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Thread: Lost Stories 3.1: The Elite
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15th Oct 2011, 3:43 PM #1
Lost Stories 3.1: The Elite
Like The Silver Turk and The Many Deaths of Jo Grant, this is now apparently available to download from the Big Finish website, and physical CDs will be sent out soon.
So, please rate and discuss this lost story from the Peter Davison era, now realised on audio for our listening pleasure!
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16th Oct 2011, 10:35 AM #2
We've still got half the last season of Lost Stories to do, so it'll be a while before we get onto this one...
Si.
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16th Oct 2011, 11:32 AM #3
Much as I love Big Finish I think this is where I give up on the Lost Stories. I've not actually enjoyed a single one of them if I think about it. The 60s readings are interesting but Macedon was a bit dull and Prison in Space was a terrible story. The Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy seasons were hugely inferior to the stuff Big Finish creates from scratch and, with the exception of Masters of Luxor which I will get, I don't think I'll bother any more. It's a nice idea but these stories were rejected for a reason and I'm afraid it's because they weren't very good.
Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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18th Oct 2011, 9:57 AM #4
It's a shame - these stories were quite intriguing, but doing them up as Audio Adventures doesn't seem to have worked.
Perhaps it would have been better to release one big glossy book with synopses of all the stories.
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18th Oct 2011, 10:35 AM #5
Some of them have definitely worked better than others. I loved Farewell Great Macedon for example (although I could take or leave Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance on the same boxset).
That said the trilogy of Season 20A stories starting with the Elite do actually sound quite interesting so I'll hopefully catch up with these next year. (I'll probably wait till the whole third "season" has been released next Summer).
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11th Nov 2011, 9:35 AM #6
I'm enjoying this one, I have to say. It's nothing earth shattering at all - there is a strange religion, a ruthless civilisation in a Dome, a mysterious creature at the heart of the web, and the music sounds like "Arc of Infinity". But it's all very comforting in a way, like this really IS a middling Season 20 story and all the better for it.
There's a great funny first scene where the Doctor explains how he's been off having solo adventures while Nyssa looked round Amsterdam, and then how he's "lost" all Tegan's belongings because he put them in storage then forgot where he put them while having all those 5th Doctor/Nyssa Big Finish adventures.
Si.
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11th Nov 2011, 10:27 AM #7
I gather something happens in this story which BFP have been a great pains to keep secret so can I beg you not to even post it in spoiler brackets as I probably won't get this one for another six months or so. Thanks.
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11th Nov 2011, 10:48 AM #8
That's partly why I'm listening to it now, as it's bound to get spoiled. But don't worry, I won't even hint. I can't stand it when people wink and suggest things. "I won't reveal the twist, BUT ALL I WILL SAY IS...". Can't stand a winker.
Si.
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11th Nov 2011, 10:51 AM #9
Hope I've not done that recently.
Thanks. I forked out for the earlybird deal on Tom seasons 1 & 2 plus Fourth Doctor Lost stories set so can't justify getting these as well
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11th Nov 2011, 11:20 AM #10
No, you're fine! I have too, I've gone slightly BF mad at the moment. But I do love having the CD's on my shelf and I'm lucky enough not to be too poor at this current time!
Si.
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15th Nov 2011, 10:34 AM #11
Sadly, this story got worse as it went on. It was a bizarre decision to kill the High Priest off in Episode 3, as this effectively left a whole episode full of Rebels and other people shouting and firing at each other.
Can it be a Doctor Who Law that no character should ever go completely mad? We have at least half an episode here of Ryan Sampson laughing manically and shouting the most awful, overblown dialogue imaginable. I wish I'd written it down as it's all gone from my head now, but it was dreadful!
Right at the end we get a great Tegan line; "I've tried to kill the Doctor three times... and only two of them were while I was possessed!" and it reminds you of the lost potential. This began as a great, authentic adventure but there were too few new ideas and it just ends with lots of explosions and people yelling at each other. I don't know if I want to hear it again for a good many years.
Si.
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15th Nov 2011, 10:45 AM #12
It does seem with most of the Lost Stories that you can understand why they weren't made for TV in the first place.
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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15th Nov 2011, 11:02 AM #13
One vote. Am I the only one to have reached the end?
Si.
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15th Nov 2011, 12:07 PM #14
You may be the only one to have even started it and based on what you've said I'm not sure anyone will be joining you.
Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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15th Nov 2011, 12:10 PM #15
Mr Rayner has started it! But he didn't sound like he was too keen to finish.
Si.
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15th Nov 2011, 12:30 PM #16
You're like an Audio Canary - if you drop dead, we know it's a stinker.
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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15th Nov 2011, 12:41 PM #17
Si.
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21st Nov 2011, 11:50 PM #18
I finished it but it did not hold my attention. I liked bits of it but it's very blah.
The much trumpeted twist is a bit predictable and might have been less obvious if they hadn't said there was one as you'd not be looking for clues. I also doubt very much that it would have been in the original outline.
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22nd Nov 2011, 10:57 AM #19
OK - I haven't tackled this issue yet, because it's a bit sensitive and it might just be in my mind.
But that thing on the cover looks like a gigantic mutant poo.
When you factor in the facial expressions (Davison smiling, the other two looking horrified) it all seems a bit crude.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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11th Sep 2012, 8:52 PM #20
The first three episodes were excellent. Very intrigung set up, a WTF episode 2 cliffhanger that really surprised me and then it all fell apart. It's shame because the last part is on the whole very well acted, but it's just terribly dull. The farty synths are like the worst excesses of Roger Limb (sadly, rather than good radiophonics) and were just annoying. Maybe some would argue that was in keeping with Season 20 perhaps.
So good, but not great. 3/5
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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29th Mar 2014, 8:48 AM #21
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