Post by Not the Mind Probe!!! on Oct 16, 2013 17:42:06 GMT
Sort of actually prefer them to the actual TV series. The main two I listen to are from Colin Baker and McCoy, some McGann as well. I don't delve too much into Davison or Tom Baker's stuff because they've already got enough televised stories anyway - a lot of which I still have yet to see.
I like the way it gets away with doing shit that the TV series couldn't do, like making the Doctor travel with a Nazi, or an old history teacher with no sex appeal (whey!), or exploring what happens when someone is exposed to a nuclear fallout.
What's fucking shit (with an extra serving of shit) about them though is that there are too-bloody-many of them and there's no way my wallet can keep up with them. So I usually just stick to buying McCoy's releases.
The lack of Pertwee is also a bad thing. Though.. am I right when I say they've got some voice actors to come and fill the roles of Dr Who 1-3 for the Anniversary Release?
The recent Tom ones are a mixed bag {although Louise is a treat}. I follow the Davison ones as well {recent dire news to the side} and many of them are great, but Pete's voice just sounds nothing like it used to. I just pretend that the Doctor took to periodic bouts of heavy smoking, and then would occasionally check his lungs into the Zero Room and fetch them back in time for Planet of Fire or whatever. Stories like Loup Garou and Creatures of Beauty are absurdly good.
I approach the McGann ones with caution... a lot of daunting internal continuity there. I figure I'll get into them in some kind of organized fashion when I've mostly exhausted the ones with Docs from the proper classic series. They seem alright.
And I have to point to the Colin "Land of Fiction" series as a rare example of "fanwank done right". The idea of the Sixth Doc revisiting the Land of Fiction with Jamie and Zoe and a lot of Cybermen in sound fucking dreadful, but it's great.
McGann also has some great ones, and his voice is just so nice. He could probably read a copy of "Mein Kampf" aloud and it would still sound lovely coming from him. As for continuity, well, it's well and truly buggered already, isn't it? I'm pretty sure they're stretching Colin's Doctor's continuity to breaking point. It's all getting very confusing. I've stopped caring so much - as long as the stories are good it's all fine in my eyes (or is it ears...?)
You're right about Davison, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought he sounded strikingly different to how he did on TV. That is another reason I'm not so massive on his stories, though stories like Spare Parts is so good that it barely matters.
My friend leant me his copy of the 6/Jamie/Zoe story in the Land of Fiction and I also thought it was amazing. Lots of fanwank as you said, but it's done right.