted by Ribs

Well, as for Troughton, he's wonderful, but the problem is he's the kind of Doctor greatly helped by seeing him in motion. He's much more frantic then his audio implies. However, his last season is full of classics and they are mostly complete, including the 10-part epic The War Games. Although be sure to dismiss half the stuff he says about Regeneration in Power of the Daleks, as it's all a bunch of lies and gets retconned (I believe he says he's actually just the First Doctor but aged backwards or something like that, complete poppycock).

I just watched power of the daleks... I gotta ask, is the recorder playing a regular thing with him? because I simply DESPISE the recorder... otherwise it was interesting, I was wondering though, is this a point where the doctor is active as you said, or is he a little more subdued right now because of the regeneration, because other then the recorder playing he didn't seem active at all, or even sound like he could be active xDD

I can't wait till I get to a point where there are no more lost episodes... my OCD keeps me from being able to watch out of order xD

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by dumpling321

I just watched power of the daleks... I gotta ask, is the recorder playing a regular thing with him? because I simply DESPISE the recorder... otherwise it was interesting, I was wondering though, is this a point where the doctor is active as you said, or is he a little more subdued right now because of the regeneration, because other then the recorder playing he didn't seem active at all, or even sound like he could be active xDD

I can't wait till I get to a point where there are no more lost episodes... my OCD keeps me from being able to watch out of order xD

The recorder is one of the traits of the second doctor that sticks around, but the other thing about him that you might find annoying early on is they tried to give him a catchphrase which was later aborted, 'I would like a hat like that!', which isn't dissimilar to the habits of the current doctor, somewhat interestingly.

[coolsome]

I got the Planet of the Spiders dvd it looks like its gonna be good.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by coolsome

I got the Planet of the Spiders dvd it looks like its gonna be good.

Warning: There are spiders in it.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Ribs

Warning: There are spiders in it.

Joke shop spiders.

[Darth Marsden]

A whole planet of them, no less.

[coolsome]

That was hard to watch. Awful effects and a hard to follow plot with awful acting.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by coolsome

That was hard to watch. Awful effects and a hard to follow plot with awful acting.

I hate to say it, but in this instance I do not believe you are cool or voicing the opinion of all the peoples.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Ribs

I hate to say it, but in this instance I do not believe you are cool or voicing the opinion of all the peoples.

I did enjoy Sarah Jane saying to the guy who was mentaly retarded that gained hyper intelgence from the crystal that hes "normal now"

[Friar]

Hmm... it seems the audible offer has expired. Or it's glitched. It says I am not eligible as it's only open for those who are new and have never had a free trial of it before (which I haven't). I've dropped a line to support about it.

Oh yeah, I started rewatching torchwood. I've got the extremely cringeworthy sex alien episode next. I keep telling myself it gets better after episode 3, but it doesn't help...

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by Friar

Hmm... it seems the audible offer has expired. Or it's glitched. It says I am not eligible as it's only open for those who are new and have never had a free trial of it before (which I haven't). I've dropped a line to support about it.

Oh yeah, I started rewatching torchwood. I've got the extremely cringeworthy sex alien episode next. I keep telling myself it gets better after episode 3, but it doesn't help...

If anyone at your address has done it, it cancels you out. Thus why I am glad to have moved recently as I can double up on the offer heh heh

[Friar]

Well, I don't think anyone at my house has done it. All my family members are either computer incompetent, or have no intrest in audiobooks. If they don't sort it out, I may as well obtain two of the audiobooks from... other sources. Afterall, I've now linked my amazon account to audible, and I know what they are all about (which is obviously the purpose of said promotion. Well, that and to hope you forget to unsubscribe!). Considering I was just going to unsubscribe straight afterwards, it'll have the same effect overall. In fact, less server strain on them! Bonus!

*edit* Some more digging turns up that there's a different off around where you get one free audiobook and 14 days free trial. I might give that a go instead.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by Friar

Well, I don't think anyone at my house has done it. All my family members are either computer incompetent, or have no intrest in audiobooks. If they don't sort it out, I may as well obtain two of the audiobooks from... other sources. Afterall, I've now linked my amazon account to audible, and I know what they are all about (which is obviously the purpose of said promotion. Well, that and to hope you forget to unsubscribe!). Considering I was just going to unsubscribe straight afterwards, it'll have the same effect overall. In fact, less server strain on them! Bonus!

*edit* Some more digging turns up that there's a different off around where you get one free audiobook and 14 days free trial. I might give that a go instead.

Yeah, once you've signed up for a trial it won't take as it knows your address and all that for future stuff. So no luck on that. I think audible secretly hates the English. Tell yer friends.