FINISH BIG.

heavenlyevan:

The ENTIRETY of the Eighth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish are on sale for THREE BUCKS EACH (23 dollars for bundles of either the first, second, or third season, and 28 dollars for the fourth season bundle), plus the first Dark Eyes boxset.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE STEAL. These audios are so fucking good, if you have any interest in Doctor Who in the slightest or used to but have qualms about Doctor Who now, I highly recommend these. They’re the perfect starting place in Big Finish and they’re cheap as hell.

http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/released_reverse/eighth-doctor-adventures

If you want to buy the seasons in bulk, go to the right and click “bundles.” You can also save an extra 2 dollars by buying all four seasons at once. It’s like 35-ish hours of content. Super highly recommended.

perpugilliam:

pattroughton:

Well, seems that Big Finish’s Stargate, Highlander, Robin Hood, and Sapphire & Steel ranges are now permanently gone. I never did get around to any of them, so that’s a shame.

For those looking for more info, a statement from Joe can be found here.

Big Finish Holiday Bargains

By now this may be old news, but just in case anyone hasn’t heard, there are a couple of can’t-miss Big Finish bargains going on right now:

Humble Bundle

Big Finish have partnered with Humble Bundle to make a frankly absurd number of audios available at next to nothing. Take note that these downloads are through the Humble site and don’t get added to your Big Finish account, but don’t let that stop you, because these deals are a steal. It’s pay what you want and you can designate a portion of your purchase to charity.

Included:

• Dalek Empire series 1 and series 2
• A Doctor Who Legacy code which unlocks some characters, including the Sixth and Eighth Doctors
• If you pay $15 or more you get the whole first season of Lost Stories with Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant
• If you pay more than the average (currently $13.04) you get Dalek Empire series 3
• More audios will be added to the bundle soon (and you will receive them even if you buy now)

12 Days of Big Finish-mass

All of the following offers are download-only and only last 48 hours.

• Day 1: The Confessions of Dorian Gray 1.01 - This World Our Hell available for free. Pounce on this immediately, it ends in just hours.
• Day 2: Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures - The Auntie Matter for 2.99. Still available for another day.
• And more to come!

Anonymous asked: The two colour you've chosen for companion chronicles and special releases are very difficult to differentiate as a red/green colour blind person. Just a heads up!

Thank you for calling this to my attention. I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that I hadn’t even considered accessibility issues when putting together these guides. I’ll look into alternatives and attempt to implement them for future guides. 

big-finish-sketches:

Got several more eBay alerts yesterday and today about the out-of-print Eighth Doctor comics being available again. I’m not an internet psychic or anything, but it looks like there’s been a reprint! :D

Not strictly Big Finish related, but i’m reblogging because fans of the Eighth Doctor should be aware of this!

The Book Depository (an excellent site for non-UK customers to buy UK books with free delivery) seems to have “End Game” in stock and that one’s been quite hard to find for the past few years.

A Big Finish statistic.

perpugilliam:

In 2014, women writers were attached to six separate Doctor Who-related stories, either as sole author (Jacqueline Rayner - Starborn, Una McCormack - Goodnight Sweet Ladies), co-author (Emma Beeby - Tomb Ship, LM Myles and Una McCormack - Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories, Louise Jameson - The Abandoned), or adapter (Jacqueline Rayner - The Highest Science).

In 2014, Matt Fitton’s name was attached to fourteen separate Doctor Who-related stories, either as sole author (Luna Romana, Time’s Horizon, Eyes of the Master, Changing of the Guard, Signs and Wonders, The Death of Hope, The Reviled, Masterplan, Rule of the Eminence, and An Ordinary Life) or co-author (The Lamentation Cipher, The Shadow at the Edge of the World, The Fall of the House of Pollard, and The Viyran Solution)

(Please note, this is by no means an attack on Matt Fitton or his writing; he’s just an example to compare and contrast.)

Anonymous asked: Hello! I want to thank you for all your guides they've been very helpful. Could you please do an Ace guide next? I'm very confused about her stories.

imnotgivingmynametoacomputer:

finishbig:

It’s completely understandable that you’re confused by her stories. Her timeline is very confusing.

Unfortunately I’m taking a bit of a break from making guides and even when I do this won’t be one of the next ones I tackle since it’s gonna take so much work.

