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Four, Thirteen, and the Master
May. 4th, 2019 10:23 pmAfter working on them some last week and in between football matches today, I've finally finished the drabbles for Scratchman. They're spread between the Fourth and Thirteenth Doctor drabbles and hopefully do a decent job of encapsulating some of the batshit scenarios in that book.
Big Finish has a sale on Master audios going on for the next few days. I won't describe them in detail (I tend to do that all the time over on Tumblr and it gets old to talk about the same audios over and over), but I'll mention a few briefly. Click on the link above if you want the sale link and password because I'm going to be linking to the regular story pages below.
There are several really good Short Trips in the sale. "I Am the Master" was both written and read by Geoffrey Beevers (aka "the crispy Master") and is told completely from the Master's point of view. Even if you know nothing about this version of the Master, it's well worth picking up for its both hilarious and horrifying look at why the Master does what he does. Two of my favorite Fifth Doctor Short Trips, "The Toy" and "The Gardens of the Dead," are included. "The Gardens of the Dead" focuses on Turlough soon after he's joined the TARDIS crew and his conflicting desires (to survive the deal he made with the Black Guardian by killing the Doctor, and to embrace this opportunity to find a place where he's accepted). "The Toy" is a stand-alone adventure that also digs into Nyssa and the Doctor's pasts on the home planets they've both lost. "The Switching" is a Third Doctor era body-swap story and it's a lot of fun.
If you haven't picked up the cross-Doctor trilogy of "And You Will Obey Me" (Fifth Doctor), "Vampire of the Mind" (Sixth Doctor), and "The Two Masters" (Seventh Doctor), you really should. It's one of the best main Doctor Who range trilogies Big Finish has ever done and features both the Beevers Master and Alex Macqueen's version of the Master. I'm also very fond of the Fourth Doctor & Leela stories "Requiem for the Rocket Men" and "Death Match" which introduce a potential love interest for Leela named Marshall.
Dark Eyes volumes 2-4 are included in the sale. Vol. 2, which introduces Liv to the Eighth Doctor, is one of my favorites of that storyline. Vol. 3 is the weakest of the bunch, despite featuring an amazing audio where the Macqueen Master and the Eighth Doctor have to work together to escape a self-destructing spaceship. Vol. 4 is a bit of a mixed bag, but it has "A Life in the Day" which is among my favorite John Dorney stories.
"Smoke and Mirrors," the Fifth Doctor story in the "Destiny of the Doctor" series is included, as are the War Master box sets, and box sets from the UNIT, Gallifrey, River Song, and Missy ranges. "Dust Breeding" is in there too; it's an odd Seventh Doctor and Ace story that I feel differently about every time I listen to it, but it's certainly worth the $.99 they're asking for.
Big Finish has a sale on Master audios going on for the next few days. I won't describe them in detail (I tend to do that all the time over on Tumblr and it gets old to talk about the same audios over and over), but I'll mention a few briefly. Click on the link above if you want the sale link and password because I'm going to be linking to the regular story pages below.
There are several really good Short Trips in the sale. "I Am the Master" was both written and read by Geoffrey Beevers (aka "the crispy Master") and is told completely from the Master's point of view. Even if you know nothing about this version of the Master, it's well worth picking up for its both hilarious and horrifying look at why the Master does what he does. Two of my favorite Fifth Doctor Short Trips, "The Toy" and "The Gardens of the Dead," are included. "The Gardens of the Dead" focuses on Turlough soon after he's joined the TARDIS crew and his conflicting desires (to survive the deal he made with the Black Guardian by killing the Doctor, and to embrace this opportunity to find a place where he's accepted). "The Toy" is a stand-alone adventure that also digs into Nyssa and the Doctor's pasts on the home planets they've both lost. "The Switching" is a Third Doctor era body-swap story and it's a lot of fun.
If you haven't picked up the cross-Doctor trilogy of "And You Will Obey Me" (Fifth Doctor), "Vampire of the Mind" (Sixth Doctor), and "The Two Masters" (Seventh Doctor), you really should. It's one of the best main Doctor Who range trilogies Big Finish has ever done and features both the Beevers Master and Alex Macqueen's version of the Master. I'm also very fond of the Fourth Doctor & Leela stories "Requiem for the Rocket Men" and "Death Match" which introduce a potential love interest for Leela named Marshall.
Dark Eyes volumes 2-4 are included in the sale. Vol. 2, which introduces Liv to the Eighth Doctor, is one of my favorites of that storyline. Vol. 3 is the weakest of the bunch, despite featuring an amazing audio where the Macqueen Master and the Eighth Doctor have to work together to escape a self-destructing spaceship. Vol. 4 is a bit of a mixed bag, but it has "A Life in the Day" which is among my favorite John Dorney stories.
"Smoke and Mirrors," the Fifth Doctor story in the "Destiny of the Doctor" series is included, as are the War Master box sets, and box sets from the UNIT, Gallifrey, River Song, and Missy ranges. "Dust Breeding" is in there too; it's an odd Seventh Doctor and Ace story that I feel differently about every time I listen to it, but it's certainly worth the $.99 they're asking for.
