Big FInish Grump

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Okay Charlie is *literally* refrigerated, Every! Single! original character in the Lucie/8 line was killed by daleks (Lucie being crippled first), and now Hex has been permanently possessed by an elder god.

I don't see how - much less why - I could emotionally invest in a new original character knowing that they're going to inevitably come to a sticky end.

Usually I go to ChicagoTARDIS and load up on the BFs I don't already get on subscription. But frankly, at the moment I feel that I've gone completely off Big Finish's Doctor Who series. I certainly have no inclination to buy the new Eighth Doctor series... and I'm wrestling with the urge to tell Nick Briggs *why.*

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Trying to remember how the Dark Eyes series finished up - and actually can't because I listened to that at the beginning of the week and uh, no brain since Weds. But I have a vague feeling it didn't end *that* badly.

I recommend Jago & Litefoot as an antidote - esp S3 and S4 (and of course, the post-S4 "Voyage to Venus" in which Sixie takes J&L on their first TARDIS trip. They totally pwn!

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I've been saving up Jago & Litefoot - I want to listen to the last season before Voyage to Venus.

But if Dark Eyes ends up with everybody dead, I don't want to invest either my time or my money.

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J&L S4 was brilliant. It seems to get better and better every series.

Not everyone ends up dead in Dark Eyes (I've remembered that much now). To say more would entail spoilers, sweetie.

(Have you been keeping up with The Scarifyers?)

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I have been keeping up with Scarifyers! (Which reminds me; I need to find the CD with the dinosaur and pull it into iTunes; I prefer to have one long joined-up story than the separate tracks you get on download.)

I've already pre-ordered the one that comes out in December, and put a note in my calendar to download and listen. (I may want to keep it in a solid format, but I won't wait for the CD to be able to listen to it!)

As for J&L - S4 was brilliant, all the more so because I was very unimpressed with S3.

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David Warner's character is a nice complement to Terry Molloy's Dunning - and is sufficiently reminiscent of Nick Courtney's Lionheart to make their partnership work well.

Oh? I enjoyed J&L S3.

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It doesn't hurt that I think David Warner can do no wrong.

I thought J&L S3 was mostly padding and tease.

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Well that's very true - David Warner's in the new series The Secret of Crickley Hall which starts tonight on the BBC. It's not the sort of thing I'd normally watch, but I may make an exception in this case for him. (So long as I watch in daylight, I should be okay!) Tom Ellis - aka Martha's ex, Suranne Jones and Douglas Henshaw are also in it - should be interesting!

Oh... Ah well.