But a couple of general notes:

• “Assassination Games” apparently takes place between seasons 25 and 26 of the TV show.
• The “Lost Stories” releases with Ace and Raine take place soon after the TV show wraps up.
• Then, some other stuff happens.
• Finally, Ace begins living on Gallifrey, as chronicled in “UNIT: Dominion,” “The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield,” and “Gallifrey: Intervention Earth.”

The troublesome bit is the “other stuff happens” right there in the middle. This stems from the fact that there are two completely different Ace storylines:

• The “Big Finish” storyline, which is the one where she travels with the Doctor a while (“The Fearmonger”, etc.) and then meets Hex (“The Harvest”, etc.)
• The “New Adventures” storyline, the one seen in the New Adventures novels, which several BF audios (“The Shadow of the Scourge”, the whole Benny series, etc.) seem to fit into.

It’s very difficult to fit these two storylines together in a way that makes sense—many fans think that Ace’s character development in either storyline is too significant for it to reasonably take place before the other one. So, some fans like to consider these as two different alternate timelines, and I think this is the way that most of the Big Finish writers have chosen to think of it throughout most of the time they have been writing the character.

But this presents problems of its own. For one thing, “The Genocide Machine” and “Dust Breeding” sure seem like they have to take place in the Big Finish timeline, but they feature a character who crosses over into the Benny audios, which must take place in the New Adventures timeline. For another thing, if there are two timelines, then you have to wrap your head around the notion that Ace winds up on Gallifrey in both, which is bizarre.

Making this whole “timeline split” question even more complicated is the character of Irving Braxiatel, who is in both “Gallifrey” (which absolutely has to be the Big Finish timeline) and the Benny series (which absolutely has to be the New Adventures timeline) and it’s written to be deliberately vague about whether it’s the same Braxiatel at different points in his life, or two completely different Braxiatels. Arhghghg!

But I’m digressing a bit.

Anyway, all of this may be kind of moot now. I’m not caught up on the Hex storyline but from what I gather, one of the installments in the recent trilogy strongly hints that for Ace, the New Adventures are still in her personal future. As I mentioned before, this is hard to square away with naive teen Ace in the early New Adventures novels, but there is a way to make it work. By a lucky coincidence, the first New Adventures novel, “Timewyrm: Genesys” actually begins with Ace losing all her memories. She gets them back but there’s a suggestion that everything didn’t get put back quite right. It’s possible that all memories of her adventures during this period could have been removed from her head intentionally. So her timeline might go something like this:

• TV series
• “Lost Stories” with Raine
• Pre-Hex main range audios
• Hex storyline
• (mind wipe)
• New Adventures (with some audios mixed in)
• Ace on Gallifrey

But frankly it’s all kind of uncertain.

I hope that helps clear some things up for you… or at any rate I hope I didn’t manage to confuse you further. I’m not even going to try to reconcile all this with the comic in which a teenage Ace is seen to die. :)

Sorry if I’m being irritating, but the Benny box set sort of helps reconcile Ace’s death. Vaguely Ace and Benny rejoin the Doctor after Ace’s time on Gallifrey, and travel for a bit. Eventually Benny leaves and the Audio the Prisoner’s Dilemma takes place (in said audio they’ve apparently been travelling with her recently, but there’s no way that this could fit into the regular NA continuity), ending with her losing a large amount of memory. With memories only reaching up to her teenage years, Ace is killed travelling with the older Seventh Doctor in the comics.

Not irritating at all, but it we’re going to hypothesize that Ace lives through the Hex storyline, into her twenties, has he mind wiped at the beginning of Timewyrm: Genesys, thinks she’s a teenager again, goes through the Virgin books while mentally aging into her twenties again, goes through the New Adventures of Bernice box set(s), has her mind wiped again in The Prisoner’s Dilemma… I mean, in Ground Zero are we dealing with a thirty-five year old woman who thinks she’s a seventeen year old girl? It seems a stretch. And moreover I just don’t like it. But I mean, if that’s how you want to construct Ace’s life story in her head, obviously that’s fine.

The cover and details for Dark Eyes 4 are out!

I won’t post the image because IMO it’s something of a spoiler for Dark Eyes 3…. but as long as you’ve finished Dark Eyes 3, take a look!